Recent content by Loachman

The establishment doesn't like him because they cannot corrupt him. What did he do in his last term that wasn't "hinged"? Abraham Accords? No new foreign wars? Cessation of North Korean missile and nuclear tests? The best economy in many years? My RRSP certainly benefitted from that.

Huge amounts of knowledge, but not so much stuff.

To where else will they ship them? China needs a large market for their cheap stuff at least as much as the US needs their cheap stuff.

Few care about her skin colour or genitalia. They care far more about her competence and ability to relate to ordinary people, or, rather, the complete absence of any as she has clearly demonstrated. How was her performance in the last Democrat leadership campaign? Democrats didn't want her...

He lives/lived right near the ("The"?) Regimental Museum.

CFLH was cancelled in 1989, one day after every other White Paper equipment promise was murdered. It was stealthier than them, perhaps, but not quite stealthy enough.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt1c3gz0g

An Englishman was sending his young daughter to stay with his brother in Vancouver for a couple of weeks. He was less than pleased with the cost of the flight, so booked her to Toronto, then telephoned his brother and asked him to pick her up there. The brother responded, "Why don't you pick...

To them, "scale" is depicted by how close towns are together on the map.

We used to train Dutch Pilots. We had a bunch on my Primary Flying Course (Beechcraft Mouseketeer) in Portage in January-March 1979. Dutch guys always bought the biggest cars available. One could always identify a Dutchmobile as it floated down the highway, especially from behind, not only by...

Yes, but this will solve the Climate Crisis (TM) and prevent future hurricanes.

And every time that 1 Wing needed to use a fuel cache when I was in Ops there, the fuel hadn't been tested recently enough (sometimes a decade or so overdue) and a few crews had to wait several days for the single available civ Twotter to make a few round trips with a couple of barrels aboard...

I was unaware of this thread until the latest post. I hugely appreciate the first link above, which includes a link to the 1987 White Paper. Thanks tons. The first two paragraphs at the top of the fourth page have always been the most interesting to me, ever since acquiring the paper document...

I've seen that one at Fort Rucker, or whatever they're calling it now, a few times. Note the four-bladed rotors as well.

I hadn't formed a strong opinion on this particular matter yet, due to lack of familiarity - although I do not like either Mr Walz or Mrs Harris one little bit: Four Veterans Speak Out About Tim Walz's "Stolen Valor" & Truth About Pre-Iraq Deployment Retirement Megyn Kelly Sep 2, 2024