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In reply to the discussion: PSA to those who post only links: [View all]Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)9. When I was a kid, back in the early 50s, I seriously loved that aircraft.
It was also the first plastic model I ever assembled. It was so "modernistic", and as a big Space Cadets fan, it was the closest thing to a real space rocket that existed at the time.
Now that I'm an old fart My favorite military aircraft is the A4D Sykhawk.
But my very favorite aircraft of all is the Cessna 172, also (coincidentally) called the Skyhawk.
I know. How very boring and pedestrian an aircraft to be enamored of. But, like they say, there's no explaining love.
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Ugly, Why is it called a "Wart Hog?" Why do valid Trump criticisms sink rapidly?
Jeffersons Ghost
Sep 2016
#46
When I was a kid, back in the early 50s, I seriously loved that aircraft.
Binkie The Clown
Sep 2016
#9
Just enough capability to be annoying, not enough to add substance, in other words. nt
eppur_se_muova
Sep 2016
#37