Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Grumman Iron Works

Carrier ops during WW2. (Google video)
Posted by on or about 21:55
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2 comments:

BadTux said...

Looks like a mashup. Corsairs and Hellcats flying off the same carrier? Hmm. Especially loved the clip of the Corsair ground-looping. It was famous for that, at least until they changed the landing gear to eliminate (or at least reduce) the bounce. You had to have balls of iron to fly one of these guys, especially "landing" (more like "controlled crashing") on that tiny little postage stamp aircraft carrier deck (was that an escort carrier in one of those clips? Damn that was a small deck!).

9/14/2007 6:11 PM
Comrade Misfit said...

Well, I had to title it *something* and I always have liked "Grumman Iron Works."

I think it was a CVE in at least one of those clips, they flew Wildcats off them.

I once chatted with a guy who did that. He said something surprising, which was that he thought the guys with real guts were the boiler tenders, for they were down there with no clue as to what was going on, no way of shooting at anything and if things went bad, they were all dead. he felt as though he at least had some control over his destiny.

9/14/2007 7:02 PM

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