Random Griz Aviation Musings

[sevenhelmet]

The AF is already having "buyer's remorse" on the loss of the T-1A and current multi-engine GA (Piper Seminole) focused pipeline. I would not be surprised if AF C-130 bound students wind up at VT-35 again.

 

[Griz882]

Sad to report that LtCol Bull Meechum, USMC (aka LTC Kilgore, 9th Air Cav and often referred to as Robert Duvall) has shuffled off this mortal coil. His movies were a joy.

 

[ChuckMK23]

Sad to report that LtCol Bull Meechum, USMC (aka LTC Kilgore, 9th Air Cav and often referred to as Robert Duvall) has shuffled off this mortal coil. His movies were a joy.

Saw The Great Santini first time in 1981 - it was the Saturday night movie in the high school auditorium of the boarding school I attended in Connecticut. I missed the first 1/3 of the film due to serving detention for skipping a study hall earlier that week (I got caught off the school grounds).

But loved the film and promptly checked the Pat Conroy novel out from the school library.

The film and novel was one of a series of films and books that ignited my interest in Naval Aviation - that and the fact that my father's 2nd wife was the widow of a TA-4J SERGRAD instructor pilot who was killed in a mishap during a sortie out of Meridian.

Bob Duvall was one the greatest character actors ever. My favorite characters were indeed Bull Meechum and Gus McCrae of Lonesome Dove.

 

[GroundPounder]

Saw The Great Santini first time in 1981 - it was the Saturday night movie in the high school auditorium of the boarding school I attended in Connecticut.