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Re: How many aviation fans are there on this forum?

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Originally Posted by Patti (Post 157917)

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.

planes

Re: How many aviation fans are there on this forum?

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.

Re: How many aviation fans are there on this forum?

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Originally Posted by johnfowles (Post 128420)

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

Re: How many aviation fans are there on this forum?

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Originally Posted by Patti (Post 157917)

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

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

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,

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??

Re: How many aviation fans are there on this forum?

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

Re: How many aviation fans are there on this forum?

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