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crash325 · Apr 19, 2015

2LaneCruzer said:
This should be an easy one...not military related, but it is pretty close to home. There is a breed of dog, known in international circles as "The American Gentleman". What breed is this and what were its ancestors?

I had to cheat. As a kid I had one that was just a little different. It was called a " Screw Tail".
He was quite the goof ball.

2LaneCruzer · Apr 19, 2015

crash325 said:
I had to cheat. As a kid I had one that was just a little different. It was called a " Screw Tail".
He was quite the goof ball.

We have one...a Boston Terrier. There has been one in our family for about 60 years or so. Wonderful little balls of energy with an appetite to match. Their ancestors are the English Bull and the English Terrier.

turnkey4099 · Apr 19, 2015

Re: P2V Neptune. There was one shot down in "peace time"*. There was a regular recon patrol (probably elint snooper) that flew down the international dateline between Kamchatka and Alaska. Russia had at that time (1955) several MiG15 (possible alos 17s) bases on Kamchatka and the northeast Siberian peninsula. In lat 1954 or early 55 the Neptune was intercepted and shot down over our NSA monitor station at Gambel Western point of St. Lawrence Island. It crashed just down the coast from that station - crew survived. Russians claimed intrusion of their air space (false) Next scheduled flight went off as normal, got to same spot and Russians again responded. This time there was a flight of 4 F89s orbiting behind the mountains on St. Lawrence. They popped up and Russians turned tail.

The Neptune was also used as a water dumper in fire fighter service.

* "Peace time" The Korean war was declared over sometime in 1955 IIRC. My service (21 years AF) began djuring that so I can claim to have been an active military member for every 'war action' from Korea through Viet Nam and. Fortunately for me I was always on the opposite of the world except for the "7 day Arab/israili" of 196?, I was in Sinop, Turkey for that one on graveyard duty. It broke out while I was on midnight shift. Came out of ops the next morning and the Turkish army had the site surrounded. They were our base security allies. Oddly, that morning all guns were point IN!!

Harry K

crash325 · Apr 19, 2015

What was the largest plane to ever take off from an aircraft carrier.????
Maybe not the heaviest, but longest wing span.

RSKY · Apr 20, 2015

Lockheed C-130 Hercules.

crash325 · Apr 21, 2015

RSKY said:
Lockheed C-130 Hercules.

Good guess. Sorry but I don't think so.

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There was an American made auto named Nash.
Its ads featured what as the reason to buy one???

2LaneCruzer · Apr 21, 2015

crash325 said:
Good guess. Sorry but I don't think so.

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New question!!

There was an American made auto named Nash.
Its ads featured what as the reason to buy one???

I'll hazard a guess on this one...Nash was unique in a couple of ways; besides it's ugly styling, they had reclining seats that would lay down flat, essentially turning into a double bed. This feature certainly had its advocates. Although most of the guys I knew back in the late 50's and early 60's wouldn't have anything except a Chevy or a Ford, seats from wrecked Nashes were known to be retrofitted to other automobiles...I never asked why.

vtsnowedin · Apr 21, 2015

2LaneCruzer said:
I'll hazard a guess on this one...Nash was unique in a couple of ways; besides it's ugly styling, they had reclining seats that would lay down flat, essentially turning into a double bed. This feature certainly had its advocates. Although most of the guys I knew back in the late 50's and early 60's wouldn't have anything except a Chevy or a Ford, seats from wrecked Nashes were known to be retrofitted to other automobiles...I never asked why.[/QUOTE
I remember those seats in a Nash-Rambler station wagon. Great for camping trips. It was gone before I was a teen ager so never got to the lookout point with it. Probably just as well.

RSKY · Apr 21, 2015

The C-130 Hercules holds the record for the largest and heaviest aircraft to land on an aircraft carrier. In October and November 1963, a USMC KC-130F (BuNo 149798), bailed to the US Naval Air Test Center, made 21 unarrested landings and take-offs on the USS Forrestal at a number of different weights.

turnkey4099 · Apr 21, 2015

crash325 said:
Good guess. Sorry but I don't think so.

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New question!!

There was an American made auto named Nash.
Its ads featured what as the reason to buy one???

I should know that one but the forgetter is working overtime. All I remember about them is that the starter button was under the gas pedal. Rather an odd setup but it worked.

Harry K

Looking4new · Apr 21, 2015

If you had to ask why Chevy and Ford guys retrofitted Nash seats into them, then you were probably too young to know.

2LaneCruzer · Apr 21, 2015

turnkey4099 said:
I should know that one but the forgetter is working overtime. All I remember about them is that the starter button was under the gas pedal. Rather an odd setup but it worked.

Harry K

Some years of Packards and Buicks also had that feature.

2LaneCruzer · Apr 21, 2015

Looking4new said:
If you had to ask why Chevy and Ford guys retrofitted Nash seats into them, then you were probably too young to know.

I was being facetious. I liked the idea, but not enough to buy a Nash. My '55 Bel Air 2dr hdtp really didn't need them.

crash325 · Apr 22, 2015

RSKY said:
The C-130 Hercules holds the record for the largest and heaviest aircraft to land on an aircraft carrier. In October and November 1963, a USMC KC-130F (BuNo 149798), bailed to the US Naval Air Test Center, made 21 unarrested landings and take-offs on the USS Forrestal at a number of different weights.

Looks like you are correct.
But it sounds like "touch & go" rather than an actual landing or take off.

Just a little different than an actual take off. A C-130 needs about 3900 feet of runway to take off.

k0ua · Apr 22, 2015

crash325 said:
Looks like you are correct.
But it sounds like "touch & go" rather than an actual landing or take off.

Just a little different than an actual take off. A C-130 needs about 3900 feet of runway to take off.

The C130 was able to make several full stop landings and take offs.

k0ua · Apr 22, 2015

You can see one full stop and 1 takeoff here. They claim to have made 21 full stop and takeoff. NO catapult. and no arresting wire.

Looking4new · Apr 22, 2015

2LaneCruzer said:
I was being facetious. I liked the idea, but not enough to buy a Nash. My '55 Bel Air 2dr hdtp really didn't need them.

Neither did my '55 Packard. One could lay right across the front seat IF you put it all the way back and wanted to stack 'em.:licking:

2LaneCruzer · Apr 22, 2015

Looking4new said:
Neither did my '55 Packard. One could lay right across the front seat IF you put it all the way back and wanted to stack 'em.:licking:

Wow! A Packard man. My Dad had a '49 Packard 4 door that I learned to drive on.

crash325 · Apr 22, 2015

k0ua said:
You can see one full stop and 1 takeoff here. They claim to have made 21 full stop and takeoff. NO catapult. and no arresting wire.

The video keep crashing. Finally got it to work & you are correct.

New Question!!
I though that mostly Ford & Mercury were the ones that made "Woodies". But doing a little research almost every major US car maker made 1 or more. At 1 time we had a Buick Woodie. Even Nash made a Woodie, Maybe in more ways than 1.

Who were the one or ones that didn't make a Woodie???

Looking4new · Apr 22, 2015

crash325 said:
New Question!!
I though that mostly Ford & Mercury were the ones that made "Woodies". But doing a little research almost every major US car maker made 1 or more. At 1 time we had a Buick Woodie. Even Nash made a Woodie, Maybe in more ways than 1.

Who were the one or ones that didn't make a Woodie???

I don't think that Cadillac made a woodie. I do know that Packard did.