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Abilene Slim SASS 81783

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  1. 6 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:

     

    The USS Maine (BB - 10) that was launched in 1901 was the second US ship called the Maine. It was part of the Great White Fleet. It was sold for scrap in 1923. As you stated, the first one was sunk, raised and scuttled. There was going to be another USS Maine to be built in WWII but they never built it. The newest Maine is a submarine and is still in use.

     

    Before anyone thinks that I just knew all this, I didn't. When I saw the SDJ's post, I thought the same thing as Slim...so I looked it up.

    Thank you. I have a book called The American Steel Navy with high quality photos of the steel ships post Civil War - from the 1880’s to the Great White Fleet. Haven’t looked at it in awhile, so now I’m gonna have to pull it off the shelf. 

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  2. 3 hours ago, The Original Lumpy Gritz said:

    We loved shooting with that club!;)

    Me too! Drove from Kansas City to that club in 2009 for “Robbers Defend the Roost”. I became a “Dammit Gang” member then. 😁
     

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  3. 7 hours ago, DeaconKC said:

    I have always said I wanted to get a hold of the engineer who decided to stuff a Small Block V8 into the Chevy Monza...

    Are we talking about that POS Monza from the late ‘70s, or the Corvair Monza of the ‘60s?

     

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    An-2E (second use of the designation) – An Ekranoplan conversion (Russian: Ан-2Э) of an An-2P (RA-84692). The fuselage was retained and a large trapezoidal monoplane wing having extended wingtips with approx 45° dihedral, attached to the lower wing attachment points. The prototype conversion was intended to be a floatplane; however, its first public appearance was as a landplane with the standard An-2 undercarriage. Jointly developed by the Moscow Aviation Institute, MARZ (Moskovskiy Aviaremontnyy Zavod – Moscow Aircraft Overhaul Plant) and The TSZP-Saturn research institute the An-2E was also known as EA-00078. Power was supplied by the standard ASh-62IR radial engine with AV-2 propeller, but production versions were intended to be powered by automotive diesel engines of around 430 kilowatts (580 hp).

     

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  5. A priest, drunk and engineer are sentenced to death by guillotine. Each is asked whether they want to go face up or face down.  
     

    The priest says, “I’d like to go face up to see my maker.” When the rope is pulled, the blade goes crashing down, but stops inches from his neck. Ruling that it was act of God that saved him, he is set free. 
     

    Next is the drunk who says, “I’ve spent my life face down in the gutter, so I might as well go that way.”  Again the blade crashes down, stopping inches from his neck. He too is set free. 
     

    Last is the engineer who says, “It really doesn’t matter, so I guess I’ll go face up.” Just before the rope is pulled, he looks up and says, “I see your problem. There’s a kink in the rope.”

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  6. 2 hours ago, Shawnee Hills said:

    The new short stroke kits seem to have the geometry figured out to minimize this.   I never noticed a difference when I switched my rifles from 3rd gen to 5th.

    I did, and went back to third gen in my .44-40. It’s all very subjective. A third gen kit is miles ahead of a stock rifle. 5th gen vs 3rd not so much - at least not for me. 

  7. 11 hours ago, DocWard said:

    image.jpeg.115f6ea18b74d38bfbf1ad51b661414f.jpegB-25J Mitchell "Devil Dog" taken a couple of years back at Grimes Field in Urbana, Ohio. I changed the photo to black and white for a Facebook thing, and really like the result.

    What was the original color, night fighter black or navy blue?

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