The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Aerial Warfare in the Korean War (1950-1953)

Cool pics.

Back tonight.

41 posted on 04/18/2005 9:12:50 AM PDT by Valin (Senate switchboard: (202) 225-3121 / 1-866-808-0065 toll-free)

the skillful Brits again survived and Lieutenant Peter Carmichael scored the first confirmed aerial victory of a piston-engined aircraft over a jet.

Didn't Chuck Yeager shot a Me-262 down in WWII?

42 posted on 04/18/2005 9:18:10 AM PDT by Valin (Senate switchboard: (202) 225-3121 / 1-866-808-0065 toll-free)

YEP

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

43 posted on 04/18/2005 9:41:54 AM PDT by alfa6

and the 1928-vintage Polikarpov Po-2 two-seat biplane, which would reprise its World War II role as a most troublesome night intruder.

Five o'clock Charlie!

44 posted on 04/18/2005 9:53:53 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (Themeless Thursday is different from the other six themeless days how?)

1946 League of Nations dissolves (3 months after the UN starts)

Three months after this, the UN becomes disfunctional.

45 posted on 04/18/2005 10:15:27 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (Themeless Thursday is different from the other six themeless days how?)

US : National Lingerie Week Begins

Pictures? Rules are rules after all.

46 posted on 04/18/2005 10:18:54 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (Themeless Thursday is different from the other six themeless days how?)

To: snippy_about_it

Howdy ma'am. Didja get your beauty sleep last night?

47 posted on 04/18/2005 10:19:58 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (Themeless Thursday is different from the other six themeless days how?)

48 posted on 04/18/2005 10:21:48 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (Themeless Thursday is different from the other six themeless days how?)

To: Professional Engineer

Afternoon, PE.

Fine Flag-o-gram today, thank you.

49 posted on 04/18/2005 10:53:39 AM PDT by Soaring Feather (April is Poetry month.)

To: Professional Engineer

Afternoon PE.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

50 posted on 04/18/2005 1:08:27 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Liberal Rule #21 - Anyone who doesn't believe as you do is a bigot.)

51 posted on 04/18/2005 1:08:51 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Liberal Rule #21 - Anyone who doesn't believe as you do is a bigot.)

Thanks for the pics alfa6.

Why does the Aircobra and the Bf-109 come to mind?

52 posted on 04/18/2005 1:10:28 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Liberal Rule #21 - Anyone who doesn't believe as you do is a bigot.)

Didn't Chuck Yeager shot a Me-262 down in WWII?

Yep.

"The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down."....

General Chuck Yeager, USAF, describing his first confrontation with a Me262.

53 posted on 04/18/2005 1:14:11 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Liberal Rule #21 - Anyone who doesn't believe as you do is a bigot.)

To: Professional Engineer

Three months after this, the UN becomes disfunctional.

LOL!

54 posted on 04/18/2005 1:15:06 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Liberal Rule #21 - Anyone who doesn't believe as you do is a bigot.)

To: Professional Engineer

55 posted on 04/18/2005 1:25:07 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Liberal Rule #21 - Anyone who doesn't believe as you do is a bigot.)

To: SAMWolf; snippy_about_it; Blurblogger; writer33; stand watie; Taxman; ELS

"W's Promise!!"
(To be sung to Bruce Springsteen's "The Promise")

Sultan's workin' fer Victory...the BigMan works downtown...
CM works in a rock and roll band,
Lookin' for that diff'rence-makin' sound!!
We've gotta li'l job up in DeeCeeTown...
We're Right, THAT I know!!
Some nights, I FReep with Black's judges...some nights, I write songs...
We'll follow our dreams just like those RATS do way up on TeeVee!!
We'll Whup RATS' Challengers 'til Left's Benign...
Screw the Sosh'lists' and DemonRATS' FReaks!!
Lib'rals' Promise's been broken...DemRATS ain't gonna git MUD's Dreams!!

Folks, we won't haveta challenge Left by ourselves...
Righteous folks got somethin' that we'll embolden!!
I lived a secret...I should'a kept to myself!!
But I got drunk one night and I smoked it...
All our lives, WE Fight Fer Right...
The Fight that Mankind must ALWAYS Win!!
Every day, it just seems hard to believe...
The LIES RATS're believing in!!
Lib'rals're DO-O-OLTS!!! Yo, FReepers, you are so Right!!
Clinton's a HO-O-O!! SlickWillie's Lyin' and Slick Righteous Shall Smite!!

Right won big once off the Normandy coast...
But somehow FRench fergot our loss!!
It's TIME Right fights like we wuz makin' up fer broken spirits...
Of all the liberties we've lost!!
Lib'rals' promise's been broken...RATS Defend TREASON!!
BigGuv'ment steals something from down in your soul!!
Fight when the TRUTH is spoken and the RATS say, "NO JUSTICE!!
Something in OUR Heart Grows Bold!!
We'll Defend the FRee from the Sosh'list RATS...
WHUP the HollyWeirdo Stars!!
'Cuz when the LeftWing hath Broken...We'll Defend Our Righteous Home!!
FReepin' Fer the Soldiers Who'll Liberate Iraq!!
Lib'rals are DO-O-OLTS!!...RATS love Big Guv'ment with all its big schemes!!
Save yer SO-O-OULS!!...Left is mired in an indelible stain!!
DemRATS're DO-O-OLTS!!! Yo, FReepers, we are so Right!!
Clinton's a HO-O-O!! SlickWillie's Lyin' and Slick Righteous Shall Smite!!

Mudboy Slim (03/19/2003)

56 posted on 04/18/2005 1:52:08 PM PDT by Mudboy Slim (Armed to the teeth and loaded fer bear...MUD)

57 posted on 04/18/2005 1:57:58 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (Themeless Thursday is different from the other six themeless days how?)

58 posted on 04/18/2005 2:14:35 PM PDT by Aeronaut (I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things - Saint-Exupery)

To: Professional Engineer

Didja get your beauty sleep last night?

Not nearly enough of it.

No comments from the peanut gallery required. ;-)

59 posted on 04/18/2005 2:56:59 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)

To: snippy_about_it

60 posted on 04/18/2005 3:10:40 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (Themeless Thursday is different from the other six themeless days how?)

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