2003 - U.S. Navy Rolls Out New Anti-Terrorism "CATCH-AND-RELEASE" Technology

17 Jan, 2003

[Peace4EarthNow]

If you copy & paste it's URL, you might be able to see it at it's original page:

http://www.stressbuster1.com/pics/release.jpg

[Lady Jag]

Not so much a fast film that stopped the propellers but the flash as you can clearly see.

[Happy2BMe]

btt

[HighWheeler]

Yup, it looks like an early '60's Falcon.

[HighWheeler]

Great image!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Looks a helluva lot more effective than the INS "catch and release" program.

[Cvengr]

Just Another Day on the USS Chappaquiddick. LOL

[Cloud William]

ROTFLMAO! I never had one, (what I had was even worse, a '62 Pontiac Tempest with a slant 4 and Corvair transaxle + 15" wheels, skinny ones. (it was a good snow car), but I did often ride to school in a Falcon, shared by a couple of brothers who were friends/neighbors. I wouldn't call the thing a classic by any stretch of the imagination. You'd have to have been smoking wacky weed to ever think a Falcon was some kind of classic. I do think the picture is a Falcon, but it could be a Fairlane of about the same, early 60s, vintage, it's kind of hard to tell way out their at the end of the catapult track.

Yep, I was thinking it might be a Fairlane. Both that car and the early Falcon were designed to look like smaller versions of the Galaxie. It's not the big Ford, but could be either of the two smaller cars.

I also rode around in an early Falcon that was plain and underpowered, not at all a "cool" set of wheels. However, I knew of another one that was quite nice indeed.

A neighbor owned a Falcon "Sprint", which was equipped with bucket seats, a small V-8 and a floor-shifted 4-speed manual transmission. The cars so equipped are highly sought-after and the lesser models are used as a source of repair parts, so it's sad to see one sent down to Davy Jones' locker. Heck, any car that has so little plastic and is exempt from exhaust emissions testing is classic in my book.