Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Sunday, June 29, 2014

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

F-100, the first of the "Century" fighters and the first American fighter capable of supersonic flight (other than in a dive):


That airplane used so much runway that one would have thought that Republic had made F-100s.

2 comments:

Old NFO said...

Must be an early F model with no afterburner. And he DID use all of the runway!!!

LRod said...

One of my favorite lines of all time was the late Jeff Ethell, in his video of Republic's P-47, reporting that wags had opined that "if you could build a runway around the world, Republic could build an airplane that would use all of it."

When I started at ZJX in 1968, the skies were full of F4s that could do amazing things, viz a vis climb. I don't remember any Huns still flying by then.

However, when I got to ZAU in '73, the Indiana ANG was still flying them out of FWA. I got a chance to observe that they climbed like sacks of concrete compared to F4s. They were probably really something when first introduced, and I remember having a model of one about then, but I sure got soured on them with that IANG experience.

LRod
ZJX, ORD, ZAU retired