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Really sorry to hear all this about Stilletto. Never quite knew what had happened to it. Why did someone tell me those wings with integral coolers were from a Learjet? Was that just a myth?
Hey all, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Dago already in a museum for several years before her most recent rebirth from "retirement"?
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-Matt
Red Bull has no earthly idea what "air racing" is.
Really sorry to hear all this about Stilletto. Never quite knew what had happened to it. Why did someone tell me those wings with integral coolers were from a Learjet? Was that just a myth?
Hey all, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Dago already in a museum for several years before her most recent rebirth from "retirement"?
She was sitting in Alan Preston's "museum" per say.
[QUOTE=MRussell]Why did someone tell me those wings with integral coolers were from a Learjet? Was that just a myth? [QUOTE]
The Lear wings were on Vendetta, then the ill-fated Miss Ashley II. Stiletto's wings were modified Mustang wings based on Anson Johnson's original concept from the late 40's.(? ) The fnal version sealed the wings in favor of a boil-off cooler. Man, what if Kerch ran that program today? Can you say 'unbeatable'?
Wow thanks for the information. OK, right I remember Vendetta, but I always got it confused with Stiletto. I remember MA2 had Lear wings... does anyone know what model? The pics of MA2 look like she had more wing sweep than any Lear model I'm familiar with...
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-Matt
Red Bull has no earthly idea what "air racing" is.
Really sorry to hear all this about Stilletto. Never quite knew what had happened to it. Why did someone tell me those wings with integral coolers were from a Learjet? Was that just a myth?
Hey all, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Dago already in a museum for several years before her most recent rebirth from "retirement"?
Something everyone's going to want to do is one of two things.. Either go to your browser's "tools" "internet options" "general" tab and delete your browser cache (this is for Internet Explorer)
Or...
Hit the control plus either your browser's refresh button or your F5 key at the same time.. this will force a refresh of the page with uncached images..
Otherwise... since the thumbnails for the images currently being uploaded might have the same number as what was on the board before I nuked the database last month, you might not see the same images in your posts as intended..
John, I have some really cool pictures from the VOS during that race and some good video, (complete with my stupid comments I will see if I can dig them out and put them up here. (Since I can't seem to get the time or the computer away from my daughters to add anything to my site right now I will do my best though.
Bill (airraceaddict.com)
...definitely would like to see that!
Wish the racing version of Stiletto was still around.
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