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  1. sandwarrior

    IDF Mauser M-66 SP

    The Nimrod will be collectors price, and I have no idea where that is right now. A good scope for it's day, it certainly isn't what you could buy on the open market for a lot less. But, open market rifles of today don't have the provenance of a 6X Nimrod.
  2. sandwarrior

    IDF Mauser M-66 SP

    The Nimrod 6X was on that rifle. Not that particular one necessarily, but the model 66. When you get time, we'd all LOVE to see that NDM-86. 😁😁 (my best pretty please faces)
  3. sandwarrior

    F class with my M40

    Exactly! Workin' hard for it. It's easy on nice days to sit there inside your 50X scope and watch mirage gently float by and adjust minimally. When weather is shitty, and it's basically taking a scope picture and thinking of it like a sight picture, that it gets tough. I always still look at...
  4. sandwarrior

    IDF Mauser M-66 SP

    I hadn't noticed in a coupla days, but you changed your avatar again... :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
  5. sandwarrior

    Hide Aviation

    This actually wasn't that bad of an accident. All five people on board, got out. Which means none of them were critical. Injured yes, but critical no. Too small of an LZ for ANY wind. Which, unfortunately, is quite common in that area. They operate regularly there and just didn't see it...
  6. sandwarrior

    F class with my M40

    I shoot F-Class and think it's awesome you guys took your 'historic' rifles out there and competed. Guys will shake their heads like you should've bought about $2000 more dollars of equipment to get there. The point is with some concentration you can get shots on at 600-1k yds. There is so...
  7. sandwarrior

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    What kind of speeds do you get out of these?
  8. sandwarrior

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    I lived in Sandpoint for most of five years. I gotta see them a lot. I toured the factory and got the impromptu tour of the maintenance side. The only guy I remember was Larry, the chief/chief test pilot. The aircraft concept is amazing. And, very well built!
  9. sandwarrior

    FN Mauser help

    I don't think they had "Browning" marked on them. It was kind of a deal like the Higgins or Western Field. Browning could turn these in America pretty easily without a lot of cost and set-up. Typical Browning though, they did provide GREAT QC while these were being manufactured. Husqvarna...
  10. sandwarrior

    FN Mauser help

    Could be a Browning Safari with the scope added on later. Style of the Buttstock say's German. Can you get pics of the scope removed?
  11. sandwarrior

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    Most all Navy used JP-5. While JP-4 gave better ignition/reignition qualities, it didn’t put out the power. The move to JP-8 was for better fire suppression in case of crash/fire on board. The fact it could cross over to diesel vehicles was nice, but it still ran hot in them. Kinda like...
  12. sandwarrior

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    I had to go look it up. JP-4 is 6.5 lbs. JP-5 is 6.7lbs. and JP-8 is 6.8LBs. That is per gallon. To my knowledge, all airlines are now using JP-8.
  13. sandwarrior

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    Yeah, that's almost a 4.6% savings. JP8? I want to say JP5 (pure jet fuel, JP4 has gasoline mixed in) was 6.9 lbs. per gallon. That is 115 gallons. I don't know what they pay for it anymore, but it's at least $200 per trip. In most any airline, those planes are turning 5 trips a day.
  14. sandwarrior

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    To me it's really interesting because you've flown both Bus and Boeing -37. On the maintenance side, I definitely preferred the Bus. Everything was laid out a lot better and of course with gear doors, life was clean when you had to do something up in the wheel wells. It looks dirty with that...
  15. sandwarrior

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    I'm going back more than ten years in my memory on this. I do not recall America West owning 321's. I never saw them in ORD anyways. US Air had a bunch of them. We got one every night. When they merged they all got the US Airways paint scheme. I came in right after the Merger as a 'West'...
  16. sandwarrior

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    The original Winglet like you showed above. Haven't seen one with the Scimitar Winglets.
  17. sandwarrior

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    The 318 and 319 are climbers. Newer 320's do pretty well. I worked on the launch V2500 A320's at US Airways which were originally America West birds. 620-637. They had the low power V2500's. Which weren't really low power at all, 25,500 lb. thrust. They did take weight hits coming out of...
  18. sandwarrior

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    I never worked on a 320 without sharklets. Didn't know they didn't have them to start with. I have seen the APB winglets (like 737) on the Airbus A320 family. I thought that was what you meant. I never worked on those. The 'gates' (fences?) may have been what was referred to when speaking...
  19. sandwarrior

    Hide Aviation

    I meant the sharklets not recovering energy. The winglets do.
  20. sandwarrior

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    Winglets? They save fuel. On normally blocked flights. When you get into catch up mode on daily flying they don't save fuel. Flying faster than designed means they're not going to save fuel. I never worked on this type of winglet. I worked on 1900D's, A320' and B737-600/700/800/900's that...
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