I take it the professor wasn’t from the Harvard School of Business.

I don’t remember if it was the Business School or not, but it was something like that, perhaps an economics professor. Surprisingly, he was -not- a professor of Nepalese wind-chime studies or something like that, he was in fact somebody who clearly should have known better. But somebody greedy no matter what.

Greed is the driver, unfortunately, not intelligence. Several years ago, there was a Harvard professor–and I admit this as a Harvard graduate–who fell for a Nigerian scam. He lost tens of thousands of dollars, as I remember.

It’s a matter of simply using commonsense. A few days ago, I got an email from my bank asking me to update some information (which probably would have turned out to be stuff like Social Security number, account number, etc. if I’d bothered to open the link provided).

The format and fonts of the very official-looking message were absolutely accurate and matched everything I’d ever seen from my bank…but there were a couple of misspellings so glaring that they could only have been made by an English-as-a-second-language type.

Why do you feel the need to mock us?

Don’t feel bad, same thing happens any time somebody mentions Tighar (of which I’m a member). You’ll see by the reactions to this post, I’m sure.

There are many people who talk the talk, but very few who walk the walk.

This is an urban legend, a myth. Popular as the Cub-versus-Storch story is, it was by no means the last ETO dogfight. The actual last dogfights were two, on 8 May–the day the war ended–when two F-6s bagged two FW-190Ds. On the same day, Erich Hartmann shot down a MiG-3 near Prague, and the time when he did it may actually have been later in the day than the U. S. victories.

They were made in an era when the USAF/USN recognised the value of film as a recruiting tool and cooperated fully with the film makers.

“Top Gun” would never have been made without enormous help from both Grumman and the U.S.Navy. (I was doing some film work with Grumman at the time so was quite aware of what was going on.)

Pretty sure the 4630’s in the spruce goose were 4500hp each

That may have been what Howard Hughes said, but then he claimed to have designed the Constellation and that the P-38 was a ripoff of one of his designs.

See Graham White’s book,”R-4360: Pratt & Whitney’s Major Miracle,” for anything you need to know about the engine. According to him, those engines were -4As, military absolute max rating 3,000 hp.

Even if it were 1958, it wouldn’t have been a B-24. Nor do I know of B-24s with droppable external tanks. Weird query.