Next week – something old, something new, something borrowed and definitely blue… In the meantime we offer something with a lighter touch this week, a little old school and a tip of the fedora to the plastic jet set too.
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9 August 1952 The flight of four Hawker Sea Furies were in a loose formation, scanning the terrain below hunting for targets of opportunity – opportunity in this case being trains carrying elements of the Chinese "peoples volunteer" army south to fight UN forces. Battles were still fierce this late in 1952 – even as…
From the desk of PMA-231: PMA-231 Kneeboard Volume 8, Issue 1 by Steeljaw Scribe
Off today to Norfolk to speak at the winging of the next class of replacement NFO’s at the E-2 FRS (VAW-120) – more on that later. -SJS 1 MAY 1951 Today’s subject – the torpedo attack on the floodgates of the Hwachon Dam, is an example of what today is described as thinking out of…
Sunday, 17 May 1942. PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, 7th Air Force): The 7th Air Force is placed on alert in anticipation of a possible attack on Midway. For the next 10 days the old B-18’s on hand are used on sea searches to supplement the B-17’s. VII Bomber Command receives an influx of B-17’s during…
Sixty-five years ago Guts, determination, innovation – courage were defined (and well before Joint was “cool”) Conceived in the dark aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the raid had its genesis in the idea of CAPT Frank Lowe, USN who predicted that Army twin-engine bombers could be launched form a carrier under the right…
Tomorrow we will have our Independence Day post up and in the busy comings goings of a three-day weekend, we encourage one and all to pause and ponder those words — mere words in some folks’ opinion; that our forefathers penned in Philadelphia that hot summer of 1776. Men had already died in the cause…
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Where’s the Intruders???????????????????? 😈
Ask me, sounds like a call to arms…I can find Whales and Skyhawks, but Intruders? crickets Even over at the Intruder Association’s site, nada (and we’re more than willing to post too BTW…)
-SJS
The Tomcat form video is cool-and I recognized right away that it was Roosy Roads.
That’s probably the biggest thing I miss about flying these days-not seeing that ground and other aircraft go rushing by you.
I love videos like that-But I would have used the Outlaws “Ghostrider”-more punch to the music.
Being an Outlaws fan ourselves, we would agree (and note that is the version on our iPod)…
-SJS
Hm, I’m a Johnny Cash fan but I’ve gotta agree with the both of you that the Outlaws version would’ve been a better choice.
And yes, that video was awesome.
Thank you so much for taking the time to post the videos. Whether the song is by Johnny Cash or The Otlaws, it’s most fitting for anyone who loves aviation. Please take care, sir.