Stupid Questions about Naval Aviation (Part 3)

[707guy]

I think Pax in pre-NAVAIR HQ days used to have some sort of “remote” stamp. A peer of mine was a navy brat and was born on NAS Pax. Not in Leonardtown though like my kids mind you, but on Pax. Apparently the Base Clinic used to be a no-kidding base hospital with delivery rooms and what not.

My son was born in the base hospital at Pax in '91. They received their first ultrasound machine a few months before he was born. Prior to that the closest machine was at Bethesda.

 

[Brett327]

Yeah, there is a high level of arsenic in the ground water out there, plus pesticide runoff. There’s also evidently a JP fuel pipeline that runs through town out to NAS as well. Anyway, there was a cancer cluster about 20 years ago and all of the above were suspected as the cause, and the treatment plant was part of the settlement. I remember my first air wing trip out there in ‘04 or so seeing these notices all over the BOQ that the tap water was totally fine to drink now.

Except that the hard water still tastes like shit. Dunno why anyone would drink it for that reason alone, but I’m forever spoiled by PNW tap water.

 

[insanebikerboy]

I’m forever spoiled by PNW tap water.

Is that an euphemism for beer?

 

[Brett327]

I guess it could be, but the tap water here really is amazing.

 

[picklesuit]

Is that an euphemism for beer?

Minor threadjack...
Is it “a euphemism” or “an euphemism”?
Reading “an euphemism” out loud sounds weird.

I think the “y” sound at the beginning let’s you use an “a”. Kind of like “a yellow lab”

Sorry, way off topic, back to your carcinogen discussion.

 

[Judge Q]

Minor threadjack...
Is it “a euphemism” or “an euphemism”?
Reading “an euphemism” out loud sounds weird.

I think the “y” sound at the beginning let’s you use an “a”. Kind of like “a yellow lab”

Sorry, way off topic, back to your carcinogen discussion.

I say "a euphemism" because I'm from real America where the tap water causes cancer and whether you use "an" is based on the sound not the letter.

 

[Uncle Fester]

I say "a euphemism" because I'm from real America where the tap water causes cancer and whether you use "an" is based on the sound not the letter.

I always found it interesting/amusing listening to my Royal Navy and RAF instructors at 120, and whether we were flying in “an ‘Awkeye” or “a Hawkeye” depending on how posh they were.

 

[Judge Q]

I always found it interesting/amusing listening to my Royal Navy and RAF instructors at 120, and whether we were flying in “an ‘Awkeye” or “a Hawkeye” depending on how posh they were.

Bringing us back around to stupid questions, I was under the impression the Brits didn't fly the Hawkeye, briefly considered it and decided not to go with it. But there were RAF and RN instructors in 120 for a platform their service didn't fly?

 

[AIRMMCPORET]

Do SNA get flight pay in training?

 

[insanebikerboy]

Minor threadjack...
Is it “a euphemism” or “an euphemism”?
Reading “an euphemism” out loud sounds weird.

I think the “y” sound at the beginning let’s you use an “a”. Kind of like “a yellow lab”

Sorry, way off topic, back to your carcinogen discussion.

I actually went back and forth on typing "a" or "an".

 

[insanebikerboy]

Do SNA get flight pay in training?

Yes, they are regular active duty officers and get paid accordingly.

 

[AIRMMCPORET]

Yes, they are regular active duty officers and get paid accordingly.

Thank you ?

 

[nittany03]

I always found it interesting/amusing listening to my Royal Navy and RAF instructors at 120, and whether we were flying in “an ‘Awkeye” or “a Hawkeye” depending on how posh they were.

I’m not as violent as @squeeze, so I don’t need to build an Internet face-stabbing machine (or was it a face-punching machine? Whatevs . . . ).

But I would like to build one that remotely slaps people in the face every time they say or write “an historic.”

 

[Uncle Fester]

Bringing us back around to stupid questions, I was under the impression the Brits didn't fly the Hawkeye, briefly considered it and decided not to go with it. But there were RAF and RN instructors in 120 for a platform their service didn't fly?

They don’t; the RN flies the Sea King SKASAC and the RAF has AWACS and the Sentinel R1. But absent some variations of style, NATO intercept controllers all do it the same way, so we exchange some AIC instructors. We also had RAAF Wedgetail, RCAF AWACS and French Hawkeye guys.

 

[Lesh]

(1) How much room for error is there to properly align the launch bar for the catapult shuttle, and (2) if alignment gets all jacked up, is there a taxi of shame around to the back of the line or do flight deck personnel gotta push you back?