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Of course premiums will go up. Valuable items like collectibles and jewelry typically require adding a rider to a policy. One must first actually read one's policy closely, then talk to their agent. If a state villifies and punishes you for owning firearms you're simply in the wrong state. As...

Much of this applies to my other collection: vintage and valuable guitars. But there's no saving those with expensive "fireproof" safes. And any sprinkler suppression system will destroy a guitar. The important thing is proper insurance and documentation. I've been through testing insurance...

Re: the main batteries, en echelon means staggered fore and aft; the port side turret is abaft the starboard turret. Thus the ship is bilaterally asymmetrical in the plan view.

I also got the red stains, in S. Lake Tahoe, CA, circa 1980. I never saw the aircraft, I was a passerby volunteering to help drag a fire hose through timber when someone yelled "Cover!" and the guys around me dropped to their bellies and covered their faces. I heard the sudden roar and whoosh go...

I believe it was the largest single-engine warbird until the A-1 Skyraider. -

Incidentally, here's where to buy authentic kukris. https://www.atlantacutlery.com/knives/kukris-machetes -

No mention of Marine Corp Avengers? Award-winning author Samuel Hynes flew a ground-based USMC Avenger in the Pacific. They were crucial in nearly all of the island-hopping campaign. Hynes trained 100% as a Marine and never attempted a carrier takeoff or landing. They lived rough on the islands...

Yes, as mentioned in the article. We had a TBM modified for fire bombing at our airport in Lewiston, Idaho in the 1960s. It was huge! -

There weren't only Gurkhas carrying kukris in WW II. Renowned author George MacDonald Fraser's excellent memoir of his service in Burma, Quartered Safe Out Here (1993), dotingly describes the issue kukri he carried in Fourteenth Army under Gen. Slim. Military historian Sir John Keegan wrote...

I'm not going to dispute that. But, to be fair, even if you just let it sit for 70 years (no operating expenses, annual inspections, overhauls, fuel, lubricants, coolants, tires, etc) there's still significant ongoing expenses: Insurance, hangar fees, etc. And if it really just sat with zero...

Yeah! Of course, $8000 invested in a S&P 500 index fund in 1964, dividends reinvested, would be worth over $2 million today. -

A friend (now deceased) bought a P-51 w/ a spare engine in the early 1960s for $8000. Then he essentially taught himself to fly it. -

@warbirdlover, I hope you were able to attend the Reno Air Races before they were discontinued. Living in Reno, probably two dozen times for me. Sad. -

@Talyn, Great info, thanks! FWIW the lanky, grinning pilot chatting with Lindbergh after a P-38 sortie is Maj. Thomas McGuire, Jr., commander of the 431st Fighter Squadron and erstwhile rival of Richard Bong. -

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From the entry at IMDb.com under "Goofs" for the film Guns At Batasi (1964), a great but obscure film starring Richard Attenborough: The personal weapon used by the British is the Sterling sub machine gun which replaced the Sten in the British Army in 1953. This weapon is held with the left...

My skepticism is not aimed at the fact of A.O.'s effects on V.N. participants, but rather at the notion that more have succumbed to its effects than actually participated anywhere in the region. And also that birth defects can necessarily be attributed to a parent's exposure. -

"No definitive evidence" between exposure and birth defects. That's what I take from it. Thank you. Same with alleged illness from being around certain household herbicides. Any who ever sprayed dandelions then later developed cancer can join in a class action lawsuit and claim their share of...

There's virtually no way to be sure an offspring's ailments were caused by a father's exposure to a chemical. But I'd appreciate access to any details available. -

How does Agent Orange kill slowly? Serious question, none of the many VN vets I've known have succumbed to it. -