CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge

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Well, guess I didn't have to go all the way to LAX to get a photo. Yesterday, I was running errands on the way home from work in Irvine. I hadn't stopped by "The Great Park" in quite some time, and wanted to see how the progress was coming.

This is the former site of MCAS El Toro, and when it shut down years ago, there was a very contentious battle over what was to be done with this now huge vacant land parcel in the middle of a quickly developing section of Orange County. There were proposals for airports, super jails, multi-use sports complex... heck, I signed a petition to turn it into a giant race track. For years, the land languished.

Eventually, it was agreed to turn a large portion of it into "The Great Park", with home development thrown in. A small park was put up in one corner of the property, with sketches and models of future plans for expansion of the park. I hadn't taken a look at it in a long time, and now there are several sports fields, an amphitheater, and what looks like a water park being built.

Due to the aviation heritage of the land, there's still sort of a flying theme to the new developments. I should have figured that they'd have an old airplane or two on display.

Granted, I wasn't on the CB1100 yesterday, but here's a gimmee to anyone else in the Orange County area who wants to participate in the challenge!

If I am not mistaken, the V-twin, especially older ones, as on Harleys and Indians, are simply two cylinders out of a radial engine, which is what makes them so cool.

Architecturally, you're correct. If you took a radial engine and sliced out two cylinders, you'd have a v-twin.

I think they sound much cooler with nine or 18 cylinders, and will run outside my office and stare at the sky when I hear one fly over.