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Pilot: Flying Bush was 'just awesome'
usatoday.com ^
| 2/05/03
Posted on 05/02/2003 8:46:14 AM PDT by Jakarta ex-pat
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:40:38 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Navy pilot John "Skip" Lussier has made hundreds of aircraft carrier landings but none like his pressure-filled touchdown on the USS Abraham Lincoln with President Bush in the cockpit.
"The pressure was ratcheted up just a little bit, but I tried not to think about it," Lussier said Friday on ABC's Good Morning America. "I just wanted to focus on it as a mission and make sure I got the president aboard safely."
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government
KEYWORDS: bush; carrierbush; johnlussier; navy; navyone; pictures; presidentbush
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To: dvwjr
Read rest of thread where I am suitably corrected
To: NCC-1701
"If I Recall Correctly"
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posted on
05/02/2003 9:51:26 AM PDT
by
ewing
To: ewing
From that photo, it looks like Bush was greeted by the Wiggles! :)
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posted on
05/02/2003 9:52:51 AM PDT
by
DryFly
To: RedBloodedAmerican
And yes, the two wire is preferred. Three wire.
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posted on
05/02/2003 9:53:22 AM PDT
by
TomB
To: big time major leaguer
Can you imagine Clinton trying to get into a flight suit?Only if was sized XXXPLUMP!
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posted on
05/02/2003 9:53:40 AM PDT
by
Gritty
To: Destro
Can I post it as "Breaking News?" and call it awesome? It would be awesome if the Russians actually did something useful these days, instead of exporting organized crime, weapons smuggling, and political unrest.
To: TomB
Funny, when I did some training development on the Mark 7, we taught the two wire.
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
if only! It might spare us from breaking news posts like "Bush Looks Awesome in flight suit!!" or some such pablum.
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posted on
05/02/2003 9:59:10 AM PDT
by
Destro
(Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorisim by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
To: SMEDLEYBUTLER
However, aircraft always come in at full power The author was basing that off the article the other day where the self-proclaimed aviation expert said they would be coming in with the engines in afterburner - disregarding the fact that the S-3 doesn't have afterburners.
110
posted on
05/02/2003 10:00:32 AM PDT
by
Tennessee_Bob
(Dieses sieht wie ein Job nach Nothosen aus!)
To: aloysius89
bump
111
posted on
05/02/2003 10:00:47 AM PDT
by
aloysius89
(The TRUTH shall set you free.)
To: Conservative4Ever
If I'd been George there would have been no flying in a straight line. Though the Viking is not a fast plane it is fairly agile. I'd have taken her for a little spin around the pond. Scare the Secret Service a bit.
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posted on
05/02/2003 10:04:07 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Smokers are people too, most are good people. But Will Rogers never met me.)
To: Tennessee_Bob
Why didn't smedley catch that one?
To: RedBloodedAmerican
COMNAVAIRPAC Press Release 2001:
" Pilots who are flying the appropriate glide slope will catch the number three wire, which is the preferred wire for all carrier landings."
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posted on
05/02/2003 10:04:39 AM PDT
by
TomB
To: ewing
No disrespect intended. What's up with the teletubbie colors?
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posted on
05/02/2003 10:15:46 AM PDT
by
jgrubbs
To: RedBloodedAmerican; Poohbah; SMEDLEYBUTLER
If you are working on the new configuration, i.e. the Reagan, I belive it only has 3 arresting wires. So the number two would be preferred. But the older Nimitz class carriers all have 4 wires.
I could be wrong about that though. If so, I'm sure I'll be (ahem) "vigorously" corrected.
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posted on
05/02/2003 10:15:59 AM PDT
by
TomB
To: ewing
Did you see the Atlanta Journal-Constitution this morning? They just couldn't help themselves - they had a picture and and article about the Dixie Chicks right below the picture of the president on the carrier. What a bunch of jerks!
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posted on
05/02/2003 10:18:24 AM PDT
by
ptcmama
To: jgrubbs
Color Coded Flight Deck Jerseys.......What Do They Mean?
Purple Aviation Fuels [nickname: "Grapes"] |
Blue Plane Handlers Aircraft elevator Operators Tractor Drivers Messengers and Phone Talkers |
Green Catapult and arresting gear crews Air wing maintenance personnel Air wing quality control personnel Cargo-handling personnel Ground Support Equipment (GSE) troubleshooters Hook runners Photographer's Mates Helicopter landing signal enlisted personnel (LSE) |
Yellow Aircraft handling officers Catapult and Arresting Gear Officers Plane directors |
Red Ordnancemen Crash and Salvage Crews Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) |
Brown Air wing plane captains Air wing line leading petty officers |
White Squadron plane inspectors Landing Signal Officer (LSO) Air Transfer Officers (ATO) Liquid Oxygen (LOX) crews Safety Observers Medical personnel |
118
posted on
05/02/2003 10:23:56 AM PDT
by
csvset
To: N. Theknow
You forgot to mention that he would have found a pile of stones on the flight deck to fashion in the shape of a cross for the KIA's in Iraq. While shedding the requisite tear, of course.
To: csvset
Thank you, I was wondering what all the colors were for.
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posted on
05/02/2003 10:25:50 AM PDT
by
jgrubbs
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