Barn Finds

[King Brown]

Not barn finds but true: I had a chance to buy a P51 Mustang and spare pickled engine for $8,000 in the early 60s and went with the plane I could afford, a Cessna 180 for $9,000.

Another time, at Sept Isles, Quebec, I could have bought a DH Dragon Rapide for $3,000. Six kids came first. I had thought of sending the P51 home to the farm as my pension plan. Think what both would be worth now!

 

[Patrol Guy]

King Brown, the times, they are a changing...

 

[stearmann4]

Is it ME or does anybody else think that prop is way long for what could be no bigger than an O-200 engine.....Maybe it just LOOKS bigger than it is....

Foreshortening. "In a photograph of a recumbent figure, for instance, those parts of it, such as the feet, that are nearest the lens will seem unnaturally large, those at a distance, such as the head, unnaturally small." [url]http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/213452/foreshortenin[/url][/quote]

HT,

Thanks for making me feel dumber than I already did:o)

Mike-

 

[Grant]

I guess it is just perspective....