On May 9, 5:41 am, "kirk.st...@gmail.com" <kirk.st...@gmail.com> wrote: Canopies didn't become common until just before WW2. And fighter pilots resisted them until forced to have them due to the speed of the new monoplane, retractable gear fighters - they hated the restrictions on visibility caused by the early (non-bubble) canopies! Well, except for the Russians and Italians, who
Hog wrote: I also expect KW class shocks are deeply unpleasant. You don't need that much in the case of extreme stupidity. I investigated such a case, some time ago: a yoof had been sparked quite badly, and his parents were all for going round to the cricket club where it happened with pitchforks and torches. The source of the problem was on the open verandah of the cricket pavilion
"El Kabong" <elkabong@northgoods.com> wrote in message news:90e20448-727e-4e8f-bad8-cf79f2fde2bb@f14g2000vbn.googlegroups.com... On May 29, 1:15 pm, El Kabong <elkab...@northgoods.com> wrote: On May 29, 3:29 am, "swiggy" <swiggy_my-pan...@comcast.net> wrote: "El Kabong" <elkab...@northgoods.com> wrote in message news:9aace94a-b0f4-496f-81f7-28667d78776d@c22g2000vbb
On Sun, 30 May 2010 23:23:22 -0600, RichTravsky <traRvEsky@hotmMOVEail.com> wrote: softsofa wrote: On Fri, 28 May 2010 23:37:58 -0600, RichTravsky <traRvEsky@hotmMOVEail.com> wrote: <>softsofa wrote: On Sun, 23 May 2010 00:38:49 -0400, Johnny Asia wrote: According to parts of the New York Times story on him Kane is, sadly, a very familiar
http://blog.dawn.com/2010/01/28/the-froth-of-khan/ The froth of Khan By Nadeem F. Paracha What can one say about Imran Khan? A great former cricketer, a compassionate philanthropist … a sorry excuse for a politician. But his continuing forays into bad politics and tactical blunders can be excused, for he is yet to understand that politics is not a game of cricket, and that the democratic