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Or, bite that kayak. I have some experience fishing for sharks, and I've had them bite the hull of my boat on numerous occasions. I once even found a Mako's tooth embedded in the gunnel. It seems that the critter did not take too kindly to being dragged aboard aboard tail-first. And that was after we had supposedly dispatched him with a well placed 12-gauge slug.

350 KIAS at 80,000 feet works out to around 910 TAS, or around Mach 1.4

Be careful....those Econolines are tough! I know of one that went over 500,000 miles (more than 800,000 km) before its engine failed.

This was an annual event held near where I live, at Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ. This was filmed during "Crazy Eddie's Night of Thrills" on (I believe) June 15, 1977, and I was there! I was in the pit-side bleachers, opposite where this was filmed, about halfway down the rack. The closing part of the video shows two J-79 powered jet dragsters. If I am not mistaken, one of them suffered a brake chute malfunction, leading to the death of the driver when the unrestrained vehicle punched through the barrier rail at track's end while still traveling at almost 200 mph. This was so far away (almost half a mile) that no one in the stands knew that it had happened. They just nonchalantly announced that there were to be no further runs that night, and closed the track. We did not find out until the next day.

I remember Richard Hatch playing the lead role in a made for TV movie about Jan & Dean, "Dead Man's Curve". That was in the late Winter of 1978, about six months before the premier of BSG.

We must dispatch Kevin to investigate... What the hell sort of cockpit is this?

OH NO! We're too late. It's been spotted over NYC!

Nice! Thanks for sharing.

The F-104's Vmax was also limited due to thermal issues, it could attain a Mach number high enough to melt its windscreen (which if I recall correctly, occurred between Mach 2.25 and 2.5). I am sure a similar issue existed with the F-4.

When I first saw the title of this thread, I was thinking "What is he talking about, Ron O'Neal died at least 10-12 years ago". LOL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_O'Neal

I work at a site that recently implemented a tobacco-free policy. No smoking of any sort is allowed on the facility, and no tobacco of any sort is allowed on the premises. On the first day after Christmas break, they held a question and answer session regarding the new policy and its potential impact (mostly penalties) for those who do not obey it. I was going through the notes on the Q and A, and encountered one question, which went unanswered; "What if I arrive at work driving a tobacco-powered car?"

Tobacco powered cars.....Perhaps we should forward this concept to Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond. They could each build one, and compete against one another in a trans-continental race.

Wow. Thanks for sharing this.

That's an issue with a value in your environmentsystem.ini file. Try renaming its extension, from "ini" to "bak", and let the system load the default one, as a trouble-shooting step. It could be in either the horizon height or horizon color entries.

For those of fans the action film, "The Finest Hours", you know what a surf-boat is, and what its capabilities are. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the concept, a surf boat is a small rescue craft that is designed to effect rescues in heavy, breaking waves, conditions that one often finds around inlets that are subject to fast ebbing tides that run against opposing seas. This creates heavy surf, and makes those inlets all but impassable under those conditions. Here's a clip from "The Finest Hours": This is real footage of that same class of surf boat, taken at the local inlet, in September of 1938:

Just for comparison, this is what Manasquan inlet looked like during a nor'easter in October of 2015, some 77 years later

I have a lot of respect for the USCG. They will go out in some truly hellacious conditions to rescue you, no questions asked. I recall an incident many years ago, where an MLB crew out of USCG Station Sandy Hook went out in response to a distress call, at night, and right into the teeth of a winter nor'easter. The crew of the MLB suffered a few casualties (broken bones, etc), for what turned out to be a hoax call, perpetrated by some kids sitting in the safety of their parent's driveway! Of course, since then, laws have been set in place to discourage asshats from doing that: https://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg5/cg534/SARfactsInfo/SARisNOjoke.asp

Time to wish my friends here at CA a Merry Christmas, a Happy Hanukkah, and a Happy 2017!

Interesting film from the early 1930s with period carrier ops.

Yes, an idiot, indeed http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/747135/donald-trump-president-elect-f35-fighter-jet-tweet Donald Trump in big win: F-35 fighter jets cost driven DOWN after President-elect's anger THE chief executive of Lockheed Martin Corp told President-elect Donald Trump on Friday that she was committed to driving down the cost of the company's F-35 fighter jet, a day after Trump took aim at the cost of the F-35 in a Twitter post. CEO Marillyn Hewson said she spoke with Mr Trump on Friday afternoon and assured him that she had heard his message "loud and clear" about reducing the cost of the F-35.Mr Trump, in a tweet posted late on Thursday, suggested that an older aircraft made by rival aerospace company Boeing Co could offer a cheaper alternative to the F-35. "Based on the tremendous cost and cost overruns of the Lockheed Martin F-35, I have asked Boeing to price-out a comparable F-18 Super Hornet!" Mr Trump said. Ms Hewson, in a statement posted on Twitter, said she had had "a very good conversation" with Trump on Friday. "I gave him my personal commitment to drive the cost down aggressively," she said in the statement. Lockheed shares closed down 1.3 per cent on Friday, nearing their lowest levels since the November 8 election.

The MiG-15 had the ASP-3N gyroscopic reflector gunsight, as did the early MiG-17A models. "Ranging" on it was pilot controlled, sort of like adjusting for bullet drop on a rifle's telescopic sight, in this case, the pilot adjusted the reticle to the target's wingspan. Radar-ranging lead computing sights did not appear on MiGs until the later '17A and '17F models. Here's a wiki article on Gyroscopic gunsights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyro_gunsight

And a Merry Christmas to you and yours, Russ!

1080P is 1080P, whether one achieves it using a 22" PC monitor, or a 72" television display. The only issue one might encounter, would be due to ideal viewing distances. Since a given resolution results in the same number of pixels being displayed, regardless of screen size, a smaller display will tend to have a sharper image when viewed from a typical "desk top" view distance of just under 24", as the pixels on its screen will be smaller. A 46" display, on the other hand, will appear just as sharp, but only when viewed from a greater distance (ideal viewing distance for that size display is 6.4 feet/1.96 meters). Hope this helped.

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