11 thoughts on “Aeroporn!”

1. Like setting out arsenic-laced cheese for the rat, eh?

   Counterclockwise, from top:

   F-22 Raptor (the originally intended Lightning II would have been much better)

   F-16 Viper (the original Fighting Falcon was not better)

   What appears to be an F-4G Phantom (the contours of the nose suggest the antenna housing for a Texas Instruments threat receiver and processor suite found in the Wild Weasel variant)

   And an F-51 (designation based on the Air Force chase-plane paint scheme on this particular bird)

   Do I win a Guinness?

2. I knew you would bite. P-51, F-111, F-16, and F-22. Here's the slideshow; that's some impressive photography, catching the prop in mid-rotation without so much as a flicker. You get a half-pint of Guinness. Sorry, no delivery.

   And I don't suppose you're any good with cars? I guessed it was a 47 Chevy that Frank Zappa wrecks in the video in the Monkees episode I posted, but I have no actual idea really. Nor, I expect, do most blog readers, although they may well be able to distinguish between different models and years of TIE Fighters.

3. Nope, I get a pint. F-111’s are swing-wing, and that’s definitely a fixed-planform, slatted wing on that Rhino. I’ll be nice though and let you deliver the half-pint ;B^P

   By the way, I’m back from vacation, heh heh.

4. Welcome back. I shall take your word for it about the planes. You are wise not to argue for the sake of a larger serving of American beer. Maybe I’ll be nice and buy you some Canadian, though.

5. Ahh, and you too are wise for not arguing with someone whose specialty in college and graduate school was air warfare.

   The secret motto of Naval Aviation – Trust, and cheat!

   I’ll settle for a Molsons ;^D

6. I like that motto. Am automatically upgrading you to a quart of Fin du Monde.

7. Truly almost a shame I’m happily married . . . . >B^D

8. Fuck that. Got a brother… or a cloning lab?

9. Check my blog Sunday – you may regret that sentiment.

10. Now I’m a-skeert.

11. Better yet, check my blog today so I can get that bloody thing off the web Sunday and not have to do penance.

12. Done. I thought you looked familiar…what’s the reward up to now?

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