I have digitized more of my collection of old slides, negatives and prints. The first photo is appropriate for this time of year. The first leaves have just started turning red in my area.
we had a nite club in our town called "Whisky Au Go Go" 2.10am March 8th ,1973 a petrol bomb was thrown into the doorway, patrons were upstairs in club with no way to get out. 15 died. 2 men were found guilty. rumours were that standover people were involved. both men claimed they were innocent . police did not investigate to much. Today fire is still a mystery .
[/ATTACH] View attachment 5193456 Nice shot of an A-36 Apache. This was the ground attack version of the p-51. it carried 2 .50's in each wing and two in nose under engine (reg set up was 3 in each wing). The engine was the Allison v-12 not the RR Merlin. It has dive brakes, a razorback(flat profile off of cockpit to tail, as opposed to the malcomb hood [bubble canopy], and the Allison scoop on the top of motor. the hood allowed much better visibility for the pilot. While the Mustang gets most the credit, the P-47 thunderbolt did most of the heavy lifting in the air war, and had smashed the Luftwaffe apart in 1944. By the end the p-47 could make Berlin on drop tanks and good fuel management. The Brits had cardboard drop tanks that sucked, a daisy BB gun engineer re worked them, and managed to pressurize them to make them feed correctly. Then Charles Lindbergh taught the fighter pilots to maximize fuel economy. Now the Bombers weren't alone for half the mission. The next factor was unchaining the fighters from the bomber stream. See a nazi?, chase him until one of you was dead, find bases etc. All this time the air force bombed the hell out of aircraft, ball bearing, and petroleum.
All the Monza Indy car pictures I have seen are like as posted, counter clockwise like we race here maybe the formula/grand prix cars ran clockwise. Side note, none of the few grand Prix cars that showed up were competitive.
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