When whifs become reality

[braincells37]

I received an email a few days ago from someone indicating that an article in the current issue (winter '08) of The Hook bears a more than striking resemblance to an article I wrote for the April 2004 issue of Internet Modeler. The story is about the Lockheed XF5V-1, a naval version of the F-104. The article I wrote was, of course, complete fiction about how the Navy modified 2 F-104E's (which never existed, either) into a navalized version. I find The Hook article appears to have taken enough of my story as fact, which I find ROFLMAO funny.

Here's The Hook article:



Here's the link to my original story. Bonus points if you can figure out how I was dropping subtle hints throughout the story:

http://www.internetmodeler.com/2004/april/aviation/f-104e.php

I've heard people say if it's on the internet, it must be true. It will be fun to see where this goes

Terry

[jcf]

I'm dyin' here, Terry.

That is just too funny.

Jon

[anthonyp]

Where's the "Laughing-so-hard-I'm-hyperventilating" smiley?

Nice one, Terry.  Love the pilots' names.    

[Sentinel Chicken]

Fabulous. As a matter of fact, it's beyond fabulous.

[The Rat]

Happened to Alvis Petrie a few years ago, he made a model of a 'Fortcaster' using a B-17 fuselage with Lancaster wings, engines, and empennage. Fooled Aero Vintage books for a while:

http://www.aerovintage.com/b17news2.htm

You'll see that they fell for it (provisionally) in the April issue of their newsletter, and fully twigged in the June issue, where they managed to misspell his name. 

[B777LR]

Im going to enter a Brazilian SH-60 into the helicopter GB. It is going to be a bit of a race to get it done before the real thing