Where are you located? I know of a pretty decent 73 for sale in TX.

They do have roughly the same max takeoff weight, but the B17 is 10 feet longer and obviously has like twice the wingspan. This guy built one roughly the size of a Cessna though.

The Brothers Demidov - Funny

I was standing about half a mile away in the vintage camping area. Turned my head just in time to see the fire and smoke. It’s a miracle anyone survived honestly. My guess would be a stall turning base to final, but that’s just speculation. Lots of planes come in to this show loaded almost to their safe limits. The…

Ban batting gloves, that will help.

Great read, thanks! I think I can see a bit of MkV from the B-Pillar back :)

The whistle goes woo!

Remember Hooter's Airline? I think they finally went bust... sorry.

I normally have a soft spot for VW truck conversions, but this is beyond the pale. My very first car was a 69 with a flatbed conversion from a company called Domus I believe. I have only found one other example in a junk yard but the floors were Swiss cheese. If anyone out there has my 69 bugtruck, I want it back!

... a wolf.

I've always had a weird obsession with these cars. The 912E could go 600 miles on a tank of gas. I have heard of one 911 being turned into a 912 because the owner felt safer letting his teenage daughter drive it. He was keeping the original engine in the garage for a later reunion.

BMW 850 with manual trans. CSi if you can find one. Well under budget and the right number of cylinders. 20+ years later, still looks better than most cars on the road, including new BMWs IMHO.

A very cool airplane indeed. I had no idea Rutan was involved with these, someone needs to do a movie on that guy someday. A guy had one of the prop versions of these at the airport I learned to fly at. He would take it out and taxi around once in a while, but I don't think he ever had the nerve to get it airborne! (I…

More "killed off" than "failed"...