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Old 02-20-10, 03:25 PM   #66
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Funny you should mention that. The instant I saw the picture I was taken back to 1990.

A friend of mine was aquainted with one of the museum guys at our local air force base, and we go asked to go through their immense model collection and identify all the different planes, as the cards with them had gotten all mixed up. We matched the correct card to each model, and wrote the names in magic marker on the bottom of the wings so it couldn't happen again. Several of the models either had lost their cards or never had them to begin with.

We impressed them quite well with our knowledge, and identified every single plane without having to look them up. Except one. We scratched our heads, went back to our respective homes and poured through our books until we found the

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