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Q'ns about retired airframe

Hair Warrior said:
He'll be fine. He's a Russian navy-trained (GRU-trained?) officer whose "main military occupation was radio communications and info dominance" per his AW profile - which kinda sounds like the Soviet version of a cryptologic warfare officer.

Plus, Max is in Bulgaria for a huge national holiday - St George's Day a.k.a. Bulgarian Army Day on 6 May.
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Wish I'm not GRU-trained. Otherwise I'd make a lot more money?
 
Max the Mad Russian said:
No. A lot of words. Aside, I'm in Bulgaria, I'm drunk (hellish lot of domestical brandy called rakija), I'm going to be tomorrow in national aviation museum and make a picture of the only surviving Ar-196 there. And again, rakija. If I'll survive tomorrow just like that old German seaplane, I'll try to return to that text you mentioned:D
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Your Ar-196 Intel is bad. There are two more in the US. One used to be on display down the street from where I grew up.
 
Pags said:
Your Ar-196 Intel is bad. There are two more in the US. One used to be on display down the street from where I grew up.
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All Russian intel is poor. The last success was stolen blueprints of George Washington SSBN, which became Project 667A (Yankee class in NATO).
But your Arados are the gift from Prince Eugen heavy cruiser. BTW, some people believe that famous Amber Chamber was there onboard that German cruiser as well
 

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Gents,

Reading numerous books related to USN aviation, I noticed that NAs always have personal nicknames/callsigns, while NFOs just sometimes, if any. Or maybe due to the authors' negligence, NFOs' nicks were just dropped as something unimportant?
 
Treetop Flyer said:
NFO’s aren’t real people
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Most Helo and MPRA folks don't have callsigns.....I think it's a jet thing.

Every Pilot and NFO in the Prowler community had callsigns....sometimes it was their first name....and most people know what that means.
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Personal callsign is possibly unique thing exists only in USN. After all, it is about liberal life - in Russia any callsign is temporary name of an official and is possibly the hardest thing to generate from rank and role, under strict fucking rules...
 
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