Down in JAX for the MPRA Symposium, and this is a perfect fit… PBY- WWII P-2V7 This one is painted as VP-5 crew nine for a reason… This is the reason… 38 years, but they were returned to their families… … Continue reading
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For those that think ‘drones’ are a new thing… United States Naval Photographic Center film #11473. Antiaircraft practice aboard ship. Footage of Radioplane OQ-2 target drone. From 1945! And in other news, the USAF is converting F-16s to QF-16 drones … Continue reading
Comfort food! Growing up, a ‘comfort food’ was my grandma’s biscuits. I always remember there being a plate of them in the bread box. I was allowed two, and ONLY two. She’d split them and butter them and I was … Continue reading
One ‘old school’ and a holiday one for ya… See if you remember these… And how many fought to be the one to run it, and get out of class for a while? Remember the smell??? 🙂 I know they … Continue reading
Or how you KNOW you’re old… Sigh… On the road for a couple of days, happen to be in a meeting with a couple of old friends, as we’re chatting, and old fart (White hair, white moustache), comes up and … Continue reading
For those who think firing a missile or dropping a bomb from a UAV is a ‘new’ thing… Not so much… 🙂 And one more oldie but a goody… JP and a few others will recognize this one… Julie Gibson… … Continue reading
This one is for Ev… Know anybody in that video??? Back in the early 70s we had a ‘close encounter’ with one of these… Flying a Market Time patrol off Vietnam, and one of these came chugging directly at us … Continue reading
First guns… My first gun was a Stevens .22 (which I still have), the 94 was given to me in 1963, the 4 inch Python in 1966, and I bought the 6 inch Python in 1972 when I turned 21. … Continue reading
The B&B I stayed at on the last trip is in an old commercial building built in the 1800s, so there aren’t any closets… But my room did have an old armoire in it… I ‘think’ this one was a … Continue reading
Strange things found in the back of the cabinet… Anybody remember these? Aluminium travel cups that somehow migrated into the house and became the ‘kids’ cups… And how many of us old farts had one of these? It’s a Sony … Continue reading