Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967
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With all due respects to Paul Harvey, "And now, the rest of the story!"
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http://www.vfp62.com/IMAGES_14/TF-9J.jpg Does anyone know anything more about this TF-9J?
(9/7/16) I was instructing in VT-25 when the F9 incident took place. My best recollection of the accident: The student pilot did catch a wire but had a severe right to left approach. After going over the side he was still at full power. The LSO finally radioed the pilot to shut down. After shutting down the student jumped into the water. I don't know how he was picked up. There was no equipment on the ship able to pull the plane back aboard so the arresting gear cable was cut and the plane was lost. The student went out the next day and finished his carrier qualification.
Lt. Cdr Tom Larson, VFP-62 pilot
(3/30/15): Re the TF-9J "hanging over the side to dry out," it was BuNo 142979, from Chase Field, TX-based VT-25 "Cougars," which missed all arresting wires when trying to recover aboard Lexington, 24 May 1966. Pilot could be rescued, unhurt, fortunately. Fair winds & following seas,
-- Fabio Peña
Manager, Aircraft Carrier & Escort Carrier Archives
NavSource (http://www.navsource.org)
(11/10/13):From Air Force Col. TD:
Ok you Navy Pukes... we now know why your planes are so clean (we thought you just didn't use them!).
Air Force Pilots Always Wondered:
Q - Why do Navy airplanes need tail hooks?
A - After a tough day of flying on an aircraft carrier the planes are always washed and they use the hooks to hang the planes over the side to dry out.
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On 12/24/2021 at 12:03 PM, Sixgun Seamus said:
Yep. Big Deal. Now where is my flying car?
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7 hours ago, Buckshot Bob said:
Wellll.....
John Wayne Once Accidentally Shot a Western Star in the Behind on a Hunting Trip
Actors John Wayne and Ward Bond were compatriots for more than 30 years. Both played football at the University of Southern California. Both got their showbiz starts in the 1929 film Salute. They appeared in 23 movies together, many of them Westerns directed by John Ford.
The story goes that during a hunting trip in the 1950s, Wayne accidentally shot Bond in the butt—with one of Bond’s own shotguns. Bond wasn’t hurt badly, and the two joked about it for years. When Bond died in 1960, he willed the weapon to Wayne—who cherished it.
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4 hours ago, Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428 said:
***just heard our CEO in a company wide "town hall meeting" say that they had sorted the responses to the "anonymous" survey by location, job title, age and gender of the employee's so they can "drill down" to the core issues.... so much for anonymous.... You simply cannot make this stuff up...
The outfit I retired from did these surveys... mandatory, and guaranteed to be "totally anonymous." However, you had to indicate your gender and age and work site.
We had a staff of about 350, scattered over perhaps two dozen sites. Of the total staff, only about 30 or so of us were men.
I declined to participate in the surveys. Management attempted to reprimand me for said declination. I pointed out the reason for my lack of faith in the "anonymity" of the process. And I also pointed out that over the past five years, the less than 10% of the staff who were men had received about 90% of the disciplinary actions levied by management.
Discussion ended.
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Got 'em.
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1 hour ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:
....... were you able to find it for him ?
Of Course!
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We need a sticky cartoon thread
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