Okay, *Barb* sez it's yer birthday -- Neffi.
Yup, the Castle's UltraLight (aircraft, not non-alcoholic beer) Expert, Andre-the-Pole's alter(ed state) ego, who holds the distinction of being the only Denizen FuzzyBear Lioness ever pulled a sawed-off shotgun on in one of the early comment parties!
Got somethin' special for ya, Neff -- and it's even from your stomping grounds (as in, west of the Mississippi)! Yessiree, Bob, it's a *rare* one-off technical illustration (okay, technically, it's a cartoon, quibble-quibble) of the beast flown by every ARNG aviator who transitioned into the Warsaw Pact tanker's worst nightmare -- even after the WarPac ceased to exist.
The Western Army Aviation Training Site's TH-1F.
The *training* version of the AH-1F, with all the fragile, frangible, and friable stuff removed, making it suitable for practice touchdown autorotations.
When you chopped the throttle, the sucker dropped out of the sky like a greased dump truck -- if you were a cat-hair off judging your rate of closure, it got *interesting* at the bottom.
And so, without further ado (or adon't), Happy Birthday, Neff!
Let the 80/87 flow!
Yup, the Castle's UltraLight (aircraft, not non-alcoholic beer) Expert, Andre-the-Pole's alter(ed state) ego, who holds the distinction of being the only Denizen FuzzyBear Lioness ever pulled a sawed-off shotgun on in one of the early comment parties!
Got somethin' special for ya, Neff -- and it's even from your stomping grounds (as in, west of the Mississippi)! Yessiree, Bob, it's a *rare* one-off technical illustration (okay, technically, it's a cartoon, quibble-quibble) of the beast flown by every ARNG aviator who transitioned into the Warsaw Pact tanker's worst nightmare -- even after the WarPac ceased to exist.
The Western Army Aviation Training Site's TH-1F.
The *training* version of the AH-1F, with all the fragile, frangible, and friable stuff removed, making it suitable for practice touchdown autorotations.
When you chopped the throttle, the sucker dropped out of the sky like a greased dump truck -- if you were a cat-hair off judging your rate of closure, it got *interesting* at the bottom.
And so, without further ado (or adon't), Happy Birthday, Neff!
Let the 80/87 flow!
Yeah, but not as much as I did after the daily four-hour oral eval followed by a four-hour "...and what's *this* and what does it do?" preflight followed by a two-hour checkride followed by a four-hour debrief -- every day for six weeks...
And Bill has wayyyy to much time on his hands
NAFTA & The NAACP?? *shudder*
Good thing, too- it's snowing now and tomorrow's high is forecast at -2F...
John (TA) should be getting this front in a couple days, best get the livestock rounded up!
(Bill -- proof that there can be far too much magic blue smoke in a confined space: helicopter.)
Present: HERE
@Boq, I remember the Armorer talking about the difference between a warrior and soldier. Both men fight, but the soldier fights within discipline. Since you are a Disciplined Soldier, could you *show* me how to pass the "Eye Contact" test? Part of the problem is that I have been out of the Military so long, that I'm a "Soiled Senior Citizen", aka "Dirty Old Man". Just maybe, I should ask you first, can you pass the test?
Now I can see why Bill was in Iraq. It was a matter of national security he be sent so as to keep him busy. Methinks there may be another Aspie on here other than JTG.
Another round barkeep, this is a celebration.
I beeg hearted that way, yanno?