Posted on 09/19/2001 12:46:40 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:31:08 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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Amen. I can always tell when the pilot flying the commercial flight I'm on is an exNavy guy. They usually hit on the numbers and really use the suspension travel. Sorta like the plane has magnetic boots. Not good if you are hungover, and sometimes it upsets the ladies, but they get to the gate quicker. The exAF guys like to float halfway down the runway but the landing is usually real smoooooth.
True. The Supermarine Spitfire was, as far as I know, the only successful land-based fighter converted to shipboard duty (as the Seafire).
Infinite justice is too good for them, but they'll have to settle for it.
God bless every American in every branch of the military who is putting it on the line to serve our nation.
I was always partial to "Fatwa City" (with a picture of a punch-drunk fatted-out cauliflower-brained bint Laudin above the mission name). "Operation Tali-Banned" might be OK too, but the main thing is that we flatten them like bugs and then print up the posters that say "This is your two-bit nation on terrorism. Any questions?" in Arabic for distribution all around the region.
Frankly, I wish for a return to the good old days where a code name meant something nothing. The software companies "get it". The purpose of a code name is to leave the enemy guessing. For example, Windows 95's code name was "Chicago". VB 1.0 was "Thunder", the Pro component kit was "Rawhide", VB-DOS was "Esch" (and the Pro version was "Escher"). An effective code name has no meaning at all, has no connection to what's going on, etc.
Ideally, they'd have given this mission a name like "Operation Pinecone" or "Operation Shingle". It would ID the task to those involved in the planning and delivery, but tell the enemy absolutely nothing.
Of course, we're in an age that's much more PR-driven than we were 60 years ago, oh well.
To the contrary, they'll forget it quickly. In a "flash". :)
I was on one Northwest flight where the pilot floated over the runway at about 10 feet for maybe half its length, then dropped like a rock and hit the reverse thrusters like there was no tomorrow. Any idea where he came from? :)
(As we deplaned, it was pretty obvious that he was in the process of getting his head ripped off and handed back to him in bite sized chunks by some suits from the airline.)
Amen. I sure do miss Sam.
det dweller too said:"...The exAF guys like to float halfway down the runway but the landing is usually real smoooooth."
In reply to both statements:
Det-not always with the AF guys. The ex C-130 types sit at the end of runway at TO, run the engines up to max, then let go the brakes and you're in the air like a nuked Afghani scalded kitten.
Don and Det-The ex C-130 guys apply the same principle as above to landing. Once it's on the ground, STOP in the least amount of space possible. Brakes, reverse thrust, throw out the anchor, drag your feet, etc, as long as you stop that thing. Man I used to hate island jumping with those guys.
We did have an (almost) empty 130 one time, and came up with a novel idea to piss the pilot off. Imagine 60 150-200 lb guys running from the forward end of the cargo compartment, to the aft. Then reversing direction and running forward. Pilots HATE when their cargo shifts like that. Ahhh, the good old days.
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