We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/find_the_airplane.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:06:17 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification CAPT H sends this challenge to the Instalpilot (and anyone else who's game). Find, and identify, the airplane. I confess - I don't see one. But Herr Rittmeister Heinrichs assures me one is there. Photo by Ozzie Sergeant William Guthrie, the lucky Digger! (Or, if he's RAAF, whatever they call themselves... a hole in my lexicon) More stuff here (including pictures of that Barbie - some, ostensibly with bits of airplane in them... but again, I haven't a clue)... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/find_the_airplane.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/find_the_airplane.html Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:56:03 -0600 earlier in the week. Failed to post a picture along with it. My bad. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/find_the_airplane.html#comment-7377 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/find_the_airplane.html#comment-7377 Thu, 07 Oct 2004 20:03:03 -0600 This looks like a NZ P3, AP-C3 type. ??? The RNZAF Orions were delivered as P-3B's, and have since been updated and re-designated as P-3K's. One with 'AP-3C' markings is definately Ozzie, not Kiwi. It's always possible that there happened to be a RNZAF Orion at a base where the tour was (there has been one deployed to the Gulf area), but the AuDoD calls the one in the a "AP3-C Orion named (Bessie)". ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/find_the_airplane.html#comment-7376 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/find_the_airplane.html#comment-7376 Thu, 07 Oct 2004 17:25:09 -0600 Bessie Bardot. (Gallery linked to has work-safe pictures of her and others on a USO-like tour, from the AU DoD.)]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/find_the_airplane.html#comment-7359 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/find_the_airplane.html#comment-7359 Wed, 06 Oct 2004 17:34:42 -0600 (Snicker) Cheers JMH http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/find_the_airplane.html#comment-7355 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/find_the_airplane.html#comment-7355 Wed, 06 Oct 2004 14:49:57 -0600 But Dear, I was just doing a service for our readers who are deployed... morale booster and all. But I see the Instapilot was correct in his assessment of the situation. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/find_the_airplane.html#comment-7348 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/find_the_airplane.html#comment-7348 Wed, 06 Oct 2004 06:13:33 -0600 all I can find is that John won't get a new gun for Christmas. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/find_the_airplane.html#comment-7347 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/find_the_airplane.html#comment-7347 Wed, 06 Oct 2004 04:58:20 -0600 http://www.grayace.com/dex/ ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/find_the_airplane.html#comment-7342 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/find_the_airplane.html#comment-7342 Tue, 05 Oct 2004 16:06:32 -0600 Oops. Open the links in a new window (right click) SangerM http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/find_the_airplane.html#comment-7341 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/find_the_airplane.html#comment-7341 Tue, 05 Oct 2004 15:02:09 -0600 orion. More AP-3C types here and here. I can't find one with the blonde, but I've only been looking 20 minutes. :-( SangerM]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/find_the_airplane.html#comment-7340 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/find_the_airplane.html#comment-7340 Tue, 05 Oct 2004 15:00:18 -0600 Aside from the big-ass P-3 Orion in the background, I think I may be missing the joke. Granted, it's hard to raise one's eyes above the head of the comely lass in the foreground (is she one of John's "Bloggers with Boobies"?), but that old sub-hunter is sort of hard to miss... Apologies if I am being too obtuse to see what else I'm supposed to see... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/find_the_airplane.html#comment-7339 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/find_the_airplane.html#comment-7339 Tue, 05 Oct 2004 13:14:37 -0600