Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Darzona!!

September 5, 1860: The first weather forecast appeared in The Times. The reports were supplied to the newspaper by the meteorological department of the Board of Trade (later the Meteorological Office).




In 1945, the escort carrier HMS Reaper (ex-USS Winjah) was allocated to the U.S. for the naval part of Operation LUSTY ("Luftwaffe Secret Technology"). LUSTY was the allied effort to recover top secret German aircraft. The planes shipped to New Jersey included Me 262 and Arado Ar 234 jets.


On July 18, 1942 the Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262, the world's first operational jet fighter.

Watson's "Whizzers"

In 1944 intelligence experts at Wright Field had developed lists of advanced aviation equipment they wanted to examine. Watson and his crew, nicknamed "Watson's Whizzers," comprised of pilots, engineers and maintenance men, used these "Black Lists" to collect aircraft. Watson organized his Whizzers into two sections. One collected jet aircraft and the other procured piston engine aircraft and nonflyable jet and rocket equipment.

After the war, the Whizzers added Luftwaffe test pilots to their team. One was Hauptman Heinz Braur. On May 8, 1945, Braur flew 70 women, children and wounded troops to Munich-Riem airport. After he landed, Braur was approached by one of Watson's men who gave him the choice of either going to a prison camp or flying with the Whizzers. Braur thought flying more preferable. Three Messerschmitt employees also joined the Whizzers: Karl Baur, the Chief Test Pilot of Experimental Aircraft, test pilot Ludwig "Willie" Huffman, and engineering superintendent Gerhard Coulis. Test pilot Herman Kersting joined later. When the Whizzers located nine Me 262 jet aircraft at Lechfeld airfield, these German test pilots had the expertise to fly them.

National Museum of the US Air Force

September 5, 1965: Theological scholar and poverty & famine campaigner, Albert Schweitzer, died (aged 90). He thought that Western civilization was decaying because it had abandoned affirmation of life as its ethical foundation. He was awarded the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize. Imagine what he'd be saying if he were alive today!




Sept 4, 1970: Dr. Manhattan lied to Janey, then met Laurie Jupiter aka Silk Spectre II.




Sept 3, 1975: SPACE: 1999 premiered in the UK. Sound up for this cracker of an intro theme track...




Sept 4, 2005: "Don't Mess With Texas!" An angry USS Texas (SSN 775) blowing main ballast tanks while a cowboy tries to hold on for at least 8 seconds.


She was christened on 31 July 2004 by Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States. Launched into the James River on 9 April 2005, and commissioned as a US Navy warship in Galveston, Texas on 9 September 2006.


VICTA-class surface-submersible diver delivery unit on trials in Portsmouth, England - September 4, 2024.




Call it a $2 billion anomaly...


White House Wants an Extra $2B for FY24 Virginia-class Subs, Attack Boats Pair Cost $11.3B


It cracks me up that these kids went home to summer vacation in Nantucket or where ever with their wealthy parents and go yachting with their Yale and Harvard friends then went right back into commie cosplay without missing a beat. LOL.


https://x.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/183...3113237887


Sweet Home Alabama, keeping the tradition. Where's the outrage from BLM and all those equality ground pounders?


https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1831032807981977955




Mid week words...

SILVER
SLOWLY, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees;
One by one the casements catch
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;
Couched in his kennel, like a log,
With paws of silver sleeps the dog;
From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep
Of doves in a silver-feathered sleep;
A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws, and silver eye;
And moveless fish in the water gleam,
By silver reeds in a silver stream.

                                                                                    Walter de la Mare