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Why 'A New Direction' ?
I changed the name of this blog to reflect the changes in my life. I've given it a good shaking out (my life that is) and beaten the dust off. In doing so I've discovered that life is worth living again, and I intend to do so!
With the change in my life, comes a change in this blog. Once named 'Mal-Fits', meaning it was built of the small bits that didn't fit anyplace else, it's now going to follow my journey through life.
This blog has also gone private. I've decided I wish more freedom in what I say.... and more say in who shares it. Thus, 'the tribe' as Phlegm so well titled them, are welcome. In reading this now, you are invited to suggest anyone you might like to have here with us. Just E-mail me with their name and address, or ask them to if they wish. My E-mail is:
artwelling1@gmail.com
Out of darkness, comes light. Thus my new life begins.
With the change in my life, comes a change in this blog. Once named 'Mal-Fits', meaning it was built of the small bits that didn't fit anyplace else, it's now going to follow my journey through life.
This blog has also gone private. I've decided I wish more freedom in what I say.... and more say in who shares it. Thus, 'the tribe' as Phlegm so well titled them, are welcome. In reading this now, you are invited to suggest anyone you might like to have here with us. Just E-mail me with their name and address, or ask them to if they wish. My E-mail is:
artwelling1@gmail.com
Out of darkness, comes light. Thus my new life begins.
Daily blog reads...... worth the time
- Adventures of Roberta X
- All Atwitter
- All the politics it takes to make your blood boil with rage...
- Ambulance driver, another human
- Arms and the law
- Bear on a Bicycle, my public blog
- Better and better... human
- Carteach0, my shooting blog
- Expert Witness
- Fatale Abstraction...Phelgmfatale
- Frank James, Farmer
- Hot air.... commentary
- Mausers and muffins
- Miz Minka, a truly good person
- Munchkinwrangler, the new site
- Murphy was a grunt...
- Nurse with a gun....
- One monkeys typewriter
- Ponderings..... words easily worth the time..
- Squeeky wheel
- Tamara's View From the Porch
- TFS Magnum
- The Breda fallacy.... must read
- The Law dog files.....
- The Other Side
- The Real Gun Guys
- The Smallest minority
- Two old soldiers
- William the coroner
Mandatory linklist:
- Al Fin is SMART
- Boobs, Injuries, and Dr. Pepper
- Call me Ahab
- Carnaby Fudge
- Cranky Epistles
- Heinlein society
- Instapundit...... better have some free time!
- Irons in the fire
- Jeff Cooper's Commentaries, Nuff said
- Lifehacker.... just cool stuff sometimes.
- Random nuclear strikes....
- Shooting with Hobie
- Snow flakes in hell
- Surplus rifle forum. Good people, great topic
- The armed school teacher
- The Fixit shop
- The Gun Blog Rifles (Rifle league)
- War on guns
- White Coat Rants
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- Ouch!
- A modern day suit of armor
- And in the center ring....
- Notes from today....
- What is it about anticipation?
- Enchiladas... it's what's for dinner.
- The front yard......
- Dinner later
- So much for a 'private' blog.
- Achtung! A moment please.....
- Today..... felt a bit at a loss
- Food porn, the movie
- Man-glider...... for fast and silent insertions. C...
- Pretty things, for a not pretty day
- For Phlegmfatale
- And of what value the entire world,if we are to ou...
- It's time....
- Observations on communication
- Someti...
- And the engines roll on.....
- I bring you ....... breakfast
- 7am....
- Weekend food wars...
- There I was, looking up, and........
- Food war suggestions?
- School speak
- I gotta mention....
- Faces in the hallway
- Today.......
- This has proven to be a good read....
- And now, for my next trick...... gone private
- Post five hundred
- Haiku #499
- Cranky has a great idea... a blog dinner!
- I may be in trouble.....
- Weekend food Porn! (warning.... post contents a...
- Now this looks like fun!. But... what is it?
- Overheard today.....
- Perfect, with a sign
- Silence, in a loud way.
- Blegging my Haiku
- From my son, a school project of his own
- Hi ho Hi ho...
- Each life, like a crazy quilt wall built of brick ...
- None is so blind, as he who will not see......
- Just a glimpse of my weekend.....
- This weekend....
- Books... books... BOOKS!
- Take notice...
- Todays simple quiz.....
- Sometimes
- Eight weeks
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4 comments:
The air force museum, obviously, but I think that was an early Beechcraft. It's been 30 years since I was there--gotta do something about that.
Dr. Z was close. . that looks much like the rare Twin Bonanza as well as some other early Beeches but it's a Curtiss AT-9, a WWII trainer.
The first prototype flew in 1941 and the production version entered service as the AT-9 in 1942. Named the "Fledgling" by Curtiss-Wright, it commonly became known as the "Jeep" in the USAAC. The prototype CW-25 had a fabric-covered steel tube fuselage and fabric-covered wings, but production AT-9s were of stressed metal skin construction.
The AT-9 was not easy to fly or land, which made it particularly suitable for teaching new pilots to cope with the demanding flight characteristics of a new generation of high-performance, multi-engine aircraft such as the B-26 Marauder and P-38 Lightning. However, many pilots who have flown both the AT-9 and the P-38 have said that the Lightning should have been used to train people to fly the Jeep!
Four hundred ninety-one AT-9's were built before production ended in February 1943.
Because of its difficult flying characteristics the AT-9 was not offered for sale to civilians after the War, although many non-flying examples were given to ground schools for training purposes and several well maintained models are in museums.
Show off.
Only in WWII aircraft William. WWI or Cold War aircraft the extent of my knowledge and comments would be "oh. . look. . SHINY!
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