[rmlew]

Saw a B-1 do its thing at an airshow about 10 years ago. Amazing sight. That thing must’ve scared the devil out of the Soviets.
Scared? Perhaps. They built 2 bombers on similar lines. The maritime strike Tupolev Tu-22M Backfire and the Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack. The Blackjack, or as some joke the Lancerski, is an indigenous design and not an enlarged Soviet knock off of the B-1A. If we believe the Soviets.

[UCANSEE2]

That’s because the B-1, and the Blackjack, are based on designs the Germans did a long time ago.

Every single design of aircraft, especially military, that we have today, that the Russians have, that everyone has, was based on the designs from the Germans between WWI and WWII.

When we occupied Germany, so the history books say, the scientists there were split up between the conquerors.

It’s where we got Werner Van Braun.

[DWar]

Nice “tagline’.

I always laugh when I read about the unfavorable rating of congress. Most people vote for their own incumbent over and over but want everyone elses sent packing. It’s not just the politicians who are hypocrites.

Washingtonians are unhappy about the direction of the country. Patty Murray is well known to be among the most ignorant of persons in the Senate who is a rubber stamp of administration policy. Yet she is reelected to her third term.

We’re doin’ the same thing over and over ...