Bock's Car and part of Enola Gay ( Paul's mother's name) are on display at the Dayton Air museum. My wife and I used to trek to Dayton every year for a long...
Hello Group; Thanks for the suggestions. I am a pistol/rifle shooter and yes, I have extra range bags. I agree that they work for casual carrying around, ...
In a message dated 11/1/2007 1:10:53 PM Central Standard Time, jean-claude@... writes: I'm looking for a hard case because I want something shock proof...
Tibbets commanded the 509th Composite Group of B-29 Superfortress bombers. American forces had captured the Pacific island of Tinian from the Japanese. Tinian...
Most all of the caves here in NM are dry. But guys would also use ammo cans to haul their cameras around. Surveying the caves with tape and clinometer was...
Dry caves.Grrrrr......caught a bad case of pneumonia from one of them a few decades back. Too much bat guano in the air probably. "Surveying the caves with...
Hasn't the Enola Gay been recently restored? The B-29 was for the longest time one of my favorite aircraft. The huge canopy around the bombadiers station...
http://www.nasm.si.edu/museum/garber/enola/enola.htm BTW, I have seen a couple of interviews of Col. Tibbets on the History Channel. I would imagine that they...
I think that is correct. For a long time all there was at Dayton Wright-Patterson was a piece of the nose with the name on it. The whole restored plane seems...
Hi Steve, Welcome to the group. There is at least one UK member - me, but I'm sure there are more. From the email I'd guess you are also a radio amateur or...
I just came acoss a real neat website that has a collection of old articles from old Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, and Mecanix Illustrated for the 1920's...
Scintillators have a very small output pulse compared to GM tubes, therefore to use a scintillator on a Geiger Counter like the LENi series, or any other one...
Well it looks like I will be throwing my feble little amp side. If you start making these let me know how much. My problem is keeping all the TTL cought up to...
I feel obligated to point out that the trinity test was to verify if a plutonium weapon would work. They didn't even bother testing the Uranium weapon (gun...
On the nose: Trinity was a plutonium bomb. I just had a day surgery and I'm up to my eyeballs on dope. I'm lucky I got the Roman numeral for World War II...
A bit off topic but if you have Flight sim 2004, you can fly the Enola Gay with this add-on. It is certainly not for the timid! These planes had only ...
Ralph, got a B-36 in there? Geo ... From: Ralph Pagan To: GeigerCounterEnthusiasts@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 3:40 AM Subject: Re:...
BOCKSCAR was used for the second drop. As far as radiation exposure, I always found it curious that ALL the pictures from the photo-plane never turned out! The...
At the State Fair Park here in Oklahoma City there is a B-36 as well as a B-52. What has astonished me is how fast we went from the B-29 to the B-52. If we...
... when "The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bomb" by Robert Serber leapt out at me. ... DIY instructions on how to build a...
... have ... I agree that the rnage bag is not the best thing for protection. When I take it out in my Jeep to the real boondocks, I put it into a plastic...
... Hi Robert, Thanks for the welcome. Yes, I do the odd spot of shortwave listening and have a AR8200, DX394 and other assorted receivers. As for the Geiger...
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