The F-51 (P-51) was used for ground attack in Korea. Early in the war the US had F-80 Shooting Stars and F-84 Thunderjets (from the people who brought you the P-47 Thunderbolts above). The US was also using F9F Panther jets and F2H Banshee jets off the aircraft carriers. The navy attack planes in Korea were piston powered Corsairs & Skyraiders (F4Us & AD-1s).
After the MiG15 showed up the F-86 Sabre Jets were brought over.
My first model was the F7U Crusader. It was an odd looking jet fighter from 1950 with two vertical tails. The design had great promise but the engines of the time failed to deliver. There were so many accidents that carrier captains would deploy with them and then order them “off their ship” as soon as there was a base close enough to fly them to.
I climbed all over one when I was very young (<5); it had a hard landing and was damaged. They pulled the engine and controls, washed it up and towed it out to a park for climbing on.
That’s why some people love living in Singapore, with its rules and laws covering almost every human activity….
And why a sweet golden retriever I used to sometimes dogsit would spend hours digging her way out of their back yard, by tunneling under the fence…
Only to run around for a few minutes, then come wait on the front porch to be let back in the house.
Those both have at least a little wear on them, and there are others, like the brown one pointed downwards, that seem about the same, and maybe one or two whose points we can’t see.
(The points appear to be at the L end, not the E and color name end.)
Very hard to distinguish a difference … And none look pristine enough to be absolutely new.
We’re asked to find “the” crayon…. The one tan crayon in the brown crayon cup seems a much more likely answer.
🙂 I know what they wanted, but I felt that those two looked “nice” and the rest seem more like abused ends. I always have to seek the overlooked angle (’tis my nature).
Dang! My parents didn’t seem to be in black and white, but my sister took a photography class, and her best picture of them was in black and white. Lots of love in that picture. I guess they didn’t have to see each other in color to still be in love.
Terrible corruption story behind it, but still worthwhile to share with friends who might have come from there. Could grow to the prominence of the Brazilian “Christ The Redeemer” statue. It may survive the corruption and emerge as a symbol to all who have transiotined and grown beyond their roots. There are many stories out there waiting to be discovered.
OK kids, it’s time to start your New year’s exercise resolution. This is from President Kennedy’s Council on Physical Fitness. Written by Burgess Meridith and sung by Robert Preston of “The Music Man” fame.
Just for variety, a New Year’s Day quiz from the New Zealand “Timaru Herald,”…
ANSWERS
…and for even more variety a New Zealand liquor advertisement.
New Zealand $1.00 = $0.81 Canadian
New Zealand $1.00 = £0.45 Pound Sterling
New Zealand $1.00 = €0.54 Euro
New Zealand $1.00 = $0.56 United States
Exchange rates from Google’s finance site.
Speight’s volume = 330 mls.
Long White = 320 mls.
Export Gold = 330 mls.
Double Brown = 330 mls.
Crimson Badger Ginger Bear = 330 mls.
the one posted above is supposed to animate
This one does!
That’s what I thought it did!
THERE’S my clock!
One of my favorite C&C animations ever….
It’s just not New Year’s without my clock!
I thought your fav was the hamburger maker
Not everything can
rise…. er… lower itself… to that standard..
I got my very own Teddy Bear for Christmas!
Cubby Bear?
Don’t try this at home!
,
…and we don’t have to wait in line on a snowy night to see it
Times Square after the 1947 blizzard.
,.
Maria, I just met a girl named Maria…
…and suddenly that name
will never be the same–to meeeeee…
Yay, I knew one (don’t ask me the actors).
Wish I’d realised earlier that I meant to post them last night, and never did.
Just in case anybody comes back….
Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer… I thought he was going to be a big star, but it didn’t happen.
P47 Thunderbolt
P51 Mustang
The “P” stands for pursuit.
,,,.
Very pretty.
If you save it you can use it in 2033.
You’re welcome.
Be careful when you cut it out. You might have to patch your screen.
Oh, NOW you tell me!
aan eagle’s talon
Give that bird a foot and he’ll take a mile…
They are not small. They look small next to a Steller’s Sea Eagle.
Even a Sharp Shin’s is huge when it’s wrapped around your thumb… (Took two of us to pry it off!)
,…
Is that what they use to cook real Southern Fried Chickerings?
Yes, of course…
In the Twilight Zone
In fact,
seems to be contemplating whether to pick up…
Mig15
So the good guys got props and the bad guys got jets?
During early Korea, for sure, and some in ‘Nam as I recall.
don’t know what you mean….we had jets in Korea and Vietnam…..props as well, but it wasn’t like they had the jets and we didn’t
for a while there in. 1945, that’s the way it was
The F-51 (P-51) was used for ground attack in Korea. Early in the war the US had F-80 Shooting Stars and F-84 Thunderjets (from the people who brought you the P-47 Thunderbolts above). The US was also using F9F Panther jets and F2H Banshee jets off the aircraft carriers. The navy attack planes in Korea were piston powered Corsairs & Skyraiders (F4Us & AD-1s).
After the MiG15 showed up the F-86 Sabre Jets were brought over.
I put together a plastic model of this airplane when it was still operational in the mid-fifties……been a fan of its’ looks ever since
I had a model of the ME262, plus other British and German WWII planes.
My first model was the F7U Crusader. It was an odd looking jet fighter from 1950 with two vertical tails. The design had great promise but the engines of the time failed to deliver. There were so many accidents that carrier captains would deploy with them and then order them “off their ship” as soon as there was a base close enough to fly them to.
I climbed all over one when I was very young (<5); it had a hard landing and was damaged. They pulled the engine and controls, washed it up and towed it out to a park for climbing on.
Freedom can be scary.
That’s why some people love living in Singapore, with its rules and laws covering almost every human activity….
And why a sweet golden retriever I used to sometimes dogsit would spend hours digging her way out of their back yard, by tunneling under the fence…
Only to run around for a few minutes, then come wait on the front porch to be let back in the house.
“Swinger of Birches”?
The ones below the orange ones,
The one standing up.
That’s what i found.
I found something completely different
🙂
I dunno…
(The points appear to be at the L end, not the E and color name end.)
Very hard to distinguish a difference … And none look pristine enough to be absolutely new.
We’re asked to find “the” crayon…. The one tan crayon in the brown crayon cup seems a much more likely answer.
🙂 I know what they wanted, but I felt that those two looked “nice” and the rest seem more like abused ends. I always have to seek the overlooked angle (’tis my nature).
I suppose it’s in the wrong spot
Very subtle puzzle.
I don’t know whether I would have found it, cos I fell asleep, and when I came back, I accidentally opened Alexi’s spoiler before I tried.
.
In fact, I’m not so sure he’s Fred Mertz in the 2nd picture… But he’s still William Frawley.
Thank you. That’s the name that came to mind, but I left it to others to enjoy posting the info.
Don’t recall Fred wearing “Bibbies”. Has been a while, though.
Likewise… on both counts.
I tried to search the two images separately, but it didn’t work.
The overalls one is at the right age for Fred.
The other looks older and less well groomed.
One, both or neither could be Fred… I was making my best guess.
I knew who he was — just gave his most familiar character. (He could almost be Archie Bunker in that second picture.)
I figured you knew….
I was just identifying the actor for anybody wanting to know….
Or anybody confusing the actor and character’s names.
Proof that your favorite actors back then were actually black and white….
They were colourized by these early color TVs.
Dang! My parents didn’t seem to be in black and white, but my sister took a photography class, and her best picture of them was in black and white. Lots of love in that picture. I guess they didn’t have to see each other in color to still be in love.
….
I always love Calvin’s Dad’s logic.
It makes sense to me.
My nephew said that when he was little he believed the world was black and white before it turned colorful, sometime after WWI.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Renaissance_Monument
Terrible corruption story behind it, but still worthwhile to share with friends who might have come from there. Could grow to the prominence of the Brazilian “Christ The Redeemer” statue. It may survive the corruption and emerge as a symbol to all who have transiotined and grown beyond their roots. There are many stories out there waiting to be discovered.
Happy new year!
And it’s famously a real photo, though from 1923, except for that one face!
…
OK kids, it’s time to start your New year’s exercise resolution. This is from President Kennedy’s Council on Physical Fitness. Written by Burgess Meridith and sung by Robert Preston of “The Music Man” fame.
With producktion valews like theese hough cood it fale to moativate??
Former British, European and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Henry Cooper (On the left) – and twin brother George.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYBODY ! ! !
Just for variety, a New Year’s Day quiz from the New Zealand “Timaru Herald,”…
…and for even more variety a New Zealand liquor advertisement.
New Zealand $1.00 = $0.81 Canadian
New Zealand $1.00 = £0.45 Pound Sterling
New Zealand $1.00 = €0.54 Euro
New Zealand $1.00 = $0.56 United States
Exchange rates from Google’s finance site.
Speight’s volume = 330 mls.
Long White = 320 mls.
Export Gold = 330 mls.
Double Brown = 330 mls.
Crimson Badger Ginger Bear = 330 mls.
P.S.
It’s already January 2, 2025 in New Zealand.
I got 6
Seven.
Six
May a good year be ahead for all who read these words.
Thanks, and all the best to you as well.