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I scanned my slide and then re-sized the image to 1280 pixels wide. Forget how tall it is. Then I uploaded it to my album in Boat Design Gallery. From there I just copy the link and paste it in the forum.

 

Thanks I'll give it a go.

 

To view that image completely without scrolling in my browser (Explorer 8) I simply click the lower right hand corner where the zoom level control resides and select a smaller zoom, 75% in my case. Normally I select a larger one: 125% suits my age-limited eyesight and screen size but each to his own . . . whichever browser you are using the Help tool will tell you how to find and use the control.

 

I'm with you there, found that control a long time ago for the same reason. I'm going to have a go at this photo control thing over the next week and see if I can't conquer it once and for all. -- Tnx. Geo.

 

I've always liked the Arrow, and wish they had a chance to built more.

http://www.hannaherald.com/2012/09/18/no-to-jobs-and-innovation-yes-to-f-35


The article linked to above is filled with irony, and dares to compare the new F-35 to the 1950's Arrow. Makes an argument that the Arrow is still the better aircraft, especially in the Arctic.

http://ohdarkthreezero.blogspot.com/2012/08/myths-of-arrow.html

 

Why World Coal Consumption Keeps Rising; What Economists Missed
Posted on December 19, 2012
Why World Coal Consumption Keeps Rising; What Economists Missed | Our Finite World

 

Targeting the Human with Directed Energy Weapons
Dr. Reinhard Munzert
6. Sept. 2002
http://multistalkervictims.org/mcf/targeting-human-directed-energy-weapons.htm

 

One has to be very careful to publish data like this, without reference and comments.
The total consumption of China and the US turned out to be about the same.



by 1 million metric tons oil equivalent = 40.4 trillion Btus

But population in China is 4,3 times as high.
And the "modern" world has and still is driving China to what it is by bying there cheap workforce. And why should the chinese not beeing aloud to live in the same living quality as we are.

Just to put a grain of fairness to the thread.

 

China is an exporter...The US is an importer , end user.

This factor of US energy consumption and pollution is not shown in the figures

 

Aircraft are very difficult to compare, strange as it seems.
Generally the desires of the customer (military in this case) change so much that an aircraft not designed specifically for the intended mission will never have a chance.
The Arrow and others in the 60's (F102, F106) were primarily designed as interceptors. Wouldn't turn well, couldn't dogfight, and required huge runways. Typically minimal payload. Looks to me like the Arrow didn't have the F106 coke-bottle design (area ruled for greater supersonic capability). Probably did not have the speed or range of the F106. Designed to stop Russian bombers with nuke bombs from getting close.

Now we don't really intercept, just send out a missile beyond visual range and wait to see if anyone gets close. The dogfighting capability was why the F-16 was such a breakthru.

I'm sure the Arrow was a great aircraft for its time. So was the F-111 and they are gone.

 

Yes, even our bird houses in the back yard are big. I am not really a Texan but really a Cheese Head from Wisconsin. My dad's family traces back to the part of Massachusetts Colony that became the State of Maine. We moved to Texas when my dad went to work at NASA in the 60's to work with all them Canadian refugees from Avro who moved down here too. The bird house is for Black Bellied Whistling Ducks.

 

I agree, and the closest USSR compatible would have been the Mig-25 Foxbat another large interceptor which could not dog-fight. A 1958 Arrow verses a 1964 Foxbat, that would have been an interesting match-up.

http://worldbluefs2004.blogspot.com/2011/11/mig-25-foxbat.html

Translated by Google Chrome:

 

YF-23 Black Widow II
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/f-23.htm

 

Wisconsin, one of the few states i've never had the pleasure of visiting. That looks like a duck perched on that condo. Never knew ducks would nest in bird houses. Well if it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck it must be a bird
Texas Joke from a NELD. point of view. I grew up on a U.S.A.F. base in NFLD. and as such having mostly US friends we were familiar with interstate cultures and competition. The Texans always famed themselves on how fast and how big they built.(Mr. Moderator please forgive me just this one time as jokes on the forum are possibly frowned upon.)
Joke -- One evening just before sunset a local NFLD. Cabbie was driving a talkative(boasing) U.S. Texan Airforce Officer from the air base to do an inspection on the Pine Tree Radar site upon Table Mountain. In route they passed a large building that for some reason the officer had not seen before on his many inspection trips. So in competitive thinking he asked the old Newfoundland Cabbie --"And just how long did it take you Newfies to build that structure ?? The Old Cabbie took a fake double take at the building and replied -- Jasus Sir she weren't there when I passed by dis mornin.
Sorry Texans one of the few times we Newfoundlanders get to fire one back

 

The really weird thing is that these ducks do not quack. They sound more like a rubber ducky.
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/black-bellied_whistling-duck/sounds