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Great white sharks off the Jersey shore are not all that rare. They prefer water temperatures from 54 to 75 degrees. But your ability to track one or even follow one on Twitter is unique. And Twitter lit up Thursday morning when @MaryLeeShark was found to be just 10 miles off the coast of Wildwood. The shark's latest pings continue to indicated a northerly course up the Jersey shore, often less than 10 miles from the coast. The most recent ping occurred at 7:43am Friday, placing Mary Less less than five miles off the southeast tip of Long Beach Island. Since Mary Lee is swimming through our coverage area, The Press reached out for comment on how the shark is liking the South Jersey coastal waters. So @MaryLeeShark: What's your impression of the South Jersey shore? Liking the 55 degree water? Trying to beat the Memorial Day crowds? — Dan Skeldon (@ACPressSkeldon) May 8, 2015 My, Dan. Aren't you persistent? Gotta swim, but promise to catch you later. -;() https://t.co/6TTFT1AJ1R — Mary Lee the shark (@MaryLeeShark) May 8, 2015 Mary Lee, a 3,456-pound female great white shark, has traveled almost 20,000 miles since she was tagged off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in September 2012. OCEARCH, a nonprofit group that researches great whites, placed a tracker on Mary Lee that will emit a ping each time the shark’s dorsal fin surfaces above the ocean. Over the last month, Mary Lee has made steady progress northward up the East Coast of the United States. In early April, the 16-foot long shark was off North and South Carolina. Earlier this week, she was lurking just off Assateague Island, off the Delmarva Peninsula. In the last 24 hours, Mary Lee moved north, paralleling the Delaware coastline about 10 miles offshore. Then came five pings early Thursday morning, as Mary Lee zigzagged about 10 to 15 miles east of Cape May and Wildwood. Just after noon on Thursday, the latest ping placed the shark about 15 miles due east of Avalon. The current water temperature off of South Jersey is 56 degrees, just at the lower end of the shark’s preferred range. Currently, over 14,700 people follow @MaryLeeShark on Twitter, with almost 5,000 new followers since the shark entered New Jersey waters Thursday morning. You can also follow her track here: http://www.ocearch.org/profile/mary_lee/#SharkTracker

I'm sure that most here know know of Jay Leno as the long time host of the Tonight Show, and may even know of his car collection. Well, he has an entire Youtube page were he showcases some of his collection, as well as interesting cars that belong to his acquaintances and fans. Here's a sample, a slick "restomod" 1968 Camaro that belongs to comedy star Tim Allen. Enjoy!

And, being an old truck guy, I am partial to this creation:

In the immortal words of Jim Morrison, "The blue bus.....is calling us....."

Or managed to skid the ship a few feet to one side from recoil.

Mary Lee was reported to be less than one half mile offshore this morning, or about 12 miles southeast of my home. To quote the local Newspaper: A 3,500-pound great white shark moving up the East Coast came less than a half mile from the Jersey Shore on Sunday morning before heading farther back out to sea. The nonprofit group OCEARCH's shark tracker showed Mary Lee roughly 700 meters off the coast of Toms River around 6:45 a.m. this morning. But the shark didn't stick around there for long. Less than a half hour later, the shark pinged about one and three quarter miles off the shore. A ping is registered with the group when the shark's dorsal fin breaks through the water, transmitting a signal that provides an estimated location. In the last 24 hours, the shark has traveled nearly 75 miles, according to the group's tracker. OCEARCH put a tracking device of Mary Lee in Cape Cod in 2012. Follow Mary Lee's movements on OCEARCH's shark tracker.

I looked into the (then) Alphasim freeware models back in 2008 and 2009, and found most of them to be quite low-poly. In fact, I recall getting another modeler involved in this (IIRC, it was Fastcargo), and he came to the same conclusion, that they were potentially more work to finish, then if one had built them from scratch. The list, though, was no where near as long back then, as all they had for freeware models were the F-86 and possibly the F-117. They also offered a (finished) Kuznetsov and Su-33 model combo for FS2004. We do have Marcelo's Kuznetsov model that will soon be out, as soon as it escapes from the paint shop.

It's not the years.......it's the mileage.

MMMMMMMMM.......seafood. I love seafood!

Why, Thank you, Eric. That's one less member that may require a visit from the Combatace Osprey...

Wrench, the DAT may have released a Greyhound, but Skatezilla had one done, first, back in 2007-2008. Trust me on this. Also, the C-2 only superficially resembles the E-2. It has a shorter nose, and a much wider fuselage than the Hawkeye.

No, it was Skatezilla.

If I'm not mistaken, Skatezilla built one years ago for SF1.

It has no rotational axis defined in the 3D model, so you'll never get it working.

And here's the view from inside the cockpit. Watching this just reinforces how realistic Stary's terrain tiles are.

Just wait until Russ and Stary finish exporting models from Daz 3D. We'll have scantily-clad chicks as ground crew!

Cockpits do have ini files, and yes, it is possible to rotate canopy frames and the like in order to render them invisible.

This video may not be suitable for the weak-of-heart!

That's good to hear, Skyviper. I was especially concerned with the pilot of the Cessna that lost its wing.

Kevin, Funny that you should post that.....this is 7 miles away from me, in Sea Girt, NJ (that was where one of the "Jaws" attacks occurred back in 1916). I had no idea that they had a museum at this site:

I'm sure that we've all been involved in a few reckless activities in our time, were we managed to get away without losing life or limb in the process. Throwing fireworks into sewers and igniting pockets of methane gas, throwing weighted "block busters" into lakes and rivers and feeling the concussion rattle the dock one is standing on when they went off, etc. I guess the height of my adolescent insanity was the time we filled a large, glass mayonnaise jar with black powder, buried up to its lid in dirt, and set it off. The resulting explosion seemed like a small nuclear detonation to our 13-year old eyes, complete with a chocking, billowing grey mushroom cloud. Luckily, no one got hurt, though I suffered from tinnitus for several days afterwards. That last bit was was amazing, considering that we were extracting glass shards from that jar from trees and wooden garage doors (with pliers) for days afterwards! Another memorable stunt involving fireworks, was shooting off 2 oz rockets at low flying NY Airways helicopters flying into Newark airport from NYC. We came close enough once so that the rotor blast from one deflected the rocket away (those rockets would reach over 1200 feet / 330 meters altitude). But that didn't stop us. What did, was when we laid one of those same 2 oz rockets down on the pavement (sans tail), and sent it down the street, "torpedo" style. The rocket flew fairly straight along the asphalt, then hit the ridge surrounding a man-hole cover, sending it airborne for a few dozen yards. Unfortunately, this happened while a Newark police cruiser was crossing the intersection on that early July day in 1974. Back then, patrol cars didn't always have air conditioning, so both front windows were wide open. The rocket flew in through the passenger side, and exited the driver's side, probably within mere inches of the officer's faces. Needless to say (and judging by the way they recklessly pursued us the wrong way up a one-way street) neither officer found the incident very amusing. A decade or so later (when I was in my mid-20s), a friend brought a a black powder "mini-cannon" to work (we were both working for a state-operated mass-transit agency at the time). It resembled the one pictured below. It was not meant to fire a projectile, as it was intended for starting events, such as yacht races. Well, having access to a machine shop at work, we could not leave well enough alone, so we bored it out to enable one to shove a needle-bearing from a 662 wheel bearing down the muzzle. For those of you not familiar with what I'm talking about, imagine a hardened-steel cylinder about .030 in diameter, and about .75 inches long. That was our intended projectile. Our first test firing was disappointing, we so upped the charge in 50% increments, until it could penetrate the side-paneling of an old GMC bus! The building that we shooting this thing off in was pretty much empty, so my maniac of a friend decided to liven things up a bit by shooting at the mobile-home that substituted for a foreman's office. It too, was empty at the time, and sat some 100+ feet from where we were shooting. The report from the now double-charged cannon sounded as loud inside the garage, as a 12-gauge shot-gun with magnum loads. It was in fact, so damned loud, that everyone who was on the property came running in to see what had happened. My friend walked over to the intended target, saw no damage, and decided to call it quits on our experiment, as he had attracted more attention than he felt comfortable with. An hour or so later, our shift-foreman strolled into my work area, and in his Irish brogue proclaimed "There's a frikking hole in the office. You wouldn't happen to know anything about that, would you lad?" Another decade later (yes, I was in my mid-thirties by then), I was working for a spill-containment contractor, setting spill-containment booms around barges and tankers as a preventative measure. I recall "booming-in" a medium sized tanker one evening. It was empty and riding high. My deckhand had brought along a few block-busters along just for kicks. Once the tanker was boomed in and our boom-boat was tied up and we were leaving for the shift, my friend decided to drop a (weighted) block buster into the water, about 10 feet away from the side of the tanker's hull. When the block buster went off, the resulting water hammer reverberated throughout the empty tanks of the ship, sounding as if someone had dropped a huge rock onto a large steel plate. We tried to act surprised as the crewmen on the tanker peered down at us from the rail... So, who wants to go next?

Cool, we can have Corvettes as ground objects!