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

Tuesday, November 08, 2011

NAPs, Again...

No, not THAT kind of naps...
It concerns the Naval Aviation Pilots. The Enlisted ones that is. 
Old NFO mentions meeting some of the last. I sort of met ACCM Jones at Chase Field, Beeville TX in 1977 when I was a young AMH2 on my first shore tour. He was flying a C-131 out of Pensacola when it blew a cylinder in the number one engine. We in the Maintenance Department of VT-26 assisted as best we could. We had the only hangar on station that would almost fit the Convair.....
History lived. So go and have a good read at The Old NFO's place, I think you will enjoy it. I did.
Nobody Asked Me
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1 comment:

XBradTC said...

Dad was MAINTOFF at NAS Sigonella when it first opened in 1960. He spent a lot of time flying in SNBs and R4D-8s. He's AC was an NAP.

The did a "feather engine" drill in the R4D one time. Poor crew coordination.

Dad feathered #1, and the NAP feathered #2. Got REAL quiet real quick.

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