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Primary selection joke gets taken too far . . .
- Thread starter nittany03
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Well he is Pro-Rec SNA.....
Don't forget post count and rep.
Now thats Honesty you just can't buy.I take blimps... it may be the only airframe I fit in.
I don't know what it was, but it was COVERED in antennas. Much to the dismay of ATC, I got an up close and personal look at it one afternoon. I'm guessing a DNR (or is it DEP now?) mission of some kind because they kept hanging out over the power plant....right on the ILS 17 FAC.
Um, no. "Blimps" are providing plenty of coverage now and have been for years. The only real threat is weather.
Are you talking about the plant over by UWF? That's where I saw it.
All 5 of the dirigibles the US Navy used crashed at least once. Four of them burned and were not salvageable. Only one survived her navy career in tact, and she had more than he fare share of mishaps.
I'd fly it for a B billet! Airline jobs are waning anyway, but they still need a blimp pilot for every major sporting event.
I've probably told this story even on AW before, but oh well.
We were doing the recce for a fly by at a college football game. At the little class E airport we were landing our 4 tac jets at (which was just terrifying, by the way, as a cessna climbed out below our division. Moron. We only made calls every 2 miles from 15 in) was stationed the blimb that was covering the game. It was parked there and there appeared to be a small crew around it. Watching us....watching them.
Later we heard that in every jet the conversation was "It'd be cool to fly one of those" about the blimp. I don't find it hard to believe that they were having a similar conversation on the ground by the blimp. Thinking about that always makes me laugh.
My only reservations about taking the blimp B billet would be the instructors. "Back in my day we flew REAL blimps. These modern day POS things, they are tiny! No legs! And all these stupid radios....."
I've probably told this story even on AW before, but oh well.
We were doing the recce for a fly by at a college football game. At the little class E airport we were landing our 4 tac jets at (which was just terrifying, by the way, as a cessna climbed out below our division. Moron. We only made calls every 2 miles from 15 in) was stationed the blimb that was covering the game. It was parked there and there appeared to be a small crew around it. Watching us....watching them.
Later we heard that in every jet the conversation was "It'd be cool to fly one of those" about the blimp. I don't find it hard to believe that they were having a similar conversation on the ground by the blimp. Thinking about that always makes me laugh.
My only reservations about taking the blimp B billet would be the instructors. "Back in my day we flew REAL blimps. These modern day POS things, they are tiny! No legs! And all these stupid radios....."
An Indian dude saying "y'all." You, sir, have been in the South too long.