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March 13th, 2005, 12:22
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Posts: 711
|  Re: Combat readiness unimportant
Here's a sample movie taken from the Magic of Flight IMAX featuring the Blue Angels. The slot guy is Scott "Snooze" Anderson. He's currently a UPS A300 f/o and probably one of the funniest guys I've had the pleasure to fly with. He's also a pretty good stick..uh, for a Navy pilot.  Microsoft HD movies Scroll down to "The Magic of Flight (IMAX)" movie. It's 96megs and runs for about 2 mins. Scott is featured as the Slot pilot. |
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March 13th, 2005, 13:18
| #27 |
| Old Skool  Join Date: May 2004 Location: Dallas TX
Posts: 1,645
| Re: Combat readiness unimportant
[ QUOTE ] The Blues have a shoe string budget and work out of a mobile home and have to scrounge for parts where as the T-Birds have all the pomp and circumstance and shiny brass of the British elite with spit shine hangar floors and tailored suits. The Blues always put on a more impressive show IMHO!  [/ QUOTE ] They're not mobile homes, but I've seen the Blues 50 year old hangers in Pensacola. They're serviceable, but not very pretty. The Blues budget is much smaller than the T-birds. The fly the cast off FA-18s that the fleet dosen't need or want. They do have absolute priorty when it comes to requestioning parts, but they are dead last when it comes to upgrades. (HMX-1 is the same way) |
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March 13th, 2005, 13:24
| #28 |
| Administrator  Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Pinal Airpark
Posts: 6,897
| Re: Combat readiness unimportant
[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] The Blues have a shoe string budget and work out of a mobile home and have to scrounge for parts where as the T-Birds have all the pomp and circumstance and shiny brass of the British elite with spit shine hangar floors and tailored suits. The Blues always put on a more impressive show IMHO! [/ QUOTE ] They're not mobile homes, but I've seen the Blues 50 year old hangers in Pensacola. They're serviceable, but not very pretty. The Blues budget is much smaller than the T-birds. The fly the cast off FA-18s that the fleet dosen't need or want. They do have absolute priorty when it comes to requestioning parts, but they are dead last when it comes to upgrades. (HMX-1 is the same way) [/ QUOTE ] Speaking of hangars, I like the way the Navy does it...with squadron offices located inside the hangar surrounding the interior with 2 to 3 stories. The way the AF does it, with the squadron building completely separate from the hangar/maintenance operation, I'm not so much up with. |
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March 13th, 2005, 23:27
| #29 |
| Junior Member  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Warner Robins Georgia
Posts: 84
| Re: Combat readiness unimportant
[ QUOTE ] Where did "preservation of one's precious bodily fluids" factor in?  (It's a reference to "Dr. Strangelove" people!) [/ QUOTE ] I love good old plan 'R' lol Strategic Air Command: The reward for a job well done is: No punishment.   |
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March 15th, 2005, 10:35
| #30 |
| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Bossier City, Louisiana
Posts: 591
| Re: Combat readiness unimportant
[ QUOTE ] The Blues always put on a more impressive show IMHO! [/ QUOTE ] Speaking of the Blues...couple of a photos! Since the KC10 could do drogue refuelings and carry a lot of stuff we did some stuff with the Blue Angles. Here's some of it! What you see!  And here's the "rest of the story", or... What you don't see!  We actually got one to approach the basket, uh, er, well...in a "special" way! But had to promise no pix as it was...well...er...not the kind of thing you want to see on CNN! |
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