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Posted by Anonymoose 2005-06-03 11:13|| || Front Page|| [11125 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Equipment problems could happen to anyone. OTOH, to have a mechanical problem during a short flight just before you intend to fly at an air show and after time at sea for checkouts .... should be embarassing.

Don't know if French arrogance will shed that like water off a duck's back, though.
Posted by too true 2005-06-03 11:17||   2005-06-03 11:17|| Front Page Top

#2 The french don't have very good credit with me either.
Regards,
Kentucky
Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-06-03 11:38||   2005-06-03 11:38|| Front Page Top

#3 I guess we know where the DeGaulle is. Highly provocative, sailing off our East Coast.
Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins  2005-06-03 11:53|| http://blog.simmins.org]">[http://blog.simmins.org]  2005-06-03 11:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Nah.

The planes, scheduled to perform Saturday at an air show at McGuire Air Force Base in Burlington County, were conducting military exercises with the U.S. Navy
Posted by too true 2005-06-03 12:01||   2005-06-03 12:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe differences in view-of-reality between the French Military and its civilian leaderhsip?
Posted by OldSpook 2005-06-03 12:24||   2005-06-03 12:24|| Front Page Top

#6 "She could not confirm the television report about the failed gasoline purchase."
Gasoline! Put that in your frog fighter jet! Another high-quality article from the Associated Press.
Posted by Tom 2005-06-03 12:26||   2005-06-03 12:26|| Front Page Top

#7 hey, Tom: the EU says all planes must use 87 octane, lead-free.

And we all know the French abide by every EU regulation ....
Posted by too true 2005-06-03 12:28||   2005-06-03 12:28|| Front Page Top

#8 ...and they must buy it in 2 liter bottles.
Posted by tu3031 2005-06-03 12:31||   2005-06-03 12:31|| Front Page Top

#9 Spook, what happened to those French senior officers who were court-martialed for passing NATO intel to Karadzic?

Also, appreciate any thoughts on this interesting nugget from an otherwise forgettable UK journalist's account of his brief stint with Marines fighting their way into Baghdad in '03: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-1636664_4,00.html

“What kind of satellite phone do you have?” asked [Marine Col.] Buck. The phone was still in my hand. I looked at it. “It’s a Thuraya,” I said.
“I’m going to have to take it,” said Buck. “I have orders to confiscate all Thuraya phones being used by media representatives.”
My jaw slackened in a visual cliché of surprise. “I need your phone,” reiterated Buck.
“Are you serious?” I asked. “Why?”
I could tell that the question irrita- ted him. Warriors don’t ask for orders to be explained. He turned to the Marine behind him.
“Staff sergeant,” he said, “did the order for the phone ban give a reason?”
“It says the French sold the codes of the phones to the Iraqis, sir,” came the reply. “It means the enemy can trace the signals, sir.”

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-06-03 12:42||   2005-06-03 12:42|| Front Page Top

#10 squeegee your own damn windows, Frogboy
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2005-06-03 12:43||   2005-06-03 12:43|| Front Page Top

#11 Gasoline! Put that in your frog fighter jet! Another high-quality article from the Associated Press.

Maybe it really was gasoline, for a car. They figure: we're stuck overnight, hell, let's hit the casinos.
Posted by Angie Schultz 2005-06-03 13:39|| http://darkblogules.blogspot.com]">[http://darkblogules.blogspot.com]  2005-06-03 13:39|| Front Page Top

#12 I didn't knew Major was senior officer.
Posted by JFM">JFM  2005-06-03 15:00||   2005-06-03 15:00|| Front Page Top

#13 I think Angie broke the code. This whole (non) story is about some French fighter jocks who concocted mechanical and weather problems so they could RON in Atlantic City and enjoy the casinos.
Posted by GK 2005-06-03 15:02||   2005-06-03 15:02|| Front Page Top

#14 fighter jocks who concocted mechanical and weather problems so they could RON in Atlantic City and enjoy the casinos.
Yeah, that's never happened before. Why do you think the specifications for the travel pods for fighters require enough space a flight bag and a set of golf clubs?
Posted by Steve ">Steve  2005-06-03 15:37||   2005-06-03 15:37|| Front Page Top

#15 gThis whole (non) story is about some French fighter jocks who concocted mechanical and weather problems so they could RON in Atlantic City and enjoy the casinos.

No, the whole story is about French pilots fleeing Socialism and asking for political asylum in the USA like in the good old days of Soviet Union. ;-)
Posted by JFM">JFM  2005-06-03 15:48||   2005-06-03 15:48|| Front Page Top

#16 Lol, JFM! That would explain why the details are so sketchy, heh.
Posted by .com 2005-06-03 15:51||   2005-06-03 15:51|| Front Page Top

#17 "Oh my God, we've got ourselves a natural disaster here."
Posted by Crash Davis 2005-06-03 15:52||   2005-06-03 15:52|| Front Page Top

#18 If they had any sense, they would have waited for the Red Flag exercises and claimed asylum in Nevada.
Posted by ed 2005-06-03 16:18||   2005-06-03 16:18|| Front Page Top

#19 How about that, the de Gaulle is there:
The planes, which had been conducting military exercises, then sought and received permission for emergency landings at the airport here around 3:45 p.m. They were parked overnight on an FAA ramp at the airport and had clearance to take off at noon to return to the French aircraft carrier de Gaulle, off the coast of Virginia.
Now why do I keep getting flashbacks of Midway?
Posted by Steve ">Steve  2005-06-03 16:22||   2005-06-03 16:22|| Front Page Top

#20 Do we surrender now, or wait for the deGaulle to put in at Norfolk for repairs?
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2005-06-03 16:32||   2005-06-03 16:32|| Front Page Top

#21 Depends on how fast they can row.
Posted by tu3031 2005-06-03 16:40||   2005-06-03 16:40|| Front Page Top

#22 I know this is going to sound snarky, but I'm serious: Has the deGaulle ever been this far from port?

(ok, so maybe it's a *little* snarky)

Posted by SteveS 2005-06-03 20:12||   2005-06-03 20:12|| Front Page Top

#23 SS: not under her own power
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2005-06-03 21:04||   2005-06-03 21:04|| Front Page Top

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