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The May 2, 2003 landing of President Bush on the aircraft carrier. The speech will be up and available on this same link half an hour from this topic posting.

The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator completes its first shore-based arrested landing at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. May 4.

This is very unnerving, landing with deck pitching 30 feet, at night, low on fuel. Incredible. You will never forget viewing this. I have seen a lot of aviation videos but the two videos below are undoubtedly the best. Turn on your sound. I guarantee this will definitely hold your attention.

I'M SURE YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH THIS LINGO FROM YOUR JET JOCKEY DAYS IN THE CORPS. SEMPER FIThe Democrats making an issue out of the Carrier landing are just jealous that they didn't think of it first or have the guts to do it. I didn't originate this and can make no claim as to it's accuracy. The following was forwarded to me from one of my old Navy buddies who got it from an aviator friend on the carrier Abraham Lincoln. The email below explains briefly the procedure of a plane approaching a carrier for landing. The pilot is asked...

 

I've seen some great photos of GWB in his flight suit (pant, pant, drool...) in various threads, but I was wondering if the more resourceful freepers could post them here, and/or links, to have them all in one place. I'd like to bookmark one thread with a lot of pictures, as opposed to several threads with a few pictures.

Bush's political use of war images is shameless Special photo ops By Paul Krugman (NYT) Wednesday, May 7, 2003 PRINCETON, New Jersey: General Georges Boulanger cut a fine figure; he looked splendid in uniform, and magnificent on horseback. So his handlers made sure that he appeared in uniform, astride a horse, as often as possible. It worked: Boulanger became immensely popular. If he hadn't lost his nerve on the night of the attempted putsch, French democracy might have ended in 1889. We do things differently here in America - or we used to. Has "man on horseback" politics come to...

May 2, 2003 Yesterday, May 1, 2003, George W. Bush, President of these United States, touched down on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln to make a speech to its crew, to the soon-to-return forces of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and to the country and the world. Dubya landed on Abe in a two-place fighter jet, an S-3B Viking. The president debarked from his plane grinning broadly, relaxed, confident, and at his ease. He looked like a man reborn, after months of international tension and the trials of war. He chatted casually with his Navy pilot-companion as they strolled across Abe's...