P6M SeaMaster Sea basing, you see, didn’t just spring from Sea Power 21.No, indeed it was the concept behind the most extreme, and last, seaplane the Navy considered buying back in the early 1950s.Developed as a parallel track/hedge to the first (cancelled) super carrier, the United States, the concept that evolved was centered on a…
Yeah, yeah, I know — what’s a Navy guy doing wondering what kind of army he is, but somethings look to be too much fun to resist…anyway here’s my results: You scored as British and the Commonwealth. Your army is the British and the Commonwealth (Canada, ANZAC, India). You want to serve under good generals…
Folks, we’re two weeks out and the vermin and carrion eaters are crawling out from the shadows. On the one hand, you have those who wouldn’t mind another 9/11 if in the aftermath their political agenda is met. So a few innocents get off’d in the process, well, you know, it’s “All For The Greater…
(Part I here)Vital statistics:Built: 7 Aug ust 2006Delivered: 23 August 2006Mileage by 27 August 2006: 730 …yeah, it’s all that …–SJS
…and this is why nukes have PALs (well, one reason at least): And whist you are tripping the blogsphere fantastic, check out this great blog, rife with the humor endemic in Naval Aviation. Enjoy your weekend! – SJS
1212L/0812Z 16 June 1959. 78 nm east of Wonsan, North Korea, a P4M Mercator assigned to VQ-1 (BuNo 122209) is conducting another “ferret†mission in international airspace over the Sea of Japan. At the controls are LCDRs Don Mayer and Vince Anania. Fours hours into the mission a pair of silver MiG-17s approach the Mercator…
Recent discussion over in Lex’s ready room on resurrection of the COIN mission and supporting aircraft types sent your humble scribe over to the Able Dog’s site for some refresher training. In so doing, stumbled across this story that is timeless in its telling and lesson. Reproduced in part here in the hope that you,…
Black Five covers it well here as does John at Argghhh! $223M for a bridge to nowhere, but an additional $7M for troops suffering brain injuries? Nooo… Mere words fail to describe the depths this Congress continues to plumb. Pathetic. Lamentable. Wretched. Piteous. –umm, no, they all seem so…inadequate.-SJS
“But I feel Fine…” (h/t R.E.M. )Welcome to Aug 22, or, as it is known in other quarters, the 27th day of the month of Rajab of the year 1427 — the significance of which was first highlighted here . Suffice to say- we’re still here. It may have been that the thwarted British Muslim…
Your humble scribe is back from TDY to the land of real mountains and clear air — but a land also infected with the blot of PPT-itis. Alas, he returns to the epicenter of all that is malodorous about this infliction from Redmond, to find his classified and unclassified email boxes packed to the gills…
