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Many babies fall asleep to the drone of an engine or road noise, how does this one do with a Tenere rumble?

Don in Lodi said:

Many babies fall asleep to the drone of an engine or road noise, how does this one do with a Tenere rumble?

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With a low of 85F this week temperatures make finding out a hard no. Plus I enjoy having the anatomy to make another baby, and my wife might remove it should I take him on the bike before he can fit a helmet and hold on properly.

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Tom WAITS for no one!

when my wife and I went to a long weekend trip Sauerland in Germany.

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Thats cool.

New River Gorge National River, WV

A red tailed Mustang? What a wild collection.

Don in Lodi said:

A red tailed Mustang? What a wild collection.

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I worked in advertising/media when living in Ohio and shot a variety of pics for use in a tourism guide we published for Fairfield County. Here are a few more..

Kurgan said:

I worked in advertising/media when living in Ohio and shot a variety of pics for use in a tourism guide we published for Fairfield County. Here are a few more
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I got one of those to rebuild and flip and a guy bought it before I finished. Last I heard was that he passed and the airframe is now in Texas at the Confederate Air Force. In WW2 these were used as sub hunters and the Civilian Air Patrol (CAP) guys who flew them had big brass balls.

The U-boats knew that southbound Allied shipping would travel on the land side of the Gulf Stream so they could silhouette the ships against the lights of land and sunk a bunch of ships. The CAP flew these Stinson 10As and almost anything else from numerous Atlantic airports, looking for the Germans while on the surface to recharge their batteries. The Stinsons were loaded with full gas, two pilots, survival gear, and a 100 lb bomb which in reality was more than gross weight and even at gross the little 90 hp Franklin engine climbed like shit. There really was no bomb sight, they just tried to get right on top of the subs before dropping the bomb and making enough of a hole to prevent the U-boat from diving. The idea of using an 85-90 mph airplane to attack a U-boat was crazy because when that slow and close you could hit the airplane with a pistol. Even so, the Stinsons were credited with two kills and below is a fairly famous painting of one on the attack. It's obviously seeing things through rosy glasses because it's a U-boat on the surface without a single spotter, let alone having the machine gun manned.

From: http://units.flwg.us/FL054/information-/history.aspx