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bayonetbrant

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Reply #1335 on: December 23, 2024, 08:36:25 PM

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Reply #1336 on: December 24, 2024, 08:37:09 AM

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence."
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bayonetbrant

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Reply #1337 on: December 24, 2024, 12:02:32 PM

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BanzaiCat

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Reply #1338 on: December 24, 2024, 07:31:10 PM
Man, being ILS-certified has to be a superpower. I just don't understand trusting instruments over the eyeball.  ???


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Reply #1339 on: December 25, 2024, 09:24:37 AM
I can assure you that if you fly, someone is always trusting instruments over the eyeball.

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Reply #1340 on: January 05, 2025, 09:37:40 AM

"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.

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Reply #1341 on: January 11, 2025, 10:02:18 AM
TBD-1 Devastator aircraft 6-T-4 of Torpedo Squadron 6 dropping a Mark XIII torpedo during exercises in the Pacific, Oct 20, 1941.

"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.

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Reply #1342 on: January 11, 2025, 02:48:46 PM
God - they were so slow and vulnerable.

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Reply #1343 on: January 11, 2025, 06:21:11 PM
Very true.  Still, the Fairey Swordfish was slower, 143 mph with torpedo compared to 180 mph with torpedo.
When the US Navy assigned popular names to its aircraft in late 1941, the TBD became the Devastator, although its nickname "torpecker" was still commonly use

"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.

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Reply #1344 on: January 11, 2025, 07:35:48 PM
Don't you hate it when this happens?

"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.

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Reply #1345 on: January 12, 2025, 08:15:31 PM
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1677323569872126/?s=single_unit&__cft__[0]=AZUTGjBXjdtAh3MBFyho-Kc-SaVDmkpsOIejB5zqs6RFxPqI6DNMsgrJHG4_5Jlyl9tdhn3joRPxYX0aGt2JqsZY_jQnjjDLL5XzK8UYzbJWvova_fx41CV46L6M-mFz38ETqdFI0UiXrLQqk43KCDoYq33hJ8mblYItXgSC8P5iHEp7T0gpvXoEnVAIbcHcusypaVLw3MDTHIcwyGMXvu-UBNmGOcO82lUKToeJ_F4qtlBhC59c1qAzx2rVkOIqjW0&__tn__=H-R

Pilot did survive.

"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.

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Reply #1346 on: January 13, 2025, 03:22:11 AM
Quote from: besilarius on January 11, 2025, 06:21:11 PM
Very true.  Still, the Fairey Swordfish was slower, 143 mph with torpedo compared to 180 mph with torpedo.
When the US Navy assigned popular names to its aircraft in late 1941, the TBD became the Devastator, although its nickname "torpecker" was still commonly use
Didn't know that. That's why you're the history dude around here  :notworthy:

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Reply #1347 on: February 03, 2025, 04:35:40 PM
https://www.facebook.com/reel/971893174920356/?s=single_unit&__cft__[0]=AZWRpJoz2eaEk2tIk_01klY57V1ja2kNqU7Rrj2qMvULtQ9v7OeOlyBA9yqHtUHwhHCRSDBnHRuUlHAH9RBg55r_xcFVJYKrOFOuaB2RqE-urfCk5wHyzOFCDOU8dX2SBrM5lyJX3RLLJ05M-FjhIEQjZISzPwBMd7xIUN6rLyc87arhrG6LZJ95DrGa2H3ti7dRkV5FOj0I01KjREtW8WHyN5xDN5M1705koSUgnP5iZG8eb4WanwlnEdbgWYFcsOA&__tn__=H-R

F35 and Blue Angels.

"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.

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