The Organ

AdamSmith · September 14, 2018

13 hours ago, RA1 said:

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Good luck with a generator. They have some well established problems. One being if not run on a regular basis they might not start or run when actually needed. Another being keeping and having enough clean fuel. Let me know how it works out for you.

Best regards,

RA1

Any product named 'Cummins Onan' can be trusted innately, one would think. ^_^

One would of course observe the proper regularly scheduled startup/testing procedures, and keep the fuel supply in-date.

Erectile dysfunction in the emergency generator is a thing to be avoided at all cost.

AdamSmith · September 14, 2018

AdamSmith · September 14, 2018

Here a more 'traditional' reading of the same piece, very good both technically and aesthetically. Top-line rendition of how this piece is generally interpreted & performed. And with considerably very good individuality of interpretation as well.

But the blonde kid I think brings a subtly but truly new understanding of the piece, that seems quite extraordinary to me.

Whose old ears are not used to getting truly new views on Bach, this many centuries afterward.

AdamSmith · September 14, 2018

RA1 · September 14, 2018

Fifi has made numerous tours over the years offering rides for a few hundred dollars per passenger. It really is as complicated as it seems in the video. Bob Wilson, owner of Wilson Air Center in Memphis, is the guy in the nose in the blue shirt taking cell phone pix.

Amazing aircraft. Thanks for the video.

Best regards,

RA1

AdamSmith · September 15, 2018

10 hours ago, RA1 said:

It really is as complicated as it seems in the video.

Grateful for the background.

All the various books about the Bomb have noted how capable yet temperamental was that craft. In the A-bomb practice flights from Tinian, there would routinely be like almost one crash a week from an inattentive flight engineer failing to prevent the magnetos from drifting slightly out of phase during takeoff roll & early ascent.

Thus Tibbets's choice of one very expert Wyatt Duzenbery for that post on the Hiroshima run.

Very nice book on the whole shebang (so to speak) from Tibbets's viewpoint...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116231.Enola_Gay

RA1 · September 15, 2018

As is recorded there was a lot of controversy about this aircraft and its possible display. I consider this an earlier example of political correctness gone awry. Currently the entire aircraft is on display at Dulles Field in the Udvar-Hazy museum.

Around 1977 I had occasion to go to the aviation celebration held every year at Oshkosh, WI. During one show I saw a B-29 drop a replica of the A-bomb complete with mini-mushroom cloud. The Japanese complained bitterly and this show was cancelled. I suppose in addition to denying the Holocaust we shall soon decide the Japanese were not the aggressors in WWII.

Best regards,

RA1

MsGuy · September 15, 2018

When Japanese nationalists deny the existence of 'comfort women' camps or, if somehow a few existed, they we staffed with volunteers or, what the hell, the bitches were only Koreans, man, who gives a shit, well then I kinda react pretty much the same as you just did, RA1. Same for when they defend the vicious way the Imperial Army conducted the war in China. Same when they try to tell me the Officers in charge of the Bataan death march ( and all the other atrocities against Allied prisoners of war) were honorable men doing a difficult job.

But when folks up at Oshkosh decided to celebrate the incineration of several hundred thousand Japanese civilians with a Disney style entertainment spectacular, I can see where even the best intentioned Japanese might get a little bent out of shape. "Complete with mini-mushroom cloud" !

Really, you don't see that?

RA1 · September 16, 2018

1 hour ago, MsGuy said:

When Japanese nationalists deny the existence of 'comfort women' camps or, if somehow a few existed, they we staffed with volunteers or, what the hell, the bitches were only Koreans, man, who gives a shit, well then I kinda react pretty much the same as you just did, RA1. Same for when they defend the vicious way the Imperial Army conducted the war in China. Same when they try to tell me the Officers in charge of the Bataan death march ( and all the other atrocities against Allied prisoners of war) were honorable men doing a difficult job.

But when folks up at Oshkosh decided to celebrate the incineration of several hundred thousand Japanese civilians with a Disney style entertainment spectacular, I can see where even the best intentioned Japanese might get a little bent out of shape. "Complete with mini-mushroom cloud" !

Really, you don't see that?

They were celebrating the technical accomplishments of a amazing aircraft during its most famous flight. There are always at least two sides to every issue. You stated one and I stated another.

Best regards,

RA1

MsGuy · September 16, 2018

Image result for nuke gif

Aviation enthusiasts admiring the amazing technical specifications of the B-29.

:rolleyes: :lol: :lol: :cheer:

Japanese guests were afforded an unparaelled view from a special viewing stand (center distance).

AdamSmith · September 16, 2018

1 hour ago, RA1 said:

They were celebrating the technical accomplishments of a amazing aircraft during its most famous flight. There are always at least two sides to every issue. You stated one and I stated another.

Best regards,

RA1

I, a crazy unabashed unashamed Liberal, agree 1000% with @RA1 on this point.

If the Japanese did not want military resistance, they ought not have aggressed.

You do know, our dear @MsGuy, that they started their own very committed A-bomb research program, with full intent to use in combat. But were stymied by the slightly inconvenient fact of no access to uranium ores.

Where is to be located the comparative moralism you imply?