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Rusty Edge
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2018 6:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't recall. Something like

Radio
Amplitude
Directional
And
Ranging
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2018 1:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rusty Edge wrote:
I don't recall. Something like

Radio
Amplitude
Directional
And
Ranging


Something tells me Salty will accept your answer before mine or Mr. Blues.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2018 3:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like all the Answers! But Rusty is closest. It is Radio Direction and Ranging.
Your turn Rusty!....
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2018 3:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Salty Dog wrote:
I like all the Answers! But Rusty is closest. It is Radio Direction and Ranging.
Your turn Rusty!....


Good job Rusty but I'm not sharing my radar with you. It's all mine. Smile
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Rusty Edge
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 2:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pirate wrote:
Salty Dog wrote:
I like all the Answers! But Rusty is closest. It is Radio Direction and Ranging.
Your turn Rusty!....


Good job Rusty but I'm not sharing my radar with you. It's all mine. Smile



I'll accept a picture of yours Thumbs Up


I knew I was both wrong and close, but it took me a while to get there. In the process, my follow-up question became obvious: That other one I know because I've read it lots of times, but can never get right whenever I'm asked.

What does LASER stand for?
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 2:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lisa Anderson saw everyone running. Laser.

Give me five
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 4:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You got me on that one. I really don't know it, not even a guess. Confused
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 4:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd say the first one is light but I don't know. I've heard before but can't remember none of it.
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Rusty Edge
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 6:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pirate wrote:
I'd say the first one is light but I don't know. I've heard before but can't remember none of it.



That's true. Maybe you guys can put your heads together. Maybe Roland can remember. Let's give him till 5PM Eastern time, and then open Mr. Google. No point in dragging it out . I figure the purpose of the quizz is a game to keep a game forum alive.



Clue- E stands for "Emission" ( I think that's the hardest word in the acronym )
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Rusty Edge
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Google enabled
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2018 3:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
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Rusty Edge
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2018 3:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pirate wrote:
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation



It sounds so 60s comic book, doesn't it?
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2018 4:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Floors open
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Rusty Edge
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2018 6:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Okay. Sorry if I already posed a similar question at some point. WWII aircraft is the subject. Particularly, the PBY Catalina ( the letter designation meant Patrol Bomber, Consolidated ) flying boat. They were already obsolete when the war began. Had a cruising speed only around 90-135 m.p.h. The virtues were that they a range of thousands of miles, could stay airborne for 24 hours, and could take off and land from the ocean, so they could basically come and go anywhere. Oh yeah, the factory could turn them out faster than anything new and improved. They fought the U-boats from the Panama Canal Zone to the coast of France. In the Pacific, by glide bombing at night, the tonnage they sunk was only surpassed by subs.


In the course of the war they played a key role in 3 major events about which movies were made. Well, 4 really, but burning at Pearl Harbor was a passive role. Tora! Tora! Tora!, etc. doesn't count.


Guess what they did, or guess one of the movies.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2018 3:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am going to guess they spotted the Japanese Fleet as it steamed towards Midway Island.

They also picked up pilots whose planes were damaged or malfunctioning and could not make it back to the aircraft carrier or base.
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