How To Make a VAW Maintenance Dept Head Sweat…
Crane-off an E-2.
Someone pass me the Tums…
Crane-off an E-2.
Someone pass me the Tums…
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Today: … and one from the files for yesterday
Feb. 10 Strong winds and steady snowfall impede visibility on the National Mall and throughout the Washington region. Ricky Carioti-The Washington Post The winter of 1898-99 – that’s the last time the area saw this much snow. 54.4″ was the talley then – as of 1800 EDT today, we had accumulated 55.4″ (with more still…
Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous. – Mark Twain in “Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar”  Couldn’t swing a cat yesterday without encountering another story about the enlightened (now indicted) governor of Illinois, calling to mind…
From strategypage.com comes this story of life imitating art: Snakes on a Plane Bring F-16 Down Apparently, a poisonous insect or snake in the cockpit brought down a Dutch F-16 in Afghanistan last August. After a 11 month investigation, that ended up as the only plausible explanation for the loss. The dead pilot did not…
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But wait, there’s more. After they got it to the pier-then the aircraft had to be hoisted 2 more times. Once onto a barge so that it could be towed across Tokyo Bay to Kisarazu-45 miles away, where a new wing had to be put on in a less than stellar CH-47 Japanese hangar. Then flown back to Atsugi. Why?
Because an E-2 will not fit through the tunnels on the Yoko-Yoko expressway. The winds were kicking up so it was touch and go that they could get it on.
And all this, mind you, the day before 60,000 Japanese were to come on base for the Grand Illumination festival. 👿
There were a lot of people sweating, on the base, on the Kitty Hawk, and at C7F.
As an aside Steve Schmeiser says hi. He has a few less hairs today because of this.
aycarumba….. 🙁 forget the hairs, how about a digestive tract….?
– SJS