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    A Good Peasant Lunch

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    5 minutes ago, John Kloehr said:

    I interpret it as Same Old Crap.

     

    Which is what I gave Forty for his cryptic comment. :D

     

    I guess that coming from me posts about good Slavic food is SOC. 

     

    But how could you not like a meal like that?

    What Really Destroyed the First Jet Airliner

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    6 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

    My Father pretty enthused about the Comet when it was brought on strength in the RCAF.

    He had his film crews out taking pictures for the Roundel and other civilian PR releases.

    Then later, when he was part of the Crash Investigation Team that learned it was metal fatigue, it hit him pretty hard, since he was part of the team that discovered why the Cessna Cranes were losing their tails, coming apart in flight and crashing, from the same culprit.

     

     

    What's weird is that the movie 

     

     

     

    foreshadowed that. 

     

     

     

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    A Good Peasant Lunch

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    9 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:

    Same,same! Age restricted, need to join Instagram. Usually I can open them!

     

    That's why I posted the screenshots, people were unable to open it.

     

    I blame the vodka.

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    A Good Peasant Lunch

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    6 minutes ago, watab kid said:

    who is eating raw bacon ? vodka aside , raw pork is not a good place to start your day or night 

     

    Eastern Europeans and Balkans would disagree. 

     

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/DapSTkpsS4C/?igsi=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

     

    If you prefer lean meat

     

     

     

     

    Also in beef

     

     

     

     

     

     

    So would Italians, prosciutto and guanciali. 

    So would Spaniards, Jamon Iberico and Jamon Serrano. 

    Germans have Speck.

     

    Heck good old American County Ham can be sliced thin and safely eaten without cooking. 

     

    In the War of 1861 both bacon and salt pork were sometimes eaten without cooking.

     

     

     

     

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    Deer encounter

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    1 hour ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

    About six hundred yards up the road two mule deer fawns ran across the road right in front of me and I hit the second one.

     

    I'm confused. You saw it run across the riad 600 yards in front of you,  but you hit it,

     

    That don't make no sense, as Pete would say. 

    Gliders

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    6 hours ago, Chantry said:

    When it was time to for the Chindits to leave the landing area and proceed on the missions, the flyable gliders were placed on the dirt runway, a contraption was rigged with the tow line and a C-47 would fly over hook the tow lone and the glider would be dragged into the sky.  They evacuated some wounded from the landing site that way.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    38 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:

    For the time frame Gliders were probably the only choice for getting troops and mechanized support equipment into place behind enemy lines.  Yes there were a lot of casualties but the D-Day amphibious landings also had a great number of casualties. 

     

    Many of the glider related casualties were a direct result of the tow aircraft crew failures.  Either by releasing to glider way too soon / in the wrong area or because of navigation errors.

     

    The advantage of the gliders was that larger support equipment could accompany the troops and troops inserted by glider could be brought into effective action sooner after landing. In contrast insertion by parachute meant that troops were scattered over a wider area and it took more time for them to assembly into a fighting force.

     

    The disadvantage is that if the enemy knew where you would be landing, they new where to concentrate their forces.

     

    The advantage of inserting troops by parachute was that they more dispersed and could create more confusion as to where to send troops to intercept them.

     

    All about tradeoffs. 

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