Posted on 10/26/2009 7:57:40 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Now they are Federal Express after apparently dumping their rich history.
Iron Maiden - Aces High
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sam5omG0v0
There goes the siren that warns of the air raid
Then comes the sound of the guns sending flak
Out for the scramble weve got to get airborne
Got to get up for the coming attack.
Jump in the cockpit and start up the engines
Remove all the wheelblocks theres no time to waste
Gathering speed as we head down the runway
Gotta get airborne before its too late.
Running, scrambling, flying
Rolling, turning, diving, going in again
Run, live to fly, fly to live, do or die
Run, live to fly, fly to live. aces high.
Move in to fire at the mainstream of bombers
Let off a sharp burst and then turn away
Roll over, spin round and come in behind them
Move to their blindsides and firing again.
Bandits at 8 oclock move in behind us
Ten me-109s out of the sun
Ascending and turning our spitfires to face them
Heading straight for them I press down my guns
Rolling, turning, diving
Rolling, turning, diving, going in again
Run, live to fly, fly to live, do or die
Run, live to fly, fly to live, aces high.
good post where’s_the_Outrage?
Thanks
That's you you have to find most real news these days. The American MSM gives you puff pieces on Michelle Obama's new wardrobe. :)
“The wreckage of McGarry’s P-40 is available for public viewing at the Tango Squadron Museum, Wing 41, in Chiang Mai”
I expect to be in Chiang Mai over Christmas, I need to make it to this Museum.
A great tribute to the RAF in the Battle of Britain: love the intro with Churchill’s ‘Never Surrender’ speech.
My dad flew C-46 cargo planes over the Hump in the China-Burma-India Campaign after the fall of the Burma Road.
was posted here back in August, this stuff usually don’t get by FReepers...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2328827/posts
Made by one of the best heavier rock bands in history.
If I remember correctly MAC (military airlift command) contracted out to several “niche” airline to shuttle military personnel to predominatly over seas duty stations from the west coast. Probably east coast as well. Flying tigers were one of those and there were several other but their names escape me. This would have been in the late 60 - 70’s.
Seems like ther were three major carriers .... service was crappy, but it beat sitting backwards in an unheated space in an Air Force 135 or 141? Brrr ..... froze your behind off ... box lunches were provided and they were the same shape/ size as a saltine cracker box. Lunches were the only redeeming part of flying that way.
anybody with experiences of traveling that way, drop a note. Memory ... I forgot to take my gingko biloba again.
Cool! See if they let you take a picture.
I did a search for it, but must not have put in the right words. Thanks for the link.
I flew Air America
no problem
Reading elsewhere just now, it sounds like the AVG was brought together in China by late summer of 1941. Apparently, they didn't directly participate in hostilities until after Dec. 7, 1941.
Ditto. And Civil Air Transport.
I remember the “Hungry Tiger” restaurants in Los Angeles. They were owned by the Flying Tiger Airlines and served great seafood.
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