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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #3276 on: April 17, 2024, 09:27:19 AM »
April 12, 1967, Mick Jagger was punched in the face by an airport official in France. Things had gotten heated after Mick got angry because the band was being searched for drugs, which led them miss their flight.

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« Reply #3277 on: April 17, 2024, 09:28:10 AM »
means original designs were well done?
They were, mostly, at least the 707.  I'm sure in 1965, most of us here would have envisioned something quite different in 2024.

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« Reply #3278 on: April 17, 2024, 09:29:28 AM »
April 12, 1967, Mick Jagger was punched in the face by an airport official in France. Things had gotten heated after Mick got angry because the band was being searched for drugs, which led them miss their flight.
Prolly the father/boy friend of a groupie he shagged
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« Reply #3279 on: April 17, 2024, 09:37:36 AM »
December 17, 1969 - Television history was made when Tiny Tim (no not the little guy from A Christmas Carol) and Miss Vicki Budinger were married on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson. Over 45 million people tuned in to The Tonight Show to watch the marriage.

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #3280 on: April 17, 2024, 09:54:28 AM »


I didn't fact check this.

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« Reply #3281 on: April 18, 2024, 09:52:58 AM »

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« Reply #3282 on: April 18, 2024, 10:16:38 AM »

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« Reply #3283 on: April 18, 2024, 10:21:03 AM »

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« Reply #3284 on: April 18, 2024, 10:32:03 AM »
U RAH RAH! WIS CON SIN!

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« Reply #3285 on: April 18, 2024, 10:51:17 AM »
I doubt they have any, they might have a handful of AFVs perhaps from the Soviet era.  I found this on line.  The term "tanks" in the chart includes armored fighting vehicles which aren't tanks.  We may have left behind a few Bradley AFVs, I don't know.

. The Afghan National Army did not have Abrams tanks. They had one tank battalion, equipped with a grand total of twelve old T-55 and T-62 tanks. Those dozen old warhorses will indeed now be in Taliban hands.

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« Reply #3286 on: April 18, 2024, 11:42:24 AM »

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« Reply #3287 on: April 18, 2024, 12:31:10 PM »
4th person is a little lower, out of frame
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« Reply #3288 on: April 18, 2024, 01:31:18 PM »
A 12-ton lead-and-rubber-shielded cockpit with windows 10-12 inches thick protected the flight crew from the otherwise lethal amount of radiation emanating from the reactor hanging in the bomb bay. Special water pockets installed aft of the cockpit also absorbed radiation.

Among the most audaciously hazardous concepts of the 1950s was the notion of installing an operational nuclear reactor inside an aircraft, a venture pursued by both the Soviet Union and the USA. The NB-36 ‘Crusader’ epitomized this daunting venture, representing a potential ecological catastrophe each time it ascended. Nevertheless, it managed to execute 47 flights. Its purpose was to evaluate the viability of managing a nuclear reactor during flight, serving as a preliminary step towards creating a genuine atomic-powered aircraft.

The NB-36 carried a three-megawatt reactor into the skies, and due to the extensive shielding necessary to protect its crew, it became the aircraft with the highest quantity of lead integrated into its structure, with the cockpit’s rubber and lead shielding alone amounting to eleven tons.




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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #3289 on: April 18, 2024, 02:01:53 PM »
It never used the reactor power to propel itself, but the reactor was active at times in testing.

I'm not sure of the plan to convert heat from nuclear fission to propellers.

 

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