With any luck by Thanksgiving....the ultimate tribute... There's nothing better than the Script carried out by socks and friends...
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Doc Dutch (09-28-2021)
I liked his .45.
My wife had Graceland on her bucket list and, a few years back, we took an hour detour to go to Graceland. The plan was to see Graceland one day and the Memphis Belle the next, but the airplane had been moved to Wright-Pat because the city of Memphis wasn't able to pay for restoration.
It's now on display at Wright-Patterson AFB, another line on my bucket list: https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit.aspx
Elvis .45:
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"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
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Doc Dutch (09-29-2021)
PoliTalker (09-29-2021)
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Doc Dutch (09-29-2021)
First B-17 crew to complete their 25 missions over Germany and make it home. The fact it was a significant indicates that many did not return.
Later, due to losses, the Army Air Corps kept raising the number of missions prior to rotation back to the States. The movie was largely fictitious.
I was a huge reader about the WWII air war as a kid and read books about B-17s by Martin Caidin and Edward Jablonski.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Belle_(aircraft)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphi...rical_accuracy
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
PoliTalker (09-29-2021)
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
PoliTalker (09-29-2021)
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Doc Dutch (09-29-2021)
Agreed it's a good show. The first season was best, but the movie is truly awesome. The movie is still shown in training officers about the responsibilities of command and leadership styles. Note that Trump is not a good leader by any measure.
https://www.cram.com/essay/12-O-Cloc...sis/FC9S5CBGPR
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Southwest only uses different flavors of 737. They are famous for that. They have never had any Boeing 757-200.
United has been retiring its Boeing 757-200 for a decade now. They planned on retiring their last 757-200 in 2024, but that was before Covid-19. While technically still in the fleet, they are seldom used, because cheaper planes to fly are available. United is still seeing how much flying recovers, but will almost certainly move up their retirement.
It is a comparatively cheap plane to buy, but a comparatively expensive airplane to operate. So its operators are undercapitalized. Which is to say, in this current environment, they are going out of business. The 757-200 has the stench of failure on them, which is another reason everyone is dumping them.
PoliTalker (09-30-2021)
Relax, the man's got 72 million ignorant followers with enough disability checks to not only git his plane back in the air, but enough suckers to pay for the gas too. The die hard trailer trash ingrates are nothing but bottom feeders for Trump and human ATM cash cows.
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