…US do exploiting those illigals …[/B]

The reason they get low paying jobs is because they are here illegally.
If they come in legally, they can get high paying jobs…My doctor is Indian, my English wife is a nurse…both make very good money.
But if you come in illegally, then the only people that will hire them are people who will exploit them.

Do you really want South American counties to have Nukes?
And why would they want them?
The governments are historically not very stable.
The next time there is a “Soccer War” do you really want them reaching for the button?

I don’t think the U.S. plans to invade Mexico anytime soon.
Rather, the U.S. reluctance to sell high tech & high cost hardware is the fact that most counties are so poor, they should be spending their money elsewhere. These counties have no need to arm themselves to the teeth with expoensive weapons, when their economies are so poor that many of their citizens have no choice but to try and illegally immigrate to other countries.
Obviously, Russia and France will take cash wherever they can…though they have some standards too.

The Phantom looks like the EX-NY ANG ABDR ship from Woodbridge…
I’m I right.
They also had a F-101B there. Anyone know what happened to that?

It looks like a Pietenpol Air Camper…an American homebuilt design from the early 1930s. It was designed to be poweder by a modified Ford auto engine and I believe plans were available at the time. Whether any were built in the U.K. I don’t know, but it’s a possibility.

Take a look at the plane on the EAA website..

http://www.airventuremuseum.org/collection/aircraft/Pietenpol%20Aircamper.asp

Hope this helps

I agree, however in general useage, a hull aircraft without any built in landing gear is called a flying boat. In several of my books, the straight PBY is called a flying boat, while the PBY-5A is called an amphibian.
Great Comeback!!! 🙂

David, John,
In my first post about the 24, their was a group of people who were willing to step in and buy the 24 from the USAF and also pay for the fiberglass Copy for both Lackland and Duxford.
So lets move on OK
Cheers Crazymainer

Crazymainer…I know woy have the best interest oif the B-24 at heart…please don’t take anything I said as a personal attack. 🙂
Just a quick note….having seen the Liberator at Duxford and the fiberglass copy at Lackland, as nice as the fiberglass plane is …you would not want it at Duxford…where knowledgeable people can get up close. The plastic P-51 is mounted up high…and I could tell the difference but I’m betting your average visitor couldn’t.

Believe it or not we do get veterans from the U.S visiting Duxford so I think they would know the difference. It’s certainly possible to get very close to her but she isn’t a climbing frame!
The point is that she was destined to remain on outside display at Lackland for a long time. I believe that to bring her indoors ,spend large sums
of money on her and give her along term future can only be seen as beneficial.

Agree…The Liberator is where she needs to be. And it’s in a condition that is a tribute to all who flew B-24s from the U.K. and never returned.
It’s far better than being neglected at Lackland. True it would be better still to have her flying in the U.K. but that was never going to happen as long as she was USAF property. And two flying Liberators is the U.S. is sufficent…. both planes tour a great deal so lots of vets (and public) get a chance to see them (also there are B-24s reasonably spread across the country…CA, AZ, FL, OH).

I’m not knocking the atheletes they do great stuff, but ever wonder how they invented some of those routines? “Hey, lets have a guy wrap himself aound non-even bars”. Swimming and running are straightforward, but some gymnastics seem masochistic. 🙂