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Heid the Ba' wrote:Foxtrot Alpha had a good article on the U@ about a month ago. How odd, I thought I remembered Powers being shot down, but apparently I hadn't been born.

Perhaps you remember his helicopter crash of August 1, 1977?

Supposedly his was already planned to be the last U-2 flight over the Soviet Union, as Eisenhower thought they were becoming too dangerous. The outcome generally confirms Eisenhower's fear.

"The U2 Incident" has been talked about for years, so while kids today have no idea what "Remember the Pueblo" might mean, later generations could well have heard of the U2 flap.

yeah, accomplished U2 pilot Powers went on to be a traffic report helicopter pilot in LA.

Enzo wrote:... kids today have no idea what "Remember the Pueblo" might mean,...

Errr, neither do I and I am already 46...

Arneb wrote:

Enzo wrote:... kids today have no idea what "Remember the Pueblo" might mean,...

Errr, neither do I and I am already 46...

One of Our Great Leader's most glorious victories!

I'm thinking, perhaps, 1970?

OK, I've gegoogelt. 1968. Try "Pueblo North Korea" in your search request.

A naval battle with the North Koreans in which the USA came in second.


It was going to be a rallying cry for all time, like "remember the Alamo", but it faded from our attention over the years.


Ooh, I had forgotten the captain of the ship was Commander Bucher. "( terrified whinny/neigh)"

More plane porn. Mostly newish stuff but there is a U2 in there.

Remember the Pueblo!*

*I hadn't heard of it either.

Edit to add: You can leave a review of it. It seems that most of the one star reviews are political statements by people who haven't actually seen it.

I'll just leave this here without comment. Other than "Blimey!"

So is that a police dash-cam? Is he trying to pull it over?

Cool.

I came across a reference to the US flying Canberras and thought, can't possibly be the old DH, it must be a new plane. Nope, still used by NASA sixty plus years and counting.

Wow, I haven't seen one of those since I was a kid. I had a plastic model of one.

Wow indeed! Wikipedia says Pakistan is still using them too.

Heid the Ba' wrote:I came across a reference to the US flying Canberras and thought, can't possibly be the old DH, it must be a new plane. Nope, still used by NASA sixty plus years and counting.

What do they use it for? Static display?

I think this comes under clucking bell!

That is something.

I was sitting next to a white-knuckle granny on her first flight once. Scared stiff of flying in the first place, the descent was turbulent, and the plane was severely buffeted near the ground, like the 777 in the litle box below the above story. She was freaking, and I was trying to think of things to say that would calm here as we are flopping around the sky. She was certain of impending death, I wasn;t too concerned, at worst, a belly scrape and a slide down the chute.

I used to enjoy flying in little Piper Navajo Chieftans, where we could see out the front and all the sides. Got to watch as we crabbed into crosswinds coming into Detroit.

I've had numerous ferry crossings that were like the marine equivalent of that.

I missed out on this one, though, where the 3.5 hr crossing took 15 hours and headed out into the atlantic, full of people convinced they were going to die - sounds like a wheeze.

That didn't sound like fun. My one trip from Shetland to Aiberdeen was in a Force 6 with the ship stabilisers not working but it wasn't anything like that bad.

Surprised to discover this today.

Mig-17 wrote: 1952 - Present

Still used by, apparently, China, North Korea, Madagascar, Sudan and Tanzania.

They are getting to the stage where all detection is electronic so if you don't have electronics . . . Also just swamp the defences with cheap disposable planes. And blimey!

From the other thread, the C130 Hercules has been in service since 1954 and will be for some years yet.

Also:

Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker wrote:

1956 - Present

You see, Billy, when two aircraft love each other very much...

Enzo wrote:You see, Billy, when two aircraft love each other very much...

... then they will have many, many little cubs