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Mid-America Truck Show!

Posted on March 14, 2024 by James| Comments Off on Mid-America Truck Show!

2024 Mid-America Trucking Show

MARCH 21-23, 2024

Louisville, KY at the Kentucky Exposition Center

Mid-America Truck Show

Official Site

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Stylin’

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Mid-America Truck Show!

Posted on March 7, 2024 by James| Comments Off on Mid-America Truck Show!

2024 Mid-America Trucking Show

MARCH 21-23, 2024

Louisville, KY at the Kentucky Exposition Center

Mid-America Truck Show

Official Site

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Wacky Racers at Goodwood Festival of Speed

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Khakis

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They Told Me It Wasn’t Loaded

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cAT-AT

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9 Months Later

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In Remembrance – Space Shuttle Columbia & Crew

Posted on February 1, 2024 by James| Comments Off on In Remembrance – Space Shuttle Columbia & Crew

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the accident. On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during re-entry on its 28th mission; all seven crew members aboard perished.

Columbia Launch STS-107
Columbia launches on its final mission, STS-107.
Columbia STS-107 Crew
The crew of STS-107. L to R: Brown, Husband, Clark, Chawla, Anderson, McCool, Ramon.
Columbia STS-107 Mission Patch
Columbia STS-107 Mission Patch.

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In Remembrance – Space Shuttle Challenger & Crew

Posted on January 28, 2024 by James| Comments Off on In Remembrance – Space Shuttle Challenger & Crew

On January 28, 1986 at 11:39 EST, the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds into its flight after an O-ring seal in its right solid rocket booster (SRB) failed at liftoff.  All seven astronauts on board were lost.

Challenger STS-51 at Launch
Challenger launches on its final mission, STS-51.
Challenger STS-51 Crew
The crew of STS-51. Front row, from left to right: Smith, Scobee, and McNair. Back row, from left to right: Onizuka, McAuliffe, Jarvis, and Resnik.
Challenger STS-51 Mission Patch
STS-51 mission patch.

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Boss Hoss

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Wile Train

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Alaska Airlines Solution

Posted on January 14, 2024 by James| Comments Off on Alaska Airlines Solution

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Two GOATs!

Posted on January 8, 2024 by James| Comments Off on Two GOATs!
John Force and Richard “The King” Petty

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CPK Holiday Train results!

Posted on January 6, 2024 by James| Comments Off on CPK Holiday Train results!

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Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over Scotland

Posted on December 21, 2023 by James| Comments Off on Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over Scotland

On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York explodes in midair over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members aboard, as well as 11 Lockerbie residents on the ground. A bomb hidden inside an audio cassette player detonated in the cargo area when the plane was at an altitude of 31,000 feet. The disaster, which became the subject of Britain’s largest criminal investigation, was believed to be an attack against the United States. One hundred eighty nine of the victims were American.

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Snow

Posted on December 17, 2023 by James| Comments Off on Snow

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Canadian Pacific Holiday Train

Posted on November 20, 2023 by James| Comments Off on Canadian Pacific Holiday Train

From Wikipedia:

Starting in 1999, CP runs a Holiday Train along its main line during the months of November and December. The Holiday Train celebrates the holiday season and collects donations for community food banks and hunger issues. The Holiday Train also provides publicity for CP and a few of its customers. Each train has a box car stage for entertainers who are travelling along with the train.

The train is a freight train, but also pulls vintage passenger cars which are used as lodging/transportation for the crew and entertainers. Only entertainers and CP employees are allowed to board the train aside from a coach car that takes employees and their families from one stop to the next. All donations collected in a community remain in that community for distribution.

There are two Holiday Trains that cover 150 stops in Canada and the United States Northeast and Midwest. Each train is roughly 1,000 feet (300 m) in length with brightly decorated railway cars, including a modified box car that has been turned into a travelling stage for performers. They are each decorated with hundred of thousands of LED Christmas lights. In 2013 to celebrate the program’s 15th year, three signature events were held in Hamilton, Ontario, Calgary, Alberta, and Cottage Grove, Minnesota, to further raise awareness for hunger issues.

The trains feature different entertainers each year; in 2016, one train featured Dallas Smith and the Odds, while the other featured Colin James and Kelly Prescott. After its 20th anniversary tour in 2018, which hosted Terri Clark, Sam Roberts Band, The Trews and Willy Porter, the tour reported to have raised more than CA$15.8 million and collected more than 4.5 million pounds (2,000 t) of food since 1999.

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2023 DeLorean

Posted on November 12, 2023 by James| Comments Off on 2023 DeLorean
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Anniversary of Yeager Breaking the Sound Barrier

Posted on October 14, 2023 by James| Comments Off on Anniversary of Yeager Breaking the Sound Barrier
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U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound.

Yeager, born in Myra, West Virginia, in 1923, was a combat fighter during World War II and flew 64 missions over Europe. He shot down 13 German planes and was himself shot down over France, but he escaped capture with the assistance of the French Underground. After the war, he was among several volunteers chosen to test-fly the experimental X-1 rocket plane, built by the Bell Aircraft Company to explore the possibility of supersonic flight.

For years, many aviators believed that man was not meant to fly faster than the speed of sound, theorizing that transonic drag rise would tear any aircraft apart. All that changed on October 14, 1947, when Yeager flew the X-1 over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California. The X-1 was lifted to an altitude of 25,000 feet by a B-29 aircraft and then released through the bomb bay, rocketing to 40,000 feet and exceeding 662 miles per hour (the sound barrier at that altitude). The rocket plane, nicknamed “Glamorous Glennis,” was designed with thin, unswept wings and a streamlined fuselage modeled after a .50-caliber bullet.

Because of the secrecy of the project, Bell and Yeager’s achievement was not announced until June 1948. Yeager continued to serve as a test pilot, and in 1953 he flew 1,650 miles per hour in an X-1A rocket plane. He retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1975 with the rank of brigadier general.

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