Officially Approved Nonsense

[buffnut453]

That reminds me of the following from years ago:


View: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xc2su7

That could've been filmed at Mildenhall. Even the dresses and make-up were accurate.

 

[GTX]

I must admit that I always wondered who in AirNZ approved that advert.

 

[nuuumannn]

I must admit that I always wondered who in AirNZ approved that advert.

Kiwi humour is an acquired taste; the best is the self-deprecating glimpses at our own culture. Air NZ's marketing often strikes gold cottoning onto it, but sometimes misses completely, like this piece of turd that received so many complaints that it was removed after the shortest period aboard the fleet.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGWX38k9nhY

This is one of my favourites for a popular local soft drink that captures a time I remember well...


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIu5D-6NzLM

 

[MIflyer]

Researching records, I show 5th AF P-38s being chopped up in the Philippines in 1946 and no P-38 units ever reaching Korea in the post war years.

The 49 FG at the end of WWII was equipped with P-38's. They then re-equipped with P-51's, followed by switching to F-80's before the Korean War began. What led me to question MC's claim about the P-38's were some history books that pointed out that there were no USAF F-51 units in Korea at the start of the war. The Air Force recognized the jets and the few F-82's they had on hand were inadequate for ground attack but had to scrounge up F-51's that were in local storage or being used as target tugs or hacks from all over the Far East. Therefore, no P-38's had "just been replaced" by F-51's at the start of the war.

 

[Frog]

-If it is the bird I'm thinking of it was part of the Operation Ranch Hand detachment. They were specially modified spray planes so they didn't do any of the ash & trash stuff that the rest of the C-123 "Flying Dumptrucks" did on a daily basis. One of my Ba Moui Ba drinking buds was a maintainer for Ranch Hand and he gave me a tour. The plane stunk from the defoliant they sprayed. There were so many patches on all of the planes I was amazed that nothing essential to flight had been hit. My helicopter company routinely flew over the U Minh forest during both day and night. I have to believe that our flights and Ranch Hand missions were CAREFULLY deconflicted although my guess is that our Hueys actually flew above the Ranch Hand mission altitude. Flying over the U Minh at night was surreal. There were no villages so no lights but we could smell the cooking fires so we knew that someone was down there. Even so we were rarely shot at: good fire discipline, I guess, since we flew above the "official" small arms danger altitude.
-I've wondered since what the post Viet Nam medical history of the Ranch Hand folks was...

20 % of what was South Vietnam forests contaminated.
2.1 to 4.8 millions local people plus US vets from and Allied Nations (South Korea, NZ, Australia, Canada...)