Big Long Slidin' Thing by Dinah Washington

little things...

 The picture above depicts a Hawker Tempest of the RNZAF. Below is the cover of a biography of USAF  test pilot Frank Kendall "Pete" Everest at one time the fastest man alive in the Bell X-2 at 1,900mph.

The Tempest was derived from the Hawker Typhoon which upon introduction was found to have a violent and sometimes fatal elevator flutter that could not be corrected.

The Bell X-2 was a swept wing version of the earlier rocket plane X-1 which had several in-flight explosions with loss of life and aircraft.

It was found that a few extra ounces of lead on the internal mass balance cured the Typhoons flutter problems and in the X-1 a ver patient investigation showed it was a combination of extremely volatile fuels on seals made of leather and impregnated with organic substances.

Happy endings inboth cases and the rocket motor trials paved the way for a whole new generation of synthetic o rings and supersonic aircraft .

it has come to my notice that...

youf of today have rejected guitar music.

suck it up!

watch out for trolls on sm...

 seems to be more than a few people getting restriction notices on mugshot lately.

G news got three days 

bavmorda and her mates are using their govt paid for search engines looking for stuff they can complain about.

no robust discussion for them.

best to belong to a group and the admins can represent you and your group in mugshot court hehehehehe.

why do you miss when my baby says goodbye...

 

question: who is the best witch?

 

GOTA...

 hehehe.