What Are You Doing In Real Life II - Page 123

fireftr18 · 07-08-18, 06:43 PM

Been busy with real life lately. Not much time to spend on Subsim. Last week, got my son off to welding school. It's Hobart Welding school. It's supposed to be one of the best in the US. This week I'm helping with fire training all around Kentucky. Then various projects that will take rest the summer.

Eichhörnchen · 07-11-18, 07:54 AM

He needs to ask Sailor Steve about that lind of thing

Sailor Steve · 07-11-18, 09:03 AM

Why ask me? I don't know anything. I don't even know what a "lind" is.

Eichhörnchen · 07-11-18, 09:16 AM

^ Well splotted

Sailor Steve · 07-11-18, 03:03 PM

Not really. I was told about it by "someone else".

Eichhörnchen · 07-11-18, 05:09 PM

I guess If I edit that typo, the subsequent posts will have to be deleted or they'll make no sense; I'll come out of it just fine

STEED · 07-14-18, 05:46 AM

The heat is on again here in the south. Too many people walking around near on naked, that is to say the naughty bits are still covered just.

Time for a cup of coffee while i listen to some podcasts.

Jimbuna · 07-14-18, 06:15 AM

After a good many years on eBay I've eventually come across an overdue item so time to see if the resolution centre is effective.

Aktungbby · 07-14-18, 01:10 PM

WHILE SAILING YESTERDAY ON THE SF'S SAN PABLO BAY, I SUDDENLY HAD AN ATTACK OF POST-TRAUMATIC-SH-SYNDROME AS MY UNBELIEVING EYES SPOTTED A FAVORITE GAMES TARGET VESSEL : SS RED OAK VICTORY MOORED AT THE CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY'S BERTH AT THE MOUTH OF THE NAPA RIVER. I MANAGED A POOR PHOTO WITH MY ANCIENT VERIZON FLIP-PHONE>

APPARENTLY SAID VESSEL WAS ON AN OUTING FROM ITS Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park BERTH IN NEARBY RICHMOND CA. LAUNCHED IN 1944 FROM THE KAISER SHIPYARD IN NEARBY RICHMOND, THE VESSEL SURVIVED SERVICE IN WWII, KOREA AND VIETNAM! I'VE BEEN ABOARD THE LIBERTY CLASS JEREMIAH O'BRIEN IN SF'S FISHERMANS WHARF MANY TIMES BUT HAD NEVER SEEN A VICTORY CLASS MERCHANT IN REAL LIFE BEFORE...MUCH LESS INSTANTLY KNOWING WHAT I WAS LOOKING AT...FROM OBVIOUS LONG HOURS OF A.O.D., SH II, OR SH V!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Red_Oak_Victory

Mr Quatro · 07-14-18, 01:45 PM

Wow Aktungbby! Great find

... did you board her?

Catfish · 07-14-18, 02:04 PM

AOB port 15?

Nice, thanks for posting

Eichhörnchen · 07-14-18, 02:29 PM

Great picture, great to see this

Eichhörnchen · 07-15-18, 09:12 AM

I was just outside watching a Spitfire aerobatting over the fields in this blazing July weather. A guy stopped his car up the road when he saw me and got out for a look. "That's a birdie!" he called out... "A sound from my childhood". "Nothing like it" I replied. "You get four in a Lanc", he said, then got back in his car and went. These old planes engender such good feeling between people now... a strange thing when you consider what they were built for

Catfish · 07-16-18, 04:19 AM

Aviation, planes and seeing them fly 'live' at those special days are always a magnet for people, unconnected from politics or what harm you can do with planes.

The enthusiasm for flight, beginning in France and then spreading fast has though never been as big as in the beginning of flight, from before WW1 well into the 1930ies.
There is a real good book about the pioneer spirit "A Passion for Wings: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1908-1918" (e.g. here: https://www.amazon.com/Passion-Wings.../dp/0300068875). It is less technical stuff but the impact that aviation and this spirit had on the people, and which i still feel.

There are not much (if any) german warbirds of this time left in Germany, so we almost never see them flying 'just so'. They have been either destroyed, delivered for reparations, or just scrapped later. Very few are being restored, mostly abroad, and mostly the 109, and the FW 190. The last restored Heinkel 111 crashed a few years ago in the USA or so i read. I admit i find this special whine of the DB engine with its howling supercharger is awesome.. but maintaining this kind of engines costs a fortune

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Eichhörnchen · 07-16-18, 04:59 PM

^ Great sounds!

07-08-18, 06:43 PM	#1831
fireftr18 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Kentucky Posts: 2,526 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 0	Been busy with real life lately. Not much time to spend on Subsim. Last week, got my son off to welding school. It's Hobart Welding school. It's supposed to be one of the best in the US. This week I'm helping with fire training all around Kentucky. Then various projects that will take rest the summer. __________________ Of all the forms of Martial Arts, Karaoke causes the most pain!

07-11-18, 07:54 AM	#1832
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,743 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	He needs to ask Sailor Steve about that lind of thing __________________

07-11-18, 09:03 AM	#1833
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Why ask me? I don't know anything. I don't even know what a "lind" is. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

07-11-18, 09:16 AM	#1834
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,743 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	^ Well splotted __________________

07-11-18, 03:03 PM	#1835
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Not really. I was told about it by "someone else". __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

07-11-18, 05:09 PM	#1836
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,743 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	I guess If I edit that typo, the subsequent posts will have to be deleted or they'll make no sense; I'll come out of it just fine __________________

07-14-18, 05:46 AM	#1837
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	The heat is on again here in the south. Too many people walking around near on naked, that is to say the naughty bits are still covered just. Time for a cup of coffee while i listen to some podcasts. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

07-14-18, 06:15 AM	#1838
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,120 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	After a good many years on eBay I've eventually come across an overdue item so time to see if the resolution centre is effective. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

07-14-18, 01:10 PM	#1839
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,850 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	VICTORY FEVER! WHILE SAILING YESTERDAY ON THE SF'S SAN PABLO BAY, I SUDDENLY HAD AN ATTACK OF POST-TRAUMATIC-SH-SYNDROME AS MY UNBELIEVING EYES SPOTTED A FAVORITE GAMES TARGET VESSEL : SS RED OAK VICTORY MOORED AT THE CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY'S BERTH AT THE MOUTH OF THE NAPA RIVER. I MANAGED A POOR PHOTO WITH MY ANCIENT VERIZON FLIP-PHONE> APPARENTLY SAID VESSEL WAS ON AN OUTING FROM ITS Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park BERTH IN NEARBY RICHMOND CA. LAUNCHED IN 1944 FROM THE KAISER SHIPYARD IN NEARBY RICHMOND, THE VESSEL SURVIVED SERVICE IN WWII, KOREA AND VIETNAM! I'VE BEEN ABOARD THE LIBERTY CLASS JEREMIAH O'BRIEN IN SF'S FISHERMANS WHARF MANY TIMES BUT HAD NEVER SEEN A VICTORY CLASS MERCHANT IN REAL LIFE BEFORE...MUCH LESS INSTANTLY KNOWING WHAT I WAS LOOKING AT...FROM OBVIOUS LONG HOURS OF A.O.D., SH II, OR SH V!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Red_Oak_Victory __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe" Last edited by Aktungbby; 08-13-20 at 12:26 PM.

07-14-18, 01:45 PM	#1840
Mr Quatro Navy Seal Join Date: May 2013 Posts: 6,772 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Wow Aktungbby! Great find ... did you board her? __________________ pla•teau noun a relatively stable level, period, or condition a level of attainment or achievement Lord help me get to the next plateau ..

07-14-18, 02:04 PM	#1841
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 16,897 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	AOB port 15? Nice, thanks for posting __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

07-14-18, 02:29 PM	#1842
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,743 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Great picture, great to see this __________________

07-15-18, 09:12 AM	#1843
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,743 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	I was just outside watching a Spitfire aerobatting over the fields in this blazing July weather. A guy stopped his car up the road when he saw me and got out for a look. "That's a birdie!" he called out... "A sound from my childhood". "Nothing like it" I replied. "You get four in a Lanc", he said, then got back in his car and went. These old planes engender such good feeling between people now... a strange thing when you consider what they were built for __________________

07-16-18, 04:19 AM	#1844
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 16,897 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Aviation, planes and seeing them fly 'live' at those special days are always a magnet for people, unconnected from politics or what harm you can do with planes. The enthusiasm for flight, beginning in France and then spreading fast has though never been as big as in the beginning of flight, from before WW1 well into the 1930ies. There is a real good book about the pioneer spirit "A Passion for Wings: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1908-1918" (e.g. here: https://www.amazon.com/Passion-Wings.../dp/0300068875). It is less technical stuff but the impact that aviation and this spirit had on the people, and which i still feel. There are not much (if any) german warbirds of this time left in Germany, so we almost never see them flying 'just so'. They have been either destroyed, delivered for reparations, or just scrapped later. Very few are being restored, mostly abroad, and mostly the 109, and the FW 190. The last restored Heinkel 111 crashed a few years ago in the USA or so i read. I admit i find this special whine of the DB engine with its howling supercharger is awesome.. but maintaining this kind of engines costs a fortune . __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

07-16-18, 04:59 PM	#1845
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,743 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	^ Great sounds! __________________