CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge

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Thanks for these, Gone. I am a BIG fan of the Corsair. In the late 90s I was at an Experimental Aviation Association fly-in in Florida and looking at a beautifully restored and flying one when two older gentlemen started talking about flying them in the Pacific in WWII. As they talked, they realized they had flown together in the war. Quite a reunion. I met another Corsair pilot, Russ Hobbs in the late 90s in Phoenix. He was quite the character. Retired USMC Major. Great guy. That plane is a great tribute to great men. Thank you.
 
I'm a huge fan of big radial engines, as well as the Merlins and their variants. Last year, I got to go with a friend to the Reno air races, and probably will go again as my travel schedule allows. The sounds were amazing!
 
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.
 
tommymck_imp said:
I'm all for a ....challenging....challenge...but I'm a pilot and I'd be...challenged....to come up with this photo. Hoping that ferret wins this one so that we can get graded on a curve again! Otherwise next month it'll be a photo of your bike being chased by a three legged dog on Wednesday, and the dog needs to occupy exactly 1/3 of the photo in the horizontal direction and the fact that it's Wednesday needs to be clearly conveyed in the photo :)
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Our neighbor has a three-legged dog. I'll see what I can arrange for ya!:thumbsup:
 
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!
Nachodaddy_imp said:
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.
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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.
 
About the radial engines, I know what you mean. On rare occasion I will hear one and absolutely have to get outside to try to see it.
 
Inhouse Bob_imp said:
tommymck_imp said:
I'm all for a ....challenging....challenge...but I'm a pilot and I'd be...challenged....to come up with this photo. Hoping that ferret wins this one so that we can get graded on a curve again! Otherwise next month it'll be a photo of your bike being chased by a three legged dog on Wednesday, and the dog needs to occupy exactly 1/3 of the photo in the horizontal direction and the fact that it's Wednesday needs to be clearly conveyed in the photo :)
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Our neighbor has a three-legged dog. I'll see what I can arrange for ya!:thumbsup:
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Our neighbor has a three-legged dog. I'll see what I can arrange for ya!:thumbsup:
The weather is starting to turn. Maybe you can bring it to the Clifton meetup. Make sure it's really 3 legged though. Tev62 will disqualify us if it has too much of a stub on where the 4th leg should be :)
 
well I tried today.. rode out to the Tri-State Warbird Museum, but alas there were no planes outside, and they wouldn't let me roll my bike inside

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here's what's in there though

Tri-State Warbird Museum
 
I think for this challenge, going to a place that has old airplanes should count. They’re there, there is just a wall in the way.

Just like the guy who wouldn’t let me take my bike inside the Lyon museum
 
I even offered to wipe up any tire tracks. They still said they wouldn't allow it.
 
Ferret and Gone, you should it a stop to this nonsense about not being able to take your bikes into a museum to take shots for the monthly CB1100 Forum Photo Challenge. It’s an outrage. Write to your senator and congressman! :P
 
Yep Sporty's has been here quite a while. Not a pilot so have no idea what they have inside.
 
Rode to another airport this morning and violated the "No Motor Vehicles" sign to get this one. Not sure how old it is, said Navy on the belly and it has a propellor lol

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