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Merry Christmas to all and may you all have a wonderful Holiday and a Happy New Year!

Pricey, but exactly the right thing!

This is the type of stuff that I worked on during the second half of my career. (But not this specific one)… “Rivet Amber” was not this aircraft’s only nickname; she also went by “Lisa Ann”. She was a very special aircraft and was the most expensive aircraft in USAF inventory until the B-2. Her...

You are blessed with your contractor. The building looks great! We had to go through two contractors (one was Morton Buildings!) and finally struck gold for our remodel/addition with the third. We received an email every two weeks with what happened, what is being worked and a two week look...

One shouldn’t have to go to the manager to start. The place is a train wreck.

Unbelievable! You can’t make this $hit up! And they’re paid for this work! I’m so blessed to have escaped nearly 8 years ago and I absolutely don’t regret it!

The F-111 Aardvark landed safely After struck a pelican at very high speed. The strike occurred during high-speed, low-level flight, The bird was an Australian pelican, one of the heaviest flying birds, The impact caused major damage to the aircraft’s nose/radome and structure, The crew...

I finally got the grease pit in the valley cleaned up and am preparing to install new intake plenums in the 7.3 Powerstroke. I am also installing some fuel feed upgrades.

BBQ needs to be fired up:

Good to hear from you and your wife is in my prayers. May she heal and you also seek comfort.

I worked with guys (Hughes Aircraft Company) that had worked on the A-12 (fighter version of the ST-71) and F-106. I didn’t hear one way or the other regarding how the F-111B worked or not. However, they had a certain affinity towards the F-14, but that’s probably because they had spent so much...

The missing link between the General Dynamics/Grumman F-111B and Grumman F-14 Tomcat. As previously discussed, the F-14 Tomcat was developed in the wake of the F-111B 'Sea-Vark' failure using largely the same concepts but packaged better. In between, there were other contenders from the US...

Most Dangerous Toy of All Times! Junior scientist Stefan Olsen operating the Wilson Cloud Chamber¹ of a Gilbert No. U-238 Atomic Energy Lab² (New York Toy Fair, March 1950). It was a toy lab set designed to allow children to create and watch nuclear and chemical reactions using radioactive...

I have used a pair of needle nosed vise grips and grabbed the spring, pulling it away from the pin. You MUST have a very good grip on the spring and eat your spinach.

My mom had a Maytag washing machine that washed the cloth diapers of 5 of us. It lasted 27 years.