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[WVNan]

STOP! You’re makin me homesick.

[onyx]

WOO-HOO!

JIM JUST REPORTED NEW DONATIONS!!!

Thank you very much, bd476!!

Woo hoo!!

And this just in:

$200.00 from Alabama
$13.00 from Illinois

Thank you very much, Alabama and Illinois!!

[onyx]

   2011 Q3 Scoreboard — ranked by total receipts   

Rank	Location	Receipts			Monthlies
		Total	#	Avg/Per	Total	#	Avg/Per
1	Texas	$390.00	7	$55.71	$977.00	62	$15.76
2	Alabama	250.00	2	125.00	165.00	12	13.75
3	Nevada	170.00	3	56.67	51.00	2	25.50
4	Colorado	155.00	4	38.75	215.00	14	15.36
5	California	150.00	1	150.00	1,121.00	66	16.98
6	Louisiana	125.00	1	125.00	110.00	6	18.33
7	Pennsylvania	100.00	1	100.00	355.00	20	17.75
8	Georgia	100.00	1	100.00	285.00	16	17.81
9	Wisconsin	90.00	2	45.00	125.00	9	13.89
10	Florida	70.00	2	35.00	630.00	37	17.03
11	Mississippi	50.00	1	50.00	146.00	7	20.86
12	Ohio	50.00	1	50.00	260.00	17	15.29
13	Illinois	43.00	2	21.50	286.00	14	20.43
14	Massachusetts	35.00	1	35.00	203.00	11	18.45
15	Idaho	30.00	1	30.00	210.00	9	23.33
16	Hawaii	30.00	1	30.00	85.00	5	17.00
17	New York	25.00	1	25.00	352.50	20	17.62
18	Indiana	20.00	1	20.00	190.00	12	15.83
19	Arkansas	20.00	1	20.00	145.00	8	18.12
20	Germany	20.00	1	20.00
21	Vermont	20.00	1	20.00	56.00	2	28.00
22	Rhode Island	10.00	1	10.00	50.00	2	25.00
23	Oregon	10.00	1	10.00	155.00	9	17.22
24	Tennessee	10.00	1	10.00	225.00	14	16.07
	Virginia				677.00	31	21.84
	Washington				350.00	18	19.44
	Arizona				305.00	16	19.06
	North Carolina				300.00	19	15.79
	Michigan				235.00	12	19.58
	Oklahoma				225.00	11	20.45
	New Jersey				218.33	9	24.26
	Maryland				192.50	12	16.04
	Minnesota				180.00	12	15.00
	Kentucky				140.00	4	35.00
	Kansas				125.00	10	12.50
	Missouri				125.00	9	13.89
	New Hampshire				88.50	4	22.12
	Maine				80.00	3	26.67
	South Carolina				80.00	7	11.43
	Utah				80.00	5	16.00
	Connecticut				70.00	5	14.00
	South Dakota				65.00	4	16.25
	Alaska				60.00	3	20.00
	Montana				50.00	2	25.00
	West Virginia				35.00	2	17.50
	Iowa				30.00	1	30.00
	Delaware				26.00	3	8.67
	New Mexico				25.00	3	8.33
	Nebraska				20.00	2	10.00
	Armed Forces - Europe				15.00	1	15.00
	Australia				10.00	1	10.00
	Norway				10.00	1	10.00
	North Dakota				10.00	1	10.00
	Canada				10.00	1	10.00
Never Never Land		260.00	3	86.67	843.00	64	13.17
55 locations total		$2,233.00	42	$53.17	$11,077.83	650	$17.04

[The Cajun]

LOL. They recharge in the computer!

Recharge in the computer!?!?!?!?

If I can't smoke, the dang computer ain't going to smoke either!!

[bd476]

Jim Robinson wrote:

Thank you very much, bd476!!

Woo hoo!!

And this just in:

$200.00 from Alabama
$13.00 from Illinois

Thank you very much, Alabama and Illinois!!

[onyx]

WooHoo!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH Alabama FReeper!!!

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THANK YOU VERY MUCH Alabama FReeper!!!

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THANK YOU VERY MUCH Alabama FReeper!!!

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[onyx]

Light Up Here!

[onyx]

WooHoo!

Thank you very much, Ohio Freeper!

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Thank you very much, Ohio Freeper!

WooHoo!!

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Thank you very much, Ohio Freeper!

WooHoo!!

[bd476]

WVNan wrote: " STOP! You’re makin me homesick. "

October 14, 1947

Yeager breaks sound barrier

U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound.


Credits - Edwards Air Force Base
Chuck Yeager and Glamorous Glennis, named after his wife-the name he gave the X-1 that he piloted to Mach 1.06 on October 14, 1947.

Yeager, born in Myra, West Virginia, in 1923, was a combat fighter during World War II and flew 64 missions over Europe.

He shot down 13 German planes and was himself shot down over France, but he escaped capture with the assistance of the French Underground.

After the war, he was among several volunteers chosen to test-fly the experimental X-1 rocket plane, built by the Bell Aircraft Company to explore the possibility of supersonic flight.

For years, many aviators believed that man was not meant to fly faster than the speed of sound, theorizing that transonic drag rise would tear any aircraft apart.

All that changed on October 14, 1947, when Yeager flew the X-1 over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California. The X-1 was lifted to an altitude of 25,000 feet by a B-29 aircraft and then released through the bomb bay, rocketing to 40,000 feet and exceeding 662 miles per hour (the sound barrier at that altitude).

The rocket plane, nicknamed "Glamorous Glennis," was designed with thin, unswept wings and a streamlined fuselage modeled after a .50-caliber bullet.




The Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis

Because of the secrecy of the project, Bell and Yeager's achievement was not announced until June 1948.

Yeager continued to serve as a test pilot, and in 1953 he flew 1,650 miles per hour in an X-1A rocket plane.

He retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1975 with the rank of Brigadier General.

Yeager breaks sound barrier

[WVNan]

Somehow Huntsville, AL doesn't look like it did when I was a child growing up there.

[onyx]

Theater in Huntsville, Alabama...

[WVNan]

OH YES! I remember that! We used to got to the movies there for 10 cents and so many tin cans collected for the war effort. Lord, how many Saturday Matinees of Roy Rogers did I watch there? Thanks onyx, for finding that.

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, if that don’t suit ya, that’s a drag.

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure, onyx.

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure, Jim.

[onyx]

I love old and wonderful memories! Aren’t they some of the very best? AND, thank goodness we can still clearly remember!!!

[WVNan]

It sure is. I’m just happy to have a memory at my age. LOL
Now I’m thinking I will go to Google Earth and see if I can find the hold home place. Had not thought to do that before.

[bd476]

Thank you, Alabama!


Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Mobile, Alabama


Puppies frolicking in Alabama snow


Mobile, Alabama

[onyx]

I hope it’s still there!

[bd476]

Buckeyes Rule !!
Go Buckeyes !!!!



/ Wild cheering from lifelong Ohio State Buckeyes fan