Let's Talk With Some Weirdos

[Aunt Angus]

Have a good friend who was in the Air Force. His squadron took a big group picture. In front of the squadron, they created a sign stating their pertinent info, along with the words "Pride, Honor, and Dignity."

Only the sign read, "Pride, Honor, and Diginigity."

 

[azurbanclucker]

Flight training and the flat spin cured me of aerobatics. Seems I've developed an inner ear issue. But that was before kids. Love is addicting. And I'm not nearly as exciting as I wanted to be.

But I'm happy, dammit.

T-6 sounds like a wonderful ride. Mine was a backseat on a T-33 on a training flight. As close as I'll ever get now. An ignorant JROTC cadet pulled the ejection handles the week before we were to go. Instead of all of us, only 9 got to ride. Missed opportunity for a lot of my friends.

The only reason the JROTC cadet lived was because the ejection seat failed to fire on the runway. The T-33 does not have zero/zero ejection seats.

You ain't been lost, until you've been lost at Mach 3+. --Blackbird driver

You heard about the Blackbird driver that requested 40,000 ft altitude from an air traffic controller?
The controller said if you can get there you can have it. Commercial airlines fly at ~30,000 feet.
The Blackbird driver responded by saying "thank you, descending to 40,000 feet."

https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Aircraft/Stories/sr-71-blackbird-speed-check-story

My fave Blackbird story, followed closely by the low speed afterburner story.

 

[Aunt Angus]

https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Aircraft/Stories/sr-71-blackbird-speed-check-story

My fave Blackbird story, followed closely by the low speed afterburner story.

Imma come back to that when I have time.

 

[Hayden Goseek]

Flight training and the flat spin cured me of aerobatics. Seems I've developed an inner ear issue. But that was before kids. Love is addicting. And I'm not nearly as exciting as I wanted to be.

But I'm happy, dammit.

T-6 sounds like a wonderful ride. Mine was a backseat on a T-33 on a training flight. As close as I'll ever get now. An ignorant JROTC cadet pulled the ejection handles the week before we were to go. Instead of all of us, only 9 got to ride. Missed opportunity for a lot of my friends.

The only reason the JROTC cadet lived was because the ejection seat failed to fire on the runway. The T-33 does not have zero/zero ejection seats.

You ain't been lost, until you've been lost at Mach 3+. --Blackbird driver

You heard about the Blackbird driver that requested 40,000 ft altitude from an air traffic controller?
The controller said if you can get there you can have it. Commercial airlines fly at ~30,000 feet.
The Blackbird driver responded by saying "thank you, descending to 40,000 feet."

When I was in the CAF, a lot of my friends flew T-6 / SNJ's so I got to do a lot of joyrides with them. One day one of them asked me if I wanted to go with him to practice aerobatics. "Sure." When we got back I thanked him and I said it was my first aero ride.
He was shocked and said if he knew, he would made it a "real good ride". (meaning I probably would have vomited). I winked and told him "I knew. THAT is why I didn't tell you."

 

[ColtHandorf]

@ColtHandorf

Morning!

I see you out there. Looking forward to a famous Colt Recap.

I think a 3D printed skeleton of a Kiwi with an egg in it would be the coolest thing for my oddity shelf

Do you sit on this shelf as well?

Okay, Colt, I think I found a compromise on the runners! I'm gonna get both colors and see which ones I like better as they grow and not keep the others. So I'm gonna get chocolates and the fawn and whites and just pick when they're older. Is that fair?

What are the odds you're actually going to sell off the color you don't like as much? Pretty sure you still have cockerels that need culling and gotten rid of.

My maples are budding... In February...
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I think they huge silver maple in my yard is going to die in the next year or two. It's been dropping limbs like crazy over the summer during the drought. The ice storm took out another big limb last week.

They're mammals, so no, but they pop out like mini adults. They're way less helpless than rabbit kits are when born

That's because the "caviomorphs" (guinea pigs, chinchillas, and capybara) gestate for much, much longer than a conventional rodent like a mouse or rat. The length of their pregnancy has created a movement in science to reclassify them as a caviomorph rather than a rodent.

If mice is the plural of mouse, then why isn't spice the plural of spouse?

Who could stand to have more than one?

Why would there be a plural for spouse?

My tulips have been coming up for a month. They got a few inches high and just stopped

My amaryllis have come up twice and been frozen back.

Ph my God, I didn't even see Gandalf

Is anyone surprised?

Y'all are feisty today.

Of course. On a day when I'm not here.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I've always wanted to go skydiving. Go out doing a viking yell or something

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Do you sit on this shelf as well?

I would if I could

 

[JacinLarkwell]

What are the odds you're actually going to sell off the color you don't like as much? Pretty sure you still have cockerels that need culling and gotten rid of.

Advertising is way easier than setting up all my equipment and finding a day with both enough time and nice enough weather.

Plus I think I might actually go for the blue Swedish now. I can work on getting just blues and silvers then, right? Don't those blues work like chicken blues?

 

[RUNuts]

When I was in the CAF, a lot of my friends flew T-6 / SNJ's so I got to do a lot of joyrides with them. One day one of them asked me if I wanted to go with him to practice aerobatics. "Sure." When we got back I thanked him and I said it was my first aero ride.
He was shocked and said if he knew, he would made it a "real good ride". (meaning I probably would have vomited). I winked and told him "I knew. THAT is why I didn't tell you."

BIL flew with a wanna be pilot while he was practicing nap of the earth in a cub. Yep, tail dragger. The guy would fly down the areas streams beneath the tree tops and make fishermen jump out of their boats. He said it was a hoot.

A lot of people wouldn't fly with him a second time.

He went on to become a helicopter pilot and got a commendation for saving the Vice President's life on an Alaskan tour when the helicopter engine failed. He said who cares about his life, I was saving my own. Honest guy.

 

[ColtHandorf]

I've always wanted to go skydiving. Go out doing a viking yell or something

You are afraid of people in uniforms, but you want to jump out of a perfectly good plane?!?!?!

Advertising is way easier than setting up all my equipment and finding a day with both enough time and nice enough weather.

Plus I think I might actually go for the blue Swedish now. I can work on getting just blues and silvers then, right? Don't those blues work like chicken blues?

That's what I told you to do in the beginning. lol But yes, Blue in ducks works just like Blue in chickens.