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lol...wow, you will disclose nothing so that you could possibly be judged, yet you judge anything anyone else has to say. What a neat trick. It does make you appear infallible, doesn't it?

I'm not sure who who this JWJ person is or why our lives have similarities, but that was neither my doing nor is it my problem. My life is what it is, I'm sorry you doubt my life experience but I have no control over that. As for flying a Champ at 9 years old, I'm sure I could have, they are a...

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Ford doesn't back their innovation...? You mean, like when our tax money bailed out the others for BILLIONS of dollars while Ford took...nothing? I think you are blinded from seeing the trees by the forest being in your way. GM and Chrysler took BILLIONS of our tax dollars due to financial...

My wife and I are going to dinner for our anniversary, so I will leave you in peace to say nasty things about me. Get it out of your system, I'd say you need to vent, badly. I'm fine with it. Cheers!

Did I hit a little too close to home, brother? I'm sorry to do it on a public forum, but you seemed intent on attacking me.

Right, I believe you. I'm telling you that it has been 40 years since two planes had a "dogfight" like you are envisioning. Today 99% of engagements are BVR, and the few who close aren't 50 feet away, like P-51's and FW-190's were. When we do close, corner speed in an F-15 is about 400 knots-...

Cooter, with all due respect, after reading your various posts and the way you like to attack newcomers and the way you seem to treat people in general, my guess is that your life hasn't gone the way you would have liked it to. I think you are a basically unhappy person, who probably reads alot-...

Right...and, for the third time, what did you fly in the military?

Honestly, of all of the things left on my bucket list, flying off of and trapping back on a carrier is #1. I pick on Navy because it's Air Force tradition, of course, but I am supremely jealous. :)

Broadcast your intentions? Really? You think F-15s are flying like P-51's in WWII, perhaps? Let me enlighten you- I have never been close enough to an adversary to flip him the bird, like Tom Cruise did in Top Gun- in practice or in combat. I couldn't tell you which way an an opponent rolled or...

Unique? I never considered it particularly unique, I've been building cars since I was a teenager, and I grew up a military brat- we summered in Europe, flying space-A to visit friends my parents made while stationed over there (Germany) right after WWII. My father was a WWII/Korea/VN veteran. I...

It cost my friend a live-in boyfriend, lol...I never cared for him anyway, but she apparently did. Not enough to give up her plane though...and it was HER house. :)

Actually, most fighters have a very small negative G tolerance- we are taught from day one to roll and pull, for this reason and a few others. For those relative few of us who had extensive civilian aerobatic experience prior to the military, it was different...we were used to negs, for...

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Agreed, completely- but for the purposes of this quick and dirty answer, it fit- and speaking aerodynamically, it IS accurate. As I said in the answer, that technique results in a big sloppy, wallow-y rotation. Practice and instruction tightens it up- although in a Super D, you never really get...

You are correct, my mistake. I grabbed the wrong photo and couldn't tell on this verdamnt tiny screen. I feel silly as I hate exposed blowers and would never do that, but you'll have old eyes one day and will understand. :)

Well said...I'm a Ford guy, but I stoped liking most new cars in 1980, everything I own (American) is pre-80. We never really recovered from the 80's...best music, worst cars. Ford 7.3 Diesel was great- every other Ford diesel is a pos. Chevy makes some good stuff and some crap, as well...

I own a Stearman and a T-6D as well, we can't afford to eat but we have a good time. :)

Yes, those Navy guys are nuts! Of course, we AF jocks can whip the pants off of them in a knife fight, because they're too busy learning to land on a boat to bother with fighting skills. :)