Absoultely right, but for the P40 that only worked if they had altitude on the Zero at the beginning of the fight. For the Hellcat when it was introduced success came from taking the fight into the vertical. Good point though.
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That’s a retrospective view. When the Zero entered service in China in 1940 Claire Chenault and the Flying Tigers could only come up with one effective tactic to counter it with a P40, which was to straight at it head on guns blazing and assume that the heavier weight of fire from the Curtis would destroy the Zero…
Black walnut ice cream. Oh wait, they want to fix the Nissan?
Fair enough, and yes I didn’t say good. She does decent research and is mostly factually accurate. Her style and flow are generally good, but she cranks out the posts so it can get formulaic. Still she doesn’t bug me. Now Erin Marquis is flippin’ horrifying, but she runs the place so what can you do. It is all about…
Your opinion. I think she does OK in general.
Have to say that I think your high dudgeon concerning Elizabeth’s piece is a little over the top, but that is a far less acerbic explanation for the difference between tub and pipe than I would have written so maybe it all balances out.
When I was 7, my mom got hit by a Datsun that must have been going 70 in a 35 zone. Damn near killed me, and I had the worst concussion of my life. The woman claimed that my mother had run a stop sign, and the cop refused the testimony of the man who was behind the Datsun who stated that she was driving well in excess…
For me it was my father’s ‘91 350SDL. At 14K miles it threw its accessory belt. When I looked at it the reason was obvious, they had taken an engine designed for multi-belts and put a single belt on it because other manufacturers were doing that, but instead of reengineering it properly they just extended the pulley…
Too embarrassing.
I am working up to buying a new car, and I would really like to get an MB. I have had a 1972 sedan since the early nineties, and I love the brand. Every time I look at one, it is just more wrong than right. My wife has a 2015 E Class Wagon. It has had a number of problems over its 45,000 miles so far, the most odd of…
These represent the nadir of MB quality. They didn’t run when new presenting every form of dash warning light known to mechanic or man. The electrical systems were a horror show, and the mechanicals worked, but were weezy and slow to shift. Not a fun car to own at any price IMHO.
THE POINT ISN’T THAT PEOPLE WOULDN’T KNOW WHO THEY WERE!!! The point is that it is fun to watch all the jumps edited together ... you know, for fun? Elaboration is often used to make something more colorful not for informational purposes. It was just supposed to be fun. Why are people so freaking defensive,…
I used to believe, “Hey it’s a car. It lives out doors at 100 MPH. What can happen to it at a car show?” Then some smacked ass broke the glove box door off my ‘72 Mercedes because I guess he wanted to see who owned it? I don’t know, but that was why I locked it. Took me a while to find another latch to put into the…
Because it was fun ... seriously?
Doesn’t make it any less entertaining to watch.
Yeah, I know. Also wondering if that Tesla survived with its battery packs in tact. He got some serious air.
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Sure. It was a rental about fifteen years ago. Should I really remember the specs? Actually looking at the date, 14 years to almost the day since I picked that car up at the rental.
For our honeymoon my lovely fiancee soon to be wife booked a first class tour of the South of France for us. A memory I still cherish since I seldom go on holidays since, but neither here nor there. A good portion of this trip would be driving from Avignon to St. Paul-de-Vence in a rental car. She had only one…
Very nice write up on Denise.