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Guestbook - Volume 21
October 2006 to March 2007
please add your comments by sending an email to: arnoldvb@islands.vi
To see what others have had to say, please read on . . . with one note of caution:
Date: Thu Mar 22, 2007 Hello Mr.Arnold I am investigating the history of the Thunderbirds and the Blue Angels and arrived at your website. Since it was the website of a nice design, I saw not only the section but some other contents. By the way, although the Blue Impulse of Japan is in "Military Flight Demonstration Teams" of the contents of "AIR", Mitsubishi T-2 retire in 1995 and the present the Blue Impulse is using Kawasaki T-4 from 1996. Although it cannot give you since I do not have the photograph of the T-4 Blue Impulse, I think that a photograph is got from "Download Gallery" on the website of the Japan Air Self Defense Force. The website of the JASDF is http://www.mod.go.jp/asdf/en/index.html. Incidentally, since my websites are the contents about the T-2 Blue Impulse, if interested, please have a look. My website is http://t2blue.tuzikaze.com/index_e.html. However, since I was bad at English, I translated, using translation software and a dictionary. Since a mistranslation may be there, please allow.
Sincerely [EDITOR'S NOTE: Taka, thanks for taking the time to let me know that Japan's flight demonstration team, Blue Impulse, has been using the Kawasaki T-4 training jet since 1996. I'll have to try find pictures of the team with their new aircraft. By the way, I was able to understand your computer-translated email just fine.]
Date: Sat Mar 3, 2007 Hey, It's a great website to see what Disney films came out on video. It needs a little update. There is a new Cinderella out -- Cinderella 3: A Twist in Time -- only on video and for a limited period of time.
Sincerely, [EDITOR'S NOTE: Pol, thanks for the comment on my Disney animation pages. I know about the new Cinderella 3 video, but I'm waiting for my copy from Amazon.com. After I've had a chance to see it, I'll add it to the site.]
Date: Thu Feb 15, 2007 Hey, nice page, very thorough. I work for a search engine (ask.com) and found this as a top link for Sophie Marceau. I would point out that "Miranda Frost: started as a putative ally (fellow agent) and turned enemy, unless you are referring to the fact that she was an enemy mole the entire time and thus didn't really "turn." http://www.sandcastlevi.com/movies/bondgirl.htm
Cheers, EDITOR'S NOTE: James, thanks for the comments on the Bond Girls page. Surprisingly (or not) that's the most viewed page on my entire site, by a 3 to 1 margin over the 2nd place page (the Disney Animation intro page). It's sometimes confusing how to classify some of the Bond girls, and Miranda Frost is a good example. You're right that she did start out as a member of MI6 who turned on the agency. I've made the change, as you suggested.]
Date: Sat Jan 6, 2007 In http://www.sandcastlevi.com/scifi/other/avengesum.htm, you say: John Cleaves (the current Q). If I'm not mistaken, that role is played by John Cleese. [EDITOR'S NOTE: Bill, thanks for the correction. I can't believe I misspelled the actor's name and didn't notice.]
Date: Thu Jan 4, 2007 Hafa Adai! I was browsing the web and came across your Guam website and virtual tour! I really liked it and wanted to thank you for helping to promote Guam. I also wanted to give you an updated link for the Guam Visitors Bureau website and our mailing address. Our website is www.visitguam.org and our adddress is 401 Pale San Vitores Road, Tumon, Guam 96913. Thank you again for your support and promotion of Guam!
Put Respetu, [EDITOR'S NOTE: Cindy, thanks for the comments on my Guam pages. I'll make the updates for the Guam Visitors Bureau website and mailing address later today. I had five opportunities between 1997 and 2002 to visit your lovely island on work-related matters. But on two of those trips, my wife accompanied me and we made it a point to visit key spots around the island. Although we're half a world away in the U.S. Virgin Islands, we have many fond memories of our visits and of friendships that we developed on Guam.]
Date: Sun Dec 10, 2006 Hi there, I liked reading your site, a good overview of aircraft carrier histories, but there’s one niggling thing that grabs my attention when ever I see it, and you are probably going to think I’m being a bit too pedantic, but here goes… With regard to Royal Navy, Royal Australian, Royal Canadian or Royal New Zealand Navy vessels, when mentioning the ship and title “HMS”, an individual warship is never referred to as “the HMS Argus”. HMS stands for His/Her Majesty’s Ship (depending on the sex of the Monarch in power at the time) – as I would assume you already know, therefore you wouldn’t say “the His Majesty’s Ship Hermes”, since that doesn’t make sense. This is not the same when referring to American warships of course, because the “USS” stands for United States Ship, so “the USS Enterprise” is acceptable, but “the HMS Illustrious” is not. One thing you might be interested in is that the Sopwith Cuckoo, which you mention in relation to the aircraft carrier Argus, was designed specifically to carry out an attack on the High Seas Fleet in its home anchorage at Wilhelmshaven on the Jade River and the Austro Hungarian Fleet at Pola in the Adriatic. This first-strike operation concept was known within the Royal Navy as to “Copenhagen” the enemy fleet, after the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801 (Horatio Nelson; “I see no signal…”) where the Danish fleet was annihilated by the Royal Navy in its home port. A secret plan of attacking these fleets in their home bases was drawn up and released to the Admiralty in 1917. Because of delays in production and due to a decidedly unco-operative powerplant (the 200hp Sunbeam Arab V-8), Cuckoo production never reached full stride before the Armistice, although the first torpedo squadron had been formed, No 185 Squadron at East Fortune in Scotland . Some 200 Cuckoos had been ordered for the raid, which proposed using converted merchant ships fitted with flat-top decks – not to mention the early conversion of the cruisers Courageous and Glorious – half sisters of HMS Furious, into carriers. Another little footnote about the Cuckoo was that, in 1921 the British sent a Naval Mission to Japan equipped with six Cuckoos and a host of other naval aircraft, and 21 instructors with the task of training the fledgling Japanese navy air arm in operational procedures. It would have been during this time that Japan first became aware of the concept of attacking enemy shipping in their home ports with torpedo aircraft. This idea was after all, no more than a progression from earlier tactics employed by the Japanese navy; they were the first to use ship launched torpedoes to attack enemy shipping in their home ports, at Port Arthur against the Russian Pacific Fleet in February 1904. Anyway, I digress. I hope this is helpful.
Cheers, [EDITOR'S NOTE: Thanks for the interesting info on the Sopwith Cuckoo, Grant. About the use of "the" with HMS, another visitor to my site pointed that out to me a while back. It's been my intention to make the corrections, but just haven't gotten around to it yet. It's on my "to do" list.]
Date: Sun Nov 5, 2006 Hello Arnold, Congratulations on your superb Ventures site. I'm from Germany and a collector of rock 'n' roll records. I miss the German Top Rank (same record with two numbers) and the German London records, one with picture sleeve - rest with factory sleeve. On German London only singles, no EPs or LPs. Look to my homepage, you can download many RnR doscographies: www.rocknroll-schallplatten-forum.de.
All the best from Germany, [EDITOR'S NOTE: Harald, thanks for the information you included on German-issued Ventures 45-rpm singles that were missing from my Ventures discography. I've made the additions.]
Date: Thu Oct 5, 2006 If I were to send you a pic of a model "USS Enterprise" would you be able to tell me which one it is? I, like you, am attempting to create a display of each Enterprise that has existed in history and Star Trek history, and create a brief history of each ship. I've been trying to do the research and I simply cannot identify this ship, other than its name -- USS Enterprise.
Thank You, PS: You have done an excellent job in your work, kudos. I only hope that my own efforts can even come close to yours.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Chris, that's the 1799 schooner which fought during the Barbaryy Wars. See chapter 4 / part 2 of my Enterprise history. Based on information from the U.S. Naval Historical Center, she was 85 feet long, 23 feet wide, and had a draught (waterline to bottom of the hull) of 10 feet. I don't have the height of the ship including masts. She displaced 135 tons, carried 12 guns and a crew of 70. She was built and commissioned in Baltimore in 1799 and was decommissioned in 1810 at the Washington Navy Yard. She was extensively rebuilt and redesigned there, and then recommissioned in 1811. After service in the War of 1812 and against Caribbean pirates, she ran aground in 1823 on a Caribbean island with no loss of crew. Lastly, thanks for the positive comments about my Enterprise history. I'm glad it was useful.]
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