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A lot of Angolans had monkeys for companionship. They're much easier to take care of than dogs or cats and let's face it, they're cute.
Baboons are the "Chucky" version of monkeys.
Even other monkey types can be nasty little bu ggers. Especially if they become very imprinted with their owners. They have sharp teeth and claws and when they use them, the wounds can be very nasty.
Usually, when they were on the vicious side it was due to poor handling and training by their owners.
Most of them just loved good attention and especially a sweet bit of fruit as a treat. They can and were taught to smoke very easily and quickly become addicted to tobacco.
I knew one that was about a foot tall at most and it would push a cigarette away but do everything it could to get at a cigar, which it would usually take a bite out of and chew on that bit for hours.
Searching for volunteers. Again, still searching for volunteers, lol
Convair XF-92A
Those concepts were brought about right after the X1 flew. I don't believe any of them actually flew on their own.
As a kid, I can remember seeing several different but similar designs.
The idea at the time seemed to be cutting drag to extremes but still keep the plane capable for military purposes and the idea of remote controling of all types of combat aircraft was just starting to come into vogue internationally.
At the time, the cost of training and maintaining pilots was almost as high as the cost of the aircraft being built/maintained.
BUG’s on the Windshield?
After an A-12 flight they found specks of insects on the windshield. From Ben Rich‘s book “Skunk Works”
I was the CIA’s engineer inside the Skunk Works, the only government guy there, and Kelly gave me the run of the place. Kelly ran the Skunk Works as if it was his own aircraft company.
A weird thing was that after a (A-12) flight the windshields often were pitted with tiny black dots, like burn specks. We couldn’t figure out what it was.
We had the specks lab tested, and they turned out to be organic material—insects that had been injected into the stratosphere and were circling in orbit around the earth with dust and debris at seventy-five thousand feet in the jet stream. How in hell did they get lifted up there?
We finally figured it out: they were hoisted aloft from the atomic test explosions in Russia and China ~Norman Nelson
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[/QUOTE]Ok what is this thing. Looks 20-30mm-ish with an interesting magazine. I really want one now
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how did I miss that
37mm Browning M4
yes the P39 Air Cobra, pilot sat in front of the motor and the cannon fired through the propeller hub
