Yes. But it pervades all walks of life. The fact , for example, (good chaps as most of you are) that none of you lot on here call me sir is disgraceful.

Sorry sir. 😀

Look At this link http://www.enginehistory.org/model_engines.htm

Be sure to look at the movie link and internal photos.. WOW 😮
Jimmy

Hang about. Not the Jimmy Page?

I like the one up front. I think its the short skirt that does it.

“Have a look at the Putnams Supermarine book for a number of duds by Mitchell. Of Camm’s ‘failures’ even the Typhoon (to which I think you refer?) was very effective; flawed by inadiquate knowledge of compressability; but recoverable as a design.”

……………and don’t forget that the Typhoon begat the Tempest.

Burt Rutan.

Well maybe he’s not my favourite, but still pretty damn fantastic and topical.

Good call. I would have to agree with you.

“Hahahaha… Yes, I am sure Gorby was scared out of his mind. I mean how could he secure his sealines of communications with an inferior navy… oops wait a minute he didn’t have any sea lines of communications. The range of Soviet SLBMs meant they could fire their missiles tied up in dry dock and still hit their targets. The Soviet Navy was otherwise expendible.”

Garry you are doing the ‘Hahahaha!’ thing again how many times have I got to tell you? It really makes it look like you are losing your grip. Honestly I’m just offering advice here from one nutcase to another. 😀

Accelerated arms build up, hardened ideological stance, undermined Soviet war in Afghanistan.

You may not like him, many successful people in history were unlikable, but he made the right calls and was uncompromising when he didn’t need to. That is how you win wars. Another US President, John F Kennedy, was just as uncompromising and ideological with regard to foreign policy. Perhaps you would be more approving of his style of oration. Contemporaries do tend to judge people on style rather than actualy deeds. I think historians will be generous with Reagan.

As for RR was Granada the right call? Was it even executed correctly? JFK might well have made the right calls but did he have the right people around him? I can’t remember General Le Mays (spelling please) first name so forgive me for ommitting it but was he not advocating attacking the Soviet Union wether or not they backed down? How do these hair trigger episodes in human history develop? I’m not criticising JFK he had little choice in my opinion to stand his ground and it is probably just as well that he did but this wasn’t the first time a top commander was bullish about the use of nuclear weapons against the ‘commies’ I am of course talking about McArthur in Korea.

Surely what is needed in these situations is perfect accord between master and commander (figuratively speaking of course) whereby the commander simply does as he is told and does not try to force his own agenda and this was JFK’s and Harry Truman’s strength. Yet they still had to stand their ground against both the Soviets and the Chinese and their own supreme or in theatre commanders. Surely the last thing a world leader needs in these situations is to have to fight a political war on two fronts, one against the potential enemy and the other against his own commanders. He is a world leader not a piggy-in-the-middle. The military simply must subordinate itself to the civilian government, its not perfect but its better than a military dictatorship…………………..and then we have George W 🙁