Major Lee

Almost home, and a little worse for wear. Wondering how much booze I'll have to buy the crew chief and hoping this will buff out...

Somewhere on the border of West and East Germany, January, 1984, getting up close and personal...

82 years ago, Normandy, France...

@Muesli Thanks for sharing, bro! It is great you have soldiered on and defeated your foes and are living life with your son! In my younger days, I enjoyed Metallica a bit, but never made it to one of their concerts. I was, however, at Frankfurt Rhein Main airport twice, back around 1984 and 1985, passing thru on my way to Neu Ulm, Germany, and two year duty with the US Army in the 56th FA BDE Pershing II (tac nuke) unit. I am so glad to see a brother in arms prevailing in their battles!!

June 5, 2026: Site is not fully functional...

It can be a pic of exterior of the plane, a small section if the plane is more well known own, or even the entire aircraft if it is obscure or rare. It can be part of the the interior or cockpit, just enough to give someone a chance at identifying the craft. Go for it!

@Wrench From time to time, these live YouTube channels catch the Aurora running wild. This one is on the southeastern end of the Mackinac Bridge, where Lake Huron and Lale Michigan meet, looking NW. This one is in Marquette, Michigan, looking north across Lake Superior.

The orange colored light is from my barn with chickens, and in the vertical picture, the bright white light on the bottom is a car driving by...

Late autumn last year, (Nov 2025) the Northern Lights were running, well, kind of mild. Couldn't really see much, but the pictures came out cool!

If yakarov wanna to pass, new bird post is open. Anyone?

@yakarov79 Is the winner! This is the P39Q at the Kalamazoo Airzoo. Yakarov79 is next to post a mystery bird! https://airzoo.rediscoverysoftware.com/mDetail.aspx?rID=1981.126.001&db=objects&dir=AIROBJ

@Wrench A variety of options are available... https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/check-ssd-health-windows-10-11

@Nightshade/PR Your time frame is correct, but it is not a P51 variant.

This guy is a video creator and has made some seriously powerful machines for editing. His reviews are well done with lots of technical information. Seriously brilliant work by this guy!

@MarkEAW My SSDs are listed in my description; a Western Digital SN850X 1TB for my primary OS drive, Cadrea A440 2TB for my working project drive, and a Gigabyte Aorus 2TB (SK Hynix) for games. The traditional HDDs are for backup. HDDs were half the price of SSDs, and work quite well for purpose. I did see different reviews on speeds for my SSDs, particularly from the YT channel "Tech Notice". My choice for OS drive and project drives was from info there. The Aorus drive was because it was available on sale, and plenty fast for its intended use. Thanks!

For all the aircraft recognition experts out there, let's get a thread going for you to show your expertise. Easy gentleman rules apply. *First to recognize the aircraft from the clue gets to post the next aircraft. The person posting the picture confirms the ID. *Please don't use AI or photo search; this is about what you can figure out. *The clue image can include the entire aircraft, part of it, or a cockpit image, whatever you like, but give enough to figure it out. First image, guess the bird I'm sitting in:

@Erik oh boy...

Chris Titus Tech has a great YouTube channel with a huge volume of tech information regarding Windows. Lots of specific information regarding Windows set up and the various programs they install amd how to get rid of the garbage. https://youtube.com/@christitustech?si=Nqi106p5h6WAhRWh

@Wrench 1st Air Commando all the way! Glad you like the videos! Here's one of the cockpit, but I think some of the instruments are not original equipment... 20250816_115023.mp4

I have used the Vegas series of video editing software for many years. I wanted to run the then current Vegas Pro 22, which simply wouldn't run on my old underpowered Win7 machine. I did a little comparison test of my new machine and the old(!) one. I took a video project that I made in Vegas 12 Pro, and rendered it again on my old machine. This short music video of a song at a school concert was 4'11" in length. The old machine took 17 minutes to render via GPU. I ran the exact same project file on the new machine with Vegas 22 Pro. Using the CPU for rendering took about 90 seconds. Switching to the GPU, got me down to 35 seconds! So, my new machine on CPU is 11 times faster the old machine on GPU, and rendering only took 35 seconds on GPU, which is 29 times faster! I'm OK with that performance, for sure! I installed Glarry Utilities, and got boot time down to 8 seconds. I used Rufus to strip Windows11 of corporate bloatware and unwanted features.

I built a new PC early last year. My old Windows 7 machine was just so slow and very old, and I really wanted to run a modern version of my video software. I researched modern parts and looked for sales. This is what I built: Gigabyte Z790 Eagle AX motherboard Intel i14700k cpu Corsair Vengeance 64gb DDR5 5600mts EVGA Supernova platinum power supply Primary Drive: Western Digital SN850X 1TB (Windows 11 Pro, video, graphics, utility programs) Game Drive: Gigabyte Aorus Gen4 2TB (flight sims, games, recreational programs, DLC storage) Project and Working Drive: Cardea A440 2TB (video and picture storage, media project files, new finished projects) TWO Seagate Firecuda 4TB HDD, 7200 rpm, 256mb, back up and storage. Asus RTX4070 12GB video card Soundblaster AE7 soundboard Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 THX speakers Arctic Freezer 36 black cooler with frame mount. Pioneer bluray for my existing movie collection. The pictures below show the end result. I wanted really work on cable management and have everything clean and tidy. I got some colored power cables to help with that. After I assembled the machine, I really didn't like the USB F-header sticking cables out perpendicular to the mobo, obstructing airflow. I thought "man, it would be great if someone made a 90° header". And then I realized I should just look on Amazon... I really lucked out on the timing of this build. After I got it done, PC parts prices began to climb like a rocket, especially RAM. The memory I bought was $165; it is now $919 on Newegg. I guess I should have just bought RAM as an investment.

@DoctorQuest Thanks for the reply. The C47 flight was really cool. The Airzoo has a Trimotor they flew years ago, I had a few rides in it. The best part is that every seat is both a window seat and and aisle seat!

A little engine action. Note the wet oil oozing along the cowl. 20250816_115158.mp4

I had an opportunity to fly in the magnificent C47 "Hairless Joe" last summer. What a marvelous flight in a nostalgic ship! You can find more information about this plane at https://miflightmuseum.org/aircraft-collection/