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Fall brings out some the best skies all year and this day was no exception. T007 rolls west through Black Earth Wisconsin with a monster train, 75 cars with 71 going to ADM in Boscobel. Let the grain roll folks.
Blackbird 958, which set the Absolute Speed and Speed Over A Closed Course aviation records in July 1976, is now on display at the Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins, Georgia. The aircraft is displayed with a Lockheed D-21 unmanned reconnaissance drone.
A new Mercedes-Benz series, factory coded W18, began production in 1933 and replaced the Type 350/370 Mannheim series. The fresh motor car, more commonly known as the Type 290, heralded a number of advanced engineering features, among them were hydraulic brakes, a transverse leaf-spring/coil-spring front suspension, a coil-spring floating rear axle, and a 60 horsepower, 2,867-cubic centimetre, side-valve inline six-cylinder engine. In addition to the bare chassis for custom coach builders, six factory-built body styles and a Kuebelwagen (military) variant were available. The factory designs included a four-door touring car, a four-door saloon, and four 2-door convertibles or cabriolets (A, B, C, and D) with various seating configurations.
Mercedes-Benz produced 7,495 W18 passenger cars, of which 3,566 sat on a shorter chassis, whilst 3,929 used a longer chassis. The shorter cars’ bodies, which were on 2,870-millimetre chassis, reflected the design seen on the Type 200 (W21) models of the time, but the 290 bodies were actually a bit longer. The least expensive of the offered bodies was, ironically, a six-seat light limousine, listed at 7,950 Marks. A pricier saloon with a torpedo body, which was called a Tourenwagen, offered a more elegant option. Three convertible bodies were additionally offered and designated as Cabriolet B, Cabriolet C, and Cabriolet D. These were offered in two- or four-door configurations, with two for four-passenger seating. One more convertible was offered with a much sportier look, the Cabriolet A. It had a body that sat 190 millimetres lower than the other soft-topped versions, and it was amongst the most expensive, with it priced at 13,000 Marks.
Elegantly exhibiting a more streamlined appearance, this special W18 Cabriolet A by Sindelfingen was delivered new through Berlin in November 1934. It is arguably one of the most well-proportioned and sporting designs of the day, and it was certainly destined for an astute connoisseur who could appreciate the illusion of width and length, which was created by the low profile of the body and greatly enhanced by the presence of the dual rear-mounted spare tyres.
The memorial at Window Rock, Arizona commemorates the role of Navajo Code Talkers in the South Pacific during World War II. A deeply moving place.
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CODE ORANGE KIDS playing Vlamrock (Belgium).
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Well, I'm proud to announce that the code is about 1000 lines of PHP, CSS and HTML today and it still needs to grow more and more.
I'm glad of my progress with the website and you should see the progress with the core--we have so many amazing things in the works.
PS: I still need to put the AJAX stuff.
In 2008 we went to Pueblo Grande for the Annual Indian Market in Phoenix. The Navajo (Diné) Code Talkers played a vital role in winning World War II in the Pacific. Only one of the original 29 Code Talkers is still living. However, after they were established in 1942 there were approximately 400 Code Talkers.
During the early months of WW II Japanese intelligence experts broke every code the US forces devised. They were able to anticipate American actions at an alarming rate. With plenty of fluent English speakers at their disposal, they sabotaged messages and issued false commands to ambush Allied troops. To combat this, increasingly complex codes were initiated. At Guadalcanal, military leaders finally complained that sending and receiving these codes required hours of encryption and decryption—up to two and a half hours for a single message. They rightly argued the military needed a better way to communicate.
When Phillip Johnston, a civilian living in California learned of the crisis, he had the answer. As the son of a Protestant missionary, Johnston had grown up on the Navajo reservation and was one of less than 30 outsiders fluent in their difficult language. He realized that since it had no alphabet and was almost impossible to master without early exposure, the Navajo language had great potential as an indecipherable code. After an impressive demonstration to top commanders, he was given permission to begin a Navajo Code Talker test program.
Their elite unit was formed in early 1942 when the first 29 Navajo Code Talkers were recruited by Johnston. Although the code was modified and expanded throughout the war, this first group was the one to conceive it. Accordingly, they are often referred to reverently as the original 29. Many of these enlistees were just boys; most had never been away from home before. Often lacking birth certificates, it was impossible to verify ages. After the war it was discovered that recruits as young as 15 and as old as 35 had enlisted. Age notwithstanding, they easily bore the rigors of basic training, thanks to their upbringing in the southwestern desert.
The code was as ingenious as it was effective. It originated as approximately 200 terms—growing to over 600 by war's end—and could communicate in 20 seconds what took coding machines of the time 30 minutes to do. It consisted of native terms that were associated with the respective military terms they resembled. For example, the Navajo word for turtle meant tank, and a dive-bomber was a chicken hawk. To supplement those terms, words could be spelled out using Navajo terms assigned to individual letters of the alphabet—the selection of the Navajo term being based on the first letter of the Navajo word's English meaning. For instance, Wo-La-Chee means ant, and would represent the letter A. In this way the Navajo Code Talkers could quickly and concisely communicate with each other in a manner even uninitiated Navajos could not understand.
Once trained, the Navajo Code Talkers were sent to Marine divisions in the Pacific theater of WWII. Despite some initial skepticism by commanding officers, they quickly gained a distinguished reputation for their remarkable abilities. In the field, they were not allowed to write any part of the code down as a reference. They became living codes, and even under harried battle conditions, had to rapidly recall every word with utmost precision or risk hundreds or thousands of lives. In the battle for Iwo Jima, in the first 48 hours alone, they coded over 800 transmissions with perfect accuracy. Their heroism is widely acknowledged as the lynchpin of victory in the pivotal conflict.
the shot at hand: inspired by Ryan the one, the only....always pimp!
this is a regular family outing for the O'Connor family on any given saturday night...it started with "i've got a shot stuck in my head, who wants to help?"
my boy...first hand up!! and can i bring a friend....well only if said friend asks a parent because first, it's illegal and second, there is a small element of danger and third, it's illegal!!
so we're off....to a trespass into Holmes Foundry....hubby is never keen to trespass...what if we get caught, then what...and as always, i assure him that the cops have better things to do than to chase a family around in an abandoned place when all they're doing is taking pictures!!
the image above, truly a joint venture...included the following technicalities:
*the pose - strategically placed by me
*the subjects - 2 boys told to stay very still for 25 secs. (no easy task)
*handheld flashlight - me again to light the graffiti
*red gel flash - courtesy of hubby moving around the scene flashing on command
my son's friend, who had never done anything like this thought this was the best ever outing so the boys were paid with a late dinner out....we got home by midnight!!
isn't this a normal outing?
so now.....tell me what the rest of you do on any regular night out????
The aircraft was built at the Messerschmitt AG’s works in Wiener-Neustadt in Austria in 1943. The construction number is W.Nr. 14743 and the aircraft was coded RJ+SM for the ferry flight to Finland. The aircraft first suffered severe damage on 16 April 1943, when Sergeant A. Lehtiö took off for his type flight on the MT. During take-off the aircraft swung out of the runway and the left undercarriage and the wings were damaged. By this time the aircraft had logged 12 hours 40 minutes. During the repair at the aircraft factory the plane was fitted with the wings from MT-218. These were bulged wings at MT-218 had tires of a thicker type. The repair was completed at the end of June in 1944 and the aircraft was handed over to fighter squadron HLeLv 28, where it scored four aerial victories.
During aerial target practice on 1 August 1946 the targeting bag towed by a lead plane wound itself around the propeller and also choked the air intake of the super charger. This resulted in engine overheating and a forced landing into the sea outside the town of Pori. The pilot, Lieutenant V. Pokela survived unharmed. Immediately after the landing The Air Force recovered the aircraft.
The attempt to tow the wreckage to Pori failed and the plane sank again. The aircraft was written off on 10 September 1946 and had logged 119 hours 5 minutes. Timo Nyman, from Orimattila, started the research for MT-208 in 1983 and sports divers from Pori discovered the aircraft at the end of the decade. The diving team of the Finnish Aviation Museum raised the plane on 23-24 August 1999.
According to my four-year-old granddaughter, this ancient stone tablet, dicovered by she and Grandma on their journey back from the frog pond, is laced with gold and inscribed with secret, mystical symbols that can make you invisible if you can crack the code. We're working on that now!
However, the radio still works, as funny as that may seem...
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With code blue skies, Big Blue, 5418 sits on the old Saginaw main next to the coal tower awaiting it's day's work out on the Bald Eagle Job.
This is a little sneak peak as to how the comic starts off. Final photo shoot today and then begins the process of editing and formating the PDF comic, should be ready in two weeks if all things go according to plan. Question the store, website, I will be using allows pre-orders would you be interested or rather wait for the release?