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WW2 Tours
I found it funny how my wife has always advocated that anyone living here needs to at least understand English (something I don't disagree with as such), but she made zero attempt to understand the locals anywhere we went on that trip. She knows I speak no French but I had to go talk with... -
WW2 Tours
"Speed bump" my eye! :rolleyes: My wife and I spent a month in the UK and Europe last year and I was lucky enough to spend a short stay in Normandy. I hadn't been to Europe as a tourist since the late 80s, and back then, I only encountered one person (at the German RR museum at Nuremberg) who... -
B-17 crash outside Hartford
Yeah, but Allen decided it was best not to try to fly them himself (smart man). The first P-51 I flew on was owned by a guy who was type-rated but told the pilot he got to fly the thing that each time the owner landed it, he almost soiled himself in terror. Eventually, he tired of it and had...- p51
- Post #23
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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B-17 crash outside Hartford
Several of these warbirds have gone down over the years. It's a little unnerving when you're looking at a list of them. Statistically, though, they're way safer than any other bird of their type (except maybe an airliner) for the amount of hours put into them. Time was, cowboy types would get...- p51
- Post #21
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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B-17 crash outside Hartford
From what I've gathered, they lost their #4 engine on takeoff, didn't declare an emergency and asked the tower to go around and land right away. While doing so, for whatever reason they go too low, struck the mast of a ILS beacon, struck the ground just before the end of the runway, skidded hard...- p51
- Post #17
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Show us your vehicles
I know I'm right in the middle of a timeframe when almost all WW2 Jeep owners have had their Jeep's 75th 'birthday' (or will soon), but my Jeep's 75th came yesterday. I just had to fire her up and take her for a stroll around town after work last night to celebrate. Got lots of thumbs up and...- p51
- Post #3,021
- Forum: The Display Case
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Your golden-era model railroads!
I don't model the N&W, so I wouldn't be re-creating anything he took. That said, I have done several night shots over the years:- p51
- Post #79
- Forum: The Display Case
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Your golden-era model railroads!
5 years exactly to the hour for the very first train ran to each end of the layout (the turntables weren't in yet, though), re-created last night with the same locomotive/cars matched as good as I could to the location and camera angle: Here is the 'now' photo in b/w:- p51
- Post #77
- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your vehicles
On Saturday, I took my '44 MB to a car show just a few miles from my house: On my way back home, I stopped at a red light to make a left turn and to my right, a modern 4-door Jeep pulled up with the windows rolled down. I heard from the passenger, yelling, "Okay, look to your left! I NEVER WANT...- p51
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- Forum: The Display Case
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Your golden-era model railroads!
Last night, 5 years ago to the hour, I took a 'now' photo compared to the first time anything ran on the layout. There wasn't much track beyond the camera's view at the time. A friend with an HO layout was helping my lay track and wire it all into place (as I hadn't built a layout in many years...- p51
- Post #76
- Forum: The Display Case
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Your golden-era model railroads!
I recently realized I’m at the 5th anniversary of the start of the layout. So, here we are on August 18, 2014, the first train reaches the opposite end of the line. Only 6 days before, the first train moved on about 3 feet of track at the other end: 5 years later, the same spot (and...- p51
- Post #75
- Forum: The Display Case
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REM sleep - dreams
I've had two dreams since I was a kid. The first is I'm standing at a railroad grade crossing at Old Town, Florida. It's a hole in the wall town in the middle of the state. Growing up, my family used to go to muzzle-loading shoots down there with our civil war 6-pounder field gun (we did civil...- p51
- Post #9
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Army may bring back "Pinks and Greens"
Check this out at 3:31- https://youtu.be/yN75W5AIQ2w Astronaut (and Army O-6) Morgan is already wearing the new WW2-style Army dress uniform! FYI, At 5:45, note the USAF senior pilot wings in the viewer’s left on his Italian AF uniform. The launch itself is at 55:20 -
Meet the new 007.
I don't have a problem with the newest Doctor being a Woman so much as the actor herself just isn't up to the task. There plenty of females who could have done much better. But it's the PC-focused scripts for the last season that I tired of quickly. It's as if the BBC decided to check the blocks...- p51
- Post #45
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Meet the new 007.
Doctor Who didn't just make the character into a woman, they took the whole thing down a PC-induced rabbit hole. James Bond clearly did the same thing. They went the complete opposite they could, demographically. So:- p51
- Post #39
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Why were the Germans so bad at espionage?
Yeah, but most (if not all) of them had lived or visited the US before the war. There was probably either a sense of appreciation for US culture or an appreciation that Germany was never going to defeat a combined Allied force. I once talked with a U-boat vet who was captured during the war and... -
What is your favorite military vehicle of all time?
Mine is sitting in my garage right now, I might take her for a spin this weekend just because I can: The Kubel is a very cool looking vehicle, and I'd love to own one, but they weren't 4WD and their tires didn't do well in either the sand nor the snow. The US Army tested one alongside a Jeep... -
Army may bring back "Pinks and Greens"
You haven't looked on YouTube much, it seems. The trend is not going down that I can tell. A pal of mine who was a Navy SEAL got seriously accosted by someone with a video camera (from a TV station, no less), accusing him of faking his service. Turns out, he was a SEAL, just never made a big... -
Army may bring back "Pinks and Greens"
The new WW2 style uniforms are a done deal, according to someone I served with who's rounding out a career at JSC in the Pentagon. The hat is a little odd, and I've read that some repro WW2 companies figured out the written standard for the uniform allows for a repro officer's hat to be worn... -
French police nailed as collaborators after the liberation?
Thanks for the post. I searched online and found a lot of conflicting info so I had no idea.
