sorry for the over size picture...I'll have figure that part out

I copied your 12 meg bitmaps and put them in my pictures. Then I moved them to Photobucket, where they became 178k meg JPEGs, which fit here fine.

Is there a story behind the pictures?

Somebody's not going to get promoted very soon...

The tower was telling the capt to lower the gear, but that darn horn was too loud.

Thread Drift ALERT!

I used to fly out of Rochester, NH. Arriving at the field one afternoon, there was a Bonanza sitting on its belly pan. I asked the FBO what had happened, and he related what the pilot had told him:

FBO: "What happened?"
Pilot: "I was on short final, and that damned horn distracted me."
FBO: "I'm going to have to report that to the FAA rep."
Pilot: "That'd be me..."

It was engine failure after takeoff. He didn't make the runway coming back. 17 people on board, but nobody killed.

The photo reminds me of a B-36 that bellied in just north of Denver in the '50s. He came in flat, on a flat plain, gently enough to leave six long, beautiful rows where his still turning 19 ft. props gouged the ground. Can't remember the cause, but the aircraft remained intact.

That's nuthin' Jack Bauer landed on a California freeway last night. Go Jack...