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Lengthy, but a good video.
Between the 20 second and 30 second point in the video could have said, besides eskimos and thier dogs. At the turn of the century there where also a Sami indigenous group using reindeer (domesticated Cariboo) to haul supplies to villages in Alaska.

That kinda looks like you're saying Sami are indigenous to Alaska...

 

[Grumpycat]

Yeah, you'd think so... however, a search for 'submarine spitfire' brings up plenty of results. I wonder if auto-correct does this to folks.

"Supermarine" isn't a common word in the vernacular, but submarine is. Sounds close enough so it is commonly substituted.

I would guess the Supermarine Company would consider "submarine" to be an insult. Prior to the Spitfire they primarily focused on seaplanes.

 

[scootr]

"Supermarine" isn't a common word in the vernacular, but submarine is. Sounds close enough so it is commonly substituted.

I would guess the Supermarine Company would consider "submarine" to be an insult. Prior to the Spitfire they primarily focused on seaplanes.

Thank you for the correction. My bad RJ Mitchell was watch seagulls do aerobatics while trying desperately to design a better fighter. THere is a great video floating around You Tube on Mitchell and the Spitfire origins and it many variants.
As one veteran pilot said you don't get in to a spitfire, you put it on.

 

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[MAX-24-Dean]

That kinda looks like you're saying Sami are indigenous to Alaska...

No, the Sami are from the Artic regions of Finland , Norway. Originally brought to Alsaka for an emergency rescue mission by the US government.

Sami | People, History, & Lifestyle

Sami, any member of a people speaking the Sami language and inhabiting Lapland and adjacent areas of northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland, as well as the Kola Peninsula of Russia. The three Sami languages, which are mutually unintelligible, are sometimes considered dialects of one language.

www.britannica.com

 

[masscity]

I saw the Spruce Goose in the mid 80's, but the line was too long and we didn't wait to go up inside. Very impressive airplane.

 

[dodge man]

A picture of a P51 powered by one of those engines used in the submarine. This picture is from the museum at the USS Alabama in Mobile. Well worth the visit.

 

[turnkey4099]

So no one ever loaded it with 400 troops to check weight and balance....;-)

Nope, flown by Howard Hughes on what was supposed dto be a taxi test. He lifted it off for the short flightl.