Meplat

It's still, the concept of a razor wire topped fence around a supposed place of learning, with a metal detector and armed security at points of entry. I'm rubbed raw enough at that concept when I have to deal with jury duty.

Teachers and administration know who the troublemakers are, they are not doing anything because they are hamstrung. If you look at the history of the active shooters in school shootings, there were, more times than not, plenty of warning signs that were ignored. Besides. When I was in school,there was no way in hell I'd have made it through a metal detector in a timely manner. By my sophomore year I was almost full time Voc Ed, and doing all kinds of sidework.

We are getting -near- sheep. Having a situation where a parent or concerned citizen cannot observe what is being taught in school is Orwellian. We are damn close to that as it is. And I cannot claim that name for him. A friend back in Flagstaff came up with it.

I'll lay blame more on the media, than any direct actions of "The Mocha Messiah". If I had a kid, and their school enacted same, they'd be pulled out and home schooled the next day, and for as long as said school was enacting such idiocy. You do not get a citizen, by sending them to an armed camp to learn. You get sheep. There is a place for what you propose, and it's in the long neglected job of keeping troublemakers from getting into these schools in the first place (as well as changing how public school works).

It's not a trend, unless you mean the media fascination with all but glamorizing these people, and the usual gaggle of shitbird loudmouths looking to get their fifteen minutes on TV gabbing about it.

Actually, both homicide, and firearm related homicide are on a sharp and solid decline. You are just hearing about it more due to the easy dissemination of info, and lazy media playing into scumbag politicians and activitists looking to push an agenda. CDC figures to 2010

The backlash of such an event would result in the end of this nation. You would at minimum, see a fragmentation. Which I am beginning to believe is just what some folks in the government and media want.

Pre 1.37 shitshow. Pre all ground forces, pre crazy asshattery with the GE and researching. (For those not familiar with what happened at 1.37- Images related~) herp derp

ANY of them. No jets, prop driven and in production. End of '45 should have been the termination date. Anything past that, or before say, 1919, "play our other games!", instead it's more "How long can we get these idiots to chase the carrot to top tier?".

Yes.

To the first part, "yes.".. They completely ignored the post WW1-pre WW2 "golden era" adding only a handful of the really neat planes that managed to make it into WW2. To the second part, "I'm not even trying to get there.". They added crap like the M50 ONTOS and M59 Scorpion. And the fucking Sheridan. Come on.

Are you trying to make that sound like a "good" thing? I was annoyed when they wanted to add the '262's, and was very concerned when they added tanks. Now we have ATGM's, late F-86''s (for all) and it seems, the fucking CHALLENGER about to added to the sauce.

Both of my parents were teachers in public schools before getting work with the DOD. Basically "Every kid is a special snowflake, and YOU must be doing something wrong" was the attitude they had to deal with. Parents would treat school like daycare for their blossoming juvenile delinquents, or they'd be a pain to the administration because "Little Johnny is SPECIAL". Then you had nonsense like trying to integrate mentally handicapped/headcases with the bulk of people just trying to get through the day, coupled with absurdly huge class sizes, idiotic testing and the general assembly line attitude possessed by most school boards. Add to this pressure from interests like the fans of the school's teams, saying "You HAVE to pass this guy, so we can go to State!", special interest groups both wanting to influence what one taught, as well as being all but slathering to claim "racism" or "bigotry" if one dared disagree with them. And the icing, is the absurd amount of money spent on administrative pay, versus actually spending money on infrastructure and teaching supplies. Basic things like "making sure the heat is on and the pipes don't leak" or "that there is enough paper" get ignored so that the social services counselor can get a new office, or so the (insert favorite H.S. sports team) can have new uniforms or a custom bus.. Basically- It's a shit-show, built on the rotting foundation of an education system that was basically designed to create a semi-interchangeable employee for the then expanding industrial base. Now it's an inflexible, archaic mess of bureaucratic welfare and political payola that results in pissed off, poorly educated students, pissed off parents, pissed off teachers and a standard of education that is laughable.

Oh FFS. What next, fucking MiG 29's and F-15's?

Never let a tragedy go to waste.

It's not at all uncommon to find the same evidence of extensive hand fitting in WW2 German aircraft, that one finds in their armor. Lots of hand labelled switches, interior markings, and signs of "good enough" engineering. While in U.S. aircraft, you find standardized switches, control layouts, lighting equipment, etc across types and makers, with the level of fit and finish expected of a highly industrialized nation. Yeah, there is that whole "Oh but dere stuff wuz".. Frankly, a lot of their stuff was shit.

Okay, looks like all the German fighters usually had was pitch trim, nothing else. In contrast, most U.S. fighters had at minimum pitch and yaw trim, and usually three axis trim.

I know the 109 had pitch trim, it had a jackscrew adjustable horizontal stabilizer , adjusted by a trimwheel down on the floor. Rudder/roll trim IIRC was by just by ground adjustable tabs.

It's gotten into comparing apples and oranges,with a side shot of sheer lunacy. MB, drop the pop history nonsense.

The 1710 also had a much stouter lower end, and used a pent-roof head, so tended to breathe better than the Merlin and Griffon. It also has a really well thought out, modular valvetrain. Image related- 1710 sectional

It'll run, but you'll have a dead jug(s). On the other hand it takes a concerted effort to get the lash so far out on a Pratt to get the piston to hit the valves. As in you REALLY have to be special.

It looks busy, because IT IS. You are attributing all kinds of mechanical doom and gloom to to a series of aircraft engine that has a superb operational record, while dismissing the problems associated with the sleeve valve designs with a wave of the hand. Like "Oh, we need to change a cylinder assembly in a hurry, lest the wily Nipponese bomb our airstrip". Or why having two reciprocating assemblies in the cylinder of an internal combustion engine is a bad idea. "Bouncing around".. the days of atmospheric intake valves were long dead by the time the first 2800 left the line. They are STILL" bouncing around" while sleeve valve engines are at best, museum pieces. Huh, maybe the old 2800 (and other mere poppet valve radials) are not as bad as you're inferring.. But hey, don't mind me, I just used to work on them.

It defeats your earlier parroted nonsense about it being "simpler", for fuck's sake. Regular inspection is needed regardless, because there is no place to pull over. Fuck it, here- I present to the jury, a cutaway of the supposedly "simpler" sleeve valve engine. https://i.imgur.com/LxvuThc.jpg And here is the timing gear for a 2800. https://i.imgur.com/iVm2ocL.jpg And to further illustrate the level of "gears for gear's sake" involved with the two row sleeve valve radial, here is a cutaway of a Wright turbocompound. Note that even it's construction is simple, compared to the Bristol offering. https://i.imgur.com/O03ByZW.jpg Sleeve valve radial aircraft engines are hard evidence of "TANSTAAFL" in operation. You may have some very pretty looking jugs, but your belly is a watchmaker's wet dream.

Ah hahaha! a magazine article that reads like a sales brochure!? You HAVE to be fucking kidding me. I may as well post a cigarette ad from the 40's saying how great Lucky Strikes are for my lungs. Again, you don't know what the hell you're talking about. You have a huge fucking battery of gears to keep a two row sleeve jug engine timed properly, if just one is put in wrong, that jug is out of time, all you have for an "inferior" 2800 is two cam discs and two gears. That's it. It's all but impossible to fuck up the valve timing . Go look at diagrams of the interiors of both engines, and you'll immediately see where you fucked up in believing a dual row sleeve valve engine is "simpler" because of some period spiel meant to sell engines. Now, fucking blown hoods were put on the Corsair and Mustang to increase rearward visibility past the fuselage structure. The '38 did not need it, because it already had excellent all around visibility. It had no aft fuselage to obstruct rearward visibility to begin with. Sticking a full bubble canopy on a '38 would have given at best a minor improvement in visibility, and no improvement in performance. For fuck's sake man, Use your goddamn head as something other than an ear spacer.

Take this for what you will, but you really are coming across as someone who has never seen the inside of the mills in question. You are getting a simpler looking top end, at the expense of a more complex cylinder, and a much more complex set of valve timing gears. Are you really going to claim that the sleeve valve radial "is better" because you don't like how busy the top end of most radial engine look? Please. That is patently ridiculous.