55 years ago……Back when the US hadn’t been damaged by the Liberals, when government wasn’t the nanny state, when NASA was a bunch of Rocket Scientists and not the Woke DEI shell that it is now,….Back before we spent too too much of our GDP money on Social Programs, and this country had drive and purpose,….Back when Capitalism made this country great, with not much government oversight…..

The United States of America put a live human being on the surface of the moon. 

No other country has done so. Not one. Not a communist country, nor a capitalist country. None but the USA..

We did it using feet, and miles and slide rules, and some captured german WWII technology and a boatload of money….but no other country has done so.

I doubt that Nasa could do it today,

Stolen from Ms Misfit

I have ever heard:

At the Range:  A  new member had some questions of one of our officers:

When asked “How many guns do you own?” He answered “You’ll have to be more specific in your question: in what caliber? ”

apparently Crowdstrike software is (or has) shutting down many PCs.

If you use this system for cyber security, yer screwed until they fix it.

Banks, airport, pretty much everywhere.

All across the world.

I expected more fire, more drive, a more impressive speech.

But at the end of it, it was just “Meh”

I’d love to hear Donald Trump , as part of his address to the RNC, after telling us his plan to make the country better and Make America Great Again.  deliver the rest of his message, take a moment, settle himself…….Look straight in the camera and say “you bastards in the DNC tried, and you missed me, you’d better have an exit plan, cause after Jan 20th, I’m gonna be coming for each and every one of you”. 

Then walk off the stage.

He’d win with that statement

The Liberal Press (but I repeat myself) would go total fucking purple apeshit over that comment…leading to even more coverage.

I bet this is the way they get him out. Either he resigns, or he dies from “Complications from Covid” or somesuch.

The assassination attempt happened because Biden showed his true level of competency at the Debate, and they had no choice. That failed, so the folks that make such decisions have to get rid of him in an attempt to replace Joe with someone who can at least make a showing…as it is, Trump is winning beyond the Margin of Cheat at this time.

Yeah, I’m whining.

The fun of owning a 40+ year old airplane…..

The air conditioning in the 340 is not functional. (It’s kind of a strange design…a hydraulic pump on the engine drives a hydraulic motor elsewhere that drives the compressor for the AC…and there is a hydraulic leak)

The plane is NOT designed to be flown in summer heat without functional AC. The airflow is lacking and it gets downright uncomfortably hot in the cockpit and cabin. For long trips, you can fly really high, and and (maybe) find cooler air, but in the midwest in the summer, you gotta go REALLY high. Sometimes climbing that high isn’t really practical for shorter trips. In my 182, when I had that plane, there was no air conditioning but LOTS of airflow so you made up for the heat with volume of air. Like sitting in front of a fan. Not so much in the 340. Imagine driving in a car using only the heat vents for cooling,. You can’t open the windows. It’s kinda like that.

Hopefully the (REALLY expensive) part will be here before Friday, when I need to go west for a couple of hundred miles.