tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post7168496462270745083..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: Today In History: Fork-Tailed Devil.Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-18045635098793413082009-02-12T15:03:00.000-05:002009-02-12T15:03:00.000-05:00I have a sweet little NPM, I'm just sayin an Oldsm...I have a sweet little NPM, I'm just sayin an <I>Oldsmo'blaster 37</I> beats two Delta 88's and a GE fridge in the front yard - and would be a helluva thing to have guarding the street during the zombnaziapocalypse...NotClauswitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14358707844087117280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-23327821099641295002009-02-12T08:35:00.000-05:002009-02-12T08:35:00.000-05:00I had a friend who considered himself a Mac nut bu...I had a friend who considered himself a Mac nut buy hisself an IBM carbine, simply so he could hang it on the wall over his G4 and show friends that he liked both Apple and IBM. :DTamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-14504955444906370602009-02-12T01:28:00.000-05:002009-02-12T01:28:00.000-05:00O sure Crash, I s'pose you'd turn up your nose at ...O sure Crash, I s'pose you'd turn up your nose at a Union Signal or a Singer, too. Hozzabodda Guide Lamp Liberator, to ride around in your Cadillac-Gage? All GM!<BR/><BR/>Those Rock-Ola carbines really tickle my fancy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-82400268681725630172009-02-11T21:12:00.000-05:002009-02-11T21:12:00.000-05:00A heck of a plane designed by a heck of a man. I ...A heck of a plane designed by a heck of a man. I missed seeing the P-38 at Tillamook in October. I really hate that.The Freeholderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09989697995675652792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-89062383058429948592009-02-11T13:49:00.000-05:002009-02-11T13:49:00.000-05:00It was my childhood favorite - and only now I find...It was my childhood favorite - and only now I find out: "...and an Oldsmobile 37 mm cannon with 15 rounds."<BR/>Oldsmobile!! WTF?? That is so WAAY cooler than a National Postal Meter carbine... Damn!NotClauswitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14358707844087117280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-64558138943802504542009-02-11T10:13:00.000-05:002009-02-11T10:13:00.000-05:00Johnson got his start in Indiana.In 1932 he did th...Johnson got his start in Indiana.<BR/>In 1932 he did the aerodynamics for an Indy car fielded by that South Bend firm. It was his first project, and finished second.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-79756709008962682012009-02-11T09:53:00.000-05:002009-02-11T09:53:00.000-05:00I one of my books I have some picture of ones that...I one of my books I have some picture of ones that suffered some problems, one hit a telephone pole lost 1 prop, which torre a hole into the gun bay. The phone pole bent the entire left wing down and back before breaking. <BR/><BR/> Another aircraft hit a Handley Page bomber, amputating one of the bombers vertical tails, and landed with the tail still wedged in the wing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-33604184833962683502009-02-11T09:20:00.000-05:002009-02-11T09:20:00.000-05:00You know all these years later a P-38 still LOOKS ...You know all these years later a P-38 still LOOKS fast and elegent. The P-51 got all the glory, but still the P-38 was the 'coolest' of them all back in WWII.<BR/><BR/>I've often wondered what that airframe would do today with two big honking turboprops in place of the Allisons?<BR/><BR/>All The Best,<BR/>Frank W. JamesFrank W. Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07589579734134153159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-40697384193361571082009-02-11T08:52:00.000-05:002009-02-11T08:52:00.000-05:00The John M. Browning of the aviation world!jbThe John M. Browning of the aviation world!<BR/><BR/>jbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-18070466896531856482009-02-11T08:23:00.000-05:002009-02-11T08:23:00.000-05:00It wasn't that Johnson was good once, it was that ...It wasn't that Johnson was good once, it was that he was <I>consistent</I> about it. I commute past two examples of his work every day, and it is still amazing to see how well he and his troops did their jobs.<BR/><BR/>I had an opportunity to see the museum at Palmdale, and the long-tail SR-71 at Eglin. I remain in awe of something designed on paper, being capable of even half of what that is. I think it will be a long, long time before it stops looking like something out of the future.<BR/><BR/>Finally, I am compelled to say that the Electra might well be the single most graceful thing to ever take to the sky under its own power.<BR/><BR/>Jim<BR/><BR/>(The guy with a Lightning poster on the wall, and the bios of Johnson and Rich on my bookshelf beside my stuffed Skonk)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-80864483278235934032009-02-11T08:06:00.000-05:002009-02-11T08:06:00.000-05:00Ah, the P-38. Mustangs are cool, but the Lightnin...Ah, the P-38. Mustangs are cool, but the Lightning was the only fighter that could come home with one prop feathered.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-35166973157578111922009-02-11T07:56:00.000-05:002009-02-11T07:56:00.000-05:00...and 51 years and 22 days later, another of Kell......and 51 years and 22 days later, another of Kelly Johnson's babies would make the coast-to-coast flight in under 69 minutes. Nonstop. w00t!Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-50836970884520439412009-02-11T07:55:00.000-05:002009-02-11T07:55:00.000-05:00Ah, the P-38! A magnificent machine. IMO, the be...Ah, the P-38! A magnificent machine. IMO, the best fighter airplane of WW2. ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-74308686795136936102009-02-11T07:41:00.000-05:002009-02-11T07:41:00.000-05:00And four years, two months and seven days later, a...And four years, two months and seven days later, a squadron of P-38s shot down and killed Japanese Admiral Yamamoto.<BR/><BR/>Wv: stingesTurk Turonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02648721047835980871noreply@blogger.com