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Re: Corkball?

Postby waaytoomuchintothis » Tue Jul 30, 2013 3:33 pm

I had a corkball set. One of the places we lived when I was a boy was urban, and had no room for baseball. But we could go to the local schoolyard and have four corkball games going at once.
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Re: Corkball?

Postby HomeRacingWorld » Tue Jul 30, 2013 4:23 pm

Yes, that is pretty cool indeed.

Snoopy huh? heheheh
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Re: Corkball?

Postby dreinecke » Tue Jul 30, 2013 9:56 pm

I have a Snoopy in a box. I also have a very cool table my aunt made me for my 5th birthday that is Snoopy in a spacesuit (my dad was doing work on the Apollo missions at the time) with the alphabet...you don't get rid of that stuff!
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Re: Corkball?

Postby waaytoomuchintothis » Tue Jul 30, 2013 11:07 pm

David, I once built that plane and it was a Fokker! Hohoho.
That parasol uppermost wing was very tough with no dihedral to make it fly straight. I saw one that was six feet in wingspan that somebody built. I still wonder if he got that monster to fly straight with that slab wing setup. He had one of those incredible radial engines in it, but it didn't spin. It was mounted like a 1940s radial.

Back to the subject, Snoopy didn't fly the Fokker, he flew a Sopwith Camel! You need a moustached, grinning Red Baron!
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Re: Corkball?

Postby dreinecke » Wed Jul 31, 2013 6:30 am

That's the one I have too. Brown flying helmet and goggles that move?
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Re: Corkball?

Postby Ember » Wed Jul 31, 2013 5:18 pm

Perhaps Snoopy should not be in the plane but lying along the wing, gripping on tightly, with his nose hanging over the edge.
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