Happy Hour

"IF A LIFETIME CAN BE LIKENED TO A DAY, THEN THIS IS HAPPY HOUR!"
BUCK PENNINGTON

Mother, Mother Ocean

Mother, Mother Ocean, I've heard you call
Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall
You've seen it all, you've seen it all
Watched the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam
In your belly you hold the treasures, few have ever seen
Most of 'em dream, most of 'em dream
Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred year's too late
The cannons don't thunder, there's nothin' to plunder
I'm an over-forty victim of fate
Arriving too late, arriving too late

Yoda

"Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is."
―Yoda, to Luke Skywalker

Counted the Stars

Counted the stars on the 4th of July
Wishing we were rockets bursting in the sky
Talking about redemption and leaving things behind
I have these pictures and I keep these photographs
To remind me of a time
These pictures and these photographs
Let me know I'm doin' fine
We used to be so happy once upon a time
Once upon a time
But the sun sank west of the Mendocino County Line
And the sun sank west of the Mendocino County Line

""SOME SEE A GLASS AS HALF FULL, SOME SEE IT AS HALF EMPTY, I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHO’S DRINKING MY RUM."
Rumbear

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Hornets over Wake Island

Hornets in formation ready to refuel from a Kansas Air Guard KC135 over Wake Island. The tanker is from the 190th ARW at Topeka Forbes Field.
And I have been to Wake Island............once for a plane change in September of 1979 on a TransPac taking eight A6s back to Whidbey Island WA. Field elevation is 8 feet.
Link is to Air Attack.
With a really cool picture.
http://www.air-attack.com/images/single/1083/FA-18-Hornets-over-Wake-Island.html
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Buck said...

I've flown into Wake a couple o' few times, too. The first time I landed there I looked out the window and said to no one in particular "the pilot is gonna put this big-ass plane down on that tiny lil island? THIS will be interesting!" It was, too... mainly coz all the guys stationed there were at the terminal to stare at the women deplaning while we refueled. It was their BIG social event for the week.

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