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Bookends, so to speak… Both in P-3s. 1974 1991 BOTH were hot, one had humidity and typhoons, and one didn’t… And they were damn near half the world apart. But I wouldn’t trade my military career for anything. The shipmates, … Continue reading
Category Archives: TBT
This is what a haboob looks like…. I’m not sure if this is Masirah or Jeddah. Note the blown dust/dirt in the foreground. You just hoped and prayed all the covers stayed in place, otherwise the airplane was hard down … Continue reading
Back in the day pics… NAS Jacksonville, 1986 just prior to the balloon festival. In order, VP-5, 16, 24, 45, 49, 56, the operational squadrons out of JAX. Not pictured is VP-30, which was the RAG. And THIS is the … Continue reading
An interesting article on shooting sixguns in competition(s) The increasingly popular shooting matches of the National Congress of Old West Shooters and the Single Action Shooting Society are perhaps more than a healthy sport. Old West-style shooting could be considered … Continue reading
I’m so old I remember these stores… sigh… Ben Franklin stores had a little bit of everything, and were fairly cheap stores, seen mostly in the rural South, as far as I can remember. In many small towns, they were … Continue reading
Our brains have been running Hunter/Gatherer 1.0 for 60,000 years without a software upgrade… Some things are hardwired into our brains, regardless of what the POS and left want to believe… Granted the ones still living in momma/daddy’s basement in … Continue reading
Hard to believe this was nine years ago… Some pics from a ‘business’ trip to Sicily. The obligatory shot of Mt. Etna… and it wasn’t trying to erupt! Yay! The castle town of Motta… NARROW streets, as in ONE chariot … Continue reading
One of my old COs flew Spads… Including training for their nuclear (one way) mission of loft bombing and running like hell… Radial Starting (3350 engine on an A-1H) Be sure you drain both the sumps. (You can fill your … Continue reading
In honor of the last Doolittle Raider’s passing… This one is only 9 minutes of official film. This one is one of the newsreels that was shown in theaters. And this is a write up of the raid, HERE from … Continue reading
Big radial engines in full song! Super Constellation take off at dusk. R-3350s are each fitted with three power recovery turbines (PRTs). Each shrouded PRT is turned by the exhaust of six cylinders and transfers its energy back to the … Continue reading