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LIKE HITTING A FOOTBALL FIELD AT 130 MPH
New York Post ^
| 5/01/03
| ALY SUJO
Posted on 05/01/2003 1:02:50 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:13:32 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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May 1, 2003 -- President Bush's wild ride onto the deck of an aircraft carrier today will be a hair-raising experience - even for the former fighter pilot.
"He'll be coming down onto an area the size of a football field at 130 mph with the after-burners going," said Jim Buren, a 30-year Navy veteran with the Virginia-based Flight Safety Foundation. "That's quite an experience."
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush
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To: kcvl
It is interesting that W picked today MAY DAY to showcase the American Military.
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posted on
05/01/2003 4:59:23 AM PDT
by
AMiller
To: G.Mason
A carefully calculated plan which will have the world glued to their collective TV screens and help insure GWB's re-election. I hope so but remember Presidential aspirant Dukakis thought he was going to get great publicity from commanding a tank.
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posted on
05/01/2003 5:01:15 AM PDT
by
Dave S
To: AMiller
MAY DAY It's just another day unless you're part of the "ash heap of history" crowd.
If he did it on the 5th, we'd have Cinco de Mayo / open borders comments.
To: kattracks
This is really ill-advised.
24
posted on
05/01/2003 5:21:51 AM PDT
by
redbaiter
(Harcourt!)
To: Clink
Thats a good one!
Clinton said that he would like to give that a try but he wants Monica to join him for a trip to the Mile High Club!
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posted on
05/01/2003 5:37:47 AM PDT
by
KeyLargo
To: Dave S
Dukakis managed to look extremely constipated while riding the tank. Dubya will probably bound out of the plane saying "Hey, that was neat! Let's do it again!"
26
posted on
05/01/2003 5:40:26 AM PDT
by
Poohbah
(Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
To: kattracks
Just don't let Mayor DALEY hear about this. He will be making a midnight raid on the Lincoln with his city worker goons to bulldoze big X X X's in the carrier deck!
27
posted on
05/01/2003 5:42:10 AM PDT
by
KeyLargo
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
ROFLMAO also!!!!
To: kattracks
So WHAT is the big deal about Bush landing on a carrier???? He's doing it in a Hoover, not an F-14. As near as I can tell, flying F-102s was way more dangerous than a daytime landing on a carrier in good weather. It sounds like fun!!!!
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posted on
05/01/2003 6:00:20 AM PDT
by
GBA
To: kattracks
May 1, 1898
THE BATTLE OF MANILA BAY:
At Manila Bay in the Philippines, the U.S. Asiatic Squadron destroys the Spanish Pacific fleet in the first battle of the Spanish-American War. Nearly 400 Spanish sailors were killed and 10 Spanish warships wrecked or captured at the cost of only six Americans wounded.
And now Spain is one of our allies.
Just shows you how the world can change.
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posted on
05/01/2003 6:01:54 AM PDT
by
KeyLargo
To: csvset
The S-3's engines don't feature afterburners. Thank you. I was wondering when somebody would point this out.
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posted on
05/01/2003 6:05:51 AM PDT
by
strela
("... you're lucky you still have your brown paper bag, small change ...")
To: kattracks
GEEZ IT IS SO
G@#$DA@#$# MUCH FUN HAVING A REAL MAN AS PRESIDENT!!!
YEEHAH! W~!!! ENJOY THE RIDE!!!
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posted on
05/01/2003 6:06:26 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(I'm formidable with that)
To: Dave S
"
A carefully calculated plan which will have the world glued to their collective TV screens...."
O-K, how about just glued to the TV? :)
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posted on
05/01/2003 6:10:39 AM PDT
by
G.Mason
(Lessons of life need not be fatal)
To: KeyLargo
The Lincoln's marine detachment would shoot mayor Daley's butt full of holes if he tried =8^)
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posted on
05/01/2003 6:26:59 AM PDT
by
Nebr FAL owner
(.308 "reach out and thump someone " & .50 cal Browning "reach out & CRUSH someone")
To: Nebr FAL owner
Carriers no longer have Marine Detachments. MarDets were done away with in the late 90s.
To: kattracks
"He'll be coming down onto an area the size of a football field at 130 mph with the after-burners going," said Jim Buren, a 30-year Navy veteran with the Virginia-based Flight Safety Foundation. "That's quite an experience." Another ignorant, retired, armchair, military expert. S-3s are not equipped with afterburners.
To: kattracks
"...But Vikings have been in fatal crashes..."
And four of those crashes were in the Super Bowl.
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posted on
05/01/2003 6:59:28 AM PDT
by
NCC-1701
((Good luck, happy hunting, and God-speed to the US military and our allies in this operation.))
To: AMiller
Today is also the start of the United States leg of the Dixie Chicks tour. Bet things are going to be interesting in South Carolina tonight. The timing of W's landing can't be just a coincidence could it?
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posted on
05/01/2003 7:06:52 AM PDT
by
NCC-1701
((Good luck, happy hunting, and God-speed to the US military and our allies in this operation.))
To: Poohbah
Dubya will probably bound out of the plane saying "Hey, that was neat! Let's do it again!"Which would require a cat shot, which is an entirely different container of gumballs... (I'm sure he'd love that, too.)
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posted on
05/01/2003 7:08:33 AM PDT
by
Chemist_Geek
("Drill, R&D, and conserve" should be our watchwords! Energy independence for America!)
To: kattracks
I read a story once in "Reader's Digest" that was quite amusing.
It went something like this:
Two navy fliers were to fly a high ranking navy officer out to sea to land on an aircraft carrier. These two fliers were both probably still in their twenties while the older high ranking officer was probably in his fifties.
The two fliers turned and said to the senior officer, "Sir. Is this your first carrier landing?"
The senior officer remarked very sternly, "Son I was making carrier landings when you were still in diapers."
The two returned, "Well then sir, that's great because this is our first."
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posted on
05/01/2003 9:05:44 AM PDT
by
sparkomatic
(I wish I were gullible; then I'd be like everyone else)
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