{"id":10005,"date":"2013-05-15T17:46:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T22:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=10005"},"modified":"2013-05-15T19:14:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T00:14:26","slug":"just-one-more-thing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=10005","title":{"rendered":"Just one more thing…"},"content":{"rendered":"

As long as we’re talking about Lawrence’s review of General Idi Amin Dada<\/strong><\/a>, I have a question that’s bugging me, and I know I have some aviation buffs in my audience.<\/p>\n

What are these planes? I apologize for the pictures: they are actually screen snapshots from the DVD, and I tried to get ones that showed the best possible angles. Click to embiggen.<\/p>\n

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\"vlcsnap-2013-05-15-17h03m36s240\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"vlcsnap-2013-05-15-17h07m18s150\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Lawrence suggested they might be MiGs, and I know the Ugandan Air Force had MiG-15s and MiG-17s<\/a>. But both the 15<\/a> and 17<\/a> have a really blunt open nose, while these planes have a more rounded one. I don’t think these are Fouga Magisters<\/a> either, because they lack the V-tail. I believe these are some sort of two seat jet trainer, and they may be French. But I can’t tell, and it really bugs me that I can’t figure it out. Maybe if I’m lucky Tam<\/a> will see this. For some reason, I’ve also got in my head that the good and great Brian Dunbar<\/a> knows his planes. And, of course, there’s RoadRich…<\/p>\n

Okay. I lied. One more “one more thing”, just because this amuses me, and I’m pretty sure it amused Lawrence as well.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

(Okay, one last thing. It irritates the fire out of me that Apple disabled screen captures from DVD Player in the Grab utility. And they don’t just throw up a “You can’t do this” popup: Grab lets you do the capture, but the resulting file is just a checkerboard grey and white pattern. Fortunately, VLC will a) playback DVDs, and b) even has a built-in “Snapshot” menu option. Hurray open source.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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