Beautiful pics Foe and Werner

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Originally posted by Pacific_Ace:

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All early war Entente planes had their machineguns mounted on top of the upper wing to fire over the circle resulting in very unprecise aiming and inability of the pilot to fix jams.

Before Fokker came up with the synchronizer, they also would use metal wedges attached to the back of the prop, in line with the gun, the apex facing the pilot. The wedge was to divert the bullets that would have hit the prop. A less than ideal solution in my mind.

Wow thats crazy !

I mean how many rounds can your fire this way until your propellor is done for ?

Not much thats for sure.

Not many! As you might imagine, like any rotational body spinning at high speed, a prop is quite sensitive to balance. I'm quite surprised and impressed this one did not come apart.

It has been known that on occasion the bullets were deflected straight back at the pilot.

That was the invention made by Roland Garros

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Garros managed to escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany in February 1918 and rejoined the French army.

On 5 October 1918, he was shot down and killed near Vouziers, Ardennes, a month shy of the end of the war and one day before his 30th birthday.

Sometimes its really better to do nothing and wait.

They built a new park here with an overlook of the Cuyahoga River. The Cuyahoga is (in)famous because between 1868 and 1969 it was so polluted it caught fire on at least a dozen occasions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga_River

They've cleaned up the industrial pollution, but lazy jerks still throw their trash in the river



They built a bridge you can stand on that is at the top of the gorge






And a few shots of the deeper section of the river

I see the USA is not immune to autumn.
Looks very much like my area here except for those rocks.


So Celeon's dad bought himself a new car yesterday. Its a Opel Corsa-D.

He did not want the electric windows, he did not want the air conditioning and prefers the classic roof window ..., You know how it is.



For his generation these are "...all nothing but toys which are fun but are not necessary for driving and are basically just one more piece that can break down and then costs a lot of money to repair"

Luckily the D version comes with all that by standard so he had no choice to throw it all out.

9 weeks of waiting time for such a small car because of that "cash for clunkers" which overfilled Opel's order books.


On our joyride to test it, we came along a "slightly" bigger car





Big Daddy huh ?

If i would have my very own oil well, i would buy me such thirsty V8 monster with 500 hp too.

Wow! That's a sharp looking car Celeon. Way to go! I really like the contours and those headlights.
I'm the same way about fuel. I was looking at an F-150 when I bought my truck but didn't want to get a V8 so, I chose the V6 Ranger. Still, a big engine for a 6 cylinder but a bit more fuel efficient than a V8.
BTW, that IS an awesome Lincoln.

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Originally posted by WernherVonTrapp:
Wow! That's a sharp looking car Celeon. Way to go! I really like the contours and those headlights.
I'm the same way about fuel. I was looking at an F-150 when I bought my truck but didn't want to get a V8 so, I chose the V6 Ranger. Still, a big engine for a 6 cylinder but a bit more fuel efficient than a V8.
BTW, that IS an awesome Lincoln.

Yeah thats one huge battlecruiser !

Surely not easy to find parking space for it. It still misses some decent whitewall tires though.

I believe it is a Lincoln Cosmopolitan from the 1950's with several modifications on the body (smaller windows)

Beautiful car !

Veryyyyy sweet car.

I wish someone would have told me gas prices were going up when I bought my GMC Sierra 2 years ago...5.4L engine...26 gallon tank, go 350 miles on a tank..MAYBE.

@ Polymer - Those are going to make some nice wallpapers

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Veryyyyy sweet car.

I wish someone would have told me gas prices were going up when I bought my GMC Sierra 2 years ago...5.4L engine...26 gallon tank, go 350 miles on a tank..MAYBE.

we knew they were going up a while ago from how things were going... but it definately didnt stop me from getting this:



my 2009.5 G8 GXP - has 430hp. makes M3s and M5s look SILLY... at half the price. but only gets (depending on how i drive) between 15 and 20 miles a gallon... thankfully when im driving back and forth to work i put 12 miles a day on it... its the weekends that kill me.

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@ Polymer - Those are going to make some nice wallpapers

You want wallpapers?
Take your pick:









I prefer loftier views.

My wife just got her 4 Best in Show this year with our Parsons. Not sure if anyone is into dog's. I'll be running the tunnels with our other Parsons in January. Will be on Animal Planet end of January.

Will that be the Eukanuba (spelling) show ?

@ Wernher - Wow, those are amazing. Almost to beautiful to be real. Even the moss is multicolored.

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Will that be the Eukanuba (spelling) show ?

They are the lead sponser.

My favorite yorkie came close to dying. First vet did a poor diagnosis and wrong treatment. She was probably an hour away from death when I took her to another vet. Her lungs were filled with fluid, toally unresponsive and enlarged heart. My favorite dog, so vet gave it a try. The vet even stayed 4 hours past closing on Friday working on her....and saved her. She'll be on heart meds from now on, but what a vet, even donated her time and meds. Nice to know such good people exist.

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Originally posted by MWolfe1963:

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Originally posted by tuddley3:
Will that be the Eukanuba (spelling) show ?

They are the lead sponser.

My favorite yorkie came close to dying. First vet did a poor diagnosis and wrong treatment. She was probably an hour away from death when I took her to another vet. Her lungs were filled with fluid, toally unresponsive and enlarged heart. My favorite dog, so vet gave it a try. The vet even stayed 4 hours past closing on Friday working on her....and saved her. She'll be on heart meds from now on, but what a vet, even donated her time and meds. Nice to know such good people exist.

It's very comforting to know that there are special people out there who are willing to go that extra mile to help our faithful friends when they most need it.

Below is mammies boy Dylan the Lhasa Apso family pet, 12 years young, we tend to keep him cut short seeing as he is a house dweller.

Despite the fact his father was first in breed at Crufts in 95 and his grandfather supreme champion in 84, we have never shown him or bred off him (the latter I sometimes regret.

Wouldn't swap the little bugga for all the money in the world (the wife wouldn't allow it) LOL.

All the best to you and your good wife in the future.

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My favorite yorkie came close to dying. First vet did a poor diagnosis and wrong treatment. She was probably an hour away from death when I took her to another vet. Her lungs were filled with fluid, toally unresponsive and enlarged heart. My favorite dog, so vet gave it a try. The vet even stayed 4 hours past closing on Friday working on her....and saved her. She'll be on heart meds from now on, but what a vet, even donated her time and meds. Nice to know such good people exist.

That is truly a heartwarming story Wolfe. I have always loved dogs and it's encouraging to hear that there are others who let their light shine in such a way. I'm also gald to hear (more than you'll ever know) that your dog was spared and is now doing fine. Imagine what the world would be like, if everyone gave of themselves (selflessly) like that veterinarian did.

We have many show dogs, she is the only pet, but my favorite. We went to our vet, but he wasn't there and saw the other one in. He was just fast and said her trach had collapsed, didn't do an xray. The actual steriods was the worse thing to give a dog with an enlarged heart. Course it was almost closing time.

I was rather shocked when the other vet said she listened to her airway and it was totally clear and thought it was her heart. Her lungs were so filled with fluid she couldn't even hear her heart....how'd did the other vet miss that.

Not to be mean to our vet that wasn't there, but they're partners and because of that idiot, they've lost our business.

She could've easly charged us another $2000.00, but only $800.