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Offline Ripsnort

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« on: August 29, 2001, 10:24:00 AM »
"Fox Two!"


"Fox Two! check six!

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« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2001, 10:50:00 AM »
And, for your reading pleasure, "Deep Thoughts":

1. The closest I ever got to a 4.0 in high school was my blood alcohol content.

2. I live in my own little world, but it's OK, everyone knows me here.

3. I saw a rather large woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it. I said, "Thyroid problem?"

4. I don't do drugs anymore 'cause I find I get the same effect just by standing up really fast.

5. Sign In Chinese Pet Store: "Buy one dog, get one flea..."

6. Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.

7. I got a sweater for Christmas... I really wanted a screamer or a moaner.

8. If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the "terminal"?

9. I don't approve of political jokes...I've seen too many of them get elected.

10. The most precious thing we have is life, yet it has absolutely no trade-in value.

12. If life deals you lemons, make lemonade; if it deals you tomatoes, make Bloody Marys.

13. I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

14. Shopping tip: You can get shoes for 85 cents at bowling alleys.

15. I am a nobody, nobody is perfect, and therefore I am perfect.

16. I married my wife for her looks...but not the ones she's been giving me lately!

17. Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

18. Two peanuts were walking down the street. One was a salted.

20. No one ever says "It's only a game!" when their team is winning.

21. Mid-life is when you go to the doctor and you realize you are now so
old, you have to pay someone to look at you naked.

22. Mid-life has hit you when you stand naked in front of a mirror and can see your rear end without turning around.

23. If carrots are so good for the eyes, how come I see so many dead rabbits on the highway?

24. How come we choose from just two people for president and 50 for Miss America?

25. Ever notice that people who spend money on beer, cigarettes, and lottery tickets are always complaining about being broke and not feeling
well?

26. How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on.

27. Isn't having a smoking section in a restaurant like having a peeing section in a swimming pool?

28. Marriage changes passion...suddenly you're in bed with a relative.

29. Why is it that most nudists are people you don't want to see naked?

30. "Old" is when the porn movie you bring home is "Debby Does Dialysis."

31. The next time you feel like complaining remember: Your garbage disposal probably eats better than thirty percent of the people in this world.

32. Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled.

33. Every time I walk into a singles bar I can hear Mom's wise words: "Don't pick that up, you don't know where it's been."

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« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2001, 10:54:00 AM »
ROFL on those pics.  Looks like a Fox 2 though.   :D

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« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2001, 11:11:00 AM »
Yah, just relized that, been awhile since I cranked up F4...editted text  :)

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« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2001, 12:26:00 PM »
Worked with weapons systems in the Air Force and we used to get briefings on all the ordinance and certain issues in regards to fires on the aircraft.

Most of it was standard "you must be this far away in this ammount of time" to account for how long it would take for the ordinance to cook off and what the effect would be.

The AIM-9 had these specs: "You must be 1 mile away in 2 minutes".  We were usually on foot with no vehicles capable of more than 15 mph nearby.  Most of us were confident that if the time came, we could make it... and we would like it if the guys from Guinness Book of World Records were there too.

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« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2001, 12:36:00 PM »
Hehe, Deja!  Wonder if that AIM started seeking out a heat source immediatlely?

"Hey Sarge, whats for Breakfas..?  BOOOOOOM!"

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« Reply #6 on: August 29, 2001, 12:39:00 PM »
You guys ever hear the story of how McCain got shot down on the deck of the Forrestal?

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« Reply #7 on: August 29, 2001, 12:41:00 PM »
http://users.erols.com/routts/tonkin.htm

I saw video of this on cable TV once.  Scary.

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« Reply #8 on: August 29, 2001, 01:53:00 PM »
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Originally posted by funkedup:
You guys ever hear the story of how McCain got shot down on the deck of the Forrestal?

yeah, saw the documentary.

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« Reply #9 on: August 29, 2001, 01:55:00 PM »
Wow, never knew that pilot was McCain, figured that pilot for dead...

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« Reply #10 on: August 29, 2001, 04:01:00 PM »
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Wow, never knew that pilot was McCain, figured that pilot for dead...

wow...I had read about this thing before (about the big explosions on the Forrestal I mean) but never knew the reason.

So, the guy in a fully loaded, fuelled, and battle ready Skyhawk survived a hit from a ZUNI?. He was really really lucky then.

I guess that the firing system for the rockets did receive a complete revision after that incident, isnt it?.

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« Reply #11 on: August 29, 2001, 04:13:00 PM »
And here I thought the small wheels in the corners of the fins on the AIM-9 were for aerodynamical reasons...  :D

Cheers,
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« Reply #12 on: August 29, 2001, 06:28:00 PM »
134 salors died, and McCain, the man actually INSIDE the plane, was left alive??

Geez, what a lucky bastard!

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« Reply #13 on: August 29, 2001, 06:51:00 PM »
I think McCain ejected and was picked up by another ship.  I might be confusing that with another story.  

I'm guessing the Zuni's warhead didn't arm, because if it did, I don't think there would have been any pieces of McCain big enough to bury.

There was another Zuni accident on the Enterprise in 1969 that killed quite a few sailors too.   :(

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« Reply #14 on: August 29, 2001, 07:17:00 PM »
The incidnt on the Forrestal instigated the US armed forces into rethinking how we do Flightline Op's. We institude quantity-distance mandates in reguards to munitions and munition types ...ie 1.1, 1.2, 1.3. Now in the AF at least, it is absolutely forbidden to fuel and rearm a jet simultaneously, at least in peacetime training op's :) now the same rule applies in wartime too, unless of coarse the an enemy is threatening and it is nessecary to forgo that regulation.

as far as that AIM-9M Rip, the answer is no, it aint tracking anything. The RM however is live and hot cocked and all that is needed is for the pilot to make a booboo and off it goes. But the Guidance unit will not be hot until the pilot applies the power and the appropriate commands, and then he has to fire the internal generater in the GU and then all the processes within the missile start working. It starts tracking its target, previously locked on by the pilot, within a specified time (very short) after leaving the AC. This alleviates the missile tracking the same AC it is launched from.

Only reason i know is, its what i have done in the AF for the past 13 years.

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