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2006-09-12 Iraq

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Posted by Besoeker 2006-09-12 12:48|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 We need a film of that 90/270.
We pass on the copilots wet spot.

Posted by wxjames 2006-09-12 13:11|| 2006-09-12 13:11|| Front Page Top

#2 That's a great story! Thanks Besoeker, for finding it. This part made me chuckle, being a 1911-A1 man:

Walking down the crew entry steps with my lowest-bidder, Beretta 92F, 9 millimeter strapped smartly to my side, I look around and thank God, not Allah, I'm an American and I'm on the winning team. Then I thank God I'm not in the Army.

LOL!

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-09-12 13:32|| 2006-09-12 13:32|| Front Page Top

#3 I just love it when somebody likes their work, :)

Posted by djohn66 2006-09-12 13:32|| 2006-09-12 13:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Italian focaccia pugliese, not so bad. Italian pistols in 9mm....well, thats another uh-story.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-09-12 13:36|| 2006-09-12 13:36|| Front Page Top

#5 For all who are interested, the airforce equivalent to Bill Mauldin's WWII comic "Willie & Joe", was Bob Stevens' "There I Was..."(flat on my back). Except Stevens stayed in the comic game beyond WWII, into Korea and Vietnam.

His two collections, "There I was..." and "More there I was...", not only contain his comics, but also aircraft spotter profiles and war songs from the period.

Definitely a must have for air force fans. This C-130 pilot story sounds a LOT like many of the stories from 'the good old days'.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-09-12 14:00|| 2006-09-12 14:00|| Front Page Top

#6 But now is not the time to derive the complexities of the superior, cerebral properties of the human portion of the aviator-man-machine model.

Oh yeah...this guy has GOT to be USAF.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-09-12 14:33|| 2006-09-12 14:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Ditto #6, especially the extremely modest "Naturally, and not at all surprisingly, I grease the Goodyear's on brick-one of runway 33 left..." comment. but God love those guys that do this kind of thing for us (former) ground pounders. And they get paid for that!

Posted by USN, ret. 2006-09-12 14:42|| 2006-09-12 14:42|| Front Page Top

#8 shaking like a cat shitting on a sheet of ice

That's a keeper.

This reminds me very little of being at Moffett Field's 50^th anniversary air show. As one of the biggest sub-chasing bases on the Pacific west coast, they sent up a P-3 Orion to perform aerobatic maneuvers. Kind of like watching a rhino go through some disco moves.

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-12 14:43|| 2006-09-12 14:43|| Front Page Top

#9 "YEEEEEEE-HAH!"

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-09-12 15:09|| 2006-09-12 15:09|| Front Page Top

#10 Gotta love 130 drivers. Of all the AF jockeys these guys are great. Wonderful tale.

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-09-12 15:24|| 2006-09-12 15:24|| Front Page Top

#11 Gotta love 130 drivers. Of all the AF jockeys these guys are great.

Yeah. I get to see them showing off every year at a nearby airshow hosted by the RIANG (143 Airlift Squadron at Quonset Point). They were the first to fly the C-130H and J models in combat ops, and they're damn proud to let us know it. I just love to watch those guys showing off for the home crowd.

Posted by xbalanke 2006-09-12 16:20|| 2006-09-12 16:20|| Front Page Top

#12 OK, folks, here is a "There I was" aviation story. Actually a flying magazine cartoon:

Picture this: DeHavilland Beaver on skis, flying through the snowy mountains in winter. Pilot up front, passenger in right seat, both in winter coats with fur ruffs on the hoods. Pilot sez to passenger:

And there I was, Captain on a 747 on a nonstop coast-to-coast flight. Plane on autopilot, feet up on the panel, stu in my lap, drink in my hand, and into the cockpit walks the regional director of the FAA.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-09-12 16:35|| 2006-09-12 16:35|| Front Page Top

#13 Hahahahahah!

Posted by 6 2006-09-12 17:30|| 2006-09-12 17:30|| Front Page Top

#14 Hey AK Paul, you do know what that ole 747 has a cockpit hump right? So the pilot can sit on his wallet.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-09-12 17:31|| 2006-09-12 17:31|| Front Page Top

#15 I flew quite a few times in C-130s, when I was in Panama, in Vietnam, in England, and in the States. Combat take-offs were a gut-wrencher. Landed on San Andros Island (owned by Colombia, about 200 miles east of Costa Rica) once to drop off some parts for another C-130 that had made an emergency landing there. The runway is only 2800 feet, and runs uphill/downhill about 7 degrees. I don't think I ever saw the ground from the left window...

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-09-12 21:10|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-09-12 21:10|| Front Page Top

#16 353rd took me out of Zambo Dec 2001, night combat take off. 200+kts at under 100 ft. Muzzie fireworks in the hills, it was a quiet a show.

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-09-12 21:44|| 2006-09-12 21:44|| Front Page Top

#17 Jeez, I really needed this story today. And the comments, too. Really made my day. "Shaking like a cat...." Perfect!

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2006-09-12 21:46|| 2006-09-12 21:46|| Front Page Top

#18 I look around and thank God, not Allah, I'm an American and I'm on the winning team. Then I thank God I'm not in the Army.

Don't know whether to pass that to my USAF ret. spouse or my Army colleagues LOL

Posted by lotp 2006-09-12 21:48|| 2006-09-12 21:48|| Front Page Top

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