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Only 900, really! There should not really be any, Syria never attacked the US...... but I expect the 900 have plenty of civilian contractors helping them out.

They told me about the US is occupying a large part of the country and stealing the oil and grain, sending most to Turkey. Over 21,000 people have been killed, the number is rising, and many more injured, ....but sanctions come first of course.

From Brookings....No. I have read plenty of stuff from them in the past, just following the narrative. I just know what my friends in Syria tell me. Plus one US friend is not even allowed to send money.

I don't think Brookings, a right-wing "think tank", could be considered a reliable independent source, all other countries apart from the west have no problem bringing in aid. The US already has a presence in Syria it should be easy enough to bring supplies in.

I have Syrian friends there now and have had Western friends who worked there before the US invasion, I am not sure how they "made their bed", all were quite happy with the present democratically elected leader.

US sanctions against Syria are preventing aid from arriving from western countries, China, Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, and most Islamic countries are providing aid.

I remember back in the 1960s when Japanese motorcycles and cars were appearing, people laughed at the "rice burners", they were not laughing for very long.

When I worked at CAC and HdeH here in Australia we had a very good apprenticeship system, even training apprentices for other companies like the Holden (GMH) car company, we trained more apprentices than CAC/HdeH needed, many of the move straight on to the airlines after training. However...

Pel-Air used their own people to do the work, I was not involved, but from the photo it doesn't look like it.

Pel-Air Express often used our hangar for maintenance work in the olden days, I always liked the nickname for their Fairchild Metro lll aircraft "The DEATH PENCIL" Not to be used when near passengers. I remember these were about the noisiest aircraft we had near our hangar, I was surprised...

I could have used that name on the P-38 design I did but my laptop only had a 14" screen! Did Scrabble ever catch on in Germany?

I have had to do a few jobs outside the aviation industry using commercial aluminium, terrible stuff, working with 2024 T3 or 7075 T6 is much easier.

The CAC CA-15 used a ventral radiator, but it only made it to the prototype stage as some idiot had invented the jet engine.

I did do a design for the P-38 a few years ago as a request, I didn't know the origins of the nickname, but it is what they wanted, I don't know where it was used, he was heavily into online gaming, it may have been used there. The P-40 was also used in online gaming by another gamer

HdeH was a Sydney-based company so there was always a rivalry between them and our beloved Melbourne based CAC, we always thought HdeH was a bit 'shonky', hence the "Dirty Harry" nickname. Oddly enough CAC always seemed to get on OK with GAF next door, maybe because there was a constant...