Let's Talk With Some Weirdos

[Hayden Goseek]

This is a MUCH younger me giving tours of the WWII aircraft on the USS Lexington at the '84 New Orleans World's Fair.
SNJ in background.

 

[Kay-T-Hammer]

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

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

That was epic.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Then someone can write a book about you! "The Tiniest Viking"

If it's a kids book, they better give me a viking beard.

Actually, just make me look like the Man-ataur from Gravity Falls

 

[RUNuts]

This is a MUCH younger me giving tours of the WWII aircraft on the USS Lexington at the '84 New Orleans World's Fair.
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The best answer we got from a tour was, "Sorry that's classified but read "Red Storm Rising".
Yep, read it. Then read it again. My first love is airplanes. Then I discovered girls. What a huge, blessed mistake that was.


They are both expensive.

 

[Hayden Goseek]

The best answer we got from a tour was, "Sorry that's classified but read "Red Storm Rising".
Yep, read it. Then read it again. My first love is airplanes. Then I discovered girls. What a huge, blessed mistake that was.


They are both expensive.

That WAS a great book. I think he was investigated because his description of submarine capabilities and operations was SO accurate, they KNEW he had to have leaked, Top Secret information. He had to go back and show it was open sourced and he just did LOTS of homework. (Pre internet)

 

[Hayden Goseek]

One of the coolest guys I ever knew was a pilot in our group. He started as a control electrician, went back and became an engineer, went back and became a doctor, went back and became a flight surgeon for NASA. When I knew him he was the top cardiovascular surgeon in Baton Rouge. Wicked smart doesn't even begin to describe this guy.
I was going up in the backseat of his T-6 (a wedding gift from his wife) and he made me put on a parachute. (No one else carried them in their planes.) He said it was her condition that he NEVER flew without one, and it was bad form to wear one and not offer the passenger one.
His instructions were "If I jettison this canopy and say jump, unbuckle and jump. If you say 'what?' you will be talking to yourself."

 

[ColtHandorf]

If it's a kids book, they better give me a viking beard.

Actually, just make me look like the Man-ataur from Gravity Falls

That's all I've got.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

That's all I've got.

 

[Chookwagn]

I thought it was a speciman jn a natural history or museum, okay? I didn't bother to look for a tiny wizard riding it

Pretty massive specimen!

Gandalf is full size

 

[Chookwagn]

I think that's in the airport in NZ?

You would be correct