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54 Lincoln Futura – 1965 Batmobile

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Blue Angels at Takeoff

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Mid-America Truck Show!

Posted on March 27, 2025 by James| Leave a comment

2025 Mid-America Trucking Show

MARCH 27-29, 2025

Louisville, KY at the Kentucky Exposition Center

Official Site

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This Warship Sank in Minutes

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Mid-America Truck Show!

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2025 Mid-America Trucking Show

MARCH 27-29, 2025

Louisville, KY at the Kentucky Exposition Center

Official Site

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Mid-America Truck Show!

Posted on March 13, 2025 by James| Leave a comment

2025 Mid-America Trucking Show

MARCH 27-29, 2025

Louisville, KY at the Kentucky Exposition Center

Official Site

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You Don’t See This Everyday (Toronto Plane Crash)

Posted on February 17, 2025 by James| Comments Off

A Delta Air Lines jet attempting to land at Toronto Pearson Airport amid strong winds and drifting snow crashed and flipped over on the tarmac on Monday afternoon, finally coming to a rest with its belly up and with at least one wing shorn off.

Despite the crash landing, all 80 people aboard Flight 4819 from Minneapolis were evacuated.

Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which acquired the CRJ aircraft program from Bombardier in 2020, said it would cooperate with authorities investigating the crash. A spokeswoman for Mitsubishi Heavy in Tokyo said the company’s office in Canada was working to quickly confirm information about the crash. Mitsubishi Heavy has not taken steps to ground other Bombardier CRJ900 planes, she said.

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In Remembrance – Space Shuttle Columbia & Crew

Posted on February 1, 2025 by James| Comments Off

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the accident. On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during re-entry on its 28th mission; all seven crew members aboard perished.

Columbia Launch STS-107 — Columbia launches on its final mission, STS-107.

Columbia STS-107 Crew — The crew of STS-107. L to R: Brown, Husband, Clark, Chawla, Anderson, McCool, Ramon.

Wikipedia Link

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In Remembrance – Space Shuttle Challenger & Crew

Posted on January 28, 2025 by James| Comments Off

On January 28, 1986 at 11:39 EST, the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds into its flight after an O-ring seal in its right solid rocket booster (SRB) failed at liftoff. All seven astronauts on board were lost.

Challenger STS-51 at Launch — Challenger launches on its final mission, STS-51.

Challenger STS-51 Crew — The crew of STS-51. Front row, from left to right: Smith, Scobee, and McNair. Back row, from left to right: Onizuka, McAuliffe, Jarvis, and Resnik.

Challenger STS-51 Mission Patch — STS-51 mission patch.

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Refueling

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Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over Scotland

Posted on December 21, 2024 by James| Comments Off

On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York explodes in midair over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members aboard, as well as 11 Lockerbie residents on the ground. A bomb hidden inside an audio cassette player detonated in the cargo area when the plane was at an altitude of 31,000 feet. The disaster, which became the subject of Britain’s largest criminal investigation, was believed to be an attack against the United States. One hundred eighty nine of the victims were American.

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Bigfoot Christmas Lights

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Amphibious Cars Cruise Amsterdam Canals Before Emissions Ban

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The new B-52 Engines will change the Aviation Industry

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Canadian Pacific Holiday Train

Posted on November 7, 2024 by James| Comments Off

From Wikipedia:

Starting in 1999, CP runs a Holiday Train along its main line during the months of November and December. The Holiday Train celebrates the holiday season and collects donations for community food banks and hunger issues. The Holiday Train also provides publicity for CP and a few of its customers. Each train has a box car stage for entertainers who are travelling along with the train.

The train is a freight train, but also pulls vintage passenger cars which are used as lodging/transportation for the crew and entertainers. Only entertainers and CP employees are allowed to board the train aside from a coach car that takes employees and their families from one stop to the next. All donations collected in a community remain in that community for distribution.

There are two Holiday Trains that cover 150 stops in Canada and the United States Northeast and Midwest. Each train is roughly 1,000 feet (300 m) in length with brightly decorated railway cars, including a modified box car that has been turned into a travelling stage for performers. They are each decorated with hundred of thousands of LED Christmas lights. In 2013 to celebrate the program’s 15th year, three signature events were held in Hamilton, Ontario, Calgary, Alberta, and Cottage Grove, Minnesota, to further raise awareness for hunger issues.

The 2024 CPKC Holiday Train will tour Canada and the U.S. Nov. 21 through Dec. 20, raising money, food and awareness to support food banks across our network. Professional musicians play free concerts from the brightly decorated train’s stage. CPKC donates to the local food bank at each stop and encourages all attendees to make a monetary or heart-healthy food donation.

Since its inaugural journey in 1999, the CPKC Holiday Train has raised more than $24.3 million and collected approximately 5.3 million pounds of food for community food banks in Canada and the U.S.

Link

2024 Canadian Schedule
2024 American Schedule

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Lamborghini Countach turns 50!

Posted on October 20, 2024 by James| Comments Off

From Jalopnik:

From 1974 until 1990, Lamborghini built the iconic Countach at its factory in Sant’Agata Bolognese, Italy. During that time, it assembled almost 2,000 examples of the famed supercar, which was powered by a roaring V12 and came with styling so sharp it put almost everything else on the market to shame.

Making a Cruise Liner BIGGER!

Posted on October 16, 2024 by James| Comments Off

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Anniversary of Yeager Breaking the Sound Barrier

Posted on October 14, 2024 by James| Comments Off

U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound.

Yeager, born in Myra, West Virginia, in 1923, was a combat fighter during World War II and flew 64 missions over Europe. He shot down 13 German planes and was himself shot down over France, but he escaped capture with the assistance of the French Underground. After the war, he was among several volunteers chosen to test-fly the experimental X-1 rocket plane, built by the Bell Aircraft Company to explore the possibility of supersonic flight.

For years, many aviators believed that man was not meant to fly faster than the speed of sound, theorizing that transonic drag rise would tear any aircraft apart. All that changed on October 14, 1947, when Yeager flew the X-1 over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California. The X-1 was lifted to an altitude of 25,000 feet by a B-29 aircraft and then released through the bomb bay, rocketing to 40,000 feet and exceeding 662 miles per hour (the sound barrier at that altitude). The rocket plane, nicknamed “Glamorous Glennis,” was designed with thin, unswept wings and a streamlined fuselage modeled after a .50-caliber bullet.

Because of the secrecy of the project, Bell and Yeager’s achievement was not announced until June 1948. Yeager continued to serve as a test pilot, and in 1953 he flew 1,650 miles per hour in an X-1A rocket plane. He retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1975 with the rank of brigadier general.

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