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Reply #345 on: February 06, 2020, 01:34:38 PM
The Crown is a great Netflix series. :)

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Reply #346 on: February 06, 2020, 02:09:57 PM
Agreed.

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Reply #347 on: February 09, 2020, 11:51:40 AM
A very auspicious date.
On this date. Artemis and Apollo are born to Zeus and Leto.

Spanish admiral, the Marquis de Santa Cruz dies of overwork, putting together the Spanish Amada.  (After which king Philip appointed the wealthiest man in Spain, an orange grower, to admital of the Armada.)

Jefferson Davis is elected President of the Confederate States of America.

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"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.


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Reply #348 on: February 11, 2020, 08:02:35 AM
1851, the Younger Brother of Jesus Christ begins the Taiping Rebellion.  Perhaps 50 million perish before it is put down in1864.

Lingchi, death by slow slicing, was a preferred form of execution inflicted on rebel leaders.  (Hint, hint, Brant.)
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"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.


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Reply #349 on: February 11, 2020, 11:09:30 AM

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Reply #350 on: February 11, 2020, 12:30:25 PM
A smart move.  :bigthumb:

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Reply #351 on: February 11, 2020, 01:25:35 PM
What an excellent aircraft the P-38 was.

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Reply #352 on: February 11, 2020, 04:12:29 PM
I don't blame them for being dubious at first sight. What an odd-looking bird! It looks like a Square with an airplane built around it.

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Reply #353 on: February 11, 2020, 04:15:13 PM
What an odd-looking bird!

Much more normal than say the F-82 Twin Mustang.

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Reply #354 on: February 11, 2020, 04:21:20 PM
Yes, I agree. I'm not too sure what the idea was behind the twin Mustang. I can't imagine that it was any more manoeuvrable.

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Reply #355 on: February 11, 2020, 04:30:38 PM
Yes, I agree. I'm not too sure what the idea was behind the twin Mustang. I can't imagine that it was any more manoeuvrable.

Very long range for escort missions.

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Reply #356 on: February 11, 2020, 04:42:32 PM
Oh aye, I see that, and the advantage of having two pilots for long flights - but was it any better or longer ranged than the P-38, and, was it any more manoeuvrable in combat?

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Reply #357 on: February 11, 2020, 04:46:55 PM
Oh aye, I see that, and the advantage of having two pilots for long flights - but was it any better or longer ranged than the P-38, and, was it any more manoeuvrable in combat?

It was definitely longer ranged.

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The F-82E had a range of over 1,400 mi (2,300 km), which meant that with external fuel tanks it could fly from London to Moscow, loiter for 30 minutes over the target, and return, the only American fighter which could do so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_F-82_Twin_Mustang

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Reply #358 on: February 11, 2020, 05:01:41 PM
Yeah, that is quite a range with drop tanks fitted.

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Reply #359 on: February 12, 2020, 10:04:37 PM

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