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Little known / experimental aircraft
- Thread starter Randy Daytona
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Why not? In an alternate past, I could have selected VA Whidbey and logged time on the VR-1355 in a freaking stealth triangle. That could have been cool.
Maybe someone would have thought I was a UFO . . .
I was being completely facetious.
If I was flying in the Navy, I’d want to fly it too.
Fun fact: the word facetious has all the vowels and they're in alphabetical order (makes it pretty easy to spell without spell check). Facetiously is the only word that has all the vowels, that is if you believe the letter y is a vowel (and Pluto is a planet, which of course it is, damnit).
The insights from Percocet, alcohol, and a healing broken elbow
Ha! I wish... the meds were disappointing (i.e. zero side effects) and I chickened out of trying alcohol at the same time.The insights from Percocet, alcohol, and a healing broken elbow
That’s how you wind up with two broken elbows
I had to have surgery probably 11+ years ago now, and afterwards, the Navy docs gave me two prescriptions: the usual Motrin horse pills and some Vicodin-enhanced Tylenol.
I took one dose of the latter a couple of days into my convalescent leave, and it freaked me right the hell out. I was high as a kite for probably a day, and I think I drug-dialed my parents. Decided enough was enough of that crazy shit, flushed the rest, and stuck with Motrin from there on out.
That just makes the fish get stoned instead, ha ha fish. Some of them probably even hallucinated about being mammals.
I suspect the medical establishment has dialed things back on the pain management pill train these days (too much bad press). I got the same thing you did, Vicodin by a different brand name (no Motrin though), but my experience was nothing at all like you described. I suppose they prescribe small or large pills, or how many mg per pill, based on your body weight and they just tell everybody "take 1 pill every 4-6 hours." Maybe several years ago a guy my size would have got the next strongest pill. Either way, all it did was take the edge off and that was enough to let me get restful sleep, as in normal dreams and no unusual, untoward, or regrettable telecommunications... heheh.
I couldn't tell you why one doc prescribes Vicodin and another gives you Percocet (which I did not get) or whatever else they look at to write a prescription.
That's pretty funny about calling your parents.
(If they are going lighter on pain med prescriptions these days then that is a very good thing, IMHO.)
i remember being in the A-6 rag, seeing a briefing on the A-12 and some O-6 was telling us Jg's how much he wished he could swap places with us. How we were going to get to fly the Avenger in a few years, yada yada yada....
then, my first squadron decomm'd after my first cruise, then my second squadron decomm'd after my second cruise, then pretty soon there was no more VA
The dumb idea all around was my Hornet pilot NOSC CO telling me with a straight face that there was no need for VAQ, because if VFA folks could learn mining, they could learn jamming.
I’m sorry, who planned all your HARM shots again, Skipper?
15 December 1944, a UC-64 Norseman crashed in the English Channel. There was speculation that it was caused by either icing or returning RAF Lancasters dropping their payload over the ocean after a failed bombing raid. This flight had a famed passenger, the famed Big Band leader, Major Glenn Miller.
It strikes me that in that time period everybody had the same idea for a utility airplane at the same time. The Howard DGA-15 looked close to the same aircraft and saw extensive service with the Navy as an instrument and radar trainer.
