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Translation of ready in Italian:
- 1 (prepared) (person, meal, car, product)pronto (for something per qualcosa)ready to dopronto a o per fareto get readyprepararsito get something readypreparare qualcosato make ready to doprepararsi a fareready for anythingpronto a tuttoready when you aresono pronto quando vuoiready, steady, go! (Sport)pronti, via!ready about! (Nautical)pronti a virare!I'm ready, willing and able ready and waiting
- 2 (willing)disposto (to do a fare)more than ready to dopiù che disponibile a fareAnn, the house looked ready to collapseAnn, la casa sembrava sul punto di crollareto be ready foravere bisogno di (meal, vacation)to feel ready for a restavere bisogno di riposarsi
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prontoessere pronto a criticare, a scusarsi
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a portata di mano(access)ready to hand ready cash, ready money [informal]
also: readies plural noun(British English) [informal]
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February 2016 - visitant birds' observations to Madeira
After one of the warmest Januaries on the last 80 years, February started wet and cold in Madeira... Not the best weather to go out birdwatching though some interesting species might still be found out there!
4th of February 2016 at Lugar de Baixo - observations by Jesper & Anne Mette Jorgensen (DEN)
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Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros
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Temperature just dropped as November started but the sun is shining! November is normally good for some vagrant ducks but Madeira is always a surprise box, we never know which vagrant bird species we will find when we go out birdwatching...
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Little Egret Egretta garzetta
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Common Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita
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Madeira Archipelago offers good conditions to birdwatchers, not only in terms of breeding birds but also vagrant bird species. Though there are only 47 breeding species to these islands, about half of them are endemic species or subspecies to Madeira or to Macaronesia region (Madeira, Azores and Canary Islands).
Madeira has three endemic species: Trocaz Pigeon Columba trocaz which is associated with the native forest of Madeira: the Laurel Forest; Madeira Firecrest Regulus madeirensis, normally observed on forested areas and the rare Zino's Petrel Pterodroma madeira, a threatened seabird that nests on the highest mountains of Madeira. Regarding the Macaronesia bird species, one may observe Fea's/Desertas Petrel Pterodroma feae/deserta, Madeiran Storm-petrel Oceanodroma castro, Atlantic Canary Serinus canaria, Berthelot's Pipit Anthus berthelotti and the Plain Swift Apus unicolor.
One interesting feature of birding in Madeira is the high number of endemic subspecies from which the ornithological highlights go to the bluish Madeiran Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs maderensis and the darker colours of Barn Owl Tyto alba schmitzi and Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea schmitzi.
However, seabirds are the major attraction for birdwatchers because there are several colonies of world importance. In Madeira archipelago one may find 8 breeding seabirds species namely the rare Pterodromas (P. feae and P. madeira), Barolo's Shearwater Puffinus baroli, Madeiran Storm-petrel Oceanodroma castro and White-faced Storm Petrel Pelagodroma marina hypoleuca. This last species being confined to breed in Selvagens Islands but observed offshore on Wind Birds' Pelagic Expeditions.
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Specializing in the restoration of World War II U.S. Navy tailhook war birds, Wahl and his team work on the rarest of rare planes, returning them to better than original condition.
Located in a large hangar at the Cameron Airpark, Wahl started Vultures Row Aviation in 2010 after spending more than 25 years being an air traffic controller. He is also a pilot. What got him hooked into the business, so to speak, was restoring a North American T28 and then a North American SNJ-5C.
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Currently he and his crew are restoring a Curtiss SB2C-1A Helldiver and a Douglas SBD-4 Dauntless, both built in 1943. "In my opinion, the Dauntless was one of the coolest planes in WWII," he said.
Almost extinct, the two planes are still around because they never left the United States. The Dauntless had a mishap in 1944 on the USS Sable in Lake Michigan. It suffered an engine failure on take off, splashed over the end of the ship and sank to 310 feet, where it remained until 1994 when the Naval Museum in Pensacola, Fla., recovered the plane and later sold it. It eventually ended up in the hands of a private collector, Jim Slattery, who has his own private museum of WWII aircraft in San Diego. Wahl estimates it will take him about 4 1/2 years or about 30,000 man hours to restore it.
The Curtiss SB2C-1A Helldiver under restoration is also owned by Slattery. "There's only one Helldiver flyable in the world and there will probably never be more than three or four," Wahl said. This one is the earliest known flying Helldiver. It went to the Navy in 1943 but had a mishap in 1945. The Navy then elected to use it as fire training, meaning they lit it on fire and put it out. Then they put it on a barge with two other Helldivers, some Wildcats and Corsairs, and dumped them in Lake Washington where they sank to 150 feet.
"In 1984 two college kids found and recovered them," Wahl said. "But as soon as they did, the Navy showed up from Pensacola and said, 'Those are our planes. We're taking them.' But the kids said, 'I don't think so.' The military police ended up confiscating the planes so the two kids filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government. Long story short, a year later a federal judge said, 'OK, Navy, you wrecked them, you burned them, you dumped them, you abandoned them and you didn't even know where they were and weren't looking for them.' He then awarded the planes to the two kids and told the Navy to pay all their legal fees and to go away. And the Navy's been bitter about it ever since."
Slattery eventually bought the burned Helldiver and hired Wahl to restore it, which he estimates will take five and a half years and some 50,000 man hours. As to what it will be worth when finished, Wahl didn't want to hazard a guess, saying the planes are priceless because of their rarity.
Both are technically called dive bombers, he said, with the Helldiver capable of carrying a 2,000-pound torpedo or three 500-pound bombs, and the Dauntless carrying a smaller load. Each plane held one pilot and one tail gunner. The Dauntless is primarily the plane that won the Battle of Midway. That's its claim to fame. It's a very historical plane, but quite rare and highly sought after, noted Wahl.
Museum quality but air worthy
Wahl said during the war they built these planes as fast as they could, anticipating they would only have a short life. "They expected them to be shot down. Most airplanes didn't survive the war. But the ones that did survive, they only expected to survive a year. Few combat vets came back. Lots of pilots were shot down. Lots of planes were left overseas. Few made it back to the United States," he said.
Wahl estimates there are only 20 or 30 Dauntless planes left of the original 7,000 built. The Pensacola Naval Air Museum has quite a number of them. But only three are air worthy. He estimated it cost about $120,000 to $180,000 to build a Douglas Dauntless and $180,000 to $200,000 to build a Helldiver. But once restored, their owners usually don't sell them because they are priceless.
However, the restored planes are not empty hulks. "The planes we work on are museum quality but air worthy," said Wahl's wife, Carol. And checking their air worthiness is Chuck, who tests them before they are delivered to their owners. "They are designed to be flown regularly and not just sit in a museum," said Chuck, who flies his at air events all the time.
However, these vintage planes do come with some limitations. They can only be flown during the day and in good weather and can't be used for hire or for paying customers. They also have to fly with modern radios in them, although they are taken out during judging competitions.
"You take the modern radios out and they look 100 percent like a time capsule from WWII," said Chuck.
Gunning for glory
Adding to the authenticity of these restored planes is the gunner ring. Able to rotate so the gunner could face forward during landing, it could rotate in other directions so the gunner could fire at will. The restored planes will eventually have their gunner ring back plus a replica gun and ammo.
"It looks real, you just can't fire it or we'll have ATF all over us," laughed Chuck. "One guy wanted to do that with his. He has property in Minnesota, so the ATF said, you get one day to fire live ammo, the plane can't be in the air, you have to build a bunker behind the airplane, and one of us has to be here. But he went through all the hassle just so he could fire the guns."
Wahl said once the restorations of the Dauntless and Helldiver are complete, they will be entered into competitions with the two largest being the EAA AirVenture Convention at Oshkosh, Wis., and the National Aviation Heritage Invitational in Reno.
"Most major collectors are pilots. And guys with big dollars want history," said Wahl. "They want to keep history and take them to air shows. To see what the greatest generation flew and how we won WWII."
Wahl says his business is his way of helping to preserve aviation history, "because once these planes are gone, they are gone. They will never make them again, never fight World War II again. Everything is different now. There was such a drive during WWII to produce this kind of airplane and there will never be again. So it's really historical aviation artifacts that we keep authentic and fly."
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Have I commented on this one before? I keep coming back to it while I'm browsing, because it is just so beautiful. Out of all the fractal images I've seen on DA, this is one of my absolute favorites.
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New Life/Old Faithful in the Herb Garden!
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- My Farmhouse Kitchen said...
I get so excited when I see herbs come back...i just noticed tarragon and lots of borage and flat leaf parsely coming up everywhere...even in the gravel paths....am going to go scatter some forget me not seeds later..
more rain on the way....
more later, dear one
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It is very exciting, Kary! Hope you and Buddy are staying dry! Love, Nancy xxx
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