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tiredretired

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Leni said:
Many thanks. I used to be able to buy a mix for this but for some reason it has disappeared off the market along with spice cake.

Now I'm the winner. :brows:

P. S. It's 70 right now.
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That is why I started making my own. Cannot buy the mix anywhere. I will tell you, using a yellow cake mix and pudding makes a real decent pie, very comparable to the old mix. If done right, from scratch is incredible, but a lot of work.

Now I am the winner.
 
tiredretired

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If I could find a decent one around here I would buy it, but the supermarket ones are not very good at all. Real lousy ganache.
 
Doc

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Same around here.
I won a game like this once but I forget how I did it.
 
Leni

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Interesting coincidence. Your avatar looks like a B 29. We just had an airshow by the Commerative Air Force at the Van Nuys airport. Fifi was there along with a Mustang, WW II trainer, and a British C45. We got to tour them and you could also take rides in them for a price. I've seen Fifi before but not the others. Really a neat display. I could see them flying from my home over the weekend.
 
tiredretired

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Yes, the atom bomber was a B-29. I actually had the same toy as pictured in my avatar when I was a kid. The back of the box was the target and it came with a die cast metal bomb. It was my favorite toy. :biggrin: An original one today with the original box is worth quite a bit of money. I no longer have mine, regretfully. I'm still a kid a heart, I guess.

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tiredretired

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No, I'm afraid I have not. I love military aircraft, so I would certainly like to if the situation ever arose. B29's are a huge aircraft. Very imposing.
 
Leni

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Go to their website. It has a list of the shows that they will be doing.

I wore the cap that said B-29 when I picked up my daughter from adult day care. A man there couldn't point out his WW II cap fast enough and asked me to sit down with him. They have a lot of veterans there.

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MrLiberty

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No contenders?
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Can't beat a B-29, but I have ridden in a C-130 before and I have a Warthog hat. I did however paid for my brother on his 60th birthday to fly in a B-17 at Willow Run airport, home of the Yankee Air Force.
 
deand1

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I was teaching a hazmat class at Fort Leonard Wood, MO many years ago. We had a day off so the instructors were invited to be observers at a bombing run by USAF Reserves from MI in A-10 Thunderbolts. What a show!

First bombing runs on single targets from 10,000, very impressive! Next strafing from low lever using their Gatling guns. The rounds were super sonic so you saw the impact then you hear the shot. We tried to imagine being an enemy on the ground being shot at then hearing the shot. Very impressive.
 
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deand1 said:
I was teaching a hazmat class at Fort Leonard Wood, MO many years ago. We had a day off so the instructors were invited to be observers at a bombing run by USAF Reserves from MI in A-10 Thunderbolts. What a show!

First bombing runs on single targets from 10,000, very impressive! Next strafing from low lever using their Gatling guns. The rounds were super sonic so you saw the impact then you hear the shot. We tried to imagine being an enemy on the ground being shot at then hearing the shot. Very impressive.
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I was driving outside of Indianapolis early one morning and an A10 made a run on my truck then went vertical. OMG, what a thrill that was and will never forget it.

So, when were you at FLW? I was there in 78-80 and helped build the new, then, gun club with Col. Franklin. I often wondered if Leonard Willie is still alive? I just googled the club and it's sure changed since those days. I shot my first registered skeet birds there. One day hope to get back there to look around - the thing I enjoyed most was gigging suckers and carp before Christmas and then having a big fish fry at the club.
 
deand1

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Umberto, I was at Leonard Wood in the '90's. The National Guard was gearing up for regional hazmat response through out the US. Us instructors were non-military fire service hazmat specialists with training as a speciality. We were contracted to teach the NG our hazmat response skills. Our hazmat field exercises were held next to the ponds where the Army Engineers trained with their portable tank bridges. That was fun to watch too.

I spent many cold weeks there. We all felt honored to be in the presence of our dedicated military service personnel. Many fond memories too lengthily to relate here.
 
Doc

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Whoa whoa whoa ....I say hold on there a bit. I'm here now.
 
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