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Washington 32 - Philadelphia 21 I knew the Commanders defense was up to the task. To be honest I did not expect the offense to hold up their end, The perfect season of the 1972 Miami Dolphins remains the only perfect season, for at least another year!

I Have been busy, but you all are in my thoughts and prayers. God Bless Us Everyone.
 
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It won't be long now!
 
Jaz avalley said:
Love it. HAVE YOU GOT COPIES OF THE PLANES?
I tend to dabble, have not had time to finish Gomora yet but an update.
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MikeGTW said:
Just want to say there was no pylon racing NOT allowed pilots doing so could and would be grounded And I'm pretty sure the P-63 does not have electric flap control (might be wrong on that ) What the P-63 pilot did and I saw it on one of the videos He went belly up to the leader and that is a big no-no Found a couple things and I'm going to contact a friend that is on the board of Commemorative Air Force and see if he will tell me anything Probably not since under investigation
Anyway here's the schedule for Saturday no pylon race
SATURDAY
9 a.m. Gates open
9 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Veterans Voices
* Bob Davenport (B-29 Radioman)
* Dan Ragan (B-17 Texas Raiders Veteran)
9:45 a.m. New CAF Member Swearing-In Ceremony on the Flightline
10 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Veterans Voices Interviews on the Flightline
* David Hamilton (D-Day Pathfinder Pilot)
* Connie Palacioz (B-29 Rosie the Riveter)
10:50 a.m. National Anthem by the Ladies for Liberty
11 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Flying Demonstrations
* Trainers on Parade
* TORA TORA TORA with B-17 Flying Fortress
* Twisted Texas Airshows
* T-6 Formation Passes
* Air Transport Command Demo (C-45s and C-47s)
* Trojan Phlyers Acro (T-28s)
* Doolittle Raid Demo (B-25 Mitchells)
* Bomber Parade (B-24, B-17, B-25s, A-26)
* Fighter Escorts (SB2C, P-63, P-51s)
* The War Ends (B-29 Superfortress)
* Fighter Power Acro (P-63, P-51 Mustang)
* The War Ends (B-29 Superfortress)
* Missing Man Formation (SB2C, P-51, P-51, P-63)
2:30 p.m. – 3 p.m. Ground Forces Demonstration
3 p.m. Aviation Discovery Zone Closes

and a quote saying what I saw
Arthur Alan Wolk is a Philadelphia aviation attorney who flew in air shows for 12 years. After watching the air show video and hearing the maneuvers described as "bombers on parade," Wolk told The Associated Press Sunday that the P-63 pilot violated the basic rule of formation flying.

"He went belly up to the leader," Wolk said. "That prevents him from gauging distance and position. The risk of collision is very high when you cannot see who you are supposed to be in formation with and that kind of join up is not permitted."

video watch at 30 sec mark he was belly up to the B-17 so could not see him

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That's ^^^ a good analysis, IMO, from a former Thunderbird leader and obviously experienced airshow pilot. He opines around the 4:20-4:50 mark that it's likely a "lane" problem [my word]--this pilot calls it a "showline,"--in that the bomber was allowed to fly closer to the spectators, the fighters a bit further out. This is pretty consistent with the airshow I saw and as described further back.: Fighters faster, but also further away.

This pilot also reinforces the point that in an extended turn, it's good practice to rollout (flatten) the turn in order to look down to the outside of the right side of his cockpit frame in this case, as to make sure there is no traffic closing from outside (and there would have been, in this case). But, and maybe because the fighter was on a higher track than the B-17, and assuming he DID roll out flat and check, he still might have missed it.

In any case, it does seem my original conjecture that pylon racing might have been a factor was just that: A speculation, and an ill-informed one at that. Same problem, but for a different reason. This was more a parade gone wrong, it seems.
 
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truckdad said:
I’ve had my share of routings, but they are usually no surprise. This guy had to be coming out of Houston.
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Ya, me too. Most of the time they make complete sense. Funny he does not have a 'long load' warning on the back/front. Houston though? I don't get the why part with this. Boat from NY to Houston is days for the travel time. NY to SanFran via team truck is ... under 40 hours? This assumes that his dispatch had all the over weight/length paper work all ready done and all he had to do is stop in those states that wanted it and show. If not, he would have to get the permits at each PoE which would add to his travel time. Maybe TomO will shed some light on this if he gets a reply.

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ctclibby said:
Ya, me too. Most of the time they make complete sense. Funny he does not have a 'long load' warning on the back/front. Houston though? I don't get the why part with this. Boat from NY to Houston is days for the travel time. NY to SanFran via team truck is ... under 40 hours? This assumes that his dispatch had all the over weight/length paper work all ready done and all he had to do is stop in those states that wanted it and show. If not, he would have to get the permits at each PoE which would add to his travel time. Maybe TomO will shed some light on this if he gets a reply.

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I sent the email this morning
 
Patrick said:
Morning all,

Deep freeze time for the weekend. High of 32° on Friday and the warming back up during the weekend. Today a high of 38°, currently 27°.

Not much going on yet, but plan on it being busy.
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Patrick - 26 right now in east central Minnesota, I find it a bit comical how our weather can be nearly the same. We are considered "Up north" in Minnesota, which is synonymous with Cold.

We had light snow off on all night so roads were slippery this morning, I got to work 5 minutes late, which to be fair just means staying a little later this afternoon.

Trucking is a funny thing sometimes: we do the oversize permits here for County roads know there can be issues, suspect things much worse on the Federal system.

Staged some box cars last night, had a slow commute so I needed to unwind some

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I like these old truck kits, took me a few to figure out where some of the parts go since the diagram is pretty simplistic and castings sometimes a little warped.

more later, Dave LASM
 
Good morning from very white So Central Wisconsin. 30f degrees heading to 32 with another 1” of white accumulation expected by 6pm.

Yesterday the grounds and stable team leaders asked me not to hover. So, I said good morning to all that I saw and drove the ATV on the 2 big main trails this morning. The team leaders will meet with me around 1. My volume on the cell phone is now at a level I can hear while running trains or over the music at the workbench.

Terry asked as she was saddling a horse this morning when I was going to talk to the SIL about the property manager’s job. My answer, when he asks me for a meeting, his move. I am not nor do want him to think we are desperate for a manager. Meanwhile, the team leads will do their jobs, Isabel will work with me or Terry a couple hours a day to learn. Terry also is working with theVet showing her Terry’s way of operating the stables.

I will be in and out of the train room today.
 
The truck does have an "Oversized Load" sign on the back.
The Washington whoever stumbled into that win. I have no faith in their mediocre performance. They used to be a great "team" back when Joe Gibbs was coach, but now, they're just a bunch of individual athletes, bent on their own recognition.
Hooked my trailer up to my Tesla Y model yesterday and loaded a few hundred pounds of firewood into it then drove up to my daughter's house. Normally the trip would use about 35 miles of electrons but with the trailer, that trip consumed almost 90 miles.
I could load up a dozen pictures or so of the trailer from all angles, but I won't.

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NYC_George said:
This will be the shower unit I'll be installing in the new bathroom.
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Gorgeous word of warning though we bought a gorgeous sauna shower telephone foot massager and a year in an electric storm damaged the motherboard the chines translated to English instructions were useless and it became a dodgy shower as it also loss some additional water pressure to boot, yours looks simpler so hopefully will be the dogs doodahs
 
D&J RailRoad said:
The truck does have an "Oversized Load" sign on the back.
The Washington whoever stumbled into that win. I have no faith in their mediocre performance. They used to be a great "team" back when Joe Gibbs was coach, but now, they're just a bunch of individual athletes, bent on their own recognition.
Hooked my trailer up to my Tesla Y model yesterday and loaded a few hundred pounds of firewood into it then drove up to my daughter's house. Normally the trip would use about 35 miles of electrons but with the trailer, that trip consumed almost 90 miles.
I could load up a dozen pictures or so of the trailer from all angles, but I won't.

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But but but from different angles you get more information!

,is the trailer steel or aluminium/aluminum,exact weight of trailer and wood,did you travel uphill,but yeah a trailer makes a difference,glad about now you bought the long range with tow bar.
 
ctclibby said:
Ya, me too. Most of the time they make complete sense. Funny he does not have a 'long load' warning on the back/front. Houston though? I don't get the why part with this. Boat from NY to Houston is days for the travel time. NY to SanFran via team truck is ... under 40 hours? This assumes that his dispatch had all the over weight/length paper work all ready done and all he had to do is stop in those states that wanted it and show. If not, he would have to get the permits at each PoE which would add to his travel time. Maybe TomO will shed some light on this if he gets a reply.

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Ship may have been diverted due to harbor congestion?
 
Jaz avalley said:
But but but from different angles you get more information!

,is the trailer steel or aluminium/aluminum,exact weight of trailer and wood,did you travel uphill,but yeah a trailer makes a difference,glad about now you bought the long range with tow bar.
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As with any other post with pictures, if anyone wants more information about the trailer, they can just ask for it offline instead of me bogging down the page with a slew of pictures.
It's an aluminum trailer. Prolly saves about 50lbs or so. Over the actual 30-mile trip, there were some hills, up and down.
 
Good Morning All. I'd say that it's mostly clear and 33° to start our day here. Today is supposed to be mostly sunny with 55° due to the wind still coming from the north. Warmer tomorrow with south winds and then another norther on Friday morning. NWS is calling for rain on Thanksgiving Day.

On the agenda today, I already need to remove ashes/embers from the wood-burning heater. I do have my gloves, shovel head (shovel without the handle), and metal pail ready. Seems like a short time since I started using it, but it is what it is.

Got the new beer fridge installed in the train shed yesterday and the old one out. It seemed to be working when I came in to the house, but it was too soon to really tell. I want to examine the old one if for no other reason to find out what failed. At $165 for the new one, repairing the old one is probably not cost effective. There was an unusual smell out there for a couple of days which I thought was the "defrost water" which had gotten some cardboard wet, but I now think it could have been a coolant leak, along with the stale water.

Regarding the BART load on I-35 that Tom O posted yesterday. It did not come from the port of Houston. I-35 comes from Mexico, to San Antonio and then to Dallas and north to Canada. It does not go through Houston. I-45 does.
EDIT: NWP Dave might have the right answer there.

Out in the train shed yesterday, I cleaned up my mess from installing the new beer fridge. Found mostly cobwebs behind the old one, along with a disused A/C remote. After that, I did some more painting on some of those white metal castings, but not enough to warrant pictures. I ran some trains and decided that I needed to move a complete unit grain train from the upper level to the lower one. I seem to have seven empty staging tracks on the lower level and zero on the upper level. I only have five staging tracks on the upper level and 17 on the lower one.
Here are some random layout pictures.
Hale Feeds in Jamestown.
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Dog in pickup truck outside Majestic Hardware in Budville.
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Another dog in pick-up truck in Vernon.
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Troy - I have only been to Vegas once in 1983, on a business service call. I am not a gambler so I mainly just walked around taking in the sights. Couldn't go to any shows because they were all sold out, and there wasn't any museums or tourist attractions there at the time. I took $40 to gamble with, hey, Las Vegas, and came home with $39 due to a payoff at the last machine I went to. They wanted every penny. I noticed when walking down the concourse towards my departing plane, there were cash only slot machines lining the walls. They started at a quarter a draw; then the closer to the plane, the cheaper they became. Next were dime machines, then nickel machines, finally as you got to the gate, they were penny machines! Outside the airport were hawkers who would buy your leftover chips regardless of where you got them. 15¢ for quarter chips, 60¢ for dollar chips etc. They all seemed to be doing well. This was 39 years ago and spare change was worth a whole lot more than today.
Todd - No legal problem with feeding deer corn to wildlife around here. The reason that most folks don't do it is because it attracts feral hogs which destroy everything nearby. They'll tear up a full square yard of ground just for one kernel of corn that gets dropped from the feeder.
Building permits are unheard of in this rural area. I do stuff as close to code that I can feel safe with. Some of it is overkill though.
Jeff - Nice shot. Around here they generally get hung from fenceposts along the road when shot. Kind of like meat on a stick for the vultures and buzzards. Unless everyone feeds every deer, how does one know that they are getting a corn-fed one? Nice shots of the wildlife in the yard.
Swal - Around here even where one needs a permit for electrical work, you can do it yourself. You do need an inspection from a licensed electrician though before it is covered up.

Everybody have a wonderful day.
 


Thanks to NWP DAVE for solving the picture of Bart just north of San Antonio, Texas on I35. Its coming out of Mexico. Confirmed on the Bart.guv website

I did receive a reply from a customer service person at Bart. She is aware there now is assembly in Mexico that has caused discussions in the Bay Area that Bart serves. She does not know but will ask if assembly still happens in NY as the Bart.guv and a couple other sites I read stated. She said since Covid updating the websites except for fare and scheduling changes is no longer a priority as staff numbers are down. I thanked her in my reply that said it’s not necessary for her to dig on the NY question.

Interesting, one of the stated goals was a majority of USA materials to be assembled in the USA and keep jobs here. Did Mexico decide since the wall wasn’t built to just join us? Or have we joined them?

I hope you all had fun with this semi mystery
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