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Re: US's First Jet Flight
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:47 pm
by Truman
Good guys were playin' catch-up. Damn Krauts began test flights in '39, and had an operational fighter (Me 262) in their inventory by mid-1944. Fortunately, we solved the nuclear puzzle before they did....
Re: US's First Jet Flight
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:07 pm
by Goober McTuber
Truman, you familiar with this site?
http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/
Re: US's First Jet Flight
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:12 pm
by Van
Truman wrote:Good guys were playin' catch-up. Damn Krauts began test flights in '39, and had an operational fighter (Me 262) in their inventory by mid-1944. Fortunately, we solved the nuclear puzzle before they did....
No doubt! - J. Robert Oppenheimer, Noted Native American Physicist
Re: US's First Jet Flight
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:23 pm
by Dinsdale
Van wrote:J. Robert Oppenheimer, Noted Native American
I don't think that term means what you think it means.
Otherwise, it wouldn't be called "Thanksgiving," it would be called "Passover."
Glad I could help.
Re: US's First Jet Flight
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:24 pm
by MgoBlue-LightSpecial
Yes, we know how fascinated you SECers are with the concept of air travel.
Re: US's First Jet Flight
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:25 pm
by Truman
Sorry, Van, but the Slow Kid here missed the sarcasm. I'm from the Ozarks, so please type slow so I can keep up.
Pretty sweet site, Goobs....
Re: US's First Jet Flight
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:28 pm
by Van
I'll let Dins handle it. With each swing-and-a-miss he creates a pleasant breeze.
Re: US's First Jet Flight
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:29 pm
by Dinsdale
Truman wrote:Sorry, Van, but the Slow Kid here missed the sarcasm.
I read it again, and still missed it.
Might not have been very good.
Re: US's First Jet Flight
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:31 pm
by Truman
You're not suggesting that Oppenheimer was born in Germany are you, Van?
Cue facepalms...
Re: US's First Jet Flight
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:34 pm
by Dinsdale
Truman wrote:You're not suggesting that Oppenheimer was born in Germany are you, Van?
Cue facepalms...
That's kind of what I got out of the "sarcasm," but I was going to give him the benefit of the doubt before the :D'OHfacepalms: were offered.
Re: US's First Jet Flight
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:38 pm
by Truman
Once saw a pic of a German Bomber-prototype designed for the blitz of New York City, but I'm pretty sure the Big Apple was solidly in American hands when Oppenheimer was born there in 1904, Van....
Got your Klink, Schulz, and Hogan pic handy, Dins?
Re: US's First Jet Flight
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:39 pm
by Van
Born in Germany? No. German surname?
Ja.
Jeez, what a buncha literalist curmudgeons.
Re: US's First Jet Flight
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:40 pm
by Dinsdale
Didn't even need to look up that Oppenheimer was from NYC (didn't know the year, though).
Hope Van's head doesn't explode when he finds out Oppy was a Kal guy.
Re: US's First Jet Flight
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:41 pm
by Truman
Van wrote:Born in Germany? No. German surname? Ja.
/s/
Half the Missouri White pages
Re: US's First Jet Flight
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:46 pm
by Van
Just one more Cal guy who never made it to a Rose Bowl.
Re: US's First Jet Flight
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:48 pm
by Dinsdale
Van wrote:Born in Germany? No. German surname? Ja.
I guess that makes him German then.
Sin,
Barack Hussein Obama
Re: US's First Jet Flight
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:56 pm
by Derron
Went and saw Red Tails yesterday afternoon. Good movie, some technical flaws as always, but great renderings of the B-17, P-40, P-51, and the ME 262.
And they even had the black officer fucking the Italian hottie until he augers in.
I have not been to a movie in years, so the ability to make these things is pretty cool.
Re: US's First Jet Flight
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:45 pm
by Smackie Chan
Re: US's First Jet Flight
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:38 pm
by Dan Vogel
Sudden Sam that was great. Thanks!
I have a miserable life and wish I were dead!