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/2006/04/snerk.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:54:16 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification I'm sure it's not true, but I'm also sure it's funny. And since I picked on Big Media today, this is proffered as "balance"... CNN Photographer A photographer for CNN was assigned to cover southern California's wildfires last year. He wanted pictures of the heroic work the firefighters were doing as they battled the blazes. When the photographer arrived on the scene, he realized that the smoke was so thick it would seriously impede, or even make impossible, his getting good photographs from the ground level. He requested permission from his boss to rent a plane and take photos from... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/snerk.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/snerk.html Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:28:52 -0600 Who cares? It was funny, and plausible. Stand down, Neffi! Where you been, anyway? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/snerk.html#comment-43791 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/snerk.html#comment-43791 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:03:29 -0600 Heh- sorry AW1 Tim, but that story was cartooned by Bob Stevens many years ago. His book of 25 years of AF cartoons is entitled "There I Was..." But then again co-inky-dinks do happen... mebbe your FE read the same book and couldn't pass up the opportunity ;) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/snerk.html#comment-43784 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/snerk.html#comment-43784 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 18:14:26 -0600 Comrades, Reminds me of my favorite Navy aircrew story. There I was.... We're on a NATOPS check ride, and up in the flight station of the P-3B the evaluator stands behind the flight engineer. Passing through 22K feet, the evaluator reaches up to the overhead panel and pulls the feather switch for the #4 engine. Immediately, No.4 turbine shuts down and the prop feathers. The pilots scramble to level the aircraft and pull out the emergency shutdown checklists. Calmly, with no hint of sarcasm, the flight engineer reaches up and feathers No.1 engine. As soon as it locks in place, he turns and looks over his shoulder towards the NATOPS evaluator and says: "your turn"!... Another, "I was there" moment brought to you by AW1 Tim http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/snerk.html#comment-43782 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/snerk.html#comment-43782 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:54:29 -0600 That is very funny! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/snerk.html#comment-43779 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/snerk.html#comment-43779 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:03:44 -0600 If it's not true, it should be! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/snerk.html#comment-43777 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/snerk.html#comment-43777 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:52:06 -0600 Heh. Jush, heh. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/snerk.html#comment-43772 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/snerk.html#comment-43772 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:34:42 -0600