Posted on 11/26/2014 7:24:18 AM PST by rktman
The former Space Shuttle and combat pilot lends his credibility to Breitling’s timepieces.
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So, Mark is in my part of town.
Did anyone tell him the 9th Circus just made it easier for the Peasants in CA to get Concealed Carry Permits?
Just wondering.
Aw, he’s an anti-gunner? That’s too bad.
There’s always Chris Hadfield to look up to.
Ugly watch.
I don’t consider a person who is doing everything he can to demolish out 2nd amendment rights a hero....but that’s just me!!!!
FUMK ATHYRIO!
Speaking as a former US Air Force navigator / WSO, real pilots and navigators went digital years ago - as in NLT 1990. Heck, I had a digital watch issued to me in Nav School in 1983.
Why? Because in military flying, you sometimes need to know at a glance if it is 8:43:17 or 8:43:19, and that is more obvious with digital. That is probably why, by the early 90s, military fighters had digital clocks and time-to-go and time of arrival calculations built in.
The idea that Kelly was using his analog watch on space shuttle missions in 2006 is insane. As is Kelly.
BTW - my favorite watch, on my wrist right now, is a mechanical Invicta diver with a hacking, windable mechanical movement made by Seiko. Mine is amazingly accurate for a mechanical watch, losing about 5 seconds/week. I love analog watches, but I gave them up professionally while still in F-4s...
The guy who was railing against "assault rifles" while he was buying one himself? That Mark Kelly?
For rudimentary flying, I prefer a sweep second hand. A non precision approach with timed turns is easier to track with an analog clock.
My brother learned to fly in the Navy, I learned in a Cessna. The first time he flew a GA aircraft, he about wet his pants over the “dime store” gauges. Hell, most of them were even working that day!
Mine is an olive drab wind up of uncertain parentage that my Dad wore in Vietnam. Only loses a minute or so a day. I remember him every time I wind or reset it.
Mine is an olive drab wind up of uncertain parentage that my Dad wore in Vietnam. Only loses a minute or so a day. I remember him every time I wind or reset it.
For a checkride, I planned to drop my bombs within 5 seconds of planned. If leading a package, if the plan called up to push at 14:17:38, then I could not afford to misread my analog watch and push at 14:18:38...something someone else did when I was a wingman and required to maintain radio silence, years ago.
By the late 80s, I took a large digital watch and used a clip to attach it to the glare shield. I used an analog watch on my wrist for its stopwatch.
In F-111s, we finally went digital in the cockpit around 1990-93. You could push the throttles and see the computer’s idea of your time of arrival change. I continued to carry and use my large, clip-on digital watch and my wristwatch, but they were for backup. There is no way in hell anyone in the space program was relying on their wristwatch to adjust timing in 2006, as Kelly claims.
I guess a liar lies because that is what they are. They cannot stop with lying about politics. It is their nature to be dishonest - about everything.
I prefer analog gauges for things like altimeters, engine rpm & other such things, where the trend is more important that a specific number.
What the heck do you need 'em for? Push forward on the stick, the ground gets closer, pull back, it gets farther away, keep pulling back and it gets closer again... ;-)
Well, since about 8/24/2011 I don’t think I’ve even worn a watch but maybe two or three times. Retirement means not caring what time it is. LOL! Thanks for your service and have a great Thanksgiving.
My wife used to work at the Nordstrom at South Coast Plaza. No astronauts, but a few spaced out customers. Now she’s at the Shops at Mission Viejo.
Were you a pilot with the Grace L. Ferguson Airline and Screen Door Company? (A hilarious Bob Newhart comedy piece from way back.)
Nope. But I did ride in the back of the EC-130H Compass Call for a few years. It was a blast. We had some damn good pilots. That plane, with its four engines and the vibrations from them, could put me to sleep in minutes. Heck, I fell asleep during pre-flight one time (there were eight of us in the back, sitting "on the rack", and the Load Master). It was comfy. Plus, you got used to the sounds it made, and knew when something wasn't right.
I usually sat in position one (front right side) and had a neat little line of tape to the left of me that ran from the top to the bottom of the cargo area that warned of severe propeller damage should one come loose.
A great argument to buy an Invicta. Or even a Timex. Or Casio.
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