opps, you mean you didn't want me to forward that mail to him? I was only trying to be helpful honest.

You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

that's the one, IIRC only a handful of pilots ever flew it (including Brown by the way) and whilst fast was a pig to fly and had a tendency for the rear engine to overheat and either sever the rear controls or set off the explosives that were installed to blow off the tail (so the pilot could bail out)

You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

they were originally supposed to have both a supercharger and a turbo charger but when they built them they just couldn't fit the turbo with all the pipework it needed so it ended up with just the supercharger and it killed the mid to high altitude performance - exactly the zone the European air war was fought, so they dumped them on the Russians who found that anything was better than the i16's I doubt it was fun to crash any prop fighter, it would be difficult to choose between being squashed by a big engine and squashing into one either way it would leaver little to recover although there was that heinkel that had one in from and one behind the pilot so you got both versions

You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

The P63 was pretty much a different aircraft to the P39 Airacobra (as named by the Brits) other than the layout, few parts were common between the two, they basically took a P39 replaced the wings with a different airfoil section, put a bigger engine in with a different supercharger, replaced the tail, up rated the undercarriage lengthened and strengthened fuselage and redesigned the nose and the cockpit layout but the guns were the same as was the cab door to the cockpit! but after all that it was inferior to the other allied fighters available so was fobbed off on the russians ps you were right about the tricycle carrier landing as the one I was aware of is not actually classed as a tricycle

You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

not a p63 but a p39 - on an empty carrier (the crew wasn't expecting him and went for lunch) so no arrester gear was deployed but he still managed the landing not technically the first tricycle landing as one of the aircraft in ww1 was officially classed as a having one IIRC the US did try to beat his record but the pilot suffered a nervous breakdown before breaking 2000. seemingly Neil Armstrong wanted him for the moon landing but Brown refused to give up his British nationality

You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

computer literate Welshmen? is there such a thing?

You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

As I understand it his 2400+ landings is still the record, the closest is about 2000ish for a US pilot but that includes second seat and passenger landing whilst Brown is actual landings. his record also includes the first multi engine landing, the first angled flight desk landing and the first jet landing on a aircraft carrier (and being the chief test pilot for the rubber deck project which involved landing a p[lane without landing gear on a rubber deck de Havilland Sea Vampire Flexible Deck Landing - YouTube[^]) another point is that a large proportion of these were on pre angled deck carriers which meant that if you missed the wires you crashed big time and not just got to go round again as a modern navy pilot gets to do

You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Playing solitaire? is he any good at it? least it stops him looking over your shoulder

You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

I understand that there is a medical term for that NFN (Normal for Norfolk)[^]

You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

CMOT Dibbler's Rat on a stick

You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

yes it is you just have higher standards than some

You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Not so sure there is going to be a huge market for lab grown rat parts, especially as you get the whole thing so cheap

You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

you forgot Elvis piloting the planes on 9-11

You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

when are you eligible for parole?

You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

just tell people its base 8 (56 sounds better) congrats, but beware of the rest of us rolling headlong down the same hill

You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

They taught them everything they knew

You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

when MS copyrights that phrase (probably next Tuesday)

You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Well they needed somewhere to put all the ex VB developers when they ceased VB development

You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

just wait until they release each build individually

You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

that was in the next sprint release, as were defensive guns that worked against small ships and shields that stopped ships as well as rock (how they managed to build them so that they stopped huge rocks but allowed enemy ships though is beyond me, I think the outsourced software house "Yoda software" may have made a mess of the code) serves them right for using agile

You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.