Nice to see you back, Stormbird.

More here-

http://www.snopes.com/media/goofs/ktvu.asp

Don’t think anyone has mentioned the YB-49

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Mine break up 2 weeks today.

Saw the Miles Magister flying low over Lincoln this morning, presumably on its way home after the Waddington Air Show, and it was strange to think that the Maggie hadn’t even entered RAF service the last time a British man won Wimbledon.

…………. facts proved your opinion to be nothing but uninformed hysteria 😉

No. Your so-called “facts” merely show that gun crime rates vary from state to state (as I’d imagine most things do, so no surprise there) in an apparent attempt to deflect from the simple fundamental fact that gun crime in the US is way, way higher than it should be, and you even try to deny any correlation between high gun ownership and high gun usage, which is frankly ridiculous. With respect, I really see no point in arguing with someone who seems to bury their head in the sand, so once again “I’m out.”

I dropped out because it’s a waste of time arguing with people who try to insist there is no problem and that shootings are nothing to do with guns.

What the hell does “tiny little radar” mean? It’s what it could do that’s important and in it’s day, it was as good as anything the yanks had.

As good as the radar of the F-4, F-101 or F-106? Really? As for the climb to height record, I believe that has been held by the MiG E-266M since 1977. Not knocking in any way what the designers or operators did with the Lightning and in some respects it was of course a superlative performer, but I still maintain it was a bad idea to try to turn a research aircraft like that into a fighter. My point about the Russians was that if the Lightning had been a Soviet design instead of our own iconic Lightning,I suspect we wouldn’t judge it in quite such a favourable light.