Doesn’t mean it can’t do airshows…
And ANY airplane can be rolled, most of them even successfully… 🙂
The part I loved though, was when they sent all the cameras scurrying when they went full AB on all four engines at the end of the runway…
I’m thinking that was a ‘tad’ windy and warm!
And here’s another ‘big’ airplane being barrel rolled…
This one actually is sitting in Udvar Hazy today! 🙂
It’s that time again…
I was hunting around for a good recording of Willie, but went down the rat hole and found this one…
I can remember when this one came out, and it got into a pretty good rotation on a lot of stations. Â It kinda resembled my life at the time, as I went one way, my girlfriend at the time went another. She at least did make it to Broadway…
And that brought me to this one…
For a couple of years, we did a ‘lot’ of flying… Change cows to bears and you get the drift. Lots of long flights in strange places…
As I start winding down, I’m thinking more about what I’ve been lucky enough to experience over these last 40+ years and all the people that affected me. Mostly good, some bad, but it shaped who I am today.
I’m also reflecting on the changes that have taken place in some of these locations in those 40+ years, and intellectually, I know I can’t go back. But some of the changes I see aren’t necessarily for the better, IMHO. Some of those ‘quiet’ little places are now major tourist destinations, turned from small places where one could get a sense of the real people and culture to kitschy tourist traps with no resemblance of the country or the actual people…
But life goes on… And we don’t get out alive…
Light reading and commenting for the next week or so. Y’all go read the folks on the sidebar, they’re much better at this than I am.
The current ROE our aviators are laboring under is killing morale and frustrating the hell out of them…
Courtesy of Fox News…
And we’re keeping folks on deployment 9-10 months, flying the crap out of airplanes, helos and log birds. And the F-35 is sucking down billions and isn’t capable of even dropping bombs…
Robert McNamara (and the F-111 among other things) during the Vietnam war, redux.
h/t JP
There is a rather interesting article in the LA Times, positing that there is a growing separation between the members of the military and the citizens of the USA.
And I do believe they are right. As a military member, one EARNS their pay every day and more so on deployment or in a combat zone. A not so joking statement was made back around 2004 that America was at war and Americans were at the mall.
I’m beginning to see some of the same separation we had during Vietnam, where John Q. Public didn’t ‘get’ the military. They aren’t calling the military folks baby killers (yet), but they are prosecuting them for pretty much any infractions they can find, including researching things that happened in combat that ‘might’ have violated the moving ROEs that seems to be changed on a whim.
When I hear what is happening inside the beltway with contracts, and contractors, it’s pretty obvious the administration IS going after the military anyway they can, and forcing out good leaders any chance they get.
The whole article is HERE.
Thoughts? Â Comments?
The Bureau for Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives has been the source of ire on the right, especially since their most recent proposal to ban green tip AR-15 ammo. After the failed ban attempt, ATF Director B. Todd Jones decided to resign and take a job with the NFL.
Now even the left are coming out in agreement! The left seems to have tired of all the incompetence and some of the corruption in F Troop. The issue on the right is whether we are better served with more competent enforcement of bad laws.
Go read the whole thing at Town Hall HERE.
If they move it under the FBI, that’s going to be another cluster…
Two TOTALLY different mentalities there! Or they just boot the agents and hire new FBI agents.
Your thoughts?
Nuff said…
We came, we saw, we shot…
And I sucked… Sigh…
Range time is a perishable skill, as I proved yesterday. Stopped by Casa de Keads for a few hours and we hit the local range with the Colt ‘Ponies’- Three Mustangs of various vintages all in .380.
I had the first FTE since I’ve owned the pistol, and it was a WWB round that ‘stuck’ tight enough that the extractor couldn’t pull it out. We actually had to use a brass rod to knock out of the barrel. That was really the only problem in 50 rounds through the gun. And it functioned flawlessly for having not been cleaned and carried for now almost a month. It will get it’s monthly bath when I get home tomorrow.
We got something to eat and kicked back for a few hours and just chatted. And yes, Keads needs a garage, but doesn’t have anywhere to put it… Too many ‘toys’ and not enough room! 🙂
I’m back on the road playing the dodge em cars on I-95 as you read this… Sigh
Today is a day of remembrance. We remember those who did not come home from various ‘conflicts’ over generations. Who knows how many people we have truly lost in all of the wars?
An interesting sidenote is that memorial day is the only day the flag is taking to the top of the mast return to half-mast and then at noon taken back to the top of the mast.
As you enjoy your Memorial Day weekend please take a moment and remember our fallen the men and the women all colors I’ll let Misty’s that have died in the service of these United States
Heading back to the home 20, just to get ready for another trip… BUT…
I’m taking a slight detour, going to meet up with Keads and get a little shooting in on the way back. Â Get a few frustrations out before I hit I-95 one more time…
But I did get a good dessert last night…
But a real Key Lime pie DOESN’T have meringue on it… sigh
