Recent content by phx1138

One belated bump, just to see if anyone cares.

It seems to me if the Carradine film was more successful, it would encourage a studio to make a similar film, with a bigger star, to cash in on the untapped market. You really need "Cannonball" to either star a nobody and barely be noticed, or star Carradine and tank completely. At that time...

TY. Well... With a bit more humor? Instead of Swayze? Interesting. I would dislike it, myself, because I liked Swayze in it--especially the fight sequence at the end. (I don't see Reynolds doing it that way; a conventional fistfight would have bored me.) I'd be more interested in him in...

I'm not sure a good comedy would have hurt him. (I liked "W.W. & the Dixie Dancekings", myself.) For instance, instead of Nolte in "48 Hours". In the right role, yeah, a war movie wouldn't hurt, either. (Too young for "Bat 2-1"? I can't recall ever seeing the other two, so no comment.) I...

He was #1 in the industry, pulling down over $10 mil...and went to #38 in almost nothing flat. He turned down "Terms of Endearment" to do "Cannonball Run II".:eek::eek::tiredface: He turned down "Magnolia". How might his career have gone differently if he had taken "Terms of Endearment"...

When you put it like that, it's hard to disagree. ;) There is a certain "rule of cool" for the P-38 to be licenced to somebody else, but I'd not advocate for cool to trump good sense. That said, there's also something to be said for more than twice as many... ;)

That sounds like a plan. Except it's putting it all on existing Lockheed facilities. I see a flaw there, for a couple of reasons. One, EverKing's already alluded to: idle capacity (Curtiss? Or Fisher Body, which OTL proposed the nonsensical XP-75?). I think that could, & should, have been...

All true, and I will stand corrected. (Faulty recall.) I will reserve comment on what companies might (should?) get licences, since (as I recall) EverKing had that worked out nicely (and I make no claims to having better ideas on than him,;) as well as he knows the subject).

I think you've hit the core issues. Nobody warned Lockheed of the desire for lots of P-38s soon enough, so more/less hand-building them was still a Thing far longer than it should have been. (Not to say Lockheed management preferring to sell Hudsons to Britain for more money helped...) And...

In 1971, "as part of one of the worst trades in San Francisco Giants history", they traded George Foster for Frank Duffy. Foster would go on to be a feared hitter with the Reds. WI Giants' management had shown more sense? How would the team's fortunes in the '70s have changed? How much would...

The team Comiskey bought was (IIRC) a Fed League minor team from (as noted) Sioux City. No idea where another MBL team might come from. Anybody want to speculate where famous Sox might've gone, instead? About the only one I can name (and have :openedeyewink: ) is Shoeless Joe. So where...

What's on the tin.:) In 1894, Charles Comiskey bought the Sioux City Cornhuskers, which would move to St. Paul, MN, as St Paul Saints, and ultimately to Chicago as the White Sox. How much difference would it make if he'd died before he could make the purchase? Most obviously, there's never a...

He'd be lucky if he did get reduced to PR figurehead; NASA was pretty tight-assed at the time. They'd have him on a desk in the basement, and only let him out in the middle of the night for feeding.

The OTL C/96, yes. Was there no way Mauser comes up with something nearer the Borchardt? (If not the P.08.) As I look at the OTL C/93, I can imagine the Mauser action hanging off the back (some), a bit like that, and a bit like the P.08. Given the mag is in the grip from the start (which I...

As designed, yeah. I'm thinking Mauser uses a slightly different locking mechanism (turns the C/96's backwards?). Was it impossible he'd think to use grip feed? Does the C/96 using grip feed have knock-ons later? (Like, frex, butterflying the success of the P.08?)