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, November 13, 2022

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

Because the Ukrainians are going to rebuild her:

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8 comments:

Glypto Dropem said...

The best part of that whole video, is just before liftoff, when the wings that were sagging so low at the 4:20 mark when it was facing the camera, gain their lift and come up to almost level.

11/13/2022 7:43 AM
irie said...

Saw that in MIA after the Haiti earthquake. Impressive! Especially taking off.

11/13/2022 7:57 AM
CenterPuke88 said...

We lost a B-17, P-63 and 6 people in Dallas yesterday, disturbing video.

Nice to see the Big Boy, it was always fun to talk to the VDA (Volga-Dnieper) flights that seemed to be hauling drilling equipment a lot to/from the Houston area.

11/13/2022 11:04 AM
Comrade Misfit said...

Besides that, we've lost two flying B-17s in as many years.

11/13/2022 11:40 AM
Old NFO said...

I saw her up close at NAS North Island a few years ago, and yes, she uses ALL the runway! Sadly, she may never take to the skies again...

11/14/2022 1:58 PM
Sikhandtake Rakhuvar said...

Wonder if the rebuild will use US jet engines, as Russian ones probably not forthcoming. At least one vid thinks GE-90s would work.

11/14/2022 2:33 PM
Comrade Misfit said...

You're probably right, S.R. My guess is that the days of Ukraine and Russia cooperating on anything other than exchanging prisoners and repatriating war dead are long over. Russia has sown the fields of Ukraine with a bitterness that won't be expunged until the 22nd Century, if even then.

11/14/2022 4:33 PM
CenterPuke88 said...

GE-90’s are too big and too powerful. For minimal change, use a CF6-80C2…fan only 3cm larger, and a small useful boost in power that wouldn’t overpower the airframe.

11/14/2022 10:26 PM

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