Monday, December 22, 2025
the U.S. Navy destroyed most of its retired F-14s and their unique spare parts by shredding them to prevent Iran from acquiring them to keep its own aging F-14 fleet flying
Iran bought F-14s before the US puppet govt was ousted in 1979, and since then have desperately needed parts to maintain their planes after the U.S. sanctions, as their jets were crucial for air defense.
Iran has kept F-14s flying by reverse-engineered parts and cannibalizing junkyard planes
The Defense Department suspended sales of all F-14 parts after news reports in 2007 of buyers for Iran, China and other countries using the surplus-sale market to acquire F-14 parts from Pentagon auctions because the DOD intel was blind to the obvious
The Pentagon retired the F-14 in 2006 and the Arizona boneyard held 165 Tomcats, thought to be the only ones left out of 633 produced for the Navy. The others were scavenged for parts to keep others flying, went to museums or crashed
making a 1930s race car, from scratch. 200 days of fabricating and building, in less than 25 minutes (depends on what you set the video play back to be, I recommend 1.75)
Bennetts Customs, a Canadian transplant in Australia
the latest president and CEO of Ford Australia started working as a forklift operator for Ford at a parts and service warehouse in Melbourne in the early 1990s.
form there, somehow he went on to a job in the finance department.
I'm guessing he was a college student and got the job in the warehouse, and after getting his degree, he was offered the job in the finance dept.
However it happened, it was the obvious path to getting into the management track at ford.... mechanics aren't wanted in management, it's either engineers, legal, or financial.
Anyone that has worked at a car dealership can tell you that's a very unlikely transition, but from warehouse to finance?
I'm guessing he was a college student and got the job in the warehouse, and after getting his degree, he was offered the job in the finance dept.
However it happened, it was the obvious path to getting into the management track at ford.... mechanics aren't wanted in management, it's either engineers, legal, or financial.
Sunday, December 21, 2025
Merry Christmas! I think some readers will not be checking back to see what gets posted later this week, so I think this is the best time to share these
From George Lucas, and Skywalker Ranch
Ellie the model T girl! There is hope for the future of model t's when people this young are enthusiastically experiencing driving T speedsters. Damn shame it's as expensive to make one as it is to buy a weatherproof commuter with AC, air bags, and anti lock brakes
She worked to get the car running and built a racer body... Shortly after getting her driver's license, she started to drive her T racer to school.
This fall at the Ogunquit beach auto show she took the peoples choice award of 2nd place out of 245 cars in attendance
