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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Well, we have Friday Musings , Fullbore Fridays, Beer and Babes Fridays, so I guess it’s time to roll in with Flightdeck Fridays, presented herewith. What will one find? Well, it likely won’t be the usual stuff. Sorry, but they border on the overexposed anyway. Instead this will explore some of the lesser known or…
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…
Lots going on right now – between events in North Asia, a one family attempt to stimulate the local construction economy and completing the first round of writing/editing for the BMD chapter for the book project there hasn’t been a lot of time to post. Still, there are a couple of irons in the fire,…
Yep – the fabulous Hawker Sea Fury will be the next Flightdeck Friday subject — next week when we are back from TDY. In the meantime, here’s a look at next week’s subject flying form with a previous Flightdeck Friday star. More? OK — look below the fold…
The conversation this past week has been centered on the Maritime Strategy – appropriate in light of the events of sixty-three years ago and the signatory role seapower and all three maritime services played then. While we have yet another post on the current strategy in the Alert 30 posture (day time jobs do have…
The following is an extract of a larger work I am preparing on fifty years of ASCM combat use and hopefully will be available in the coming year. – SJS Forces – Israel. The INS EILAT (K40) was originally commissioned in 1944 as the HMS ZEALOUS, a Z-class destroyer that saw extensive action as convoy…
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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.