Alpo
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2 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:
Given the op tempo and the number of hours flown per sortie a 4 year old airframe would have been considered very old during WWII.
They just made it sound like it was a wood and fabric biplane.
"These antiques ..."
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TV show. Of course it's a TV show.
Guy was convicted of murder. Served 16 years before DNA proved he didn't did it. So they took him to the prison gates and said, "there you go. You're free. Sorry bout dat".
And I was sitting there thinking, "Dayum".
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1 hour ago, Pat Riot said:
Never mind. Brain fart.
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I kept talking about those antique aeroplanes. I figured they were 20 or more years old by the way they were going on.
And then they say that one was four years old.
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I get convicted - wrongly, of course - of some heinous crime and get sent to prison for many many years.
After I have been there for 10 or 15 or so, new evidence shows up that proves that I didn't did it. And they let me go.
Boy that's nice of them. They let me go.
But do they give me anything as an apology? You know, like hundreds of thousands, or maybe even millions, of dollars? For locking me up unjustly?
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IMR 3032?????
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2 hours ago, DeaconKC said:
At least none of them were sniffing one of the others' butt.
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I'm not really sure that a cannibal eating his victim would be considered funny, but I appreciate you explaining the picture.
4 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:What did he sing when he opened his fridge?
My baloney has a first name, it's B O B B Y.....
And now that brown has explained the picture, your comment makes sense. :p
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You're loading a cartridge. You have a jacketed bullet that weighs x amount. And it takes y amount of powder.
You have a lead bullet that weighs the same x amount. It takes z amount of powder.
I know the charges are not the same for lead bullets versus jacketed bullets. I just don't remember which one takes the lower charge.
It seems like a lead bullet would take a lower charge. That lead drags more on the barrel. More friction, therefore more pressure for the same powder charge. So you use a lower charge for lead then you do for jacketed of the same weight.
I think.
Does anyone happen to know? Is it consistent?
Let's say a 230 grain lead 45 at 850 ft per second uses a lower powder charge then a 230 grain fmj 45 also at 850 ft per second.
Would that mean a 158 lead 38 Special at 900 would use a lower powder charge than a 158 jacketed soft point 38 Special at 900?
I don't want to get into a discussion of "this lead bullet uses a lower powder charge because you shoot lead at a lower velocity than you do jacketed".
I'm going for the same weight at the same velocity.
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1 hour ago, Brown Leathers said:
I don't get it.
I had people tell me that once upon a time. I asked them if they ate the flies and the mosquitoes and the cockroaches. Maybe the rats and the mice.
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50 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
Difference between cover and concealment
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Question for the sailors
in SASS Wire Saloon
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Guy has this question on another board.
Now a ribbon rack is where you put your actual medals, right? Anything from a "I was there" medal up to a DSM.
But the guy wants to know where on the ribbon rack you're supposed to put your shellback medal.
I don't believe crossing the equator qualifies you for an actual medal, so in my opinion it does not belong on the ribbon rack.
Am I correct in this assumption? It would be more like a qualification badge, so like pilot's wings or parachutest's wings or the CIB, it wouldn't go on the rack?