Dave

I like it Kev.

They keep it dim on purpose to help preserve the aircraft. It also add to the feel of the place. I thinks it perfect.

I went back to the USAF Museum because I wanted to cpature the planes as they were in the hangers. With the right lighting and everything. Finally I did and these are the results.

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Wpnssgt....hey Mike we miss you around here. Happy Birthday and many more.

Outstanding work X Ray!

Well at the rate they are going JT will be released in 2021. Coolhand Don't worry, Kess isn't going to sell it.

What he said!

Lemay was a god!

Yes it is, but it is still a Dog Sabre......

I would like to place an order for some myself.....

As FC can attest to. The loss of positive control is a big deal. Oh I CANT WAIT for the 14 Sept stand down/ass chewing day in ACC.

Its all good my friend, we will meet someday.

Well anyway this one got off topic big time......so lets this one go.

Well eraser, Clinton takes credit for Reagan's work in the 80's. Remember how Reagan said it would take time for the economy to right itself? It did in the 90's based on his work with the economy. Slick Willy didn't do a thing. I used to be a Bush fan but he has gotten wrong advice on this Iraq thing and now good military men and women are paying for it. But I will say this, Bush was in the military and Clinton was not.....period. Today is my 16 year mark in the USAF and we are a shell of what we used to be because Clinton cut us to shreds. The US military is a shell of what it was before Clinton tore it to bits. I will give one thing to Bush, he is not a world yes man like Clinton was. Had Clinton taken out Osama when he had the intel there would of never been 9/11. Clinton rolled over after the first WTC bombing, he rolled over after Kobar Towers. Oh and his little tomahawk attack in Afghanistan, didn't do crap. He did just enough to give people what they wanted. So before you start riding the Clinton horse, carrying his banner, you better check again. He didn't do a damn thing but got his pee pee sucked by an intern and got impeached for it.

Went back to the USAF museum today and went to the Presidential Hangar. There in all its glory was SAM 26000, former Air Force One, the one that JFK used and the one that his coffin came back in. Well I got to go on it today and there was a sense of aw being in there. SAM 26000 You all remember seeing a pic of this around the net right? Here is the same spot more or less, very cramped. You see that metal strip? That is where they cut the cabin to be able to carry JFK's coffin back instead of the cargo hold. Finally this is where they ripped out the seats and placed the coffin. Sorry about the pic quality, the area was cramped and all sectioned off with plexiglass. It was a very moving experience for me to be there after seeing it so many times on the History channel or on this show or that show.

Wow how did I miss this? Go erikgen GO!

First Eagles is 5.1GB X4 WOE installs 112 GB WOV is 21.2 GB SF DS install is 7.2 GB OTC (My personal version) 11.2 GB My computer has a 500 GB HD. I also run X2 EHDs, one 500GB and one 250GB. For a total of 1.25 TB. Space isn't an issue.

Many of you know who Saburo Sakai is. But did you know this? Sakai came very close to changing history in a very major way in April 1942. By then, the Tainan Wing was based at Lae on the northern coast of New Guinea, and was engaged in gaining air superiority over the Allied forces at Port Moresby, prior to the coming Japanese invasion. Among their opponents were the recently-arrived B-26 Marauders of the 22nd Bomb Group, which made several unescorted low level daylight raids on Lae, during which the Japanese exacted high losses on the unit. During one of these attacks, Sakai attacked a B-26 named "The Harrying Hare," damaging it severely and nearly shooting it down. Riding as a passenger in "The Harrying Hare" was a terrified American congressman who had obtained a commission as a Lieutenant Commander and was touring the war zone to obtain some publicity for himself for later use in his re-election campaign that fall. The congressman was Lyndon Baines Johnson, later 36th President of the United States. On his return from the mission, Douglas MacArthur pinned a Silver Star on him (in hopes he would go home and vote in Congress to provide the supplies the general needed). Forever after, to the discomfort of people who knew what the Silver Star was supposed to represent, Johnson would brag about his “heroism” that day and portray himself to the electorate as a “decorated war hero.” One wonders how later history would have been different had Sakai had the good luck to shoot down "The Harrying Hare" that day. Badly wounded and blinded in one eye from his encounter with the dive bombers over Guadalcanal on August 7, 1942, Sakai performed one of the great feats of aviation, flying his shot-up Zero 600 miles over open ocean, unable to see out of his one good eye due to blood flowing from a bad head wound, all the way back to Rabaul. He was sent back to Japan to recover, and did not enter combat again for another two years; this likely contributed to his surviving the war, since almost all the men he had served with in the Tainan Wing would die in the Solomons Campaign and Rabaul campaigns, the graveyard of the Imperial Navy's air force.

I hope he is found ok.

I take it you don't like Americans eh?