NJ is at it (again and again)…

Posted on by March 3, 2014

It ‘does’ appear they ARE pushing outright bans, and making felons as they go…

Emily Miller has a great article about the lengths they are going to…

Thus, the experts found that at least 43 common rifles would suddenly be considered a prohibited “assault firearm,” such as the .22 caliber Marlin Model 60, Remington Nylon 66 and Winchester 190. Just having one such gun would turn a law-abiding owner into a felon overnight… Even worse, the bill has no grandfather clause and no amnesty period. So as soon as this legislation becomes law, everyone in possession of these rifles is automatically a felon and the guns are subject to seizure by the government. 

Full article at the Washington Times HERE.

In other news, it appears a pregnant woman IN LABOR was held up at gunpoint by two would be robbers in Annapolis, MD over the weekend… sigh…

If you live in one of these states, I’d say RUN away, quickly; while you still have your guns and haven’t been turned into a felon.

Wow…

Posted on by March 3, 2014

Red Bull’s flight teams are known for being ‘creative’ to put it mildly, but this is one I’ve never seen, and would NEVER have thought of even trying…

Two gliders, five human wings in formation…

No you weren’t seeing things, one of those gliders was inverted… 🙂

Kudos to Red Bull for one helluva show!!!

h/t JP

Where???

Posted on by March 2, 2014

In answer to the email from yesterday, yes we ‘were’ in a remote location… 🙂

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And the lunch choices were…IMG_1572Hint- It AIN’T Texas Brisket… sigh

But… Tabasco!!! 🙂

Overheard in the car…

Posted on by February 28, 2014

Various comments may or may not have been heard as we may or may not have been heading out to a location…

DSC00754GIF- “Are you SURE we’re supposed to be here?”

Me- “Yep, I know I’m good, y’all on the other hand…”

GIF- “I mean what is the worst they can do, shoo… er… don’t answer that…”

And then there was this one…

DSC00753GIF- “Now you’re beginning to worry me.”

GIB finally pays attention as he cell phone dies. “WTF? WHERE are we going?  And why to you yield to a…”

As a chopper goes overhead with a payload hanging.

GIB- “Oh… Never mind.”

Me- “Almost there.  One more turn…”

And the last one.

DSC00752Me- “Ummm, you guys have had all the kids you want, right?”

GIB/GIF- various mumbles…

As the radio in the car dies to static- “Yep, we’re here…”

Sigh…

“Are we having fun yet?”

“Depends on YOUR definition of fun.”

GIB- “You assholes call THIS fun?”

Smiling, “YEP!”

Really???

Posted on by February 28, 2014

So I come out from our meeting and I see this…

IMG_1571Yes, that really IS a locksmith working on the door of a Mustang convertible WITH the top down…

Said abashed individual DID lock the keys in the trunk… And the trunk switch was disabled to keep people from popping the trunk… So he got to pay out of pocket, and will NOT live this one down for a LONG, long time! 🙂

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Back in the day…

Posted on by February 26, 2014

Hangar 1 at NAS Moffett Field was actually constructed to house the USS Macon, which was built inside the hangar…

HERE are links to the construction…

Fast forward to the 1970s, and this is one corner of Hangar 1 on the west end.  Until the VAB was constructed at the Cape, Hangar 1 was the largest freestanding internal structure in the world!!!

Hangar 1 1970sVP-31 was the ‘RAG’ in those days… Went through there in 1973.  This is about 1/5 of the available hangar space, and was taken from one of the upper catwalks.

On a side note, the firewatches were actually supposed to climb the stairs up to the upper levels every watch, and it was a LONG way up there!!!  They actually found spare parts from the Macon still stored in the upper levels in the late 1970s, so I guess those firewatches didn’t always walk the ‘full’ patrols all the time (if ever).

And in the third iteration for Moffett, it looks like Google will be ‘managing’ the facilities and will re-skin Hangar 1 (all 350,000 sqft).  And will be flying balloons out of there…  Talk about full circle…

Article HERE.

Scotty Campbell took this pic in the last couple of years of Moffett as it is today…

Moffett Field today

Yes, the two hangars in the lower left are ALSO blimp hangars…

This is truly sad, especially for us old farts who can remember the heyday of 7 squadrons of P-3s flying out of here… Sadly, due to the costs in the Bay Area, this one base was eating 2/3 of the entire communities’ per diem costs to put people through VP-31. Also enlisted personnel up to E-6 with families could qualify for Food Stamps during this time!!!

In 1992 the decision was made to close Moffett for active duty VP and decommission VP-31 to save money.  The squadrons were relocated to Hawaii and NAS Whidbey Island, WA.

Another one for the YGTBSM file…

Posted on by February 17, 2014

Ran across this one while trying to find info on Asperger’s…

Micro-Aggression…

Microaggression is the idea that specific interactions between those of different races, cultures, or genders can be interpreted as small acts of mostly non-physical aggression; the term was coined by Chester M. Pierce in 1970. 

/snip/

Microagression usually involves demeaning implications and other subtle insults against minorities, and may be perpetrated against those due to gender, sexual orientation, and ability status.

There is even a website for it… And from it you can see that ‘religion’ is also creeping into it, as long as it’s Islam, nothing about Christians being persecuted or “M-A’ed”

Interestingly, none of the studies I found had ANY links to any studies of white students, any people on the right of the political spectrum or Christians and the results of any of these aggressions against them…

It is all pointed at the so called minorities, so it looks like this is another way to call those of us in the WASP mainstream racists…

I’m truly beginning to wonder if we are going to be PC’ed out of existence by the left and the so called minorities…

It sounds to me like we are now promoting ‘victimhood’ as a valid way to claim you were prosecuted…

Where does this end, and people take responsibility for their own actions???

WWVH…

Posted on by February 26, 2014

For drjim…

WWVH is the Hawaii time hack on HF (and it is still manned and working)… All us old fart aviators used this to hack out analog watches back in the day.

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