I just can't help it! I have to share a couple more images... I get dizzy just looking at some of these!!!

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/8...angels2gh2.jpg

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/1...angels7qf5.jpg

The Canadian aerobatic team known as the 'Snowbirds' are our answer to the American 'Blue Angels'. They fly the Tutor CT-114, not nearly as flashy as the Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornet.

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/7...wbirds1dt6.jpg

Peter, the Angels are flying over Canadian airspace in your posting so I thought I'd counter (above) with the Snowbirds over San Fran's Golden Gate Bridge.

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/9...wbirds2jy1.jpg

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/1...wbirds3ra9.jpg

Yuri

Thanks, Yuri!
Flying in formation is awesome!
here's the last one, I promise!


http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/4...ngels13gb8.jpg

This has been one of the most fun threads that I've been part of on corfid. Sifting through the old posts and pics, I chuckle and grin! what a hoot you guys are!
Flying itself is a awesome thing. I marvel at how "different" things look from the air! The sensation of being airborn is just plain cool. And of coarse planes come in many types and sizes as we have seen in this thread here.
I'd love to learn to fly, but time and money... well, it's an expensive hobby. I'd rather learn to play that guitar that collects far too much dust! but that's for another thread!!!

http://businessreview.typepad.com/ph...le_landing.jpg

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this site is rather fun for aircaft fans
just click the picture to see a variety of painted airplanes
http://bp0.blogger.com/_SA5flV_tb-E/...400/plane5.jpg

Boeing 747 Landing At St. Maarten
I just stumbled upon
Flixxy.com - The Best Videos On The Net
Flixxy.com is a pretty cool site - they have picked out some of the best videos on the web. The signal-to-noise ratio is much better than YouTube!

Holy brown jobs!!!
http://www.flixxy.com/boeing-jet-lan...st-maarten.htm
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/images/St._Maarten.jpg
which is the 31 second clip at
31 seconds worth downloaded in a pretty short time even with my disadvantaged dial-up connexion
The home page at http://www.flixxy.com has an interesting selection range
and if you search art http://www.youtube.com for "St. Maarten" there are a further
3600 to trawl though if you are on high speed
that total includes several made using Microsoft Flight Simulator and general tourist videos including
"St. Maarten Photo Essay
A long, loving look at the Caribbean island of St. Maarten . . .
beaches, natural beauty, and lots more.
Time: 10:55
AND if you are that way inclined:-
"St. Martin Video Log-Sunset Beach Bar Bikini Contest
Lovely bikini contestants at Sunset Beach Bar in St. Maarten/St. Martin. You gotta love this"
this one is better and longer,and did I say noisier?? (1:56)
"KLM 747 almost hitting Krassie on St. Maarten
KLM 747 landing on St. Maarten near the Sunset Beach Bar and
almost hitting my camera and Krassie with his landing gear..."

Unfortunately (for the spotters) the current situation is in conflict with regulations of the ICAO and the Department of Civil Aviation of the Netherlands Antilles; to terminate this conflict they must introduce a runway end safety area of 150 meters at both ends of its runway, including a 60 meter strip.

Has the one person who read the above and watched at least one of the videos recovered yet
because here is yet another scary aircraft picture from the Daily Telegraph Travel section blog

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/Virtual...6/planes24.jpg
caption
'I'd like to change plane, please'

As a former Air Force brat, keep 'em coming! I've loved planes since I was born (and that was a LONG time ago). My dad was a navigator.

Here in Sacramento, we just had the Thunderbirds a couple of weekends ago at the (former) Mather AFB Air Show and they were practicing over my office building - oooheeee, LOVE the paint jobs! Much better paint jobs than the Blue Angels - but I guess those are fightin' words! The Blue Angels were here last year and by luck of the draw, I got into the VIP section -- they were just too awesome!

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OMG! It looks like the plane just created a tornado!! ;)

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Yes, isn't that the truth. That will probably be our Northwest Plane that we fly on soon.
Heard last week that a Northwest Plane had a trust reverser fall off, on a flight from
Detroit to Milwaukee. A woman found it in her back yard. The flight crew said that they didn't seem to have any problems landing the plane. Maybe they were too drunk to notice. Hee! Hee! :) I won't be laughing so much when I'm on the plane. LOL!! :);)

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As an engineer I reckon that explanation is on the money Yuri
Continuing the SR71 theme
thanks to a lead in a newsletter I can now bring you a youtube video of a most remarkable model of my very favoUrite aeroplane
Radio Controlled SR-71 Jet

YouTube- RC SR-71 JET

text by the uploader
TｵﾄｳｩﾁｽﾌﾅUPｵﾜｷ
SR-71ubNo[hﾅｷJbR｢｢ﾈI
OR!
Radio-controlled SR-71 jet with real jet engines. Awesome!
caption on the site I was led to:-
http://www.flixxy.com/rc-jet-sr-71.ht
I llked this comment by a youtube viewer:-
"hehehee.... no doubt; and I thought my dad's Lincoln Navigator was cool "!

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Those painted planes look nice. I wish my mother had a computer so I could show her this thread tomorrow when I go over there. Then she would know they are real. When I was a kid, I saw one with a smiling face flying overhead. When I went in to tell my mom, I could tell she thought I was imagining it.

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planes

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That's cool, Omer, but the one I saw was painted and colorful, similar to one of the ones you would find if you click on the picture that johnfowles posted.

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:)

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hrrmph Patti methinks that you are too easily defeated !!
If I understand you correctly all you basically want to do is show your mother a photograph to prove that you were not an idiot in your youth,
What you ideally need now is a small supplementary internet capable device be it a notebook, netbook smartphone or whathaveyou that you can take with you when visiting your mother
Failing that luxury, just think back to your youth (if you can bear it) to an age when you did not have a computer and its peripherals
You would have produced copy or even a photocopy of the photo as a standalone piece of paper to show her right??
If you have a computer and a printer and quite possibly some paper (glossy preferably) and ink,you can simply print out the picture for her as evidence of your sanity
If you find the address of the desired picture in this case the smiley faced jumbo 747 which is at:-
http://bp0.blogger.com/_SA5flV_tb-E/...400/plane5.jpg
Then paste that address into your browser's address bar
Then click on the file menu

http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/images/file%20menu.jpg
select print preview
then from the preview screen select print
whoopeee
However if you want to show her the complete thread you could make a screenshot of it or of parts of it using the idiot proof procedures I so delightfully describe in my absolutely outstanding screenshots tutorial at:-
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/Tutoria...s_tutorial.htm


OK I know that it is long and detailed but the two key things to note are

1. Gadwin Printscreen easily lets you select a small area to grab as a screenshot

1. 
   but this thread is spread over two very long pages; (in HTML there being no effective limit to the length of an individual webpage) but if you use the print preview facility whilst the thread is open you will find that to print it all out would take
   all of 33 sheets of paper for the two pages of text and pictures, almost certainly too much for your purposes,
2. Alternatively on my tutorial scroll down to the green text headed "Fireshot" section
   where Fireshot is a most useful freebie for capturing the whole of a longer page rather than just what you can see without scrolling

http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/Tutoria...er_menubar.jpg
Any questions anybody??

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tut tut Omer
I was busy drafting a reply to your original post with a girl on an aerolane and you comprehensively ruined my repartee by changing your post.
fortunately I had opened the original picture:-
http://izismile.com/img/img2/2009080...intings_25.jpg

Well now Omer that is something else other famous ladies adorning aeroplanes include the famous "MemphisBelle"
A boeing B17 Flying Fortress
http://www.promisedreams.co.uk/uploa...phis-Belle.jpg
and the "Enola Gay"
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...bbets-wave.jpg
A Boeing B29 Superfortress pictured here with the pilot beiore taking off to drop the very first atomic bomb on Hiroshima Enola Gay Tibbets was the pilot's mother's name
and "Glamorous Glennis" named for the wife of Chuck Yehger who flew the Bell X1 to become the first person to officially break the sound barrier
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question...uck-yeager.jpg

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When I came back for a second look @ the photo of a girl on an aeroplane it had played a trick on me, just like it did to you John.


http://forum.mininova.org/style_emot...embarassed.gif

http://izismile.com/img/img2/2009080...intings_25.jpg

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And talking of ladies and aeroplanes (as I was) it just so happenned that yesterday I was watching an old CBC documentry on the sadly cancelled Avro Arrow and was surprised to hear the commrntator, whilst a picture of Canada's first jet airliner was being shown, say that it ended its days as Hugh Hefner's private toy.I could find no evidence of this and think that the chap got his knickers in a slight twist as it was apparently borrowed for a while by Howard Hughes.
an understandable confusion between "Hugh" and "Hughes" perhaps!!
I also found out that it was almost the very first jet powered airliner to fly (a last minute delay over a small technical hitch let the British Comet take that prize).Oh Canada !!
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/images/...%20colours.jpg
Avro Canada C102 Jetliner mocked up in TCA colours