Forum: Health Issues
1st August 2023, 16:23
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Replies: 21
Views: 26,610
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Forum: Royal Navy
5th June 2022, 17:26
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Replies: 11
Views: 7,302
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Forum: The Pig & Whistle
11th September 2021, 19:19
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Replies: 532
Views: 221,553
re: Never flown in a helicopter, never will....
re: Never flown in a helicopter, never will. They're unnatural, unaerodynamic, unmechanical creations.
I flew on one helicopter a Pan Am from the roof of the Manhattan Pan Am building to La...
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Forum: Aviation
18th March 2021, 23:22
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Replies: 19
Views: 14,765
DC3
Growing up @ the Head of the Lakes Duluth MN North Central Airlines and their 32 DC3's gave us a fast way to travel.
http://www.hermantheduck.org/pages/aircraft%20section%20pages/dc3.html
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Forum: Nostalgia - Days Gone Bye
3rd March 2021, 21:00
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Replies: 0
Views: 6,208
Three Great Lakes shipping videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFiF5LUsi1A&feature=youtu.be
# 1 is the 1989 Benson Ford running between Ford Rouge Steel in Detroit to Marquette MI returning to the Rouge. The Captain speaks of...
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Forum: Stormy Weather
18th November 2020, 17:34
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Replies: 36
Views: 20,419
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Forum: Stormy Weather
17th November 2020, 22:33
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Replies: 36
Views: 20,419
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Forum: The Pig & Whistle
5th September 2020, 06:05
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Replies: 0
Views: 5,041
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Forum: The Pig & Whistle
5th September 2020, 05:17
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Replies: 0
Views: 5,508
Cattle ship feared lost off Japan in storm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cattle-ship-feared-lost-off-092823666.html
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A massive cargo ship carrying thousands of cattle from New Zealand, with 43 crew members, has been wrecked in the East...
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Forum: Say Hello
5th September 2020, 03:35
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Replies: 4
Views: 5,017
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Forum: Say Hello
4th September 2020, 19:06
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Replies: 4
Views: 5,017
Greg Hayden
I grew up aboard the Great Lakes ships (boats in GL vernacular) where my dad was an engineer. May 1960 I shipped out as a Coalpasser on a coal burning vessel built in 1911. I sailed the Great Lakes...
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Forum: The Radio Room
4th September 2020, 17:23
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Replies: 3
Views: 9,437
For setting up the various transmitters,...
For setting up the various transmitters, conversing on the air to the folks who remotely operated things from their distant control rooms. Whenever one seemed to have lost contact the first place...
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Forum: The Pig & Whistle
4th September 2020, 06:18
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Replies: 1,844
Views: 858,238
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Forum: The Radio Room
3rd September 2020, 23:23
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Replies: 3
Views: 9,437
Restricted Radiotelephone Operator Permit
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Since the Vista Public Library has been closed since the end of March I have been re-reading my own books. Saturday evening August 29, 2020 just before bedtime I finished one book...
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Forum: Vintage Vehicles, classic cars etc...
2nd September 2020, 19:21
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Replies: 188
Views: 160,530
1964-1/2 USA Ford Mustang
https://www.automobilemag.com/news/ford-mustang-history-generations-models-specifications/
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In the early 1960s, Lee Iacocca, vice president and general manager of Ford, envisioned a sporty...
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