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James Tolsona retweeted
Jun 13
Big Boy 4014 entering the Scranton Area to meet up with its Brother 4012
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James Tolsona retweeted
Jun 13
The idea that this Big Boy was rotting in a parking lot in Pomona, CA for six decades until Union Pacific rebuilt every component to get it working again is actually awe inspiring.
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Jun 5
Greg did not like how this was going for him and turned off comments.
Jun 5
Funny how doing this in the UK can get you arrested if you offend hadji.
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Jun 3
Summertime in Alaska. Another year of Bighorn Airway's Dash 8s dropping BLM smokejumpers on wildland fires. The Alaska smokejumpers operate out of Ft Wainwright.
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Jun 1
In Alaska the US Senate election is between current Senator Dan Sullivan and DNC candidate Mary Peltola.
Peltola was previously in the US House, but lost her re-election due to a serious lack of activity and forgetting Alaskans. The DNC has raised megabucks to unseat Dan Sullivan but are worried Mary is not really that popular. To prove how worried they are, the DNC hired a dude named Dan Sullivan, to run against Dan Sullivan.
You read that right, they got a person with the same name to run in the hopes people are that dumb and Mary will then win.
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James Tolsona retweeted
May 31
Anyone who claims the lack of joy about the 250th is a function of a rough economy was not alive in 1976.
The country rocked in its 200th celebration and the economy was a FREAKING MESS.
There is this Gen Z misconception that the '70s and early '80s were some sort of economic golden age of readily available, well-paying jobs, low cost housing and an all around sense of prosperity.
WRONG.
Google "Stagflation." Google "gas lines." Google "mortgage interest rates in the 1980s."
Our economy today is a golden age by comparison, without exaggeration.
Yet somehow in 1976 we could gleefully celebrate our nation's birthday without Democrats turning it into a Howard Zinn-inspired anti-history hatefest.
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May 28
Why would he turn off replies?
I’m a straight white dude, a veteran who grew up in a military family on farms in the Midwest. Moved to Texas on a scholarship from the Army.
I drive a truck, listen to country music, and love football.
I dare anybody to call me UnAmerican, and I’m fully behind Talarico.
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May 27
The big excitement right now? A mama moose with calves being watched by wolves.
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May 27
Did you know the US Army was a big fan of DeHavilland of Canada's aircraft? When the DHC 2 Beaver came out in the late 1940s the US Army purchased 970. They were used in the Korean War and Vietnam.
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May 27
The next DHC design the Army picked up was the Dash 7. This time it was for a spy plane, the RC-7B. In use from the 1990s-2025.
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May 27
The Army decided to expand their spy plane fleet with the Dash 8 now made by Bombardier. The Army RO-6A was used for the Airborne Reconnaisance Low mission. 10 aircraft were used by 204th Military Intelligence BN. I say used because in 2022 the Army decided to move to a different platform.
The Army also purchased one Dash 8 for the Golden Knights parachute team to replace the Fokker Friendship they had.
USSOCOM has obtained modified airframes for mission support.
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