Thread Of Positive Awesomeness

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  1. Adie P

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    Nice one. I well remember seeing a full length documentary about Britten and the V1000 before he died - that piece has some extracts from it.

    He was a truly remarkable man and the products of his progressive engineering thoughts and craftsman skills are just astonishingly beautiful and I've admired (read "lusted after") them ever since. They even built a few road bikes, IIRC. I was also fortunate enough to get close enough to touch a couple of the early race bikes in the paddock at the classic Pukekohe meeting many years ago and they are every bit as impressive in the flesh as they appear on the screen.
     
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  2. Yorkshireman

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    A truly unique talent taken far too early by cancer. I first saw one of his bikes in the flesh in the Te Papa museum in Wellington, it really was a remarkable piece of automotive art that wasn’t just for show.
    Thanks for posting the vid.
     
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  3. SleepyOwl

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  4. Sandi T

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    Hannah is awesome and so inspiring, DD. Thanks for posting this video! :grinning:
     
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    Sandi T. and the resident orange frog fish taken on my dive trip to Coco's Island. I found this photo in my MacBook library while looking for another photo. It brought back some great memories of that trip!

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    SR71 Blackbird - saw one once after emergency landing RAF Valley Anglesey. Absolutely awesome aircraft.
     
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  13. Old phart phred

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    note fuel seeping from seams of this flying fuel tank. Seen one on the tarmac seeps everywhere, until it gets up to speed and fuselage heats up. Theres one on display about 50 miles away at

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  14. Sandi T

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    Very cool, DD! Yes, amazing that a doorbell camera could capture this. But this comment is what really stood out to me in the text that accompanied the video.

    "But you'd be surprised how many of these do come into the atmosphere at any time of year." Yikes! Where, pray tell, do they explode?! :eek:
     
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    Glen Curtiss installed one of his 4000cc V8 aircraft engines into a motorcycle and blew all competitors into the weeds with a run of 136.27 mph on 24 January 1907....
     
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    That rear brake looks a little puny for 130 mph (flap that rubs on tire)
     
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