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 Posted: Feb 06, 2009 - 02:05 PM
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Posted: Feb 07, 2009 - 02:01 AM
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Posted: Feb 07, 2009 - 04:13 PM
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The only way I would return it is if it had damaged property of mine. however, if I just happened upon it I would have a new conversation piece for my home! 
Too bad I didn't leive in the UK near there.  |
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Posted: Feb 07, 2009 - 06:42 PM
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StolichnayaStrafer wrote:
The only way I would return it is if it had damaged property of mine. however, if I just happened upon it I would have a new conversation piece for my home!
Also known as theft of US government property. Oh yes, and impeding an official investigation.  |
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Posted: Feb 08, 2009 - 12:16 AM
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Bah- if they really wanted it, they would have attached it better in the first place. 
Technically, they are littering- most UN-Green of them.  |
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Posted: Feb 08, 2009 - 12:26 AM
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You want green? I'll give you green sir!
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StolichnayaStrafer
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Posted: Feb 08, 2009 - 12:36 AM
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Uhm... Thanks? 
Shucks, let 'em keep their air debris then- probably would take up too much space anyhow.
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Posted: Feb 08, 2009 - 12:42 AM
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| I do like how they used an old SAC-gainable ANG bird for the -135 pic in that article. |
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Posted: Feb 08, 2009 - 06:24 AM
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Shame on them- slackers and their file photos.
Actually better seeing that one though, there is a distinct plague of aviary gray out in the metal bird world now. |
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Posted: Feb 08, 2009 - 06:33 AM
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| That one's gray too, just a different shade than the current -135s...and just about everything else in AMC. |
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Posted: Feb 08, 2009 - 06:39 AM
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| Oh, is that the gloss gray that was in when bare metal went out? |
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Posted: Feb 08, 2009 - 07:24 PM
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| Yep. I can't recall any post-Vietnam aircraft that had a bare metal finish. |
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| The evolution of the KC-135 paint goes something like this. Originally they were all bare metal, then after Vietnam they started painting them all in a shiny light grey color, supposedly to disguse them on the ramp from Soviet Satelites, then in the 80's they started painting the top 1/2 of the jet a dark grey color but left the bottom painted the gloss grey. We called this the Shamoo scheme becasue it made the jet look like a whale. Then in the mid 90's they started painting them the normal AMC grey all over like you see now. |
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