Flightdeck Friday – Bonus Edition
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas…
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas…
At the start of the ’07 Valour-IT Challenge fundraiser, we exhanged an offline challenge (and yes, a few snarks too…) with Mike over at team Air Force, the gist of which was whomever showed up Rocket Last (aka Tail-end Charlie) would host an article on the plane of the other team’s choosing – here as…
Traveling again for the next few days so posting will, perforce, be light. Stay tuned, couple of major announcements when we return that will have some influence around these parts in the coming year. In the meantime, a couple of golden oldies for your consideration over the weekend: Phantom Records – 5 Dec 1961: Commander…
Vikings. Hawkeyes. CODs. Prowlers. Whales (when they were still around)… Cats and dogs we were called. Didn’t go fast (‘cept down hill). Didn’t do afterburner flybys. Boss and Handler generaly tolerated ’em, barely, unless they went stiff wing in the wires, then all hell was unleashed. Usually got the back-end pick of the Ready Rooms…
So yes, it’s not really Friday by the calendar – but that hasn’t stopped us before. For your consideration an interesting take on this Independence Day of Americans flying a British fighter for recce missions deep into Germany, sans armor (or armour if you please) and guns, loaded with gas and cameras. Big cameras (for…
3 June 1941. Citizen Kane was playing in the theaters and the Browns score 9 runs in the 7th to drive Bob Feller out of the box and beat the Indians‚ 12-6; Joe Grace has a double in homer in the big inning. In northern Africa British and Australian troops fight losing battles against Rommel’s Afrika Korps,…
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…