Whats the story behind your avatar choice?

2HOTinPHX

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So I see a lot of interesting avatars and was curious why you peeps chose yours. Is there a story or meaning behind yours? My current one is from a black light poster I had growing up. Its from a 1975 poster called Super Shark. Its a bit of nostalgia of the good old teenage days.

I actually found a smaller version of the poster on EBay and bought it and had it framed.
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That's my little pup. She hates posing for pictures and turns her face away from the camera. She was very sick about three months ago and I thought we were going to loose her then, so I decided I wanted to see her sweet face when I posted.
 
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It is a picture of me at the National Training Center. I just like it. I really enjoyed the 3 weeks there playing war games. We had really hot weather for late March into early April. I think the last few days were around 108F. I got a really good farmer's tan.
 
I have always used a wide variety of avatars and changed them frequently. Some are related to my member name, many are not.
 
I took this picture in the mid 1970's. A friend (who is the instructor who taught me to fly in 1974-75) is flying the inverted Taylorcraft at the top of a loop. Me and another guy are in the Piper J-3 camera plane. He's since sold that airplane and is now working on building another from the frame up. The photos are from scanned Kodachrome slides.
 

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From 1988 to 2024, I was employed by one of the major producers of base latex for the architectural coating (a.k.a. house paint) industry. So, a paint brush painting a lovely rainbow palette seemed appropriate and cool. 😎 👍
Hey quick question. I see those ads for Rhino shield paint is it really better that regular house paint?
 
I took this picture in the mid 1970's. A friend (who is the instructor who taught me to fly in 1974-75) is flying the inverted Taylorcraft at the top of a loop. Me and another guy are in the Piper J-3 camera plane. He's since sold that airplane and is now working on building another from the frame up. The photos are from scanned Kodachrome slides.
Super cool pics. Have you been inverted too? I think I would freak out..scream like a little girl perhaps....LOL
 
I change it from time to time but this one sort of says who I am.
 
Super cool pics. Have you been inverted too? I think I would freak out..scream like a little girl perhaps....LOL
Lots of times. Actually it was a "confront your fears" type incentive to take acrobatic lessons. At the time I owned an airplane (Piper Tri-Pacer) and realized that I didn't have the foggiest idea of how to get out of a seriously unusual attitude, like being overturned by an airliner's wake turbulence. (It's sort of a horizontal tornado that rolls off the wingtips of any airplane.) So my solution was to get the lessons in a Decathlon, an acrobatic airplane.

It didn't take long to realize that it's fun, and I liked doing inverted flight, ballistic flight (being weightless) and the so-called "death-defying spin" which is actually a fairly tame maneuver. In a light airplane anyway.
 
Not that great a picture but it evokes my very first image of my adopted home state.
 
I filled a square with a background color cause I couldn't turn off avatars in the new forum.
 
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