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, July 7, 2024

Your Sunday Morning Prop Noise

A Noratlas 2501:

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3 comments:

Stewart Dean said...

I remember seeing a newsreel video of one of these doing near acrobatics trying to evade Viet Minh AA to drop resupply to Dien Bien Phu, late in that disaster. Couldn't find it, but here is some (narrated by Walter Cronkite) footage of them doing the initial paratroop insertion there
https://youtu.be/XWY9KbIXpdI?t=816

7/07/2024 10:26 AM
Old NFO said...

Interesting copy of a C-119... Never actually seen one in the wild! Just a 'hair' smaller and less powerful than the C-119.

7/07/2024 5:08 PM
Stewart Dean said...

According to the C-119 wikipedia page, the video I reference was of a c-119, not a Noratlas...the image shown of paratroopers dropping into Dien Bien Phu (seeming taken from the newsreel) says it was a C-119. In the video today the open door in the aft fuselage is on the right side, but in the newsreel video the paratroopers are jumping out the left side. Are there doors on both sides of these planes? Anybody with more expertise?

7/07/2024 8:59 PM

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