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dont know if this will remote load but if it does whooo hooo!!

this one just for Goose(you can just make out the lil sharkmouth)
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they're hungry,they're angry, and they're headed your way
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is this the Warthog hokey pokey?
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I want
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it seems like there ought to be a story with this one, it's chained so was this during an engine test or was it a firefighting practice?
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some for the Tommys
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wasnt aware they landed with the brake open, figured they closed it when they throttled up for a bolter
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PROOF that RIOs are good for SOMETHING
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just call me lil sparky
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I love the smell of Fist in the afternoon,wait that dont sound right!!
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and nothing wrong with a Marauder once in a while
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and one for our resident whirly wannabe
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"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us". George Orwell

Fighting For Justice With Brains Of Steel !
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Edited by - boomer on Nov 20 2003 10:20 PM

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Very nice Pics.




* <i>And a couple of decent one-liners as well<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle></i>

Since my beloved F14's are going the way of the buffalo, I can honestly say that ifin I ever had to be a crew chief on a bird other than the Hawg there is no doubt I would want to work on the CH-53 Sea Stallion.
There is that picture of F14 nose number 106. Sit back, grab a spot of tea and let me spin you all a yarn from my flight deck days. In 1986 there was an aircraft 106 assigned to VF-14. There was this one evening, I remember it was a wet and very wild evening up on the roof. Thats what we flight deckers used to call the flight deck. I dont know whether or not they still do, but anyway we did so let me finish my story. It had a been a long day, and we had just changed shifts at about 1730 local boat time. I do remember that the sea was starting to pick up and there was storms all around us out on the horizon. We had launched around an hour before shift change and so it wouldnt be long before the night check guys would recover and turn the jets. I had just returned to my rack and had gotten into my shorts, wife beater shirt and shower shoes when the ship called away a general quarters. Not a drill but a real one. So I proceded to start to change my clothes but stopped in my tracks when the air boss called away afire on the flight deck. Well being young and stupid and forgetting EVERYTHING I had learned in my long one and a half year Navy carreer I proceded as was up onto the roof to help fight a fire. There I was in my Fruit of the Looms, wife beater shirt and boot camp issued shower shoes tromping up onto the roof to do my part. Boy was that a mistake. Even now I remember the look on that Chief yellow shirts face when he laid eyes upon moi. It was not pretty. So while I was retreating back to my hole with the remnants of my arse, I observed the charred A6 Intruder that had once been the alert tanker on catapult #2 and a lot of debris (formerly the stbd wing of 106) strewn all over the deck. Apparently when the weather had taken a turn for the worse the ship recalled all of the jets that were out. When LCDR Orrison (stick actuator) and LT Valen (RIO) were on real short final, the ship sank into a trough between swells. Aircraft 106 proceded way over the wires and to the right of the foul line. There was an alert tanker on cat #2 and the right wing of the 14 hit the the tanker and the A6 started to burn. The F14 went splash. That is where the service of aircraft 106 came to an end. Both pilot and RIO punched. The pilot got picked up right away but LT Valen had an ordeal. The weather was real bad and it took a great bit of time for the helo to get him on the winch. When they did, the cable (yes this is true) snapped and Mr Valen went splash again. We had a frigate following us trying to find him when they litteraly almost ran him over before someone on their deck spotted him and they retrieved him. Meanwhile back on the Big John we were buisy rigging the baricade. One of the F14's from VF32 that was circling while the deck crews were trying to make a ready deck, got its IFR probe stuck on the drogue of the tanker. I off course almost missed this because like a good young airman I was changing my clothes. I did however make it back in time to see something real cool. The KA-6 had guiotined the drogue except it was still attached to the F14. So with no gas and about 100 feet of fueling hose wrapped around its airframe, LCDR Sandy Jones landed that F14 into the barricade on a black black night, on a terribly pitching deck. That barricade made a mess outa that there jet too I might add. I guess I said all that just to say that we had a 106 assigned to us once. But I believe that ownership was transferred to a Capt Jones...........Capt Davey Jones. And that my fellow WT posters is about all my waffles for now.
P.S. nice Tommy pictures.

By this time tomorrow I shall have gained either a pearage or Westminster Abbey........Nelson

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VERY cool story.
BTW that AF Monopoly game is to go on sale at your local PX on Dec 1 for a touch less than $30.00

"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us". George Orwell

Fighting For Justice With Brains Of Steel !
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u want it but u wont get it u mean

If you see a bomb technician running try to keep up

Niether one of you could get 'it' if 'it' was sleeping on your bedroom floor....LOL

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evil lolol

"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us". George Orwell

Fighting For Justice With Brains Of Steel !
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The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.