Quite the air show with an AWACS , one of the only two airworthy B-29 bombers still flying and the Tulsa group of WWII warbirds.
Got to ride my buddy’s tank he built in his garage.
Big get together in a city park after the parade with free food, static displays of memorabilia, the army band rock and roll group, pipers from Wichita, and General Tommy Franks Rolling museum.
Weather was perfect.
Big get together in a city park after the parade with free food, static displays of memorabilia, the army band rock and roll group, pipers from Wichita, and General Tommy Franks Rolling museum.
Weather was perfect.
It would be brutal. Buddy is a master Machinist. Every one of those links on the tracks and everything that needed machined were done on a manual lathe/mill and I can assure you it was less than .001 tolerance.
I keep trying to talk him into mounting one of those propane bird cannons on there as a main battle cannon for effect, but he won't do it.
Its powered by a 4 cylinder Toyota engine/transmission that came out of his work truck after the body rusted away from the engine.
He also built 4 precision rimfire rifles for his grandkids from Aluminum. The only thing he didn't machine was the springs and rifling the barrels. He's done button rifling in the past, but backed out on these. Had them anodized in different colors for each grandkid and they are beautiful.
Yeah, it looks more like an APC, but it's called the tank.
Randy was my neighbor for 25+ years, I got a ride in it a few days after he finished it way back when. It rides like a tank, ha! But it's still fun. He was certainly the best neighbor I ever had.
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