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, May 14, 2017

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

F-86:



A lot of those early-generation jet fighters were ground loving hogs on the runway. An old AF F-86 pilot, who had been based in Florida, once told me that on a hot day, he regarded an 8,000' runway as marginal. But those guys were taking off with an airplane that had guns, ammunition and drop tanks.

6 comments:

deadstick said...

"ground loving hogs "

Just ask Farrell's...;-(

Tod Germanica said...

Yep, here in Sacramento in '72 a Canadian ex-military Sabre's pilot held too much pitch on takeoff and ran off the runway into an ice cream shop killing 22 and injuring 28, many of them children. Of course you could ask why an ice cream shop was just beyond a busy runway. The F-84 was even more of a ground loving sled on takeoff.

Comrade Misfit said...

Holding too much pitch on the takeoff roll is the sign of a prop pilot. Might gt away with that on a straight-wing jet like an A-10 or a Citation, dunno.

LRod said...


@Tod Germanica,

The late Jeff Ethel, he of many airplane POV videos, reported in his P-47 shoot that one needed to tightly manage the over-the-fence speed in the Jug, as it would easily land long. He related one wag's thought, "if you could build a runway around the world, Republic could build an airplane that used all of it."

LRod
ZJX, ORD, ZAU retired

3383 said...

LRod- Oscar Brand records the Republic F-84 is a "ground loving whore", so I guess Republic had more than one.

CenterPuke88 said...

3383, an insult to whores. They are all pretty good at getting things up.