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[rednev]

Yikes!

USS Lunga Point (CVE-94) pitching heavily during a western Pacific storm, October 1945.

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PITCHING ? OR STRUCTUAL FAILURE ?

 

[XBe02Drvr]

PITCHING ? OR STRUCTUAL FAILURE ?

Looks like the island is pitching independent of the deck, doesn't it?

 

[SaparotRob]

Yup. The carrier behind it in the picture makes it look like it's coming apart. I did a double take.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Yikes!

USS Lunga Point (CVE-94) pitching heavily during a western Pacific storm, October 1945.

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Reason # 3.14159265359 why I don't do boats…

 

[XBe02Drvr]

Reason # 3.14159265359 why I don't do boats…

And yet you aid and abet rotary wing flight, an unnatural act, punishable by God! Pi in the sky!

 

[Snautzer01]

And yet you aid and abet rotary wing flight, an unnatural act, punishable by God! Pi in the sky!

This is rotary wing flight! Heresy i say! of to the tower with him!

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

And yet you aid and abet rotary wing flight, an unnatural act, punishable by God! Pi in the sky!

They are so ugly, the earth repels them. And that is why I love them.

But I support Fixed Wing again now.

 

[SaparotRob]

They are so ugly, the earth repels them. And that is why I love them.

But I support Fixed Wing again now.

I understand.

 

[XBe02Drvr]

This is rotary wing flight! Heresy i say! of to the tower with him!

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Hell no, I won't go!

 

[XBe02Drvr]

FW = Fling Wing
RW = Rigid Wing

 

[SaparotRob]

BW=Buffalo Wings

 

[XBe02Drvr]

BW=Buffalo Wings

None better than the (former) Airways Hotel in the parking lot at BUF. Best wings in the world, Irish domestic Guinness on tap, and 200-300 flight attendants every night. All the jets that couldn't fit on crowded ramps in NY, PHL, BWI and DCA used to overnight in BUF.

 

[syscom3]

100th Bomb Group B-17G XR-W 42-97696 "TERRIBLE TERMITE" and 43-38525 LD-A "MISS CONDUCT" over Kiel 1945. Both B17's survived the war and returned to the US and then scrapped.

 

[special ed]

BW=Buffalo Wings

I see what you did there. A double. My personal rule on "funny" awards are the standard "funny" for smiles, grins and chuckles. Laughing out loud, coffee spittin on the computer always gets Bacon.

 

[SaparotRob]

I see what you did there. A double. My personal rule on "funny" awards are the standard "funny" for smiles, grins and chuckles. Laughing out loud, coffee spittin on the computer always gets Bacon.

I know, right? I have a similar rating scale.

 

[syscom3]

Yup. The carrier behind it in the picture makes it look like it's coming apart. I did a double take.

The shadows are making it look that way. The ship went through the storm just fine.

 

[Snautzer01]

2 proud members of this boards moderation team.

 

[Greg Boeser]

I've always wondered about the Pickelhelm combat drill.

 

[special ed]

It makes their heads hurt and pointy.

 

[syscom3]

USS Bismarck Sea (CVE-95) flight deck photo taken on December 19th 1944. An FM-2 Wildcat aircraft (N-27), coming in for a landing, either missed or broke an arresting hook and crashed into planes parked on the bow. Here N-27 has crashed into N-33 pushing it over the bow. N-27 also went over the bow. Ensign Woods, pilot of N-33, is seen lying on the deck amid flying wreckage of planes.