Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619
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15 minutes ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:1 hour ago, Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 said:
I could be wrong, but I’m not aware that cartridges were ever used in radial engines as in that movie. Good flick.
Big dramatic scene near the end as Jimmy Stewart uses one cartridge after another without success, over the wild protests of the German model airplane designer (played by Hardy Kruger, who died only recently). Radial engine. (I know nothing personal of the subject). How are cartriges typically used?
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Until I first watched the original Flight of the Phoenix (a great flick with an incredible cast) I never knew airplane engines were started with cartridges.....
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Cool looking aircraft, to boot.
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Barbara Rush died yesterday at age 97.
She was the last surviving cast member of what is my personal favorite Western movie, "Hombre". She played the wife of the crooked Indian agent played by Frederic March.
Besides being a great movie, it had a great cast. But then, that's part of why it is a great movie.....
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I watched the first one. I don't like the supersaturated HD color.
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We have lots of larches; the Western larch is a native. Beautiful in the fall-- one of the few deciduous conifers, they turn a beautiful yellow.
We have a fair number of palms planted as ornamentals around here. The species is a Chinese palm; I've read that it is the only palm that grows in temperate climates.
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When we'd go out on Saturday nights, we'd leave the five kids with Banquet TV dinners of various types, mostly chicken. 99 cents per back then. The kids loved 'em and remember them well decades later.
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Feeble Tom's Motel Beef
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Heard it again just yesterday, when a newslady said of a miscreant that he had repeatedly flaunted the law.
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17 minutes ago, Alpo said:
But it just makes me wonder if there are people out there really dumb enough to think that that's what infamous means, or that's what a gentleman's gentleman is?
Sure. The same people who think flouting is the same thing as flaunting.
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You are right.
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I use a fair amount of Tabasco (regular red) but mostly not for the heat as such but as a 'brightener' as my dad used to put it. A couple of dashes in the stew pot or the soup pot, for instance. Last night I fried a mess of shrimp and did a couple of dashes in the pan.
Used in this way it definitely enhances the basic flavors, even if you can't taste the sauce itself. Like what salt does in a sense. Then those who want the heat can add it themselves.
I tend to use Frank's Red Hot when I want direct heat on something.
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My grandfather, Edward F. W. Winskill, was a Royal Air Force officer in the First World War. He was born in Vancouver, B.C. in 1895 and raised there. He was an artilleryman in the British Army, then promoted to pilot in the Royal Flying Corps, which became the RAF several months before the war ended. He flew as an artillery spotter (the first combat function of aircraft), went down behind German lines and evaded capture. We still have his RAF uniform with wings, with a Canada patch on the shoulder. He told me that when they made him a pilot officer, he had to grow a mustache and carry a swagger stick...
My dad was born in Ladner, BC, on the Fraser River delta.
I hunted with my grandad as a boy in the filbert orchards and farms of the Puyallup valley in Washington. I was 29 when he died; I was in the middle of a jury trial at the time, so he got to see me grow up, have kids, and enter my profession. My dad chose US citizenship at 21, and had to carry his papers traveling to Canada and back all of his life. My grandma was a teacher in Point Roberts, which well tell Canadians a lot. She was born in Elizabethtown , Kentucky in 1898. Back then, a woman lost her US citizenship when she married a foreign national. She used to get a kick out of showing us her 1947 naturalization papers (the same year my granddad was naturalized), with its 'born in Kentucky, USA' notation!
Oh, Canada! I have many relations still there.
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Did we ever find out about the post counts? I showed well over 4,000 posts before, then 1,900-some afterwards.....seems a little strange. I wonder what
the criteria were for the "new" count.
I haven't heard a thing. I have seen that the provider's employees have been online.
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It shows my post total as less than half of what it was. Why's that, and how did it pick the current number?
I have no idea. Maybe someone who knows will answer. I don't know how many I had before, so mine may be incorrect too.
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As John Harrington said, "Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason".
Charles I was mainly guilty of losing the English Civil War. But then, he started it....
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I have several Muslim friends. Two are doctors who have practiced medicine in this community for 40 years.
Another is a woman from Turkey who was a secretary in our office for years, whose son was terribly wounded in US Army service in Iraq, and who has risked her own life speaking out against Islamic extremism in many public forums.
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Glad you're on the case, pard.
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As Badger says, Yakima is cowboy country and I'm sure they can fix you up there.
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Was always an Edgar Rice Burroughs guy myself. I never did read any Doc Savage, but I remember seeing gazilions of copies of the paperbacks around....
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I confess I use an alias here rather than my real name.
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Robert Copeland was a Tacoma lawyer who died shortly before I started practicing law in this city. He was, of course, well-known hereabouts for the actions of the Samuel B. Roberts. I heard many tellings of the Battle Off Samar from my senior partner, Claude M. Pearson, Capt. USNR, who had been a submariner in the War and came to know Copeland well in the Tacoma legal community. (Capt. Pearson was on four war patrols on the USS Pogy. He died just last year at 94; a really fine man.)
The story is timeless. A guided-missile frigate was eventually named after Robert W. Copeland.
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I've loved that airplane.
I was college kid or thereabouts when I first saw one test-flown out of Boeing field. We all pulled over to the side of the highway. It seemed like a dirigible, it was so big!
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I liked it, except the note that was held a bit too long.
It's not sacred; as long as it's respectful. It was OK in my opinion. The anthem is done hundreds and thousands of times in pretty ordinary fashion.....I do like the sax....
Why Nasa still flies an old British bomber design
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Interesting Wiki article on 'shotgun' starters:
Coffman engine starter - Wikipedia
Evidently used on a variety of engine types.