Living in the US adds to my dilemma. Were I in the UK, I’d most likely be spending time in museums and/or talking to RAF pilots and crew as part of my research.
To get a feel for the era, I’d suggest reading some of the newspapers and magazines from the period. But as detailed in other threads and posts, don’t rely on the popular press for technical details!
There are no official plans for it that I have ever seen….I doubt if a plan for the half-scale still exists….I doubt we will ever see a flying version now….
What a pity. It would be a natural for Oshkosh, along with the 2/3 Spitfires and Mustangs.
F-94s pop up in a number of UFO reports from the early fifties, not surprising since it was the primary USAF all-weather interceptor of the time. The link below is to a home movie shot in 1950 in Great Falls, Montana. Some say that the two UFOs in it are sunlight reflecting off a pair of F-94s that were flying out of Great Falls AFB at the time. (The base was renamed Malmstrom AFB a few years later.) Others maintain that the images too strong and long lasting to be reflections. Decide for yourself!
The Ju88D-1/Trop now in the National Museum of the USAF was a Romanian AF plane flown to an RAF field Cyprus in 1943 by a Romanian defector. The plane was just a month old at the time.
What’s that film with Kirk Douglas as a French officer who is trying to clear the names of several French soldiers during WW1?
Paths of Glory.
I’m surprised that nobody has mentioned this already:
Almost anything by Little Richard would qualify. After more than 50 years, people are still arguing about they meant or even what they were.
Before belittling it, take a look at this, especially at 2:15 and 2:58:
“As has been mentioned above, the performance penalties of such a modification would most likely prohibit supersonic flight or at least knock a very large margin off the fuel economy (if any) of the aircraft.”
Similarly, plans to deploy the Bell GAM-63 Rascal on the Boeing B-47 Stratojet were cancelled in part because the extra drag and weight took away the B-47’s best defense, its speed. Consider this photo:
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A friend tipped me off to this tribute, also with Panchito:
Fans of vintage television had many to mourn in 2016:
http://www.metv.com/stories/in-memoriam-all-those-we-have-lost-in-2016
After 2016…..
The only surviving regular cast member of The Patty Duke Show is Paul O’Keefe, who played the kid brother Ross.
The entire regular cast of The Green Hornet is now deceased. Indeed, Van Williams was the sole survivor for 20 years after the premature passing of Wendee Wagner from cancer.
Tragedy begets tragedy: movie star Debbie Reynolds has indeed passed away, suffering a suspected stroke while planning the funeral of her daughter, Carrie Fisher, who died yesterday. Details:
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/debbie-reynolds-dead-dies-carrie-fisher-mother-1201949432/
“What actually causes lift is introducing a shape into the airflow, which curves the streamlines and introduces pressure changes – lower pressure on the upper surface and higher pressure on the lower surface,”
The explanation that was usually given up to c. 1980.
“It’s often said that this happens because the airflow moving over the top, curved surface has a longer distance to travel and needs to go faster to have the same transit time as the air travelling along the lower, flat surface.”
The explanation that’s usually given since c. 1980.
Some of Trump’s views are held by many more than his supporters. Consider this:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/pew-57-percent-say-america-first/article/2590448
(I’m neither endorsing nor denouncing, just reporting.)
Some of Trump’s views are held by many more than his supporters. Consider this:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/pew-57-percent-say-america-first/article/2590448
(I’m neither endorsing nor denouncing, just reporting.)
That movie was A Time to Triumph (1986). I believe that it’s available on DVD and video on demand from Amazon.
In the last couple of weeks, we’ve lost many other familiar names and faces: Robert Horton, Joe Santos, Ken Howard, James Noble, Earl Hamner, Jr., and Peter Brown. But they and Patty will live in our memories in moments like these: