Trailrider #896
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One 7-1/2" and one 5-1/2", both have .44-40 and .44 Magnum cylinders fitted. The .44-40 cylinders have tight .425" throats, but with hardcast bullets, shoot very accurately. 1-5/8 inch 5 round groups at 25 yds on the bench! Haven't shot much since the pandemic, and otherwise busy. Now having some problems with my right thumb cocking dualist style. When the weather improves may try to get back into it, cocking left-thumb if necessary.
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All well and good. But if the bird started to spin, a lot of the crew could get pinned in by centrifugal force! Same was true of the BUFF (B-52). The BUFF's that had more crew in the belly than there were downward ejection seats had to try to crawl to the holes left by the seats and dive out. According to some reports a number of people didn't get out.
Bless them all! The long and the short and the tall!
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11 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:
Will a Colt SAA in .45 Colt shoot a 400+ grain gold bullet more than once?
I mean...before it becomes grapeshot.
Do you mean the gold bullet or the Colt's SAA becoming grape shot...in all directions?
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U.S. shot down at least 70 drones and possibly 2 ballistic missiles. Jordon also shot down a number of drones that passed over their airspace. Appears most of the missiles were aimed toward the less populated Israeli areas in the South. First reports by Israel are minimal damage and one young girl was injured! Still not sure if this was a face-saving effort on the part of Iran, or what. They can say to their people, "We responded to Israel's killing of those generals in Syria.
Question now is how Israel will respond.
Just have to wait and see... 
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Iran has fired over 200 drones. cruise missiles and ballistic missiles at Israel!
The U.S. has shot down at least one drone (from a ship?). Does Israel have enough AAA supplies due to a slowdown in replenishment by the U.S.? If Israel becomes eccitentially threatened, how will they respond? Iran better watch out. Because whether Jerusalem acknowledges it publicly or not, they have the capability of turning Tehran into a trinitite parking lot! Pray it doesn't come to that!
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Subs, especially SSBN "Boomers" and current attack subs are ships. But, they are referred to by their crews as "boats". The senior petty officer on a sub is referred to as "Chief of the boat." I think even the WWII fleet subs were ships, but referred to by submariners as "the boat".
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Hollyweird strikes again. OTOH, the sci-fi show I watched on TV as a kid...Tom Corbett, Space Cadet...had rockets landing by backing down on their flaming exhausts. Supposed to be in the year 2350, a world beyond tomorrow. Of course, we knew that was science fiction. Never happen, right? I think SpaceX has done it 279 times last count!
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NO! Sorry, I will NOT make a holster for this monstrosity!
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50 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
Reminds me of the short story “The Ransom of Red Chief”
Yup! Or Red Skelton's "Mean Widdle Kid".
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Teddy Blue was a good friend of Charlie Russell, and married Granville Stewart's younger daughter. The book is a great read!
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I used to fly Ozark Airlines DC-3's from Peoria to O'hara Chicago when I was in college. One time, it was at night, and I was the only passenger onboard! I asked the stewardess (that's what they called the ladies in those days) to ask the captain if I could come up to the flight deck., as I was an Air Force ROTC cadet and had dreams of punching holes in the sky (didn't happen
). Captain said yes, and I stood between the seats. Full moon and a 10/10th undercast below us. What a sight.
"In '51 they tried to ground the noble DC-3,
And so some lawyers went before the CAB,
The Board examined all the facts,
behind their great oak portals,
And then pronounced these simple words:
The Gooney Bird's immortal!
They patch her up with masking tape,
With paper clips and strings,
And still she flies, she never dies,
Mathusalah with wings!" - Oscar Brand
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Oh, when I saw "It Froze Over", I thought you were referring to Hell...Michigan.
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As far as taking off with one engine is concerned, it would depend on how powerful each engine is, and also if both engines were close to the aircraft centerline. If outboard on the wings and you are below Vmc (minimum control speed), and you lose an engine, you pull back power on the good engine or you may wind up on your back, which could ruin your whole day! At least that is what my IP's taught me when I got my FAA light twin rating.
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First it snew, an' then it blew, an' then begorrah it friz!
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2 hours ago, Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 said:
My dad told me when I was a highschooler that you can do pretty much anything you want in this society if you obey the law, and if you follow a few basic rules of social conduct. If you don't obey the law, you'll always be under someone's thumb. If you don't obey the basic rules of social conduct, you don't get invited back, you miss opportunities, you experience frustrations, and your ambitions are thwarted.
Follow this simple formula and you can pretty much do what you want, and achieve what you want to achieve. In short: avoid self-defeating behavior.
It works.
Except in places like New York, Chicago and elsewhere, where you can break the law multiple times and be out without bail multiple times!
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There have been all sorts of incidents/disasters where intel was available, but the people in charge of responding paid no attention or discounted the information. In the case of the recent terror attack in Moscow, it is reported that we warned Moscow of the potential for the attack. Apparently, Putin wasn't interested. Some people tend to blame "intelligence" for failure to prevent such tragedies, but the information is useless if nobody in command is willing to pay attention to it!
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I have cable, so don't need StarLink, but if I did, I'd sure get it! A lot of people criticize Elon Musk, but SpaceX's StarLink is probably the greatest thing since...slice bread...the incandescent electric light...the phonograph. That fleet of satellites is making communications possible for people, in places, never before available. Do I have a vested interest? I wish I could buy some stock, but Musk keeps it completeley close to his vest. U.S. military is thinking about hooking up with something similar. SpaceX just successfully landed a Falcon9 first stage booster for the 20th time! If I were 58 years younger, I'd be down in Texas banging on his door, asking if he could use a rocket engineer! Go SpaceX! Go StarLink!
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No obscenities, please! We had 24+ inches a week-and-a-half ago, which melted off when the wx turned into the 50's-upper 60's. Now we got about 3 inches, and still snowing. It is supposed to be Spring. Don't need no more of that white stuff!
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Some idiot former-media executive posted a comment about a certain individual being "fair game" having turned 18 years of age. It was taken in some serious contexts, and the idiot withdrew the publication. I was thinking in another context, however. What about the thinking of some 18-year-old females about a tall, handsome and probably potentially rich as Croesus, in terms of being "fair game"? Not, of course, that they could get anywhere near this person?
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And we have to pay to see the Rockies!
Not that they may be worth seeing, but...
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When I was playing football...both of them!
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IMHO, with the two-shot load in the '87, no matter who does what to the gun, it isn't worth the brain damage! Years ago, the late Cathouse Bill Blattler and I ran tests where we loaded six shell in the '87 under the clock, versus loading two in a SxS, or six in the '97. We switch off guns, and the times to get off six rounds was nearly identical. But we could never get the rules changed, so rather than messing with the '87, he went back to loading his '97 one at a time, and I went back to my SxS. Hope you can get the Drop Two to work for you.
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NASA officially went metric in the 1970's, but most U.S. manufacturing stayed with English units. This led to loss of a Mars probe, when JPL was using metric and Martin-Marietta was using English. They had laid off 3,000 of us in 1989, so I was no longer involved. First thing I'd have done had I still been on the program would have been to call JPL and ask what system they were using! I learned metric in high school in the 1950's, but I still cannot think in metric, and have to convert, especially when watching SpaceX velocity and altitude figures which are in metric. Have to multiply by .625 to get miles and mph.
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There was a TV show, "Here Come the Brides", about importing women to the Seattle area in the 1860's. I think it was based on an actual situation.
Martin B-26 Marauder
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Part of the problem with the Martin B-26 was the fact that it was initially placarded to land at too LOW a speed, which led to stalls and crashes! It had such a bad reputation that AAF Chief Hap Arnold asked Jackie Cochran to fly the plane, his thinking being that "if a woman could fly it" male pilots could. What Cochran found was that the approach and landing speeds needed to be higher. In addition, Martin added length to the wings, which increased the surface area, and decreased the stall speed. After the modifications, and changes to flying speeds, the B-26 became an excellent medium bomber.
The A-26, later redesignated the B-26 Invader was a much better attack bomber, and a number were used in Korea, with a bunch more .50 cal. MG's in the nose, and IIRC some 20mm as well. Yes, a number were converted to civilian business planes. (The plane in James Garner's movie, "Cash McCall" was just such a plushed-up B-26.