Stratotanker!!
You fuel, you.
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It’s about the only reason to still have any kind of Yahoo ID.
(Especially given the data breach(es)).
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You nailed it. He used to say, “After babying R-4360s all day long, raising three kids was a piece of cake.”
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I’m guessing a 50’s jet fighter of some kind???
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Don’t forget to tap the dials.
AD-4 Skyraider.
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Consider soldering off the shelf switches to the contacts in a PC keyboard. That way you get the electronic interface taken care of, and some of the software issues.
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When I lived in Santa Monica as a kid in the Sixties we were a stone’s throw from the big McDonnell Douglas plant that was next to the Santa Monica Municipal Airport (aka “Clover Field”).
They used to have surplus equipment sales in a dedicated room that had street access. On Saturdays it was open to the public and I remember buying sections of control panels covered with switches, knobs, and analog gauges that had been ripped out of planes and possibly ground control equipment - for 50¢ or a dollar a pop, depending on what the guy felt like charging.
This was back when I was seeing the same kind of control panels on Time Tunnel, Lost in Space,Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and all of those other high-tech Irwin Allen thrillers, For all I know that’s where the studios were buying their crap for building props and sets.
They tore down the McDonnell Douglas plant and the city built a park there decades ago, and I was just reading that they will be closing and dismantling the Santa Monica airport in the next year or two and developing it into park space as well.
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Anyone else having trouble connecting to Flickr? I’m in the UK.
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