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Looks like an airstrip on the edge of the property in the third pic.

Of “corse”…

I rode a Kawasaki Mach 3 750 triple a couple of times back around 1971-72. Acceleration was mind-numbing and combined with marginal stability for such a bike. Think I might have had to change my underwear after my second (and last) ride… Oh, to be young and stupid again!

Which is why I haven’t watched one in the last 20 years.

From a friend who was at a "Red Dawn" match last year.

The best thing to come out of Iowa is I-35… Apologies to my Iowa pards. That’s a cheesy Kansas City joke!

Hijack alert!! Ok, so the M-79 was deemed obsolete as a stand-alone weapon and also not versatile enough, so it was combined with the AR platform to make the M-203. But now, the M-203 is obsolete and they're going back to a stand-alone weapon with an improved version of the M-79 with the M-320? I don't get it.

Is that an MG-42? And is that Aaron Rogers preparing to fire on the defensive line?

I’ve got one of those with oak leaves…

I can make out a correctly oriented letter E ahead of the cockpit. Could he have been landing on the centerline deck?

Fortunately it wasn’t “lit”

Bet he works for the gummint.

I did the same, but didn’t consult Snopes. There is no story to be found about this supposed person. I’m amazed people fall for this s**t.

Tax breaks ARE subsidies and they are never-ending. Take away the taxpayer support and the entire green energy gambit dies overnight. Now, let’s take this dead horse topic to a new thread and leave this meme thread alone.

If it was efficient or practical, they’d be doing it by now. I’ll defer to the shipping operators who know to make a buck.

Or in Navy aviation, Dilbert.

Please translate ANA. I just now noticed the ejected case in the air. What is the block-like device attached to the hand guard/forearm?

That’s Biden, back when he said he was in boot camp.

Here’s the account : https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/news/pilot-talk/grumman-f11-tiger-shoot-itself-down/ I remember reading years ago that this phenomenon happened a time or two during combat maneuvering in WWII.

“Posey” isn’t the “P” word I’m thinking of…

Dad was VQ-1 pilot 1958-1960 and is why we sailed to Iwakuni. Small world.

I logged 11 days aboard the troopships USS General Mann and 8 days aboard the USS General Mitchell before I was 8 years old - as one of two-dozen or so dependents. The other passengers were Marines. That’s how we transited the Pacific in the late ‘50s & early ’60s.

I’m offended.