Just an Earth-Bound Misfit: The Rantings of an Aging, Armed, Pinko Chick

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

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"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,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
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, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Sunday, December 27, 2015

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

B-52 minimum interval takeoff

Geez, doesn't anyone use tripods anymore? Even a monopod would have helped.

9 comments:

Deadstick said...: The movie Strategic Air Command did a much better job on one of those.; 12/27/2015 9:20 AM
hans said...: looks like they were using water injection, judging by the soot; 12/27/2015 2:48 PM
Comrade Misfit said...: Deadstick, yeas, but that one's been taken down from YouTube.; 12/27/2015 3:35 PM
Deadstick said...: What I most liked about that film was the shot of a B-36 takeoff, one continuous take, from brake release to gear up. Paul Mantz took it from a B-25 in echelon left.; 12/27/2015 10:12 PM
hans said...: used to watch B-36s take off from Ellsworth AFB outside Rapid City... the earth shook and your viscera did too when you were within a couple hundred feet of them... an astounding spectacle, especial to a 5 year old; 12/28/2015 6:19 AM
Unknown said...: Hans: You'd appreciate the current scene at Ellsworth, since they've got the Bone now. Nothing has rattled me more than having a B1 bank overhead after takeoff at Nellis. Seriously rattled my fillings, even over the 8x vipers we were launching (and the 4x eagles sitting next to us ready to go).; 12/29/2015 4:52 AM
hans said...: heh, indeed, Don... sounds like fun - too bad it's 600 miles away... right after Rochester, MN got its 9,000 foot primary B52s would come up from Omaha and do touch n gos... my dad was an ATC there and he'd give me a heads-up so I could get out there and watch... the runways and taxiways there were reinforced and 3 feet thick so RST could be a diversion field in case things Ruskie got intense; 12/29/2015 7:40 AM
Comrade Misfit said...: hans, they didn't reinforce the runways for a Shuttle diversionary field?; 12/29/2015 4:32 PM
hans said...: RST started out w a 7,000 footer... in '62 SAC parked a few B-52s there during the Cuban thing and some of the slabs cracked, so when the 9,000 ft extension happened they thickened n reinforced; 12/30/2015 3:06 PM