Recent content by tamnalan

0-5 USAF, Oct '83 - Jan '04. Cold war guy, never deployed. My dad: USN 1945, USAF 1951-1954. He's with my mom in Japan, 1952. She was in the Red Cross. They met at Taegu, South Korea. My dad's brother: USAAF, 9FS, 49FG, MIA 7 Nov '43 Rabaul, New Britian. Kneeling, second from right.

A half-ton tow truck is fine for open trailers at 75% or less of the truck's rated capacity. This would include a typical 16 or 18' loaded car-hauler. A 24-foot enclosed trailer would warrant a bigger, heavier truck because of the potential for higher gross weight and cross-wind effects.

I'm a math person by profession. Ignoring the safety aspects (and I agree with you completely there) - think of it in terms of set theory. Every throttle is a cruise control, but not every cruise control is a throttle. One is a proper subset of the other... :)

I would be interested in that center strip myself! Mine is also missing.

Well, technically it IS a cruise control. I use it as such on my flatfender jeep. It's just not sensitive to engine load changes.

Some stainless alloys are "magnetic" and some don't seem so like Type 304 which is pretty common. I think it depends on the chromium and nickel content. I'm guessing that some magnetism effect is always there but it's not strong enough to easily detect.

A final story: my own childhood best friend is a guy named Stan Lefever. Stan's stepson Rory Dunn was badly wounded in Iraq in 2004. Here's a pic of Rory, his mother Cynthia, and my friend Stan.

I was a career USAF officer. I was fortunate enough to spend 3 years of my active duty time teaching mathematics to cadets at West Point. My son's best friend there was a young fellow named Wyatt. I got to know his dad, Brian Allgood, and became his friend. I screwed up once and forgot to...

My dad's brother. He was a P-38 pilot with the 9th FS, 49th FG. My uncle was Capt Dick Bong's wingman when he went MIA. Bong went on to become the #1 US fighter ace in WWII, receiving the Medal of Honor for his successes. My uncle was the second to die in less than a week while flying...

You've probably already passed through Whitehorse, but there's some interesting things to see if you get off the highway. This monster lurks at the airport.

The haze in the parks might be coming from the Fort McMurray fires.

I was on the MVPA 2012 Alaska Highway convoy. I drove a 1943 Willys MB (a wartime jeep). I don't recall problems with Chinese tubes in particular but we did have a lot of flats. There was another group that summer too. We MVPA guys had about 100 vintage vehicles. I think the other group was...

A suggestion is to ride the White Pass railway to Skagway. It's an amazing trip! There's probably round-trip opportunities from either Whitehorse or Skagway. There's also some amazing stuff to see at the Whitehorse airport. A DC3 is setup as a large weathervane, and there's also some sort of...

Some of the Montana views of the Rockies to the west off highway 287, especially near the intersection with MT 200, must be almost exactly what Lewis saw on his return trip in July 1806. It's one of the few remaining places on the Lewis and Clark route that hasn't changed from human activity, IMHO.

'39 Pickups rule! At least, mine will if I ever get it put back together.