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Sep 17, 2011 | 12:51 PM

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The P-51 Mustang that crashed at the Reno airshow had "Powered by Packard" marked on the fuselage, just in front of and below the canopy.

Way back when, there was a museum in Buena Park called 'Cars of the Stars and Planes of Fame.' The entire musuem was owned by one person.

The cars were sold off at auction (including Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's custom 1920 Pierce-Arrow), many of the planes ended up in Chino.

Bill you are correct the Planes of fame part of the Museum moved to Chino Airport where it still exists today.... the old location was off the 91 fwy at Knott Ave.

Yes Jim Leeward was flying his heavily modified Packard Merlin Powered P51, it had the Merlin 1650V which was originally 1500 bhp... his engine was 3800 bhp.... heavily modified his Aircraft tipped the scales a bit over 7600 lbs dry weight.

Sep 17, 2011 | 01:03 PM

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I've visited dozens of airplane museums across the US. Visited two in the UK, one in France and one in Germany, but...

I've never been to the Chino Airport museum, which is about 15 miles east of where I live. Go figure.

Sep 17, 2011 | 09:52 PM

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Question: What is the normal pH level for human blood. And for extra credit, how much variance in blood pH can the body tolerate, before it starts causing problems.

The correct answer, as mentioned above, is a pH of 7.4.

The human body can tolerate a change in pH of only .1 before things start getting screwy. The range the body will accept is 7.35-7.45.

To all you non biology majors out there, that is a VERY small window.

Sep 21, 2011 | 02:50 PM

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Question: Notice, on SuperDuty trucks the front door window openings do not have a straight bottom edge, instead the front portion is lower than the rear. Why was this done?

Sep 21, 2011 | 04:57 PM

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My guess would be so the mirrors fold in without hitting the door panel.

Sep 21, 2011 | 04:59 PM

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My guess would be so the mirrors fold in without hitting the door panel.

I suspect that the mirrors were designed after the window, and they took advantage of the lower opening. I noticed that the pass side convex mirror would be partially blocked if not for the dip in the window.

According to Ford the idea for the lower front portion came from another idea.

Sep 21, 2011 | 06:46 PM

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I don't know what kind of BS story Ford would give, but I believe they stole the styling from big rig tractors. And I always figured Kenworth et al did it to improve visiblity on their front quarter. Ford did it on the Superduty first in '99, then moved it to the F150 in '04.

Sep 22, 2011 | 07:16 PM

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Question: Notice, on SuperDuty trucks the front door window openings do not have a straight bottom edge, instead the front portion is lower than the rear. Why was this done?

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As Bill suggested, Ford did take the idea from big rigs. They wanted it to symbolize how their trucks are work horses too.

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Sep 22, 2011 | 09:08 PM

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Question: During WWII, pidgins were used in the development of what type of weapon?

Sep 22, 2011 | 09:16 PM

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Complete guess here, but ... naval guns?

Sep 22, 2011 | 10:35 PM

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Me thinks Mr pidgin only had a one way trip... HAAAA

Was not the Pidgin language spoke throught out the Islands. If I remember correctly, wasn't there a book or pamphlet passed out for WWll soldiers that helped them understand the language? Hummmmm, I'm most likely way off here.
Naval guns sound better.
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Sep 22, 2011 | 10:39 PM

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Are you talking about project Pigeon? where they used pigeons to guide small bombs!

Sep 23, 2011 | 03:51 PM

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Question: During WWII, pidgins were used in the development of what type of weapon?

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Are you talking about project Pigeon? where they used pigeons to guide small bombs!

Indeed. Project Pigeon was a project to guide "smart" bombs to targets by placing pigeon the bomb and relying on the pigeon homing abilities to point the bomb to the ship. The pigeon would be trained to aim for boats by pecking at the image of a boat. In the bomb, the pigeon would peck at the boat. Where the pigeon pecked would tilt the glass the pigeon poked, which was connected to a guidance system to adjust the flight trajectory of the bomb. Continued pecks from the pigeon would keep the bomb on target. The project worked surprisingly well, but was never put into use for warfare.

Sep 23, 2011 | 04:15 PM

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Imagine if PITA got a hold of that one! OMG it would have been a halt to all wars just to save a pigeon or two.

Sep 25, 2011 | 04:18 PM

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Question: According to federal safety standards, bumpers on automobiles must be able to with stand an impact at what speed, with out damaging lights or other safety equipment?

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