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Old 09-02-2020, 12:15 PM
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Monogram used to kit a parody airplane called the "Flap Jack" in their "Lights Action Sound" line.
It included U.S. Air FARCE decals.


Maybe you missed it but here is mine.

I thought gold would be appropriate.

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Old 09-02-2020, 07:54 PM
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The US Army has sponsored drag racing for decades, so it isn't a stretch. I believe it has sponsored cars in NASCAR too, but I don't watch it and I'm not sure. I like races with two wheels and both left and right turns.

Don Prudhome was my favorite top fuel/funny car guy back in the early 70's. When I got into it he was running a Vega funny car, which was the world's first 5 second 240 mph car. Now they regularly run 3 second 300+ mph times! At any rate, he was sponsored by Army after his Hot Wheels sponsorship with Tom McEwen. I built a couple 1/16 models of this beast.
My (slight) interest in cars has always been strictly utilitarian (to me, tires are landing gear...). I vaguely recall the Mustang funny cars, and the long, almost blade-like dragsters with huge back wheels and tiny, motorcycle-like spoked front wheels, that raced down straight drag strips.
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Old 09-03-2020, 09:15 AM
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The entire concept of USSF is just plain DUMB
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Old 09-04-2020, 11:50 AM
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I didn't realize Mr. Ley's book started out at such an early date.
While he didn't get to see Apollo 11, he was alive to witness the next best thing, Apollo 8.

I haven't read up on all the details of the USSF. I didn't know they planned on changing names of the bases. Cape Canaveral Space Force Station doesn't sound too bad now that I roll it around a little. Thanks for the info.


Still looking for McKinley Rocket Base... (Star Trek TOS "Gary Seven")... then of course there was "McKinley Station" where the Enterprise D was refit after its encounter with the Borg in "the Best of Both Worlds"... What was it with "McKinley"?? Neat connection there but I wonder what the backstory is...

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I didn't even know they had a race car; that whole concept seems...odd (it would be like NASA, JAXA, ESA, ISRO, or Roscosmos having a race car).


Roscosmos ain't got money to enter a used LADA... LOL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSk7QS2xfwg

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Old 09-04-2020, 03:29 PM
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The entire concept of USSF is just plain DUMB
We'll put you down as undecided, then...
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Old 09-04-2020, 03:41 PM
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Maybe you missed it but here is mine.

I thought gold would be appropriate.

Don’t get triggered, I’m not serious.


Nice! Have you fired up your Alps in awhile? Maybe it’ll work now after a nice rest...

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Old 09-04-2020, 03:43 PM
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Roscosmos ain't got money to enter a used LADA... LOL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSk7QS2xfwg

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I'd like to see 'em try a K.I.T.T.ski with a Moskovitch (like the East German "Trabbies" [Trabants], it might also come with a blue smokescreen generator as standard equipment [Trabbies used two-stroke engines]). :-) (The CIA collected jokes by the peoples of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc nations in order to help them gauge the "on the ground" attitudes of their peoples toward their governments and economic circumstances [and toward the Soviets] at any given time, and East Germans created many such jokes. There was even an entire sub-genre of jokes about the Trabbies [they could safely express dissatisfaction toward the powers-that-be by poking fun at those little Duroplast--resin-impregnated woven cotton or wool! <see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duroplast - this article mentions the Trabbie humor, too>--cars].)
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Old 09-04-2020, 03:57 PM
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Nice! Have you fired up your Alps in awhile? Maybe it’ll work now after a nice rest...

I'd be perfectly happy (knowing that his white-printing Alps decal printers are expensive, and difficult and/or expensive to maintain) if Sandman offered custom decals printed on Bare-Metal Foil's "EXPERTS-CHOICE" decal film (see: https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf...HYpLAhwQ4dUDCA0 ). They offer both clear and white decal film, which makes possible the printing of white (or white-containing) water-transfer decals. Not only could we individual space modelers purchase them from him, but the small model rocket companies could purchase suitably-sized runs of decals from him for their scale and sport kits, which would make it easier for them to create kits of old and new scale subjects (and in different scales [for the same subjects], too).
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Old 09-04-2020, 10:39 PM
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