Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Ahhh, the bone yard. I used to live just down the road from this.
I drove by the DM boneyard twice today going to and coming home from church.

Neat place. They are planning on adding a military vehicle display hence the tank or two now making an appearance. At one point back in the '90s they had over 1500 F4s.

Fun factoid they recover $10 in spare parts for every dollar they spend running the yard. That is if you don't count the billions and billons spent making the aircraft in the first place.
 
GLARING historical inaccuracy spotted in the History Channel drama 'Vikings'.

King Aethelwulf's Anglo Saxon army vs. 'The Great Heathen Army' led by Ivar the Boneless. 800s AD. Those helmets worn by Aethelwulf's soldiers are pikemens' and musketeers' "pots". They would not come about until the mid-late 1600s. 19th century paintings of the Salem Witch Trials and the founding of Plymouth and Roanoke Colonies showed soldiers wearing these types of helmets, which evolved from the earlier comb morion to add a flared backpiece giving the wearer more protection around the sides of the face and the neck from rapier and saber blows. They were worn with a cuirass and ammunition bandolier for a matchlock or wheel lock arquebus. The helmets during Aethelwulf's time would only be either a conical helmet with a nasal guard and a mail coif, or just a plain rounded steel cap with or without the coif. How did this get by the editing teams?
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Fun factoid they recover $10 in spare parts for every dollar they spend running the yard. That is if you don't count the billions and billons spent making the aircraft in the first place.

It's like buying a house. You finance 500K, pay it off over 15 years and sell for 750K, so a profit of 250K...if you don't count the ~400K spent on insurance, property taxes, maintenance, upgrades....
 
GLARING historical inaccuracy spotted in the History Channel drama 'Vikings'.

King Aethelwulf's Anglo Saxon army vs. 'The Great Heathen Army' led by Ivar the Boneless. 800s AD. Those helmets worn by Aethelwulf's soldiers are pikemens' and musketeers' "pots". They would not come about until the mid-late 1600s. 19th century paintings of the Salem Witch Trials and the founding of Plymouth and Roanoke Colonies showed soldiers wearing these types of helmets, which evolved from the earlier comb morion to add a flared backpiece giving the wearer more protection around the sides of the face and the neck from rapier and saber blows. They were worn with a cuirass and ammunition bandolier for a matchlock or wheel lock arquebus. The helmets during Aethelwulf's time would only be either a conical helmet with a nasal guard and a mail coif, or just a plain rounded steel cap with or without the coif. How did this get by the editing teams?
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Perhaps Ivar was a time-traveler.