According to most people I'm well beyond help.
It still doesn't help me understand why anyone would care about the pres. landing a plane on a carrier.
He's getting press and adoration for doing what the fly-boys do as part of their job...
amish
i think it's cool, I'm not his biggest fan or anything, but it takes guts for an old man, any man for that matter, to land a plane on a MOVING boat.
It takes an even bigger man to wear pink bunny ears while getting his coffee this morning.
Yeah, I was bored...
Yeah, I was bored...
XMan
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I bet that was fun as hell. I used to work with a guy who flew cargo planes in the Navy, and he described taking off and landing on a carrier as "having sex during an automobile accident."
Also, to test the catapults, they used to bring old, scrap cars onto the carrier before they sailed out of port. Then they'd launch the cars off the deck.
Also, to test the catapults, they used to bring old, scrap cars onto the carrier before they sailed out of port. Then they'd launch the cars off the deck.
I would have fought the Secret Service about flying and landing in a Viking... but it's still cool.
Originally posted by: Electric Amish
According to most people I'm well beyond help.
It still doesn't help me understand why anyone would care about the pres. landing a plane on a carrier.
He's getting press and adoration for doing what the fly-boys do as part of their job...
amish
If you hate him so much, why are you posting in this thread? I care. Clinton never did a thing like this. Probably because all the aircraft carriers were taken away from the Army and Navy while he was in office.
And if you saw it, you would know how happy it made the people on the carrier. They have been out for 8 months. This might have been the favorite part of their whole journey.
AFAIK he didn't actually landed the plane on the carrier, the pilot did that
I didn't find it in this link, but I'm sure it's there somewhere in others and it's a bit implied in this quote:
The president told reporters that he flew the Viking for about a third of the journey. Asked whether he tried any maneuvers, he said he contented himself with simply flying a straight line, adding that today?s planes were much more sophisticated than what he flew during his days as an Air National Guard pilot in the late 1960s.
msnbc
As for it being a political stunt, well all presidents get a boost in popularity by going to war and they all get that effect of people saying that people shouldn't challenge presidents when at / near war. I think it's a pathetic fact that this happens at all (go beat up on someone else -- become more popular) , but it's hardly just a matter of Bush or even just our country.
I didn't find it in this link, but I'm sure it's there somewhere in others and it's a bit implied in this quote:
The president told reporters that he flew the Viking for about a third of the journey. Asked whether he tried any maneuvers, he said he contented himself with simply flying a straight line, adding that today?s planes were much more sophisticated than what he flew during his days as an Air National Guard pilot in the late 1960s.
msnbc
As for it being a political stunt, well all presidents get a boost in popularity by going to war and they all get that effect of people saying that people shouldn't challenge presidents when at / near war. I think it's a pathetic fact that this happens at all (go beat up on someone else -- become more popular) , but it's hardly just a matter of Bush or even just our country.
Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Why is that memorable??
WhoTF cares what the bozo does...
amish
why exactly do you hate him so much?
Any aircraft is designated Branch of Service 1. If the pres were flying to the Lincoln on a SH-60, that would still be called Navy 1.
This CH-46E is assigned to HMX-1 (the Presidential Squadron) of the Marine Corps. I worked with several guys who had been attached to that squadron. Frogs (nicknamed due to how they look from the front end when sitting on the flightline) by law cannot carry the President or Vice-President.
This CH-46E is assigned to HMX-1 (the Presidential Squadron) of the Marine Corps. I worked with several guys who had been attached to that squadron. Frogs (nicknamed due to how they look from the front end when sitting on the flightline) by law cannot carry the President or Vice-President.
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