Hey don’t forget about the sci-fi movie Blue Tornado. It had Battle Star Galactica’s show fame Dirk Benedict as a alert NATO pilot in Italy? They had F-104’s and Tornado’s, and I believe the plot was there was a ufo in the mountains of Italy, and I’m not sure how the rest of the movie finished, it was a bit corny IMHO. 😎 :confused:

I recall that it had a very high speed landing, and didn’t have a very complex flight system on board? I believe it had a “pod” for each crewmember to egress in. Very complex airframe made of then exotic composites in the airframe. Do you think that it would have made a good ecm aircraft in vietnam as well as a photo recon? any thoughts?

The B-58 Hustler, man what an airplane! 😀 Most fighters of the day could only catch a glimpse of it as it lit it’s afterburners on all four J79’s and dashed off in to the wild blue yonder. Coincidently I live near the old Convair plant in Fort Worth TX, and Carswell AFB was used as training base for B-58 crews. The late singer John Denver’s father was a B-58 driver and I believe he was on the crew that broke a time record from New York to L.A. BTW have you seen the remake of Failsafe with George Clooney, it was very good, and it was filmed in black and white, now if they only would film a remake of Dr. Strangelove :diablo: 😀

The best scene EVER! is when Maj. Kahn played by Slim Pickens rides the nuke down to the missle complex at Lapoodah at the end,…. the best Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :dev2: :diablo: 😀

I feel the need,……… the need for speed! :dev2: :dev2: 😀 😀

There were other factors too for WWII besides Hitler, I think Hitler was one the many catalyst for war but let’s take a look at some others.

Russia under it’s brutal regime under Stalin, was bound to take control of Finland, and Poland, so theoretically WWII could have started in either of these countries.

Mussolini although a puppet under Hitler and not much threat to the allies, did come up with the term fascist, and was already fighting in Ethiopia in 1935.

I can only surmise that WWII would’ have started in the Pacific, becuase of Japan’s agressions in Manchuria and it’s conquest of the Pacific for expansion of it’s empire were already evident. Japan may have been the other Axis of evil, but it’s safe to say that their actions are for different reasons other than an aryian nation.

Setter Welcome to the colonies!! 😎 😀