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Close, but wrong crisis. USS Nimitz.......some miles west of lybia and next to pakistan.....

a flight of 38's was on its way to europe,they crashed were found in a glacier(I think in greenland) and refurbished,the birds were in excellent 'frozen in time' condition far as I recall....

Pets ARE family,it is all the family some have...I have a little kitty was born under my house,she the only one left of the litter as their mom up and went..yep I do love my little one,as does my wife..I understand Chief,hope her final inspection is painless...

[No problem. Technically you are both right, though. The early Fury (FJ-2 and FJ-3) was pretty close to the F-86, but later models like the FJ-4 were almost completely new aircraft. in reality the fj-1 was the daddy of the 86 as I recall,it was a dog till the wings were swept...

bright Loud colors..yep the days when our pilots flew birds that said 'we are here,what you gonna do bout it'...... p.s where can we get the skin?????

f-84, f101, f102, f106..f9f, f11f..and so on..not forgetting the british electric lighning, the vampire,the venom...the sea fury...

I think if the af wants pride and tradition they could go back to wearing the shoulder patches,like the 8th af or 5th af patches we see in old pictures and videos..that ought bring pride and history...as a aside,way I look at it,if your unit needs a uniform to instill pride,you too much in the hole by then...

the AF is searching for something they can call their own. To establish some history. Unfortunetly they are looking in the wrong place with this uniform. Storm P.S. I'm going to request that I test it here, to show them that it will not work in this environment, during my CST courses. in other words they want to be the 3rd service with a distinctive uniform..in a time of low budgets I think Sec Def would rather use the money used to develop those 3 uniforms and put it into quality of living and in retirees....nothing wrong with pride,but to forget the people is not pride.....

The firm has also received complaints from opponents of the war and war veterans, who believe the US leader does not meet the criteria for a military hero, citing the fact that he did not serve in Vietnam but rather in the Texas Air National Guard. this was at the web site you mentioned,guess its a brit site? somehow I dont believe that that many Real Vets would complain about having a President such as Mr Bush,it sure beats the hell out of that other guy that was in my white house..guess his figure would be a two for one thing,one sitting,one on err err...at very least President George SERVED,instead of going to england to organize 'peace' protests...and we All in the military and Viet vets also DO know National Guard units DID serve i nam...and yeah Mad Jeff Id get it myself.. :D

not Yet........... :D

and he can run a short campaign............. :roll:

from the fathers to the sons to the grandsons..Thank You Mr Hope!!! you brought a bit of sunshine to a lot of dark places around the world..and you did it with Class,you and bing are again together,problly handicaping the 6th?

made my eyes a bit moist..damm that is a neat site......

manly posts from the guy with machissmo. machismo is driving yourself to the hospital as you feel chest pains and smoke a marlboro....machismo is telling your mother in law to her face that she is one ugly b***...machismo is telling the line chief he's wrong..no hold on thats not machismo,thats stupid..err confused there a second.......

want its fine with me, but I still have SF on my HDD and cant play it because I own a radeon card interesting.. I also have a radeon card and have had no prob running the sim....what made this sim great was the same reason that eaw is still on my h/d,they are excellent sims,decent support and man o'man those mods.....

actually I think other than the canoe under the ra type the birds pretty much looked the same.....now internally that's another kettle of rivets

they might have been saying AirBorne Rangers.....AirBorne being the one thing ALL s/f' have as a common thing...as for pj's,yeah I would say it took big brass ones to jump out of a perfectly good helo(by the way no such as things a perfectly good airplane or helo lol) over north viet-nam or whatever l.z they are at....then of course you have the LRRP's but I think that is a acronym from another land,another lz....

thought id post this... http://members.aol.com/stlthdrvr1/pilot.html

[Always felt it should have been retained in service. It sure could carry a load of bombs, eh? The bombmeister...hehehehe. ] oh yeah,hell yeah,the mini b-52..lets see 5 mers,6 on each one..two squadrons on the deck pointing towards the pointy end of the boat,yep hell of a sight...fun to load too.. I have often wondered if any of the F-4s or A-6s are owned by private individuals now. I know that A-4 Skyhawks are popular, but perhaps the Phantoms and Intruders are too expensive to maintain there is a f-4 civilian owned,usually flown by brig gen steve ritchie,yep the one from nan,the air force ace..and yes the question I guess is still being talked about,is the pilot the ace or the rio?...

and the viggie would put a hell of a show at night burners kicking in,come to think of it it did same thing in daylight...

It certainly has lasted the test of time. When I was at Pax River in 73, it was a new aircraft. and now off it goes to museums...hell of a fate,the birds could have stuck around a long while if they had done the upgrades it needed,lot cheaper than buying hornets,which Im not that imppresed with...same fate with the intruder,now that made a hell of a show on deck with 4 loaded mers...

[The A-3D Skywarrior (or known by many as the "SkyWhale) had a history of crashes on carriers. When a "Whale" would come in for a landing, you would see everyone head for the catwalks!] not to mention the way the nose went around,up down.....lol