monkeylizard

I went down a year ago just for a road trip and to pick up some ammo and clips. The pickings were pretty slim on their racks. Definitely call before going down to see if the grade you're looking for is on the racks.

All Regals have always been posted, but it was a tiny quarter-sized gun buster on their rules page posted by each door. They have recently added their much larger (8x8 ish?) gunbusters at all locations.

There's no checkpoint when entering the parking lot. The museum has a fence around it to separate it from the secure area of WPAFB, but it's still part of WPAFB.

Looks like the Uber called for a Lyft.

That's an awesome way to disguise replaced body panels.

Make sure you're eligible to buy from them and that you take all necessary paperwork. http://thecmp.org/cmp_sales/rifle_sales/eligibility-requirements/

Yeah, I know about DA triggers are similar to revolvers, but Bud said his mom currently has a Kahr PM9 which is a striker-fired handgun with a pretty light and smooth (albeit long) trigger. Good info about the finger placement on revolver triggers. I'll have Mrs. ML give that a try the next time I have my hands on a revolver.

They don't need spy planes any more. They just need to get the guys working at secret facilities a Facebook and Instagram account.

Don't forget about the (usually) much heavier trigger on a revolver than a semi. My wife can't pull the factory trigger on a 642 and keep it on target. She can barely pull the trigger on it at all. An LCR is about the same in her opinion.

Yep. The two M-21s were modified A-12s. I had the Cobra Night Raven. It was by far my favorite GI Joe toy. Good memories.

Thanks for the update. No worries here. I was just curious. For such an outstanding deal, I have no problem waiting.

I don't know if they ever armed the thing or not, but I know the CIA had the piggyback drone on a modified A-12. I think they may have had 1 successful test launch, but then the next one crashed the A-12, killing the LCO and ending that program. After that, the CIA launched those drones a few times from B-52 wing pylons before tossing them in the AMARC bone yard in Tucson.

I build a pretend team to battle my friends' pretend teams. Am I playing Pokemon Go! or Fantasy Football? Then there's this:

Anyone receive theirs yet? Mine still show as on backorder with a 7/21 ship date. Today is 7/25. I'm not in a big hurry, just wondering if I'm in the norm or an outlier.

Don't know if it's true or not, but I remember being told way back when (perhaps by an SR pilot, perhaps by someone full of crap, I just can't remember) that if she was going full speed eastbound from Key West, FL and started to turn left, she'd come on shore again somewhere around Cape Hatteras, NC.

We couldn't touch it, but we were no more than 10 feet from it. Definitely one of the best field trips I ever had. Thinking back on it, growing up as a military kid had it's down sides, but it had some pretty amazing things too. Flying in a KC-135 to watch refueling operations, up close and personal with the Habu, touring the USS Wasp, flying an actual F-15 simulator, and getting a personal tour (just me and my dad) by the XO and the Chief of a nuclear attack submarine are pretty awesome experiences. Few people ever get to do any of those things, much less all of them.

Me too. I remember what felt like every building on the whole base shaking and you knew it was the SR taking off so you stopped what you were doing and ran outside to watch. We had an F-15 pilot who lived next door and even he'd come out in his yard to watch it. Night launches were especially memorable watching the afterburners slowly go from 2 dots to 1 then to none, but you could still hear it even after you couldn't see it. A 2nd or 3rd grade field trip was over to the hangar to get up close and personal with it, the pilots, and their gear. Got to put on one of their "space helmets" and eat peaches out of a tube. I remember big pans on the floor of the hangar (like sheet cake pans, but bigger) to catch fuel that dripped out of the expansion joints. Once it got up to speed, the skin got hot enough to expand and stop dripping.

FIFY!

That might be a bit generous on the A-12's range. I've seen numbers as low as 2500 miles unrefueld. It did fly higher and faster because it was considerably lighter with only 1 crew and a smaller payload. That's what ultimately killed it in favor of the SR-71 which could carry more cameras including side-looking cameras. It didn't have to penetrate enemy airspace to do its spying, but the A-12 usually did as it was designed like the U-2 as an overflight aircraft. Budgets just didn't allow both to be performing such similar missions when the SR-71 could do it at a safer distance and had longer range. But the A-12 has some serious cool cred since it was based out of Groom Lake, remained secret for 13 years after it was shut down (the SR was basically public from day 1) and CIA spooks are the only people ever to fly in them. Various dignitaries (including Congresscritters) were given rides in the SR-71. Maybe the congressional cooties is what finally killed it. I don't think penicillin will take care of that. In the end, both were amazing aircraft.

That's an A-12

This x 1000.....literally. Amazon currently has 7 used starting at $800 and 1 new for $1,999.95 I don't understand why the publisher hasn't done another run of this book. It's clear there's demand for it. ETA: I found a place selling them (not the Limited Edition ones) for $250 if anyone wants one. http://galleryoneimages.com/Hangar/product_info.php?products_id=51