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Charliesheen wrote: Tue Jan 25, 2022 5:02 pm https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/navy-s-13-b ... -1.1712708

The testing office said the Ford is unlikely to achieve its goal for the number of sorties it can launch over a 24-hour period, saying it’s “based on unrealistic assumptions.”
It also said that during 8,157 takeoffs and recoveries through last year, the carrier’s new electromagnetic catapult system made by General Atomics demonstrated a reliability of 272 launches “between operational mission failure,” or “well below” its required 4,166. Similarly, its system to snag landing aircraft demonstrated a 41-landing reliability rate “well below the requirement of 16,500,” the testing office said.
i can't see how there could be any problems releasing this kind of information to the general population.
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Captain Robert Maloney of the 55th Fighter Group, points to a hole in the wing of his P-51 Mustang caused by colliding with a German telegraph pole, while strafing a military train north of Ulm which was rushing equipment to the western front.

After that, he was able to return the plane to the Wormingford base in the UK.
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Homebrew wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 8:30 pm Image

Captain Robert Maloney of the 55th Fighter Group, points to a hole in the wing of his P-51 Mustang caused by colliding with a German telegraph pole, while strafing a military train north of Ulm which was rushing equipment to the western front.

After that, he was able to return the plane to the Wormingford base in the UK.
I had a hawk do about the same damage to an airplane three years ago.
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So, what happened to CQ? He get a job as the new WH intern?
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And so what would have happened for it not to have sheared the wing of the plane off at the point it hit the pole?
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Charliesheen wrote: Fri Dec 17, 2021 6:08 pm
This is the guy being babysat by the people actually running our country.
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Deathproof wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 10:16 pm
Charliesheen wrote: Fri Dec 17, 2021 6:08 pm
This is the guy being babysat by the people actually running our country.
If there’s a more useless human than that doddering old piece of shit, they haven’t found him yet.
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I still laugh at that freaking Senator Kennedy from Louisiana.

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HighNDry wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 10:19 pm
Deathproof wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 10:16 pm
Charliesheen wrote: Fri Dec 17, 2021 6:08 pm
This is the guy being babysat by the people actually running our country.
If there’s a more useless human than that doddering old piece of shit, they haven’t found him yet.
Well, now that that evil, wrinkled old cunt Ruth Vader Ginsburg finally croaked, anyway.
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Deathproof wrote: Sat Jan 29, 2022 12:36 am
HighNDry wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 10:19 pm
Deathproof wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 10:16 pm
Charliesheen wrote: Fri Dec 17, 2021 6:08 pm
This is the guy being babysat by the people actually running our country.
If there’s a more useless human than that doddering old piece of shit, they haven’t found him yet.
Well, now that that evil, wrinkled old cunt Ruth Vader Ginsburg finally croaked, anyway.
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A cunt is a cunt by any other name.
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what the fuck?

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Smiling Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron), the Commander of Jasta 11, surrounded by his fellow pilots and his dog Moritz, at Roucourt, France. 1917.
Left to right: Vizefeldwebel Sebastian Festner (KIA 23 April 1917, Leutnant Karl-Emil Schäffer, Richthofen himself (KIA 21 April 1918), his brother Leutnant Lothar von Richthofen, and Leutnant Kurt Wolff.
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On February 23, 1945, the iconic photograph of six United States Marines raising the second U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima, was taken by Associated Press photographer, Joe Rosenthal.

Three of the six Marines in the photograph—Sergeant Michael Strank, Corporal Harlon Block, and Private First Class Franklin Sousley—were killed in action during the battle. The other three Marines in the photograph were Private First Class Ira Hayes, Private First Class Harold Schultz, and Private First Class Harold Keller.

The photograph has come to be regarded as one of the most significant and recognizable images of World War II.
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On April 18, 1942, Lt. Col. James Doolittle led the raid on Tokyo, Japan.

Pictured above is Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle (left front) and Captain Marc A. Mitscher, Hornet commanding officer, with a 500-pound bomb and USAAF aircrew members during ceremonies on Hornet's flight deck prior to the raid.
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On April 18, 1942, Lt. Col. James Doolittle led the raid on Tokyo, Japan.

Pictured above is Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle (left front) and Captain Marc A. Mitscher, Hornet commanding officer, with a 500-pound bomb and USAAF aircrew members during ceremonies on Hornet's flight deck prior to the raid.
i watched part of a documentary on those guys a few nights ago. There were several planes in the raid and several of them had to ditch in the jungles of china after the raid because of lack of fuel. The chinese jungle villagers, who didn't speak a word of english, took care of the survivors until they could trasnport them by wagon, or donkey or cart or whatever, to safety.

the story of the survival of those guys in the mountains of China with the help of the chinese people would go a long way to improving relations between the two countries now.
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1st Lt. Jeremiah O’Keefe shot down five Japanese kamikaze aircraft off Okinawa in his F4U Corsair and then brought down another two six days later, seen here on his Corsair on 28 April 1945.
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On May 20, 1969, after enduring a brutal 10-day battle, members of the 101st Airborne Division finally get a chance to rest on top of Hamburger Hill.
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“Today is Armed Forces Day. Yes, this is the day for all of us to salute the soldiers, sailors, marines, and aviators who stand sentry on the frontiers of freedom all over the world. We say thanks to the patriots who, whether under the midnight star or the noonday Sun, are always alert so that America's peace and liberty will always be safe.” – Ronald Reagan
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