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Deja View

I keep finding myself in interesting places. Or places where interesting things occur.

Remember me grumpfing a fortnightplus ago that I hadn't had any luck getting re-acquainted with a flyable Cobra?

The interesting thing occuring in the interesting place I am at present is the happy discovery (to me, anyway) that not *all* the FMC AH-1Fs that the Army dumped withdrew from its inventory years ago either wound up as assets in a foreign military service or as instant condos for sushi-on-the-hoof.

And I already knew about the few flying de-mils in civil hands (FMC = decidedly *not* demilitarized).

[insert huge grin]

If tomorrow today goes as well as the last couple of days have, I head back to Jersey, get a day and a half to clean up the last items on the honeydew list (which has been growing since I've been here, naturally) and split. If everything goes as planned, I'll be several time zones east of the Prime Meridian by Tuesday morning and sufficiently jetlagged that NVG flying will be v-e-r-r-r-y interesting.

And I've been poring through the vocabulary chapter of the handy-dandy Handbook they gave me and not having any luck at all finding the phrase "Crew Rest."

Heh. "Hours and hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror." Hope you've got the newbies all trained up, Carborundum, ol' chum. Ummmmm, and speaking of the newbies, why don't you assign one of 'em to fly with me? They're all short enough to sit on my lap without obstructing my view of the instrument panel. I'm thinking Callie-whatever-her-name-is would be perfect for the job. Callie Pigeon or -- oh, yeah, that's it.

Callipygia...

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Update [1737 Central Time]: *huge. honking. grin.*

The old guy's still got it, kids -- I'm outta here at 0430 in the mornin'.

And I do believe I'll have a beer with supper. I caught the news last night and the next interesting place I'm going is getting really, *really* interesting...

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Erm, mightn't that be, uh, *visually* distracting, if she lives up to the hype of her name?
 
Oh, don't you worry bud. I got you covered. Didja know GAs are subject to recall too? I called in a few favors and found someone with enough senority and experience to handle you. Hope you aren't allergic to scales. Now I gotta get back to the newbies. They've got a busy schedule today. Brisk 20 mile jog through Darfur, evasion and survival training (disguised as tourists in Bangkok), Airplane Entropy Action Plans (courtesy of TAM Airlines), and we'll stand downrange at a few artillery ranges and practice interception and deflection of Large Kinetic Objects. If they give me any lip I'll add a detour to Filene's Basement 50% off sale. THAT ought to do it ...
 
Bill - I'm not sure that you really want a B-24 sitting on your lap.
 
Ouch. Score 1 for Barb...
 
Well, my uncle Richie told me he flew B-24s by the seat of his pants -- flying one by the obverse of the seat shouldn't be all that difficult. Personally, I think a GA's job should be thematic -- and as long as we're talking doing things at night and all that...
 
The obverse of the seat having more ... controls ... than the seat itself, of course. Speaking of beers, you'd better drink more than one. I'm betting they're frowned on in the next Really Interesting Place, although that may only apply to mil, not contractors :-)
 
The obverse of the seat having more ... controls ... than the seat itself, of course. Yup, and the additional controls on the obverse make controlling things a lot easier. With certain uncontrollable exceptions, of course, but they're still a lot of fun...
 
WAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, Chief! Be safe, and have a BLAST!
 
*ahem* should i go for three? durn echo.
 
Yeah, the ol' Obverse Seating trick brought her out of the woodwork, Barb. Teamwork, teamwork, teamwork...
 
Happy to work *closely* with you, Bill. Just make sure you bring that Obverse seat home with you intact, won't ya? *grin*
 
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