Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-12 (Tuesday)

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I spent an hour dealing with Comcast's tech support when my TV said it wasn't getting any signal from the cable box.  By the time I got everything working again I was too tired and fed up with the universe to actually watch any of my DVR recordings.  So instead I watched a DVD.
Dogfights, S1E01 Mig Alley
A 2005 History Channel show about notable historical dogfights with interviews with the surviving pilots and historians intermixed with CGI recreations of the combat.  The show does a good job of providing the background for context and walks through the dogfight step by step, explaining the tactics and reasons.
"Robinson Risner flew an F-86 Saber in Korea at the dawn of the jet age. There, with a hunter's persistence, he pursued his prey whether Korean, Chinese or Russian leading to some dramatic air combat adventures. In 1953 Ralph Parr leads a flight of four Sabres hunting sixteen MiG 15s leading to an extended dogfight. The improvements from the 1951 F-86A to the 1953 F-86F gave Parr a decisive advantage."
This episode covers several combats during the Korean War.
What Did You Watch?
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I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.