Hi, I am building a diorama with a 1/48th scale B-17 at low altitude. It will have two engines turning and two shut down. My question is, would a B-17 have its landing flaps deployed at all at this lower speed and altitude if it was not landing, just hedge-hopping home? And if so, how...

Paul Krugman, 7/20/04 NY Times: In the original version of "The Manchurian Candidate," Senator John Iselin, whom Chinese agents are plotting to put in the White House, is a right-wing demagogue modeled on Senator Joseph McCarthy. As Roger Ebert wrote, the plan is to "use anticommunist hysteria as...

Muzzling the Courts? The Washington Post Wednesday, July 21, 2004; Page A18 FOLLOWING THE Senate's burial last week of a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, foes of same-sex marriage are back with another radical proposal. This time they are pushing a bill that would prevent...

|On Friday, a member of that group who was one of Kerry's supervisors in |Vietnam, George Elliott, | |Wrote in 1969: | |"In a combat environment often requiring independent, decisive action LTJG |(Lieutenant Junior Grade) Kerry was unsurpassed. He constantly reviewed tactics |and lessons...

"The big story out of Florida over the weekend was the tragic devastation caused by Hurricane Charley. But there's another story from Florida that deserves our attention. State police officers have gone into the homes of elderly black voters in Orlando and interrogated them as part of an odd...

"But Thurlow's military records, portions of which were released yesterday to The Washington Post under the Freedom of Information Act, contain several references to 'enemy small arms and automatic weapons fire' directed at 'all units' of the five-boat flotilla. Thurlow won his own Bronze Star that...

"There are two medals awarded to members of the Texas National Guard basically for showing up: Texas Govt Code 431.134 Para 1 Texas Faithful Service Medal The Texas Faithful Service Medal shall be awarded to a member of the state military forces who has completed five years of honorable service...

Only in an election year ruled by fiction could a sissy who used Daddy's connections to escape Vietnam turn an actual war hero into a girlie-man. As we leave the scripted conventions behind us, that is the uber-scenario that has locked into place, brilliantly engineered by the president of the...

"President Bush claims that in the fall of 1972, he fulfilled his Air National Guard duties at a base in Alabama. But Bob Mintz was there - and he is sure Mr. Bush wasn't. Plenty of other officers have said they also don't recall that Mr. Bush ever showed up for drills at the base. What's...

More on Bush in the Air Guard http://www.glcq.com/bush_at_arpc1.htm SUMMARY An examination of the Bush military files within the context of US Statutory Law, Department of Defense regulations, and Air Force policies and procedures of that era lead to a single conclusion: George W. Bush was...

"Five months before the election, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris ordered the removal of 57,700 names from Florida’s voter rolls on grounds that they were felons. Voter rolls contain the names of all eligible, registered voters. If you’re not on the list, you don’t get to...

The United States is shouldering a greater debt burden today than it did during the Great Depression. This seems a no-brainer. Everyone didn't have their hands out in the 1930's, more people lived on farms, Johnson's Great Society was a socialist dream, etc. The U.S. military was very small...

BTW trying to having a debate with Walt M140 is about as entertaining as talking to a concrete wall :-) Are you -ever- going to apologize for saying that Martin Caidin fabricated the story of the B-17 that survived a head on collision with an FW-190? Should I post the serial number of that...

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message ... What's Caidin's track record? Mr. Gustin: His writing "never let the facts get in the way of a good story." He wrote a lot of books, always giving far more...

If U.S. Marines were really targeting civilians, or anybody else, there wouldn't be nearly as many wounded as this laughable article suggests. There would be a lot more dead, however. Walt

From the NYT: It's hard to imagine what the Pentagon was thinking when it told the American Army and Marine replacement divisions bound for Iraq earlier this year to leave their tanks and other heavily armored vehicles behind. American military planners seem to have ignored evidence that armed...

2 Democrats: Bush Let Guard Down Gore Surrogates Revive Issue of Apparent Laxity in Candidate's Military Service By George Lardner Jr. and Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, November 3, 2000; Page A22 Two high-profile surrogates for Vice President Gore, in an 11th-hour attempt...

"TALLAHASSEE =B7 The head of Florida's elections division resigned = Monday=20 amid reports he was feeling political heat over a push to purge=20 thousands of suspected felons from the state's voter...

"DELAND, Fla., Nov. 11 - Something very strange happened on election night to Deborah Tannenbaum, a Democratic Party official in Volusia County. At 10 p.m., she called the county elections department and learned that Al Gore was leading George W. Bush 83,000 votes to 62,000. But when she checked...

BUSH SERVED HONORABLY AND HE'S GOT THE MEDALS TO PROVE IT __________________ At least one picture exists that shows Bush wearing ribbons that don't appear on his discharge. Walt