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Stephen

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I'm very excited for this. As a kid I was absolutely fascinated by the 8th Air Force and the air war in Europe. I vividly recall being allowed to walk through the bomb bay of the B-17 up at the Hill Aerospace Museum while it was being restored when I was 6, and I credit that in no small part for kick starting my love of history. I had posters of B-17's and B-24's on my bedroom walls, I did a big report on the P-51 in 7th grade that took first in a state competition, and I devoured books on the subject.

Masters of the Air is the third "chapter" in Steven Spielberg and Tom Hank's epic WWII miniseries. Starting with Band of Brothers and then The Pacific. Band of Brothers, for me is the greatest work of television ever. And while The Pacific wasn't quite as good, it was still excellent. So this has a high bar to clear. But if the trailers and this title sequence are anything to go by, I'm hopeful!
 
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Stephen said:
I'm very excited for this. As a kid I was absolutely fascinated by the 8th Air Force and the air war in Europe. I vividly recall being allowed to walk through the bomb bay of the B-17 up at the Hill Aerospace Museum while it was being restored when I was 6, and I credit that in no small part for kick starting my love of history. I had posters of B-17's and B-24's on my bedroom walls, I did a big report on the P-51 in 7th grade that took first in a state competition, and I devoured books on the subject.

Masters of the Air is the third "chapter" in Steven Spielberg and Tom Hank's epic WWII miniseries. Starting with Band of Brothers and then The Pacific. Band of Brothers, for me is the greatest work of television ever. And while The Pacific wasn't quite as good, it was still excellent. So this has a high bar to clear. But if the trailers and this title sequence are anything to go by, I'm hopeful!
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If this outlines the bomber crews leaving from Britain, I can't imagine the psychological impact of getting up every morning and leaving with 25ish planes knowing that 3-15 of those planes will NOT be coming home for one reason or another EACH DAY. Then there's the bombing thing from elevation, the air to air combat challenges, no fighter escorts after 400ish miles (whatever range the P47 could fly). I'll have to check that one out
 
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mbryson said:
If this outlines the bomber crews leaving from Britain, I can't imagine the psychological impact of getting up every morning and leaving with 25ish planes knowing that 3-15 of those planes will NOT be coming home for one reason or another EACH DAY. Then there's the bombing thing from elevation, the air to air combat challenges, no fighter escorts after 400ish miles (whatever range the P47 could fly). I'll have to check that one out
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Yup, this focuses on the "Bloody" 100th Air Bombardment Group. They didn't have the highest casualty rate of the 8th Air Force, but they had the unfortunate reputation of having three missions within a span of I think 90 days that saw more than 70% loss of aircrews.

My great-uncle was a tail gunner in the 8th and well short of his 25th mission he went to his CO and said, "I don't care, court marshal me, but I'm not going up ever again." So they busted him down to private and stuck him in a front line infantry unit. According to my grandfather he said he'd rather be in a foxhole with mortars falling all around him because at least there, he was already on the ground if something happened. Apparently he never flew in a plane again the rest of his life.
 
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I watched the first two episodes last night and thought they were good. They kind of jumped right in to the action. I'm used to getting strung along for a whole season just for thinhs to pick up in the last 5 minutes of the finale...
 
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I just watched Dumb Money on Netflix. It's about the Gamestop short squeeze phenomenon. I really liked it but I'm biased because I bought in and was active on wsb during it. I lost some money in the end but probably about the same amount as I did in crypto and at least GME was entertaining...
 
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This isn't exactly what I am watching but if you have Amazon Prime look this up. It's a series.

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I had a VHS of the Silver State Classic from the early 90's with Big Red running some nutty speeds. It was the year that a Ferrari crashed and killed both occupants. 😲
 
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I had a VHS of the Silver State Classic from the early 90's with Big Red running some nutty speeds. It was the year that a Ferrari crashed and killed both occupants. 😲
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Thats episode 1 of this series. Episode 2 is at Willow Springs. 598 cubes on a road track. Pretty interesting.



Spoiler, 700 ft lbs or whatever that kind of cubes puts out in big block Chev form probably combined with the weight of a portly 60s muscle car strips Jericho 3rd gears out in under 14 laps. Two trans 3rd gears stripped in under 25 laps

Episode 3 is the flying mile in Texas. 217 mph
 
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I think I've watched this documentary before. From a few years back, right?

If so, it was good. 😁
 
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Stephen

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I've never been a huge Star Wars fan, and particularly in this modern Disney-era where its all garbage (Andor excluded). But the original trilogy are special movies. Even though they didn't resonate with me the same way that Star Trek did, they were always a fun watch.

For those that don't know, the original edits of A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi have never been released on DVD, Blu-Ray, or streaming. Once the Special Editions were made in 1998, Lucasfilm has never released the originals again. But the Special Editions changed a lot about the films. Added scenes, cleaned everything up, and generally changed the appearance and feel of the movies. At the time, it was cool so see something "new" for the Star Wars universe, but it lost some of the charm or the original releases.

Starting back in 2011 a group of, well, nerds started collecting 35mm film stock of the original trilogy that had been sent to theaters when the movies were released. And they have painstakingly cleaned, scanned, and spliced these together to create 4K digital copies of the original trilogy; all for public consumption.

They finally finished Empire last month after six years of work! I downloaded A New Hope when they finished it years ago, and it is really cool to see it as it was originally shown in the theaters rather than the overly clean version of the Special Edition. I look forward to watching Empire and Jedi here soon.

You can download the files off their forum, or find them on your preferred torrent site (Search for 4K77, 4K80, and 4K83).

The Star Wars Trilogy | A Digital Star Wars Scrap book.

www.thestarwarstrilogy.com www.thestarwarstrilogy.com
 
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