FReeper Canteen - Music Dedication - 13 Mar 10

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[AZamericonnie]

 

 

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Eva Marie Cassidy (February 2, 1963 – November 2, 1996) was an American vocalist known for her interpretations of jazz, blues, folk, gospel, country and pop classics. In 1992 she released her first album, The Other Side, a set of duets with go-go musician Chuck Brown, followed by a live solo album, Live at Blues Alley in 1996. Although she had been honored by the Washington Area Music Association, she was virtually unknown outside her native Washington, DC when she died of melanoma in 1996.

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American Tune	Eva By Heart
Imagine	Live At Blues Alley
Live At Pearl's	No Boundries
Somewhere	Songbird
Time After Time	Wonderful World
The Other Side
*Biography*

[AZamericonnie]

 

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[HopeandGlory]

Good morning Troops, Veterans and Canteeners.

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Our Flag Flying Proudly One Nation Under God

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Lord, Please Bless Our Troops, They're fighting for our Freedom.

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God Bless Our Republic

I pledge allegiance to the Flag
of the United States of America,
and to the Republic, for which it stands;
one nation UNDER GOD,
indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.

Prayers going up

[AZamericonnie]

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~Tribute to Our Troops~

[BIGLOOK]

Aloha Connie!

[SandRat]

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[alfa6]

IN

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Publius]

Do our DJ’s have a particular theme in mind for this weekend?

[AZamericonnie]

Good evening Hope...I was a tad late!:)

Thank you for our pledge, hand over heart & prayers up! *hugs*

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[alfa6]

Greetings to all the FReepers out there this fine Friday evening, time to get the Friday Flyby off the ground. Keeping with the nautical them that EL GRAN SALSERON got us started on last week with the Convair Sea Dart tonight we take a look at the Martin P6M Seamaster flying boat.

The Seamaster was designed to a 1952 specification for a flying boat patrol plane/bomber. Martin was given a contract for a design study and then two prototypes. The P6M was to be modern in every sense of the word, essentially a seagoing B-52 with a crew of four and a gross weight of about 160,000 pounds!. Power was to be provided by 4 Pratt and Whitney J-57 turbojets of 17,500 pounds of thrust mounted on top of the wings. Wing span of the Seamaster was 100 feet with a lenght of 134 feet and incorporating a T-tail. The wing tip floats were an integral part of the drooping wing. The floats were also important for the beaching and docking of the Seamaster. Another feature of the P6M was the watertight rotary bombbay. The bombbay would rotate inflight exposing the bomb racks which could hold bombs, mines, cameras or other stores.

Flight testing begin in July 1955 and progress was encouraging when on 7 December, 1955 disaster struck. One of the fears of the flight control designers was realized. One of the horizontal stabilizer control rods went to full travel, The XP6M which was traveling at high speed pitched down so sharply that the engines tore free from the wings. The wings flexed so badly that they touched beneath the aircraft just before the Seamaster broke up killing the three crew members. The second XP6M prototype carried on with the flight testing, During a test run for special vibration checks the aircraft went into a tight loop before breaking up. Fortunately the second prototype had been modified with an escape tube as a result of the crash of #1 prototype and all the crew was able to escape the ship.

A major redesign followed the crash of the second prototype designated P6M-2, this resulted in the jet engines being angled out away from the fuselage, wings changed from anhedral or drooping, to a dihedral angle. Also a new transitorized flight control and auto-pilot system was installed. Initially the Navy had ordered 24 of the Seamasters but this was cut to eighteen due to the delays with the redesign and the increased cost of the "new" design. The first production YP6M flew in February of 1959 and the US Navy boasted of the capabilities of the new Seamaster. However the program had been reduced to eight aircraft by this time and the program was terminated in the fall of 1959 with only four of the Seamasters being built. Regretably all four were scrapped. The P^M had a top speed of 600mph and a range of 3,000 miles. Well on with the pics.

First up the Seamaster on the beaching gear coming out of the water. I think this is the -2 model.

I think this is one of the two prototypes as the jet engines do not look to be canted outward.

A couple of interesting items in this picture. On the left side foreground the tail of a Martin PBM Mariner and in the background on the left a Martin P5M Marlin. And in the right rear background a ground crew man is watering the Seamaster!

Here we have one of the P6M-2 during taxing test it look like.

A rather interesting perspective of a Seamaster. From the engines I think that this is one of the two prototypes.

And to close out tonites Flyby here is 75% of the Seamasters built in flight.

We hope everybody out there has a great weekend. Stay safe and with a bit of luck we will be back tomorrow night a Saturday Sortie.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Kathy in Alaska]

It’s Music Dedication Time !!

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[AZamericonnie]

Aloha Bigs! Lookit you getting 2nd place! *hugs*

a 2

[AZamericonnie]

Good evening Scoutmaster & congrats on the new Eagle! *hugs*

a 3

[jessduntno]

Nice...sounds a little like Angela Strehli...

[AZamericonnie]

Good evening alfa!

How’s Mrs Alfa’s project going?

A weekend off for you?

*hugs*

[Professional Engineer]

Howdy ma’am

[AZamericonnie]

Good evening to you Publius! *hugs*

I can’t speak for the DJ’s but as for myself I’m in kind of a ‘torch’ singer mode.:)

A good week for you?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, alfa, and El Gran, for the Friday Flyby of the Martin P6M Seamaster. ((HUGS)) I’ll read the captions for now, and see the pics when I get home.

[SandRat]

WHEN YOU THOUGHT I WASN'T LOOKING
Written by a former child

A message every adult should read,
because children are watching you and doing as you do,
not as you say.

When you thought I wasn't looking,
I saw you hang my first painting on the refrigerator,
and I immediately wanted to paint another one.

When you thought I wasn't looking,
I saw you feed a stray cat,
and I learned that it was good to be kind to animals.

When you thought I wasn't looking,
I saw you make my favorite cake for me
and I learned that the little things can be the special things in life.

When you thought I wasn't looking,
I heard you say a prayer,
and I knew there is a God I could always talk to
and I learned to trust in God.

When you thought I wasn't looking,
I saw you make a meal and take it to a friend who was sick,
and I learned that we all have to help take care of each other.

When you thought I wasn't looking,
I saw you give of your time and money to help people who had nothing
and I learned that those who have something should give to those who don't.

When you thought I wasn't looking,
I saw you take care of our house and everyone in it
and I learned we have to take care of what we are given.

When you thought I wasn't looking,
I saw how you handled your responsibilities,
even when you didn't feel good
and I learned that I would have to be responsible when I grow up.

When you thought I wasn't looking,
I saw tears come from your eyes
and I learned that sometimes things hurt,
but it's all right to cry.

When you thought I wasn't looking,
I saw that you cared
and I wanted to be everything that I could be.

When you thought I wasn't looking,
I learned most of life's lessons
that I need to know to be a good and productive person when I grow up.

When you thought I wasn't looking,
I looked at you and wanted to say,
"Thanks for all the things I saw when you thought I wasn't looking."

LITTLE EYES SEE A LOT.

Each of us (parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, teacher or friend) influence the life of a child.

How will you touch the life of someone today?

[AZamericonnie]

Thank you for the flyby alfa....cool plane!

[Publius]

Decent week.

The great torch songs for me are Styne-and-Merill's "My Man" from "Funny Girl", and Gershwin's "The Man I Love".

I'll have to run some more contemporary torch songs through my memory banks.