Can you top this?
Aug 14th 2008, 12:56 am
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Re: Can you top this?
F-18s have 2 engines with afterburners so yes, more powerful than the single engined F-16
Aug 14th 2008, 1:08 am
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Re: Can you top this?
What interests me about many of these fighters is the age of their initial design, with some going back three or four decades. I think the Hornet was designed in the 70s, also the F-14 is pretty old.
Aug 14th 2008, 1:18 am
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Re: Can you top this?
Soowry 
At one point, we hit a very thick bank of cloud while in that tight formation and had to pull up right (other airplane fell left) then rejoined later somewhere over Blackpool. We were in route (sorry in ro-out to Scotland at the time. The pic is me back then in 1996 in front of that airplane we flew in to Scotland, a BAe Jaguar, back at Boscombe.
At one point, we hit a very thick bank of cloud while in that tight formation and had to pull up right (other airplane fell left) then rejoined later somewhere over Blackpool. We were in route (sorry in ro-out to Scotland at the time. The pic is me back then in 1996 in front of that airplane we flew in to Scotland, a BAe Jaguar, back at Boscombe.(Oh I'm glad that Lochkeed Martin was awarded the contract, the Boeing JSF was tacky as hell)
Aug 14th 2008, 1:19 am
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Re: Can you top this?
Just a slang thing I think. Missouri has a complicated Civil War history. Basically a union state, a pro-slavery governor run out of the state, (rebel group) seceded it from the union, claimed by CSA. I think many think of it as a straight-forward southern state but it's more complex than that I guess.
Aug 14th 2008, 1:31 am
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Missouri's Civil War history is very complex and very savage. Officially, there wasn't much going on here with a couple of exceptions, but unofficially the guerilla war especially on the Missouri/Kansas border was brutal. Most of the western half the state was actually depopulated during the war.
Aug 14th 2008, 1:35 am
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Like the mysterious Aurora project with its pulse detination propulsion and so on. There are some amusing You Tube videos of so-called films of these things flitting about, etc.
Aug 14th 2008, 5:42 am
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Re: Can you top this?
tis very difficult to be too patriotic when we as a nation cannot pronounce aluminium properly. my BIL tried to get me to say it on our last visit by asking what's used to cook a roast and I confused him by responding Reynolds wrap.
Do any parents out there know if in a spelling bee which is accepted, aluminium or aluminum.
Do any parents out there know if in a spelling bee which is accepted, aluminium or aluminum.
Aug 14th 2008, 7:18 am
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Aug 14th 2008, 7:25 am
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Aug 14th 2008, 7:32 am
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Aug 14th 2008, 7:35 am
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Aug 14th 2008, 7:41 am
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