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Von Braun's idea was one massive vehicle that landed on and launched from the moon. A young American kid came up with the idea of having two separate vehicles that would separate and rejoin after the moon landing. When seeing the presentation, Von Braun agreed, and that's what we did.

It was below the service module. It isn't waving. It is displaying the way it was built.

All explained many times, and I'm sure you're kidding. I've always been into this, to the point where I understand all of the com during the descent phase, as well as the 1201 and 1202 alarms. It is quite surprising it worked, and equally surprising at how young the people were who made decisions in the last two minutes, though if I was Armstrong and would have been told to abort on the 1202, I would have pressed on. Just an amazing event. I was at the Sherkston Quarry when they landed, with a transistor radio. One of the things I'll never forget.

Chemistry alert. Meat will not "steam" if pulled at 125, and seared for one minute. Beef always requires rest to redistribute moisture.

Reverse sear method, and I do it every time. Set the grill to 225, with the coals, (not briquettes-lump charcoal), on one side. I use a DigiQ to ensure perfect temp control. Put the meat over non charcoal side of the grill. Let the meat cook to 125 internal on the indirect side. Slow cooking means tender meat. Digital temp probe required. Take the meat off, wrap in aluminum foil, and open up the vents, letting the coals heat up to flame. Ten minutes later, remove the meat from the foil, put the meat back on the flaming hardwood, lump charcoal for about one minute each side. Once seared, put them back in the foil and rest for 15 mins.

Just an incredible talent. The reason the mound was lowered. My favorite Bob Gibson story was when Cards catcher Tim McCarver came to the mound for a visit, and Gibson said" " What are you doing here. Just give me the ball. The only thing you know about pitching is that its hard to hit."

I'm certain SEAL and other special forces training is much more rigorous physically, and landing on an aircraft carrier is pretty challenging and incredibly intense. Kudos to the coasties though. that was a good get.

It isn't complicated. In the north, wind flows counterclockwise around a low. Names are based on where they occur, but they are the same.

I'm aware. What is your point?

It's not a hurricane. Low pressure systems meander all around, and are driven by other pressure systems and the jet stream. Hurricanes typically start from the west coast of Africa, drift southwest into the Carib, gain their strength and move NW.

I'm not sure what your point is here, but if "doctrine" is, it is ridiculous. The initial strikes against the Kido Butai were 'doctrinal," and not only useless, but suicidal. Idiotic high attitude strikes against ships? Ya. that works. Dropping level dumb bombs against maneuvering ships? Ya.

Jesus Tom. as much as I admire your research on this, you fail to realize the reality of being in the seat during a war. It is quite simple. "Doctrine," as you use the phrase, disappears the minute you launch. You find the people who are trying to kill your people and you kill them before they do that, trying to stay alive in the process. McClusky, out of fuel, found the Japanese fleet by chasing a destroyer. He started the 10 minutes or so, that resulted in killing three Japanese carriers, and leading to the end of the fourth, effectively ending any Japanese offense for the rest of the war. It can be argued, with great credibility, at least among those of us who have done this type of thing, that Wade McClusky, of South Buffalo, executed the single most definitive aggression of the Pacific battle of WWII, and I'm OK with that.

You absolutely move to avoid mid air debris. It makes no sense to die holding a pipper on a target. Dying is worse than missing, and you can readjust after avoiding a mid air.

Are you serious? The man and his formation were out of fuel, spotted a carrier formation, attacked it and changed the course of the Pacific war. He should have "flown on?" The man landed with about one gallon of fuel after destroying a Japanese carrier. Jesus, sometimes you try too hard to establish academic bona fides. As an operator, I can tell you this, and you can dispute it as you will. If you are out of fuel, as he was, and as a leader of a fairly large formation, he had to assume his wingies were even worse, and you see an enemy carrier, you destroy it and get home. Simple, operational reality. When you see a "high value unit," "doctrine" be damned. You destroy it. You certainly don't press on, looking for someone else and guaranteeing that your wingies will have to ditch.

The Us Navy did commission the USS McClusky, which served in the Pacific Fleet for years until it was ultimately used as a target and sunk as part of an exercise.

This is truly an ignorant and disgusting suggestion. The Blue Angels have a budget, like any other squadron. I'm quite certain they can adjust any number of things to accommodate this, and it is part of their job.

For a Western New York connection, and we have talked about it before, LCDR Wade McClusky, from Buffalo, was credited by ADM Nimitz with deciding the fate of the US carrier task force. In short, though low on fuel, McClusky's decision to follow a Japanese destroyer steaming at flank speed led his formation to the Japanese carriers. He was serving as Enterprise's Air Wing Commander at the time. To this day, the Navy's award for the most outstanding attack squadron is named after him. Lesser known trivia about Midway. It was claimed as a US possession in 1867 by the USS Lackawanna.

i hope they get it right and don't turn it into some stupid love story to attract women, as they did doing Pearl Harbor. I really hope they give significant consideration to the points made in "Shattered Sword," which refutes a lot of the silly nonsense , and tells the true story from the Japanese tactical doctrine and procedural practices. As a student of the battle of Midway, I can't wait.

Just for clarity, it didn't involve 6000 people. That would be the total compliment of sailors on those ships. It would involve very few. Additionally, he was never a "commander of an air wing," He was the CO of an F-18 squadron. The one thing he certainly gets wrong is that he claims there are only two things truthful in the movie "TopGun,." He doesn't mention that the Miramar O Club was an entirely accurate depiction.

Well, if we could forget about a couple of assassinations and widespread race riots. But the 64 and 65 Bills were OK.

There is a Memorial for Apollo One . It is called "Ad Astra Per Aspera," "A Rough Road Leads to the Stars." Apollo One Memorial

He has HUD in FLIR mode, so other than displaying some basic velocity and vector stuff, the HUD is displaying FLIR data. There is one panel in the video that explains most of the stuff, but they don't explain the laser target designator data on the right, just below the center , or the DCLTR annunciation below the altitude display on the lower right. All that means is that he has the HUD in declutter mode, and is not displaying scores of other data that would be in use during other weapons selections. He is simply getting the least amount of data on the HUD in FLIR mode.

It simply doesn't come up. If you are carrying live ordnance, like bombs or other stuff, you are doing so for a reason, like bombing a thing behind a ship, which is towing it. If you are carrying missiles, either air to air or air to ground, there is no problem bringing them back aboard. In two cruises and 300+ missions, I never jettisoned anything. The one thing I do know that would not be brought back aboard was the flares, but the only time I carried them at sea was for a fleet airshow, and I dropped them normally.

Napalm? How old are you? I never saw that stuff, and we never had it aboard. Anyway, I loved our "ordies." As you probably know, on a carrier the various specialties wear different color sweatshirts. The ordies wore redshirts. If they hadn't gotten to me prior to man up, they would do their thing, look up to the cockpit and give the hand signal with the shooting gun action and a thumbs up. Back ashore, I knew they had worked their butts off for two days to get a walleye working. Walleye is a TV guided bomb that uses a TV picture from a camera in its nose to allow you to lock what you want to hit. It has two parallel horizontal and two parallel vertical lies. The "box" that is created is inside the four lies the aim point, highly amplified. I really wanted to reward them with a good video when I carried it, so I locked up an RV on a north/south highway in the Owens valley in Ca, heading at me. I locked him at about ten miles, and got kind of carried away trying to sweeten the video. The video is transmitted back to the cockpit and you can sweeten the picture by slewing the box. Anyway, at about one half mile and 300 feet, I see the thing pull off the road in a cloud of dust. He must have seen me and gotten really scared and decided to pull off the road, A fighter flying head on at you and really low and really fast. The ordies loved the video, but I told them not to let it out, and I worried about the guy making a call for days.

There is zero chance it was in Iranian airspace. We are not going to invade Iran, and any talk about "alienating" them should have been had in the 70's. Iran is an "Islamic Republic," and the people who are part of that "Islamic Republic" sailed that ship 40 years ago. The majority of the people aren't interested in being an "Islamic Republic,," The leadership of rogue nations that attack things in international airspace or waters need to pay serious consequences.