So you just won the lottery...

rframe said:
Flippy Dippy Fun Machine:

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flippy dippy? please rephrase :D
 
rframe said:
Airplane? Pffft... dont be silly. One wont cut it. Airplanes:

Family travel:
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Back country fun and camping:
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Flippy Dippy Fun Machine:

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Fresh Air Therapy Device:

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Extra. Is good for plastic toy airplane.
 

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Probably the 9th time I've posted a pic of one of these on JC, but, first things first:

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Then I would invest capital in this, on the condition my friends and I are the beta testers:
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I would then buy out my neighbors houses and have a private runway up in the hills above SFO with my own section of G airspace cut out of the surface class B, where the Cri-cri and tacocoptor would sit next to:
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And

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And I would travel around my estate in a fleet of these:

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And the rest of the money would go to expensive drugs and cheap women.
 
MikeD said:
Still flying these at my CBP air branch.
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Being a child of the sixties, seeing those still give me a shiver...

I didn't serve in the Vietnam war conflict (I missed by only a few scant years) but I was definitely old enough to see those helicopters on the evening news and have really BAD feelings associated with them because of what those guys went through.

I don't think it gets said very often, but there were many differences between Vietnam and many of the more recent wars conflicts that most people don't think about much - including the fact that the guys fighting in Vietnam were not a voluntary army. A lot of the "grunts" there were drafted, not volunteers. It might be worth spending a few minutes thinking about the effect(s) across many, many different aspects of society involved with forcing guys to fight a war that they don't believe in. Maybe compare it to today when guys like Mike understand the futility and stupidity of why we're there and yet are there anyway...because they have decided to do so (thank you, and again, thank you). So many of the issues involved were so far reaching, yet in so many ways we still haven't learned the lessons. I'm often disheartened when I think about Vietnam (and in some ways Korea as well) and then watch what is happening today. *sad*

Damn, forty years later and the crap that happened back then, both here in the U.S. and over there, spark deep emotional reactions.

Excuse the thread creep.
 
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