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

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

F-100 "zero-length launch":



The program was played with by the Air Force, the Soviets and the Germans, but all abandoned the concept. The obvious reasons were that it would not be feasible to have a lot of pilots and fighters assigned to it without affecting the numbers available for regular tasks and, of course, they still needed a functioning runway to land at.

4 comments:

Frank Van Haste said...

Dear Miss Fit:

How's this for scary: the program as originally conceived called for the boosted takeoff and a zero-length landing on an inflatable mat! (We don' need no steenkin' runway.)

Sone details HERE.

Regards,

Frank

Nangleator said...

I forget whether this was done before they had zero-zero ejection seats. The takeoff was never my favorite part of a flight. I can't imagine how this felt.

Comrade Misfit said...

Before, I think. The zero-zero ejection seats came along in the early `60s, if what I've read about M-B is to be believed.

Cujo359 said...

Love how the F-100 pilot does a roll after takeoff, as if to celebrate living through the launch.

I think the Swedes' idea of using designated stretches of highway as emergency runways made more sense.