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…
Take one of these: Add your betrothed of near 25 years; Mix with a warm pre-spring evening (courtesy of DST)Apply over two-lane, county blacktop: Take as often as necessary. Caution – May Be Habit Forming…– SJS
… on the road to hell. Comes this word (via B5): The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction on troops’ online activities since the…
…and GTO. GM puts a bullet in Pontiac, Saturn, Saab and Hummer. And, of course, a greater share by the feds of the General…
So Scribe — what do pilots and NFOs talk about when things are quiet on a flight? – Lots of stuff, but some conversations you *don’t* want to hear…
44 Years + 3 Overtimes – Congrats Navy!
БУДЕТ наукой ракеты! (h/t Exile in Portales)
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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