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HS-15 Harvey Fielding and Gerry Carroll. I joined the squadron just after that happened.

"you can't let the engineers talk to the customers..." I work in a different field, but it would sure make my life easier if they could.

I agree with not wanting maintainers to be narrow focused, but, we have no rates anymore. It was said that a person could hold more than one specialty, so count specialties towards promotion. Personally, the amount of time that we spent working with the Airframes shop, because our systems were...

When I first hard of this I was a little bit pissed off. I was an aviation Machinist's Mate in the 80's. When I went to "A" school they were trying a new idea. I didn't go to Millington for "A" school, I went to HS-10 at North Island. All I was taught was SH-3 Sea Kings. No other aircraft...

I've found that it is easier and cheaper to send my luggage to my hotel by UPS. I usually stay in the same hotel every trip. If I let them know when I make my reservation there is no problem. Last time I checked in, I was told that my package was already in my room. My employer has a UPS...

Put a bunch of them together, use a single point controller and you have smart chaff.

Busy bee

It was John Young in an interview for Playboy. Only reason I remember was that I did my Senior High research paper on Columbia's first flight and my teacher failed me because she didn't consider Playboy to be an appropriate source. The head of the English Department felt otherwise.

Eject!...Eject!............Slurrrrrpppp!

There was quite a bit of politics involved there. They were going to make the F-20 in Singapore in the late 80's, but, it got shot down because the State Department said that the technology to make the wingbox was not allowed to leave the country. I had signed a contract to go over and work on...

All I know was that I was waiting on a passport to go to Singapore when the State Department shot it down.

They were going to manufacture the Tigershark under license in Singapore, but, the State Department squashed it. Apparently it had composite structures that they didn't want the manufacturing technology to leave the US.

As long as the cause of the crash wasn't the seat-stick interface, you should be fine.

There's this group that wants to see Russia step into the Middle East and slap down the US. So anything that Russia does is exciting to them.

Joking.

I want to die silently in peace like my Uncle, not screaming in terror like his passengers.

Food for thought. Why does the US Navy do "Freedom of Navigation" exercises? Think about it.

That was a long time ago. Mid 90's.

Ok. That was weird. The only one posted for Pennsylvania happens to be an ex-girlfriend of mine.

If he had, I wonder what he would be doing today? I don't think that he would be a Senator.

Will convulsing with laughter work instead?

Report: 2 Iranian pilots killed in F-5 Phantom fighter crash near Iraq border http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/04/21/report-2-iranian-pilots-killed-in-f-5-phantom-fighter-crash-near-iraq-border/#ixzz2RPDlzQN1 Doesn't anybody bother to check for accuracy anymore?

I'm pretty sure that is my brother-in-law walking wing in the first picture.

I have the DVD of the "Battle of Britain". One thing that they mention is the use of scale R/C aircraft and certain camera angles to generate some of the scenes. It was one of the first movies to do this.

Local sportsmens club I belong to has a reloading area for members use with several progressive reloaders,a brass tumbler and powder and primer storage area. We buy the powder and primers in bulk from a local shop so it isn't that expensive. The one rule is that you put your bad brass in a...

I'm glad I'm out and don't have to deal with this. On the other hand I am working on a Sunday because three of our engineers are out on maternity leave. It isn't just the Navy.

No I wasn't on the Stark. I just happened to get picked to attend.

I met him in Mayport at the memorial service for the USS Stark. It was about 120 in that hanger, so when we finished, we all went into an air conditioned room to cool off. He made a point of coming around to talk with each one of us, officer and enlisted.

From the hand signals right down to the colors of the flight deck jerseys. Was that several landings, or just one filmed from several different angles?

They tried to shortchange me on the money, so I took the pistol instead. I was able to sell it in under 3 hours for $1250.00.

I've got a couple of 9mms and a .40 S&W so I'm not really in the market for another pistol. I checked on ammo. $60 for 20 rounds. I just wanted some opinions.

Went to a gun raffle last Saturday and won this. http://www.smith-wesson.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product4_750001_750051_772501_-1_772655_770653_757964_ProductDisplayErrorView_Y I can keep it or I can take $900. I haven't made up my mind yet. Any ideas?

My sense of humor will return in 2 hours and 54 minutes. Long day. :eek:

Hey! I told the kid I'd ask.

For the HT crowd. Anybody know who the good looking blonde JG who was there is? My 20 year old nephew fell in love with her.

I was wondering if anybody from here was going to be at the Cleveland Air Show this weekend?

Damn. I just threw away the pictures I took of the C-5B's galley. I used to work for a company that built them. I threw them away when I moved.

Somewhere some mice are wishing that they had some Stingers.

Jim123, I was discharged for 10 years, had a 10% service connected disability when I first encountered Selective Service. I was going to college and the day classes started, Financial Aid calls me in and tells me that my money is being held up because I don't have a Selective Service code. I...

Sounds like a mantainance crew's version of heaven as well. One question. Who do you fly against?

I don't know about other states, but, a few years ago we had a few District Justices in Pennsylvania who would lower the charges to reckless driving or something like it, because the State got the fine money for DUI instead of the municipality. It pissed MADD off to no end. Nobody else seemed...

Well put. We are going to have to agree to disagree. Two things though, one it was the Air Force who removed the man from an officer' slot and two, I have to wonder if his arrest was for anything other than DUI, would he have lost that slot? Enjoyed the debate as always.

I thought that after WWII that there was a Congressional mandate passed that there would always be a ship named Enterprise in the US Navy.

Brett, I wouldn't know about it. Every job application I have ever filled out asks for convictions, not arrests. As a matter of fact, there is a push to make it illegal for me to even ask about convictions before hiring someone. I understand the point that you are making, I just don't agree...

My point is that if the law says .08. That's it plain and simple. If somebody is driving erratically or posing a threat to themselves or others and blows less than .08 we have other laws to charge them with, such as reckless driving. What I hate to see happen is what started this post. The...

I have been stopped at a checkpoint, coming home from work, late at night. I blew a .01, having had nothing to drink for several days. Had to lockup my car, get handcuffed, ride to the station, just to blow a 0.0 in the bigger machine at the station. Had to wait several hours to get a ride...

A NHTSA study has no credability with me. NHTSA has a vested intrest in inflating DUI statistics. Time after time they have been disproven. Right now with municipal budgets being what they are, some Police departments are pulling stunts like this to justify their grants from NHTSA and MADD...

I had just finished making reservations to be in New York City on the morning of the 18th and went back to editing the Bill of Materials on some blueprints, when the first plane hit. We thought it was a small plane. We turned on the television in time to see the second plane hit. Then we...

I want to see them dive for the ball on non-skid or fake a charge on a steel flight deck.