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    Captured German Aircraft - Video

    Here is a bit more on the H0 229 from a chapter of a book I wrote.... 12- THE B-2’s GRANDFATHER The Northrop aero engineers went to the Smithsonian storage facility where the un-restored Horten Ho 229 V3 built by Gotha resides. Why? Just to make sure that they got it right with the B-2...
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    Personal Libraries

    A word of warning to anyone needing to store books or magazine collections for an extended period- make sure you bug proof them. Termites will go for paper over wood!:eusa_doh:
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    NAZI "HOLY GRAIL" FOUND?

    This is not surprising at all. There was a vast amount os things of assorted value dumped into German lakes at the end of the war. A large amount of gold and booty to keep the 4th Reich's Spina and Odessa groups going was covertly retreived and funneled into banks. Hidden gold and jewels...
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    24 Hours in a Day

    Back in my olden days I used to travel all over Southern California in a day. My counterparts and I would cover 100 miles easy and we'd use up a company car hitting 55,000 miles in a year. Now with my freakin medical problems I'm a virtual invalid in my house:rage:
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    Personal Libraries

    I have a huge collection of books, so many that I can't keep them all in the house within reach. Most are war and combat military aviation related but I have a lot on ancient civilizations, archeology, early man and such. Many of these books are hardbound and quite old. I have a lot of...
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    Captured German Aircraft - Video

    For those not familiar with it here is some background- FOCKE ACHGELIS GmbH FA223 Dr. Heinrich Karl Johann Focke developed several helicopters that flew during WW II. The FA 269 tilt-rotor concept will be seen but there were several viable models of normal rotary wing craft too. In late...
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    "Dressing for Disneyland"

    Dizzyland is the kind of place where you are bored, hot and uncomfortable much of the year. What benefit is it to stand sweating in line for 1 1/2 hours in the sun in a suit just to say you look cool? The Magic Kingdom is nothing but an incredibly expensive ripoff at best. And going to...
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    Golden Era Home

    Be sure and do wallpaper if your landlord will allow it. That will give it an old time feel no matter how little else you do.
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    Where would we be today if?

    I find it curious to remember that before the japanese dumped their mini trucks here NO ONE drove pickups that was not a legitimate tradesman or contractor of sorts. No one drove pickups to their office jobs in the 70s. So suddenly we had these cute little trucks. Not too long after we lost...
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    Captured German Aircraft - Video

    Excellent article!!!:eek: There are several Arado Ar 234 jet bombers buried at the Patuxent River NAS also. There are super rare and valuable. The rarest of all German prototypes, Ho 229 resides at the Smithsonian and allegedly is slated for retoration. This craft was saved by accident...
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    Captured German Aircraft - Video

    Ok, yeah that's the 290. Didn't see the split tail. So may war prize aircraft were scrapped after evaluation. It was simply the trend. There was little perception of any of their roles in history and there weren't hordes of museums back then. The A-6 went to Spain where it was used by...
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    Auschwitz Officer Scrapbook

    I must agree with Spitfire in regard to villifying the Nazis from our haughty perch over 60 years hence. So you have photos from all over the Reich with smiling German military personnel. What the hell does that prove? I find this continual obsession with events from the Holocaust similar to...
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    Where would we be today if?

    I use the nazi spelling in conjunction with non-legitimate NDASP party era definitions. If I was speaking of "...the years of the Nazi occupation..." I'd cap it. As Scott mentions, The Rise & Fall of Packard is an informational book for anyone interested. With the real classic Packards...
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    Vintage going to waste

    The cylinder is an auto swamp cooler. In the 50s you added water part of which absorbed into material on a cyinder. The ram air effect from the hiway produced somewhat cool air. Cool not cold and only at highway speeds.
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    any Marines out there?

    If you're going to fly military you're going to need to totally be one with math.
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    Captured German Aircraft - Video

    Neat old film! Hey are you talking about the Junkers EF 140 which was from the Ju 287? I've done immense research on advanced WW II weaponry if you need anything. That 4-engine ship was a FW-200 Condor not a Ju 290.
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    Where would we be today if?

    Instead of endlessly pissing and moaning about which car is better I'd rather the address the original point of this thread regarding independent auto makers. As a Packard owner I have found that the merger with Studebaker was a dumb one since neither looked at the other's books! Could you...
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    Audi Type C sports car replica.

    Ah, back in the day when men were men and cars were cars. Drivers like Tazio Nuvolari won races with brute strength, and force of will at times. Technical innovation and raw horsepower was nothing new. Unlike the touchy little tubs they've cobbled up today full of computers, ground effects...
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    The Whacky News of Our Times

    It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world:eek: lol
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    Hughes' B-25

    Yeah I saw the Chrysler in Vegas. Weird stuff there, weird.:eek:

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