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If yes, how did you like or hate it?

The Swordfish remained in production at the beginning of the war because it didn't use a lot of critical materials that needed to be imported from overseas. The first intended replacement, the Albacore, had engine issues and got removed from service before the Swordfish. The second replacement, the Barracuda, eventually entered service with the British fleet carriers and replaced the Swordfish in the torpedo bomber/diver bomber role. It remained in service because it could fly in bad weather*, land and take off from the small escort carriers used for ASW. The Swordfish and its pilots took the things that made the plane obsolete and turned them into positive things. By all accounts it was a very easy aircraft to fly with no bad habits. *The Swordfish and the PBY Catalina are about the only two WWII aircraft I've come across that could be considered "all weather" aircraft and both would fly when everything else was grounded.

Probably climbing the pole to get away from the nagging

One technique, according to Swordfish pilots, was to intentionally stall the Swordfish (which had a stall speed 40-50 mph slower than any fighter) by slowing down and pulling up into the attacking aircraft and repeat the technique as needed to end up flying at sea level. If the attacking aircraft tried to slow down, it would stall and crash and several Swordfish used this technique successfully. Another story is a German fighter chasing a Swordfish up a fjord in Norway when the fjord came to an end. The fighter lacked the power to climb out of the fjord and turned too widely to reverse it's course and crashed into the side of fjord. There were very few aircraft that both started the war in squadron service (multi role) and ended the war in squadron service (anti sub).

Nothing like spending a drill weekend cleaning guns from the Vietnam era and in the case of the 1911's, from WWII. Using the issue Breakfree, the guns would go back into the armory clean and when the higher up's inspected the armory months later most of the weapons would have dirty barrels.

I've seen Trailboss......in the 5 lb jug I bought years ago and just opened recently.

I blame Alpo & Eyesa

Not all BMW & Audi drivers are horrible. Here in the Northeast it tends to be entry level to mid range cars driven by men in their 30's that are the problem: high rates of speed, weaving around cars and tailgating are the most common problems.

Can't hurt to try, maybe there is a traffic cam the local PD can review. As a group, Audi and BMW drivers tend to be the worst.

An underrated fighter and one of the very few Allied fighters powered by a liquid cooled engine that earned a reputation of being able to take battle damage. "[Y]ou could fight a Jap on even terms, but you had to make him fight your way. He could outturn you at slow speed. You could outturn him at high speed. When you got into a turning fight with him, you dropped your nose down so you kept your airspeed up, you could outturn him. At low speed he could outroll you because of those big ailerons ... on the Zero. If your speed was up over 275, you could outroll [a Zero]. His big ailerons didn't have the strength to make high speed rolls... You could push things, too. Because ... [i]f you decided to go home, you could go home. He couldn't because you could outrun him. [...] That left you in control of the fight." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_P-40_Warhawk

Cap & Ball and hammered 10 gauges is where the real fun is at!

Is it odd I immediately thought of this crowd......