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  1. 3 hours ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

    I stand corrected; there IS a firefighting appliance that requires neither ICE nor 'lectric.

     

    Image result for McLeod Tool Fire Rake. Size: 176 x 185. Source: shop.vallfirest.com

     

     'course it won't put out a fire by itself and needs a little human help to perform it's task ...... 

     

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        ... and I take my hat off to those who do ......

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    That and a Pulaski like my son used:
     

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  2. 9 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:

    That's pretty darn neat family history. 

    And yes a biplane like that!

    Back in the mid 80s, I had a chance to buy a 47 Travelair! They wanted $5'500 for it! Wife was not having it!!

    Sweet. It probably would have broken you financially to keep it airworthy. Plus, there is a condition called AIDS - aviation induced divorce syndrome. 😁

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  3. 38 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:

    If I could own a plane, I'd be a vintage one, preferably a Bi Plane.

    Like this? My great grandfather learned to fly in one at the Wright Brothers flying school and then brought one back to St Louis. Orville Wright signed his pilots license. What a contraption!
     

     

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    my idea of a biplane I’d like to own:

     

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  4. 19 minutes ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

     

     

       ........ when it grows up I bet it wants to be an airplane with a tail .......  😉

    Erco Aircoupe. A remarkable little plane designed to touch down in a crab angle because it had no rudder pedals. The theory is it was safer because the pilot couldn’t cross control the rudders & ailerons when landing in a crosswind. It worked, but later versions were retrofitted with pedals because pilots found landing without them too unnerving. 
     

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  5. The polling place was packed with a long line. Still, there were lots of volunteers checking ID and registration and lots of voting machines. We were in and out in 15 minutes. We’re blessed our state and county make it so easy. 
     

    I hope our nation knows the results the following day like the old days, before computers got involved. 

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  6. 10 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

     

    See those almost every day during the Summer and  Autumn.   Calfire command and control.  

     

     

     

    An awesome airplane. Would love to have flown one. 
     

    A friend flew one as a forward air controller in Vietnam. Said it was amazing. 

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  7. 6 hours ago, Possum Skinner, SASS#60697 said:

    My '73 recently started acting up (at LandRun, of course).  I've been shooting this very reliable rifle since '08 and have put about 50k rounds through it (same bullet, length ect. as I'm having trouble with now).  Seems like my carrier is not reliably dropping all the way when I close it. Have new Lever and lifter springs coming.   Compared my 4th Gen. C&I lever and lifter to another one I have and they are identical.  Noticed the cartridges in the carrier are sitting an a pretty extreme angle and catching on rear of frame(See attached pic)  Carrier shows very little wear and I tried 2 other carriers(one brass and one Aluminum).  They didn't help.  Thought maybe it was the loading gate bent, even though it doesn't appear to be, so I switched the side plate out with one from another '73.  Same problem.

     

    Any ideas?  Thanks,

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    The image file format (.jfif) is ancient and difficult to view. Try re-saving it as a .jpg file and repost. 

  8. 1 minute ago, DocWard said:

     

    I've always thought the P-39 was a very cool looking plane!

     

    Since the P-38 and SR-71 have already been mentioned and shown, I'll go with this one as one of the coolest looking aircraft of all time. 

     

     

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    It still looks modern, doesn’t it?

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  9. 3 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:

    It occurred to me today that the practice of putting out every little wildfire is what led to the resurgence of the massive fires of the last decade or so.  By putting out every single fire as soon as it formed, a vast amount of undergrowth accumulated that eventually became the fuel necessary for record wildfires.

     

    How soon we forget.

    Bingo. That’s much discussed in the “Hotshot” documentary I referenced in your thread. It is unfortunately, an old topic that’s never resolved effectively. 
     

    Our firefighting bureaucracy is also heavily skewed toward saving structures that never should have built in the first place. Not unlike building in flood plains. The more you build, the more you gotta rescue. 
     

    Adding on, some of the tree-huggers won’t allow the thinning of fuels. One of the fires my son worked took him through a housing development that was 100% destroyed. The Forest Service recommended and offered to thin their development of fuels 2-3 years prior, but the residents said “Nope” because they wanted the area to remain “natural”.  
     

     

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  10. 43 minutes ago, Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life said:

    The Aft Fuselage in final assembly and systems check out before being shipped from Downey to Palmdale for Final Assembly.

    I am on the far right in the picture. I was Manager of the Thrust Structure Assembly. I was one of the youngest in our department. I am 83 now and sadly most of my friends and co-workers are now gone. A great bunch of people!

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    Sage, were any of the data/specs from the Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar used in the Shuttle?

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  11. 1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

    Feel free to highjack any thread I start, so long as there is some sort of logical connection.

     

    Coolest looking is a toss up between the F7F Tigercat

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    And the P-61 Black Widow 

     

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    F7F for me…

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  12. 24 minutes ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

    When my Father was transferred from CEPE* to Public Relations, the Golden Hawks became his main focus for a while.

    I still have the shoulder patches for the team.

     

    * Central Experimental and Proving Establishment. (He got to see and play with all the cool stuff!)

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    Aren’t F-86s/FJ-4s just plain cool?

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  13. 1 hour ago, Blackwater 53393 said:


    I’ve always been a huge fan of the P38 Lockheed  Lightning.

     

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    I’m also a fan of the B58 Hustler!

     

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    The Hustler was amazing. Imagine what it could have been if computers had been available to control it. Took a pair of big brass ones to fly it. 

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  14. 37 minutes ago, Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life said:

    P51 Mustang, F86 Sabre and the B-2 Stealth Bomber. My Dad worked on the first 2 and I worked on the B-2. I don't know if it qualified as an airplane because it glided back to earth after each mission, but coolest of all was the Space Shuttle. I also worked on it.

    The Shuttle was no less an airplane than the X-15 or ME-163 Komet. An amazing airframe!

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  15. 9 minutes ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

    One of the last true Interceptors of manned bombers. 

    No guns, only missiles. A one mission aircraft.

    My Father was working of the missile weapon system for it when it was cancelled, following the launch of Sputnik.

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    Too bad it was cancelled. A very cool plane that reminds me of the North American RA-5 Vigilante. It was originally designed to poop out a nuclear bomb from between the engine exhaust. 
     

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