David A Loving

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David A Loving

David A Loving

@ALoving4684

USAF ECM pod guy, electronics instructor, Retired from intel, tried acting, lines in Better Call Saul, Independence Day; R, and Ridiculous 6 photo dub, lines.

New Mexico Beigetreten Ağustos 2024
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David A Loving
David A Loving@ALoving4684·
Probably out of 15 buckets of dirt. Sometimes we come across a picker. If the club has the claim, that means it is not good enough for a mining company to claim.
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Radioactive Red@radioactivered

@ALoving4684 I would never be at home if I lived out that way, I miss prospecting.

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Starter fuel was different too?
Habubrats SR-71@Habubrats71

When Kelly Johnson was designing the A-12/YF-12 /MD-12 SR-71 he didn’t want the weight to be added for a starter on the airplane. He said the more it weights the more fuel it will need .It was decided that two V-8 engines would be able to do the job. To start the Blackbird the fastest airplane in the world wasn’t exciting enough on top of that it sounded like the Indianapolis 500 getting the SR-71 ready to fly! For this purpose alone, two of either above-mentioned Nailhead V8s were fused together via a common transmission and drive shaft to work in tandem, then placed inside a metal housing mounted on four wheels with a trailer hitch and dubbed the AG330 “start cart.” The resulting Chimera was attached directly to the Blackbird’s two engines. Using the combined drive shaft, the two V8s spun the turbines to the point they could sustain compression by themselves. Nailhead V8s served as impromptu starter motors for the SR-71 and its cousins, the A-12 Archangel and the YF-12 fighter, until at least 1970, when the bulk of them were replaced with Chevy 454 V8s. These were also phased out when a new, quieter pneumatic system was implemented to do the same job as the start cart at most airbases on U.S. soil the Blackbird and company operated from. Some remained for longer at auxiliary bases abroad, including a handful with the original Buick Nailheads, until the Blackbird and all its variants was retired in 1998. autoevolution.com/news/buick-wil… Click here to listen to more information m.youtube.com/watch?embeds_r…

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I am in a prospecting club. There was a one time offer to go to a ranch by Ladron Peak for about 8 people in the club, I was one of them but I was sick. Didn't go. Some of the guys KNEW that there were radioactive black rocks there. Not sure if they took some home. I'llgonexttime
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@ALoving4684 Send them to me!!!!

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