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Abilene Slim SASS 81783
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26 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:
Yep. That AIM-9 came loose during landing. Happened about 15 years ago.
Somewhere down the line the image was reversed.
I can make out a correctly oriented letter E ahead of the cockpit. Could he have been landing on the centerline deck?
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18 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:
If he wuz wearing cowboy boots and they took off the bucket spikes, he could look 'em in the "eyes".
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2 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:
Fortunately it wasn’t “lit”
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5 hours ago, Pat Riot said:
Cowboy winter games…
That was taken in Leadville, CO. It is or was, an annual event. We used to stay there and ski at Ski Cooper north of town.
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52 minutes ago, Alpo said:
Bet he works for the gummint.
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36 minutes ago, Calamity Kris said:
I hate to tell you guys this but you've been fooled. I was looking for the LA Times article because I wanted to see what part of LA he was from and I found this:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gold-member/
I realize Snopes isn't very reliable either but when I couldn't find anything from the LA Times, I have to think they're correct.
I did the same, but didn’t consult Snopes. There is no story to be found about this supposed person. I’m amazed people fall for this s**t.
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6 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:
Seriously? I’ve never seen a jug launch itself like that. I would think it would have exited the cowling by then.
I’ve seen a magneto grenade itself, but the shrapnel had already left the engine compartment.
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11 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
Bottom line....something new, government subsidized, failed.
The only "subsidies" this attempt at maritime fuel savings is the usual business tax breaks
Tax breaks ARE subsidies and they are never-ending. Take away the taxpayer support and the entire green energy gambit dies overnight.
Now, let’s take this dead horse topic to a new thread and leave this meme thread alone.
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3 hours ago, Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485 said:
Then what’s it for?
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If it was efficient or practical, they’d be doing it by now. I’ll defer to the shipping operators who know to make a buck.
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1 hour ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:
Looks like it’s California and Canada compliant. But then, there’s someone who’ll think it should be banned because of “the thing that goes up in the back”.
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7 minutes ago, Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485 said:
I another war they would have called Carl "sad sack"
Or in Navy aviation, Dilbert.
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On 2/22/2024 at 9:49 PM, Alpo said:
Is that the safety bar on the chair? Or she holding a pooper scooper? If that's what she's got, maybe that's why she's wearing the mask. To block the smell.
That ain’t no pooper scooper. She‘s just a dumb**s.
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14 minutes ago, PowderRiverCowboy said:
Second look at that that a TERP or ANA so yep he is going for cover
Please translate ANA.
I just now noticed the ejected case in the air. What is the block-like device attached to the hand guard/forearm?
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1 hour ago, Pat Riot said:
I have a feeling someone is going back to 1-1 day.
That’s Biden, back when he said he was in boot camp.
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22 hours ago, PowderRiverCowboy said:
Just remembered the United States has one of a few air to air kills when it shot down itself
for the couch dweller fact checkers 21 Sept 1956
Here’s the account :
https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/news/pilot-talk/grumman-f11-tiger-shoot-itself-down/
I remember reading years ago that this phenomenon happened a time or two during combat maneuvering in WWII.
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16 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:
Wow! I wonder how that ended?
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7 hours ago, Pat Riot said:
“Posey” isn’t the “P” word I’m thinking of…
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11 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:
I'm the odd man out. Did 20 years in Naval Aviation and when I retired my Sea Duty Counter was 0000. Didn't plan it that way, just how it worked out.My first sea tour was with an EW aggressor squadron, VAQ-34 out of NAS Point Muga Ca and NAS Lemoore Ca. (We did a home port change when we transitioned from the ERA-3B and EA-7L to the FA-18) We deployed a lot training the fleet in anti-ship missile defense techniques.
My second sea tour was with VQ-1 (EP-3E) out of NAS Whidbey Island Wa. Deployed to Japan/Okinawa and Bahrain.
My last tour in the Navy was with a Fleet Introduction Team out of the old NAC Indianapolis at first with a home port change to NAWS China Lake. For a shore tour I spent more time on the road than I was at home.
BTW I have a lot of respect for those that were "Haze Gray and Under Way".
Dad was VQ-1 pilot 1958-1960 and is why we sailed to Iwakuni. Small world.
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On 2/18/2024 at 5:12 AM, Pat Riot said:
I logged 11 days aboard the troopships USS General Mann and 8 days aboard the USS General Mitchell before I was 8 years old - as one of two-dozen or so dependents. The other passengers were Marines.
That’s how we transited the Pacific in the late ‘50s & early ’60s.
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47 minutes ago, Alpo said:
I noticed we have two people clicked on the confused button. Both of them from other countries. Huh.
There used to be a singer (ODed in 2016) named Prince. Then, for some reason known only to himself, he legally changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol.
After that whenever he was mentioned in a newspaper or magazine or on television or whatever, they didn't call him Prince. They called him "the artist formerly known as Prince".
I called him TAFKAP.
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