One thing I just saw a news blurb on and remembered. Most people don't realize that several versions of the Saturn were tested in Huntsville ( and with no warning I might add - we lived five miles as the crow flies from the test area and all of sudden your house started shaking and you would hear the rocket motor in the distance). They then had to be shipped to the Cape and that involved a lot of barges and river transport. Dad always had a boat and we passed the transport barge on the Tennessee River a couple of times with various large sections of rockets.
Interesting article on how a dam lock failure caused lots of problems and shows some of the transport barges with components. Several versions of this story say 1961 but it seems odd that something in 1961 would affect 1969 launch. Plus I think it was the Saturn I which became the IB and was used for low earth orbit and not the Saturn V. Still it shows the challenges of getting a rocket to the Cape
https://www.waaytv.com/content/moon-landing-stories/How-a-Collapse-at-Wheeler-Dam-Almost-Delayed-the-Apollo-11-Launch-507425731.html
I have a recording from I think the 20th anniversary. Called something like Moonwalk as it Happened. It is basically a rebroadcast of one of the networks feeds. I think it also has the network feed of the launch
Should have stopped by and said "Hi". Dad grew up in Daytona and worked for Von Braun. We went down for the launch. I slept in the back yard of one of his cousins on the river by the Cape.. Still remember looking out the tent flap the night before and seeing the Saturn V lit up for all to see.
Nice and timeless watch. Can't go wrong with that era of Rolex sport models. I'm sure you know but don't screw with the tritium dial - part of the value is originality. If I ever get rid of my Sub from the same time period the GMT is on the list. The only thing I would change is a jubillee bracelet but that is one fine watch
No.. His Dad is Tracy Rocker who won Lombardi and Outland trophy as lineman at Auburn in 80's. His dad was as good a DT as I ever saw. Unfortunately he had bad knees so only played a few years in NFL. He is now coaching for Tennessee Titans
One or two thoughts. First is that if you were lucky enough to be landing at Utah then your chances were very good. Think only about 200 died there. They also landed in the wrong place but it turned out to be a very good place to be - few enemy soldiers. General Roosevelt (Teddy's son IIRC) was pretty clear - we will start the war from here and they did. Also the scateering of the paratroopers was helpful since the Germans could not figure out how many there were an spent a lot of time chasing very small groups. Finally - the output of America was absolutely on display here - the largest invasion ever followed up by a very similar invasion two weeks later on the other side of the world at Saipan. We had the resources to support two huge invasions back to back. Yamamoto was right to fear the American industrial capacity. It simply overwhelmed enemies on both sides of the world.
I just gave up on moving old folders over. If you export email from wlm and have a pop account you don't get folders. If you import them you
get the messages twice. Spent an hour or so and just recreated folders and moved stuff to them.
Battleground is very good. Kinda like an early Band of Brothers at Bastogne. Also I remember reading somewhere that they used actual artillery recordings of German shelling to make it sound right.
and separate from all the poor content - they and every other channel feels the need to toss a minimum of 15 minutes of commercials per hour. Screw that. A long time ago the FCC actually had a mandatory limit of something like 10 minutes per hour. Not anymore. Tough to watch anything (looking at you Discovery network) these days
I think I have posted this before but the term "suicide mission" is not overused here. They took off knowing they probably did not have enough fuel to make it to China because they had to take off 200 miles farther out than expected. Luckily they got a huge tailwind so most of them got there. Takes a lot of courage to do that take off pretty much knowing you will land somewhere in an ocean in enemy territory.
New sports models from an AD are VERY hard to find. At least that is all I read on some of the Rolex forums. Unfortunately I am not much help on newer Rolex sports models. I just don't like them for a variety of reasons. I am very old school with my tritium Sub from early 90's. I am not a fan of ceramic bezel inserts - if you smack then it's hundreds for a new one vs the metal one on mine. Plus I am not over endowed with a huge wrist and the newer cases are bigger. Finally I really only like a GMT on a jubilee bracelet. Like I said - old school
And nothing is working the way the how-to's say. I don't think my personal email is that complicated but it sure isn't working. Opened both
WLM and Outlook (had to create an acocunt to do this - called it AUinHSV). Exported email from WLM. I had two email account (called it A and B) Shows up fine except I know have
three inboxes - AUinHSV and 1 and 2. Erased and tried again - created two accounts in Outlook - A and B. Export created two more A and B under them.
At this point I am ready to forget migration and just create two new accounts. I used POP so it will download a few hundred emails and I can recreate the WLM folders.
Am I missing something here? In WLM I can have two independent accounts - it seems like Outlook has an umbrella account with these under it but even then it wants to
download all the emails to the parent account
may not be a popular opinion but I really can't like a watch with either the winding stem or the date at some obscure angle. I guess I'm old school and want them at 3:00.