Mig 21 downs MIC darling...

[wdolson]

OK, cool it people. I'll lock this thread on the next attack.

If this behavior crops up anywhere else, please PM me and let me know, any contact with me will be kept confidential. I will bring up the perps to Matrix if necessary. The button to alert moderation does not work. I get a blank e-mail, but no information on where the problem is. I've been swamped with work stuff so I haven't been on top of things as much as I should have.

Bill

[Rusty1961]

ORIGINAL: Anachro

I think people need to cool it. There's been a bit of back and forth incendiary in this thread, partially due to built-up bad blood in past threads. Rather than spouting or responding to such incendiary, either stick to the thread topic and its merits/demerits or don't post at all. For both of you, I think that's the best course here.

It went south when Lokennsa made it personal. I wanted a civil discussion about the incident between India and Pakistan. He didn't like it and made it known he was going keep going on with his disdain for the thread.

[Anachro]

Just click the green button and it disappears.

[Rusty1961]

ORIGINAL: Anachro

Just click the green button and it disappears.

I can't find it. Is this how one blocks someone?

Any assistance would be appreciated.

[btd64]

Green button, lower left....GP

[Rusty1961]

Thanks guys.

[m10bob]

Back around 1966 or so, an Indiana ANG L 19 Bird Dog was approaching a runway at Stout Field in Indiana, and right at the end of the runway was a Little league park.
Sure as heck, the timing was just right and a kid swung his bat and the ball went out and hit the windscreen of the approaching plane.

It did not crash...but it did make the local papers.

'Jus' sayin'...

[Lokasenna]

ORIGINAL: m10bob

Back around 1966 or so, an Indiana ANG L 19 Bird Dog was approaching a runway at Stout Field in Indiana, and right at the end of the runway was a Little league park.
Sure as heck, the timing was just right and a kid swung his bat and the ball went out and hit the windscreen of the approaching plane.

It did not crash...but it did make the local papers.

'Jus' sayin'...

Assuming this actually happened, that's rather amusing. Got a link?

[Lokasenna]

ORIGINAL: Rusty1961

ORIGINAL: Anachro

I think people need to cool it. There's been a bit of back and forth incendiary in this thread, partially due to built-up bad blood in past threads. Rather than spouting or responding to such incendiary, either stick to the thread topic and its merits/demerits or don't post at all. For both of you, I think that's the best course here.

It went south when Lokennsa made it personal. I wanted a civil discussion about the incident between India and Pakistan. He didn't like it and made it known he was going keep going on with his disdain for the thread.

I'm sorry, but your thread title implies something entirely different - that the focus of the thread is on "the darling of the military-industrial complex", which is a completely loaded title. Which, assuming you learned how the green button works and decided that you'd rather bubble yourself off from any challenge or criticism of your posted positions, you'll never see because you've presumably buttoned me. Saying, essentially, "this nonsense again?" (while admittedly borderline rude) is not a personal attack. It's also a thread in the general subforum for WITP, where threads routinely veer wildly away from the original topic to anything even tangentially related or even completely unrelated joking between members of the community.


As for previous "bad blood", a few months ago I just helped this guy out with a movement question in another subforum. I'm honestly not even sure he realized that I was the one who'd posted what he even acknowledged was a helpful response to him.

As I previously stated, this is a community made up of all of us. As a member of the community, I am not going to remain silent in the face of browbeating and combatively-stated opinions with little in the way of fact backing them up, especially when such statements appear to be an attempt to ideologize the forum and turn it into an echo chamber that drives away opposing viewpoints. To not respond in as polite a fashion as possible, especially when we only have one (albeit very good) moderator, is to lose that battle by default.

[Jorge_Stanbury]

I really like the looks and story of the Mig-21

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-b ... ears-21180

I even purchased it in DCS (PC combat simulator game), I haven't used it though... too difficult to lean, landing speed is insanely too fast

[m10bob]

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

ORIGINAL: m10bob

Back around 1966 or so, an Indiana ANG L 19 Bird Dog was approaching a runway at Stout Field in Indiana, and right at the end of the runway was a Little league park.
Sure as heck, the timing was just right and a kid swung his bat and the ball went out and hit the windscreen of the approaching plane.

It did not crash...but it did make the local papers.

'Jus' sayin'...

Assuming this actually happened, that's rather amusing. Got a link?

I remember it from memory.. I was in the local CAP at the time and have always loved aviation..(Learned to fly in a WW2 vintage Piper J3 2 years later.
I just remember the story and at the time, I did verify it.
Of course, the plane was a prop so obviously the ball's trajectory HAD to be from a sideways angle to miss the prop, but nonetheless, it did crack the windscreen directly in front of the pilot.

(Somewhere here in the forum, I have provided a link to old airfields of the country and Stout Field in Indiana is one of them.
During the war, B-17's and P 51's were stationed there.

[Rusty1961]

ORIGINAL: Jorge_Stanbury

I really like the looks and story of the Mig-21

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-b ... ears-21180

I even purchased it in DCS (PC combat simulator game), I haven't used it though... too difficult to lean, landing speed is insanely too fast

Dollar for dollar one of the best jets produced and if it turns out to be true a '21 shot down a F16 than a '21 could shoot down a F35.