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The Liberty Foundation's B-17 in flight over San Diego. Good in-flight shots from the top turret, bombardier's station and waist gunner's position. http://video.ap.org/v/Default.aspx?partner=en-ap&g=90ab9699-5faa-431a-a907-65966df1c77c&f=CADIU&mk=en-ap

Here's a link: http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20050515-0

The definitive answer is.... it depends. Some folks who came out of single seat cockpits (F-8s in my era) made the seamless transition to F-4s and went on with it. Some didn't do so well (insert ego as large as all outdoors here). Stories about VF-51 are legend, as they transitioned to F-4s and...

AVROC had to be the best deal goin' ... too bad I found out about it too late. ********* Yes it was... one of the few things I did right in my 5.5 years of active duty

Coming back for the "second session" of AVROC was interesting, to say the least. The first summer, we were assigned to a class and spent the whole 8 weeks together. We were in the first year of the "new" AVROC program with one 8-week session and then a follow-up after graduation. The ones before...

When we walked on board Ranger at NAS Alameda for a winter mini-cruise (what we used to call the workups before cruise before they gave them an acronym), our AI was wearing his Reefer (Peacoat with gold buttons). To a man, everyone in our San Diego-based squadron said: "What the hell is...

Was originally signed up to the program as a 1395 (SNA) They didn't do the full refraction on the eyes (doc wasn't in that drill weekend...) until after I was sworn in to the AVROC program (anyone remember that program??? Kinda like PLC for the Navy, but different...). When they did the...

It there's no physical cause to the sickness, then the mental aspect can play a big part. When I was in the F-4 RAG, one of the pilots in a class ahead of mine (who had been a SerGrad IP) said, "It isn't 'motion' sickness... it's 'emotion' sickness."

Back in the days before miracle eye surgery and 20/20 was the minimum for the 131x guys, a friend of mine, in a moment of deep thought, wondered about NFO's who didn't wear glasses. His point was -- "you can't tell what's wrong with them!"

Marines vs Navy..... I got some photo hops in an SH-3 with HS-84 when they were doing a 2-week AcDuTra on board Nimitz in 1990. There were several former Marine aviators in the squadron. When questioned about the differences, one of them said that flying in the Marines was like being in a...

Wonder how to translate "Sh!tty Kitty" into Hindi....????

I was looking for the AIM-7E2 version, but I guess it went stupid, became a water-seeker and sank in 100 fathoms :(

A friend of mine is actually in the film (the guy with the cigar on the cat). They were coming home from cruise and on the TransPac with nothing to do... well they made a movie. He said they nearly killed themselves shooting the escalator scene. Imagine being on the bottom as the bodies kept...

The "Stearman" is actually a Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N3N_Canary http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/aero/aircraft/NAF_N3N.htm

AllAmerican, Thanks for the backup. More pics here than in the hard-copy article. Here's a "Hoser" story from the Winter 2005 issue of The Hook magazine: Joe “Hoser” Satrapa was one of the legends of Naval Aviation in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. Beginning with the Naval Academy Class of ’64...

Check out the February 2008 Popular Mechanics magazine. Good article on the California fires and the aerial armada that fought it. Front and center (complete with photo) is Joe "Hoser" Satrapa, F-8/F-14/aerial gunnery legend and current CDF Turbo-Stoof driver.

Did a search and couldn't find this one. What flightsuit nametags have you used or seen with bogus names on them to "protect the innocent?" Examples: Mike Click Haywood Jablowme Gordon Schumway: Alien ECMO (for the unwashed out there, Gordon Shumway was the real name of ALF...

Take this... insert suitable liberal group in the place of "Hollywood"

There are as many reasons why people leave as there are people who leave... I'll bet if you took a survey of 100 people who got out before their 20 years was up, you'd find 100 different reasons. Some of the ones I personally saw included a very highly qualified and motivated USNR officer who...

As for the bus... (from the Firesign Theater website....)

Here's a website URL with more info: http://www.pownetwork.org/phonies/phonies376.htm

Plus you don't have to go "bock sheep"