This Date in Aviation History: July 3 - July 5

"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley) 07/05/2019 at 14:38 • Filed to: None

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July 3rd, 1775, Continental military troops besieging Boston under the command of General Washington attempt to seize Logan International airport from the hands of the British. But the battle does not go as planned when the TSA seized everyone’s muskets and swords. 

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/05/2019 at 14:41

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https://www.bbc.com/news/48885319

ranwhenparked > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/05/2019 at 14:48

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Is this like when Joe Biden talked about how Roosevelt went on TV to reassure the nation when the stock market crashed in 1929?

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > ranwhenparked 07/05/2019 at 14:49

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I think kinda, but maybe worse for Trump.

I feel bad for Trump, I see a lot of myself in him. I just want to sit watching TV eating KFC instead of working too.

WilliamsSW > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/05/2019 at 14:49

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It was caused by the British insisting on 45 minute holds over Heathrow for all aircraft inbound from the Colonies. 

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > WilliamsSW 07/05/2019 at 14:50

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The USA showed them when wh en they dumped all their luggage into the ocean

Cash Rewards > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/05/2019 at 14:59

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Well done

fintail > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/05/2019 at 15:04

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Hey, was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?  We know the answer.

fintail > ranwhenparked 07/05/2019 at 15:08

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Kind of, but Biden was just a moderately known candidate then, the other guy is the supposed leader of the free world and claims to be a stable genius.

Both are known for gaffes anyway.

Deal Killer - Powered by Focus > fintail 07/05/2019 at 15:21

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DipodomysDeserti > ranwhenparked 07/05/2019 at 15:28

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Well, mixing up radio and television is a bit less bizarre than thinking airplanes were used in the Revolutionary War.

CTSenVy > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/05/2019 at 16:02

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Well, something really good came out of the parade and the speech.  Well done!

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/05/2019 at 16:14

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Your illustration is incomplete because it lacks Sherman tanks.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 07/05/2019 at 16:15

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What? tanks during the revolutionary war?

(I know you are talking about his gaffe on new shermans)

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > fintail 07/05/2019 at 16:16

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Was this prior to Al Gore inventing the internet?

fintail > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 07/05/2019 at 16:24

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Just after.  In fact, Biden found that data on the internet Gore invented.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > fintail 07/05/2019 at 16:35

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Was that the engagement where Hillary Clinton got shot at by snipers?

MrDakka > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/05/2019 at 16:43

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Alot of people want to do exactly that.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/05/2019 at 17:24

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It lacks giant death robots from the future slaughtering medieval units.

This along with submarines sinking caravels is probably my favorite thing that happens in Civ 5. Although I do miss doomstacks of TOW infantry duking it out with tanks from Civ 3. But that shows my civ nerd-dom too much.

Dropping nukes on three doom stacks trying to retake a city that I just took from them was still one of my favorite Civ 3 moments ever. So much radiation and destruction.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 07/05/2019 at 17:35

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My wife and I are going to play civ tonight. Lan party!

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/05/2019 at 17:52

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Tonight? You mean the next three weeks. Just one more turn...

facw > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 07/05/2019 at 17:57

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Of course there’s the infamous battleship loses to spearman stuff of Civ 2 (and maybe Civ 1).

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/05/2019 at 20:14

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Slow clap

fintail > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 07/05/2019 at 20:53

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Yep, just after the Bowling Green massacre that they saw on TV while admiring the view of Russia from Dingbat Pali n’s front porch.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > fintail 07/05/2019 at 21:24

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fintail > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 07/06/2019 at 11:42

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Done.

I think you shouldn’t hesitate to post things here though - you can find some interesting material.