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It's called catharsis and clarification.

I didn't appreciate your comments about 'being afraid of you', nor the implied threat that I should be concerned about telling you to your face what I write here. I solved that be taking off the cloak so to speak..so you KNOW who I am and where I live.

I'm Ok with YOU remaining anonymous because I never intended to 'hurt' you - just tell you what was on my mind if YOU dropped by.

I didn't appreciate the gay remards or remarks about being under psychiatric treatment or my wife and dogs being afraid of me - but now understand that these are just you 'acting out' when you have nothing useful to say and probably no one at home has put you in Time Out lately (is that the phrase for 'stand in the corner' these days..)

Ya'll come back with another blistering and witty riposte - I'll somehow struggle through the barrage.
 
I didn't appreciate your comments about 'being afraid of you', nor the implied threat that I should be concerned about telling you to your face what I write here. I solved that be taking off the cloak so to speak..so you KNOW who I am and where I live.

I'm Ok with YOU remaining anonymous because I never intended to 'hurt' you - just tell you what was on my mind if YOU dropped by.

I didn't appreciate the gay remards or remarks about being under psychiatric treatment or my wife and dogs being afraid of me


This is really getting very far afield and I really don't feel like spending the time to feed this thing any longer. Really.

I apologize.

Let's move on. You can have the last word.
 

The last from me is I apologise, let's agree to not parse each others comments or pretend we know what the other person meant. If you and I are unclear we will ask.

Love, and don't reach for the soap

Bill Marshall
 
I just re-read this whole entire spat between u too, and while I found it very interesting and educational, I also found it annoying...

Both u guys are fountains of information, statistical/historical/actual.... U should have kept it that way... I am glad that u both decided to calm down and move on, as it was getting old...

And for the record, both of u gimmie ur address's and I'll come to both ur places and kick the ever lovin sh!t outta both of youse, settle this dispute once and for all...
 

HUA - but if you do need it let me know (this is not a challenge but an invitation to come see this place)..
 

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Dan - Ah the smell wet wolfies in the mornin'. Those pot lickers are way too smart.

Most of them know how to a.) stick their noses in the refrigerator door seal and sometimes get it open, and b.) nudge the patio door handles to 'open' position unless we lock em.

We have 47" kitchen bar type counters to stage steaks, chicken, etc for the grill because they are NOWHERE safe on 37" counters. That is an easy 'hop' if not merely a stretch of the neck.

When they conduct a successful raid (fewer now that they have me trained in threat analysis) they come solit me for info as to 'where is the rest'??

Another pic out the great room window to the east. I see blacktail deer and turkeys out this window all the time. Lot of bear and some cougar in those hills.
 

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As for comparing the P-47 as a VietNam Sandy, think A7D instead of the P-47 or A1E.

Regards,

Bill
Bill,

I know what Sandy is. If I didn't, I wouldn't have mentioned it.
P-47 was a big plane. Could've been pressed into that role, if development had been allowed to go in that direction.


drgondog said:
No rag or gag - your opinion is fine.
Oh, well in that case f**k you guys - F4F and I don't wanna hear another word about it.



Elvis
 
LOL - Elvis.. go with it.

I only mentioned the A-7D as a Sandy because going up North with the A1E was just too hot in 1972-1973 timeframe. The A7D was a versatile tough little LUF.

As a Mustang lover, I wish the USAF had in it's wisdom used P-47s in Korea. My father had just transferred from CO of 35th FBW when Korean war broke out. Jeff Ethell's fater was a squadron commander. Jeff and I used to recall the sons (our friends in Japan) of the fathers that went down in ground support actions.

As to the son of F4F in korea in its last stages of develoment - it might have been a better choice than the 51.
 
Wasn't there a version of the 51 tested where the radiator intake was moved?
That seems to ring a familiar but distant bell in my head.

...oh and I changed my mind again...MIG-3 and I don't wanna hear another word about it.
(and that's the last time I'm changing my mind, I promise ).

BTW, nice spread. Stuart Anderson AND Les Schwab would be jealous!



Elvis
 

The 51B had some major cooling and corrosion issues in the conversion from Allison to Merlin. NA engineers didn't know Merlin engines had some copper cores to improve cooling and the new aluminum radiator caused some major corrosion issues before solution discovered.
 
Elvis, from Lundstrom, "The First Team," Pg 441, Jimmy Thach, "The only way we can ever get our guns to bear on the Zero fighter is to trick them into recovering in front of our F4F or shoot them when they are preoccupied in firing at one of our own planes." This was from the after action reports of the Midway Battle. However if you want to hear another evaluation of the F4F from Jimmy Flatley, get the book and read on. Both of Lundstrom's books, in my opinion are great reads and belong in every WW2 buff's library, especially one who is an F4F fan.
 
Fu*k the damn Cowboys....

I second that!!

And from my humble experience no dog has been in that kitchen let alone a brigade of wolfies.

So are we agreed, the Brewster Buffalo was the best for the US in 1940?!
 
I second that!!

And from my humble experience no dog has been in that kitchen let alone a brigade of wolfies.

So are we agreed, the Brewster Buffalo was the best for the US in 1940?!

Ah, that turns out to not be the case - on all three points!
 

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