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Bill checks in from "Somewhere in theater"

First chance I've had to get online, but I've got pix enough to make everybody happy -- mix of old and brand new, oddball, and just weird. Lotta gun pr0n, some airplane fiddlies, Hummer and vehicle goodies.

And a patch that'll make AFSis jump through hoops.

We'll be out of here on *******, back to ********* (and wireless), then back stateside on Saturday/Sunday to work on POI. Already made one student convert from fixed wing to fling wing and got a blue-suiter O-6 halfway through his RW orientation (simulator only thus far).

Some minor booms around, but nothing close. Say "Hiya" to the gang.

Carborundum is *so* happy, I'm sure. "Some minor booms around," he sez. I wonder what Carborundum (Bill's long-suffering Guardian Angel) has to say about that...!

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"Some minor booms around," Anyone taking bets on how much he's understating things? I mean, to a helo guy, "minor booms" would seem to be anything he can see, hear and feel that doesn't actually touch him. :P
 
I was going to say, considering the TINS around here, "minor booms" could mean that he was hit, lost everything but the tail boom and still managed to fly it in. glad to hear all is wel.
 
I usually went by: if I only heard it and/or felt it on my skin but didn't feel it inside my torso, then it was a minor boom landing somewhere far away. Of course, I only admit that now that I'm back...
 
Anyway, Bill, glad to hear you are back in the thick of it and having fun...
 
It was a misspelling of "miner boons", Cheers
 
YAY! So glad to hear from you, SB!!! I knew you were "in country"... I just don't know WHICH country, lol. I know... I know... it's top secrut. I'm very curious about that patch!!!!
 
MacGyver says that "minor booms" is anything that doesn't take out BOTH rotors...eesh. Glad I'm just *now* finding that out.
 
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