Texas Fall/Winter thread!

[bindian]

A Pilot

I don't think I'd ever tire of this view! However, if you were on this flight, would you want the best pilot that money could buy, or would you want a monkey there working for peanuts?

Hope y'all enjoy this as much as I did!

..........and the finest aircraft mechanics that certified all those systems the week before. I sat through a Flight Ops HUD (head up display) class one day in SWA's program..........Walk a mile in my shoes. It is really a hoot to fly the simulator into the clouds, then into fog, drop the gear and break out 200 feet AGL and flare.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Thanks, that was thrilling. When the ceiling is low and you are in mountain valleys, you better know your approach and use your GPWS no matter who you are. I would not want anything but an experienced pilot who has flown that approach many times. No thanks to first-timers. The problem with flying that in a simulator is that it may not be an airport in the database. If the ceiling were any lower than in your video, or a night-time approach. I think I'll just go somewhere else.

BTW: Charlie and Brandi, didn't they call the F4 Ol' Smokey in Vietnam? It seems I was always told to look towards the front of the smoke trail to locate the airplane.

Jim,
F4s had a few choice nicknames. I never heard, old Smokey, but it fits. The smoke they put out could be seen for miles and miles. I prefer, "Lead Sled". Old man Douglass proved with the F4, that if you put enough power on something....................it will fly.

I worked with a mechanic of color that was a F-18 mechanic in the Navy. Every time we tested the GPWS on our DC-9, with it's woop woop............he would start repeating..........white folk, pull up....white folk, pull up. We went TDY a lot with our DC-9s. Ahh........good times.
hugs, Brandi

 

[NativeSon]

Jim,
F4s had a few choice nicknames. I never heard, old Smokey, but it fits. The smoke they put out could be seen for miles and miles. I prefer, "Lead Sled". Old man Douglass proved with the F4, that if you put enough power on something....................it will fly.

I worked with a mechanic of color that was a F-18 mechanic in the Navy. Every time we tested the GPWS on our DC-9, with it's woop woop............he would start repeating..........white folk, pull up....white folk, pull up. We went TDY a lot with our DC-9s. Ahh........good times.
hugs, Brandi

bindian- I think I remember our pilots refering to the Phantom as the "flying brick". And yes jinman it did leave a huge trail of smoke across the sky and were very easy to pick up. Every year when we were back in the states we would go to MCAS Yuma for gunnery practice. Yuma was a strange place to fly because of the heat. We would start sorties at 0400 and quit at about 1600. I always worked night check and we would start at 1600. We never had problems with hot brakes except at Yuma, then we had lots.

Our pilots loved Yuma because we also did a lot of dogfighting with the F-4 Squadrons that were there out of Miramar also. They would always come back after tangling with the Phantoms with a smile & a swagger and a "Sea Story" about kicking the Phantoms butt. For non-Fleet Sailors in the group the difference between a Fairy Tale and a Sea Story is, a Fair Tale begins "Once upon a time......" and a Sea Story begins "This is no s***......". Anyway the Crusader for it's age and all its faults could fly circles around the Phantom.

FYI- MCAS Yuma had the best mid-rats that I ever had the priviledge to enjoy. I use to come back from the Acey-Ducey Club and change into dungeress and go hit mid-rats. I guess the Marines figured they had to fees the troops good out there in the desert to keep them a little bit sane.

Charlie

 

[farmgirl19]

FG
Be careful about replying to emails like that.
It may not even be from TBN and you could get a sick computer.
Lots of gimmic email scams out there.

See if when you right click on the email header if you get properties then "sources"
You can find out where it came from that way if you read the lines slowly and carefully.

Thanks for the warning, pacerron! It looked legit, but I didn't click to reply, just deleted it instead. I figure, whoever was responsible for it being sent to me, can eat cow pies!

The rest of you, have a safe and warm Thanksgiving! Enjoy family, friends, and food, and don't forget to share a smile or two, as well!

 

[farmgirl19]

..........and the finest aircraft mechanics that certified all those systems the week before. I sat through a Flight Ops HUD (head up display) class one day in SWA's program..........Walk a mile in my shoes. It is really a hoot to fly the simulator into the clouds, then into fog, drop the gear and break out 200 feet AGL and flare.
hugs, Brandi

Definitely!! :thumbsup:

 

[pacerron]

Thanks for the warning, pacerron! It looked legit, but I didn't click to reply, just deleted it instead. I figure, whoever was responsible for it being sent to me, can eat cow pies!

The rest of you, have a safe and warm Thanksgiving! Enjoy family, friends, and food, and don't forget to share a smile or two, as well!

That's good. If it were from TBN you would think they would identify the thread by name.

There is another one floating around now about "Notification of your Order from AMAZON"
If you didn't order from Amazon recently, don't even open it, just delete it or look at the source code without opening it.

 

[Bird]

Thanks for the warning, pacerron! It looked legit, but I didn't click to reply, just deleted it instead. I figure, whoever was responsible for it being sent to me, can eat cow pies!

The rest of you, have a safe and warm Thanksgiving! Enjoy family, friends, and food, and don't forget to share a smile or two, as well!

I've not been able to find any such post of yours that's been removed, so maybe pacerron is right. But if so, I haven't heard of that happening before either, unless someone else got such an e-mail, copied it, and sent it to you just to see if he could "stir the pot".

I suppose if you wanted to really be sure, you could sent a private message to Muhammad and ask him to check it.

 

[dave1949]

I've not been able to find any such post of yours that's been removed, so maybe pacerron is right. But if so, I haven't heard of that happening before either, unless someone else got such an e-mail, copied it, and sent it to you just to see if he could "stir the pot".

I suppose if you wanted to really be sure, you could sent a private message to Muhammad and ask him to check it.

Happened to me several months back. Brandi looked and couldn't find any post deleted, and I couldn't think of anything I had recently (ahem) posted that was delete worthy, or even find/remember the supposedly deleted post.

I did have all of my posts deleted from a thread about beginning farming. They just disappeared and the subject was in no way controversial. I just assumed it was some sort of database corruption.

 

[txdon]

It was freezing cold last night but not as cold as predicted, at least not on top of the sand hill. I did get concerned when we were heading home from the store last night around 6:30 and the car's outside temp dropped to 32˚. I put all the plants on the warm south porch and it only go to 34˚ there. Our Gray2 was enjoying the warm wood burning stove and was doing a little bit of rocking and rolling in front of it.

Lou, do't even think of chili while looking at the world champion mouse and gopher killer.

Happy Thanksgiving all!

 

[Bird]

22 degrees for a low this morning in the Denton area, lots of pretty white frost. And my wife forgot one of her potted plants last night, so that pot will get a new plant sometime in the future.:laughing:

 

[bindian]

bindian- I think I remember our pilots refering to the Phantom as the "flying brick". And yes jinman it did leave a huge trail of smoke across the sky and were very easy to pick up. Every year when we were back in the states we would go to MCAS Yuma for gunnery practice. Yuma was a strange place to fly because of the heat. We would start sorties at 0400 and quit at about 1600. I always worked night check and we would start at 1600. We never had problems with hot brakes except at Yuma, then we had lots.

Our pilots loved Yuma because we also did a lot of dogfighting with the F-4 Squadrons that were there out of Miramar also. They would always come back after tangling with the Phantoms with a smile & a swagger and a "Sea Story" about kicking the Phantoms butt. For non-Fleet Sailors in the group the difference between a Fairy Tale and a Sea Story is, a Fair Tale begins "Once upon a time......" and a Sea Story begins "This is no s***......". Anyway the Crusader for it's age and all its faults could fly circles around the Phantom.

FYI- MCAS Yuma had the best mid-rats that I ever had the priviledge to enjoy. I use to come back from the Acey-Ducey Club and change into dungeress and go hit mid-rats. I guess the Marines figured they had to fees the troops good out there in the desert to keep them a little bit sane.

Charlie

Oh yeah, I remember, now that you mention, some folks calling them bricks. Cause they flew like a brick without power up. Chance-Voight had a long history of great fighters. My favorite prop fighter was the F4U Corsair. Douglass, not so much making fighters.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Lou66]

That's a mighty pretty cat there Don,, mighty pretty.. and fat looking too.. :laughing::laughing:,, I use squirrel in place of cat.. when cats are not available.. :laughing:

Happy Thanksgiving all,,

I wish your holidays are as sweet as mine.. Lou

 

[bindian]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING Everyone!!!
Wow, so this is what it is like getting up before 0800 hrs.
gobble gobble hugs, Brandi

 

[houstonscott]

Have a great Thanksgiving. Goats are feed, put out some corn for deer, 7 showed up. Kids and grand kids headed this way. Really a spectacular morning in central Texas. Cowboys at 3:30. KTF. HS.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I bush hogged about 15 acres yesterday. It was about 45 degrees out. It was the first time all year I had cut about 10 of the acres. So because we started out with drought conditions, then it started raining maybe in late Sep or Oct, the grass finally kicked in and grew about knee deep. Some of it had grown really thick (coastal bermuda). But there was not enough to have someone come cut, rake and bale. So I decided to cut it in lieu of letting it just stay tall and turn brown. Don't want a pasture fire. Hoping the clippings will add to next summer's crop.

I kept stirring up a cottontail as I went around and around, then I finally saw a baby cottontail. Wearing my heart on my sleeve, I left about an acre or 2 uncut a midst a group of trees so the little rabbit and his mommy can have a nice place to grow up.

Happy Thanksgiving to all, I know I have plenty to be thankful for! I consider you all my friends and hope we can have another get together next spring. I would enjoy meeting some of the newer folks in person.

 

[two_bit_score]

I bush hogged about 15 acres yesterday. It was about 45 degrees out. It was the first time all year I had cut about 10 of the acres. So because we started out with drought conditions, then it started raining maybe in late Sep or Oct, the grass finally kicked in and grew about knee deep. Some of it had grown really thick (coastal bermuda). But there was not enough to have someone come cut, rake and bale. So I decided to cut it in lieu of letting it just stay tall and turn brown. Don't want a pasture fire. Hoping the clippings will add to next summer's crop.

I kept stirring up a cottontail as I went around and around, then I finally saw a baby cottontail. Wearing my heart on my sleeve, I left about an acre or 2 uncut a midst a group of trees so the little rabbit and his mommy can have a nice place to grow up.

Happy Thanksgiving to all, I know I have plenty to be thankful for! I consider you all my friends and hope we can have another get together next spring. I would enjoy meeting some of the newer folks in person.

Nice of you to leave the tall grass by the trees so the hawks will have a perch for hunting rabbits.

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

[foreman Etexas]

Happy thanksgiving and Hook'em Horns...

 

[bindian]

Happy thanksgiving and Hook'em Horns...

I miss the UT-Aggie game on Turkey day. It was a tradition to watch it with Dad.
hugs, Brandi

 

[txdon]

Well. In deep thought as my heart rate settles.

At 60˚ and a perfect evening for a stroll, I take off West because the deer are munching the corn to the South. I see a couple of deer and think that they are missing out on the free corn, then I look a little closer and notice they are not deer they are those big coyotes I saw a week ago.

Just about the time I notice they are coyotes, Whipper, who is at my side, spots them and takes off after them. They are about a hundred yards away. One continues to trot into the woods the other has stopped and is watching Whipper approach him, kind of in disbelief. Whipper gets about 30 yards from the coyote and all the sudden 6 MORE coyotes come running full blast out of the woods toward Whipper, they are all yelping, Whipper put on her brakes, turns around and starts running to me at her, part greyhound, blinding speed.

The coyotes are catching up to Whipper and they are about 70 yards from me heading toward me with their blood curling yelps!!!

I reach into my pocket pulled out my - - - -

cellphone, saying -----deleted---- They don't make an app for this--------

They are 60 yards ----- 50 yards----getting real close to Whipper at 40 yards---- at 30 yards they still are coming full speed-----

I raise my hands and YELL as loud As I can, as I run toward them----

They stop. They turn around and run back into the woods. Good ending right---but NO. Whipper seeing them in retreat regains her confidence, turns around and start chasing after them.

One comes back out of the woods to confront Whipper and Whipper is running toward him and he is walking toward Whipper. I raise my hands again, the coyote notices me and slithers back into the brush. Whipper stops turns her head and looks at me, (I put my hands down quickly) content that she save the day.
The end.
Breathing fast- - - - thinking -----what if that would have not worked?
I really need a Plan B.

 

[farmgirl19]

I've not been able to find any such post of yours that's been removed, so maybe pacerron is right. But if so, I haven't heard of that happening before either, unless someone else got such an e-mail, copied it, and sent it to you just to see if he could "stir the pot".

I suppose if you wanted to really be sure, you could sent a private message to Muhammad and ask him to check it.

Since that email came to my personal emaill address, not a PM, and I don't make a point of sharing the emaill address, I don't how someone cold send it to me, just to "stir the pot"? They would have to have access to more info than the rest of the public. And it isn't a post that was removed, but an entire "thread" according to the email that I received.

Oh, and I will mea culpa, as I did begin a thread at one time. It was my "New Member/Intro", so I was mistaken earlier, when I said I had never started a thread.

I don't care to follow up on the matter. It would only cost me time to try to send a message to anyone.

Happy Thanksgiving!