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

"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, April 8, 2018

Your Sunday Jet and Prop Noise

You get both from a C-123!

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5 comments:

Deadstick said...

Now there's an airplane that couldn't decide what it wanted for power. The prototype was a glider f'chrissake, then it was two radials, then four jets, finally a hybrid loaded with Agent Orange.

Very popular with Hollywood...its comedic apotheosis was in Con Air.

4/08/2018 9:41 AM
CenterPuke88 said...

Same thing deadstick said, another web rat hole...

Prototype XCG-20 as a glider, then convert one to a XC-123 with 2 R-2800’s (C-123B) and another to a XC-123A with 4 J-47’s (also leads to the VC-123C high speed transport proposal). You produce the C-123B and later decide that adding 2 J85’s under the wmgs is a good idea (YC-123H, then C-123K+), but just in case you also produce a few with R-44’s on the wingtips (C-123J). What a maze, without getting into the revoking of the initial production contract because of pricing scams by Kaiser.

Even better is the fact a C-123K was shot down over Nicaragua in 1986, by an SA-7. Makes me wonder if a mere C-123B would have been shot down that way, given the thermal signature would likely be much lower.

4/08/2018 11:04 AM
Comrade Misfit said...

Some C-123s were brought back from Vietnam, where they had been used as sprayers. They were so contaminated with Agent Orange that ANG and AF mechanics have had problems. I think they scrapped those airplanes rather than pay to have them decontaminated.

But my memory may be off.

4/08/2018 11:36 AM
J4rh34d said...

Watched the C-123Bs "trying" to land at Hue and DaNang. Those last few feet seemed to take forever as they clawed their way down to the runway. Definitely showed their Chase roots.

4/08/2018 12:37 PM
Leo Knight said...

I toured one of these at an air show years ago, right after the movie "Operation Dumbo Drop" came out.

4/09/2018 4:24 AM

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