Recent content by chipieal

Last weekend -22 ambient with -40 wind chill. We (Billings) was the warm spot in Montana.

Chinatown Just finished it about an hour ago. if you are a Raymond Chandler/Film Noir buff this is right up your alley. Roman Polaski directed - John Huston was a supporting actor.. Has held up well.

Since I am a certifed 76 year old car nut i feel qualified to answer. Any car built before 1970 is great. Easy to maintain, well built, fast, relatively economical, and you knew exactly what they were at a glance. Todays are over priced junk that have nothing to do with reality as all are...

Just take your Eliquis twice a day and watch your diet. If my wife could come back from something very similar - you can.

I cannot disagree with this. The B- 17 was a mid 30's design that soldiered on way past the time when it should have become a second line plane. However, looking at the lead times in developing a multi - engine bomber and the problem of producing existing planes in mass quantity the Fortress...

The Chinese and their stupid spy balloons flying over my house. LITERALLY

B-29

To begin with, I am a lifelong Mopar fanatic as illustrated by my profile picture. As to the second generation hemi - you must remember that it was a detuned racing engine. Yes they civilized it - to an extent. However, it took constant wrenching to keep it at its optimum. However a 440 Magnum...

Billings, Montana by way of The west side of Chicago.

I did not bother to read all the comments. In case some members are unfamiliar with the tactics of the disruptive here is a thumb nail sketch. They pick sites that have absolutely NOTHING to do with their AGENDA. However, since their accepted strategy is to cause confusion and exasperation in...

From the pilots point of view THE most important characteristic of a fighter plane is simple. Can it get it's ass shot off and still bring the pilot home. M Vote Eepublic Aviation and the partically indesctructable P -47 Especially the later models. I always wanted to see the inverted Chrysler...

Boillings, Montana below zero

Do not take this as gospel. But I have read in several articles, that Hitler did not put any faith in The atomic bomb. Maybe I am wrong, and this is strictly my opinion, I think when Hitler was gassed, it left him with a horror of so called Doomsday weapons.

I prefer to believe what was said in the movie Tora Tora Tora. Yamamoto was very familar with not only the psyche but the industrial might of the USA. He said we will not have a third strike to conserve our forces and resources. From what I have read about him - this is in line with his...

if we are talking twin engined fighters -- what about the Tigercat or the P -- 82