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It's not the phone, but the content provider (Fox) that causes that. No different than the New York Times or Wall Street Journal blocking you from reading an article without a subscription.

Joe, you may already be familiar with this channel, Tank Chats from the Tank Museum. Pretty interesting stuff. My only beef is some the English accents are so heavy that it's hard for my feeble hearing to understand. Closed captions help some, but the text is often way behind the narrator. https://www.youtube.com/@thetankmuseum

A B-17 tail gunner crawled to his station from the inside when it was time for combat. It appears this guy would have to sit there for the duration of the flight. I also wonder which was easier to get out of when it was time to hit the silk? My guess is the He-117?

These days the tranny could be the one sitting on top...

Great pics. It's an orientation ride though, not flight training. Awesome for PR. I've given a lot orientation rides to USAF ROTC cadets, but not in an F-16! I'd kill for a ride like that!

It’s not you. I’ve a feeling this is a market test and not everyone is seeing the same thing. I wonder if their web traffic has dropped off?

That’s been my experience as well, Kris. It started with just an article or two, but is now almost of them. I’m not giving them my email address either. I also grew tired of their clickbait salacious headline format and have since moved on to other sources. A lot of their articles seemed more like gossip than news.

She’s been a commissioned officer for just 7 months. How or where is her obligation being shortened or changed? The military is paying for her masters degree which will lengthen her obligation by one year for each year of post grad education.

She won’t be going to flight school anytime soon, that’s why she’s going to Harvard. BTW, it’s very common for service academy grads to attend post-graduate school outside the military. And very few USAFA grads are selected for flight training anyway. The vast majority have careers not directly related to aviation. Hope you’re not being critical. She’s an impressive woman regardless of her looks.

I admire your diligence and tenacity!

I guarantee that his flight was far more perilous.

I read the obit, but don’t know his connection to this forum. If he was a friend of yours, I’m sorry for your loss. I seem to be losing more friends these days too.

Neither did Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis. Since TV hadn’t been invented yet, he had a periscope. Amazing.

I was looking at the site a couple of weeks ago, but very little inventory. I have two of his kits and was considering a third, but then I saw this two days ago.

Yup. And the VW Thing was based on its Type 82 from WW2. It’s too bad they didn’t do any corrosion protection on the Things. Almost all of those fun little cars have rotted away.

It’ll likely mesh very well. What a great bit of positive public relations and recruiting for the Air Force.

Hertz car rental just announced it’s selling a third of its global EV car fleet due to low demand and higher maintenance costs than its ICE fleet. In 2021 they announced EVs were the wave of the future and would buy 100,000 EVs. They stopped at 60,000 and will sell a third of those. I’m betting they’ll sell more as time goes by. Sooner or later, the laws of economics poke thru the layers of distorted govt. policies.

Pretty sure that’s European, most likely German. Note the number plate which is different from US locomotives. I have a Marklin train set that has an engine and cars just like it.

“Anyone driving slower than you is an idiot. Anyone driving faster than you is a maniac.” - George Carlin

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They called it "The Widdowmaker" early on because there were so many accidents. Jimmy Dolittle was tasked to investigate and found that it was due to obsolete pilot training for such a radically new aircraft. He developed a new training syllabus and from there they racked up an impressive record.

The Concordes weren’t allowed to fly over land because of the sonic booms, so there’s never been a civilian/commercial coast-to-coast supersonic flight. This is a test bed for the shape of a “minimal-boom” aircraft which has lots of applications, but it still doesn’t solve the economic equation. The problem with SSTs is they can’t build them big enough to hold enough paying passengers to turn a profit as the physics of supersonic flight constrains their size. Plus, the power and fuel requirements for a larger plane would be astronomical.

Our neighbor, a certified Chiefs maniac went to game last night. That’s a special kind of crazy. He said this morning he doesn’t need to do that again.

Ecologically-friendly bidet.

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