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    "I Surfed the Tsunami"

    dude ,get hip. I suggest Beach Boys "Good Vibrations".ch
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    Too Tired to Fly

    Fourteen hour days are much easier in the cockpit now a days with glass instruments, only two in the pit instead of three and beaucoup automation. I believe the underlying complaint I see here is boredom, as well as giving the union brothers an oppertunity to fill more slots to cover the...
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    WW3?

    lol..............huh? pick some clothes out of the closet and please take my motorcycle. California? Head towards the setting sun and stop when the water tastes salty.
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    WW3?

    Yer all off base. The trigger will be Bolivian aspirations for Peruvian resources. Ignore CA and SA at your peril capitalist pigs.ch
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    It can fly

    Brilliant execution of concept, sad end.ch
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    "Disk Cleanup"?

    Have used Spybot Search and Destroy for 5 plus years, very effective. Also I have added AVAST for the past year and it does catch PUPS and trojans that the other protection has misses. I seem to go places that no sane person should go,and am notified regularly of programs trying to gain access...
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    WW 2 Axis Color !

    Great archival material, Your grandfather really got around. Or he wasn't the source of all the photographs?
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    V16 Aircraft Engine

    check out the Lycoming Hyper Engine in Wikipedia.CH
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    Where did the warbirds plans disappear after the WW2??

    I know as a current builder of military aircraft that plans,schematics, construction drawings and the like are propritory information and would have been back in the day as well. There were execptions that prove the rule (ie Goodyear/Vought) but construction drawings are closely held by the...
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    Scuds from Iraq ver1.0

    Perhaps this has been rolled over to death previously, but I have seen no definitive history of the operation against the Scuds. Warthogs seemed the ideal platform, but reported success rate was low. The go fast guys may have superior avionics compared to the vintage Hogs, loiter time and six...
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    Carrier air war "what if"....

    Past mind exercise is good , future exercise is necessary.I often wonder how well our Sino manufactured military equipment wii perform in the next conflict.ch
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    Names of WWII fighters?

    Yeager used the Glennis name through out his career. Mine might be " Excuse me.... GET OTTA THE WAY"
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