TOAK, The Thread of All Knowledge Part XIII
10-08-2021, 11:22 AM
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10-08-2021, 11:28 AM
Is that you Moldy?
10-08-2021, 11:31 AM
Have the same trouble with one of mine. I have to take a hammer handle to it while tapping the claw with another hammer.
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10-08-2021, 11:37 AM
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Yes. First month in country. I made the whole 12 months, the Huey and second gunner that took the photo, only another 4 months.
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10-08-2021, 11:47 AM
Dont test the waters with an ole boy from Georgia driving a big rig, you just might live to tell about it...........
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10-08-2021, 11:52 AM
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Carol called earlier, tried to talk her through taking a photo for an email, one of the simplest things I've tried to talk her through. When she took the photo, and then got a screen in the settings, I told her she'd have to wait until I could show her in person. She never gets it right the first 3 or 10 times if ever, I still don't know how she gets way off track with step by step instructions, it's like she's using a different program or operating system when I try to explain something on the phone. When the first time gets so far off track, I don't waste an hour any more, just say wait till we get together sometime. It does get a little frustrating when my 5 year old granddaughter figures things out on the tv remote I haven't been able to teach Carol. It's just electronics, she's pretty good at mechanical things.
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10-08-2021, 11:56 AM
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10-08-2021, 11:57 AM
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Almost noon and all I've done is wash dishes, get frustrated on the phone and pound the keyboard. Feeling the need to get some exercise, be back among the Woods later.
10-08-2021, 12:35 PM
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Hey Moldy, Rick and Rocket!
1:34pm by Mt watch! So that means 3 hours till I GTF out of werk! Yea!!
This places is getting worse and worse by the day...
1:34pm by Mt watch! So that means 3 hours till I GTF out of werk! Yea!!
This places is getting worse and worse by the day...
10-08-2021, 12:37 PM
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No reversers on the first airliner I flew on - DC3. One of my favorite airliners to fly on, as long as it isn't farther than one gas tank. Kinda noisy...
The pilot on that DC8 in Anchorage was really working the throttles and reversers trying to keep it on the runway, fishtailed pretty wildly when he first tried the reversers. I was just behind the engines so could see them working as he tried to slow it down, got it slowed quit a bit with just the inboard engines before we ran out of runway. I think he veered off into that parking area on purpose rather than run off the end, and I think he deliberately turned us around, too, looked like he popped one reverser on one wing for a moment when we did the 180. Only time I've ever stopped being pressed back into a seat facing forward on a stop. He played inch worm taking us to the terminal, I could have walked faster. Well, on pavement not ice covered, anyway. We had to get off and slip, slide and fall into the terminal (was just a little one back then) for refueling, and I remember this beautiful white reindeer coat with hood for $100 in there, bet that would be over $1000 today (and made in China or Bangladesh). Thought at the time if I'd had a girlfriend, what a heck of a gift that would make, be hard to find something like that in the lower 48 at the time.
Our brains sure hold a lot of memories after a few decades. If/when people can live a couple centuries, wonder if we'll still have the earliest memories. Talking to Mom a few years before she died, I asked if she remembered something I described, and she was amazed I remembered that with a fair amount of detail, said I was around 9 months old when that happened. Then memory skips about 2 years... so my earliest memory is late October, early November, 1947. And these days, the mind sure does wander...
The pilot on that DC8 in Anchorage was really working the throttles and reversers trying to keep it on the runway, fishtailed pretty wildly when he first tried the reversers. I was just behind the engines so could see them working as he tried to slow it down, got it slowed quit a bit with just the inboard engines before we ran out of runway. I think he veered off into that parking area on purpose rather than run off the end, and I think he deliberately turned us around, too, looked like he popped one reverser on one wing for a moment when we did the 180. Only time I've ever stopped being pressed back into a seat facing forward on a stop. He played inch worm taking us to the terminal, I could have walked faster. Well, on pavement not ice covered, anyway. We had to get off and slip, slide and fall into the terminal (was just a little one back then) for refueling, and I remember this beautiful white reindeer coat with hood for $100 in there, bet that would be over $1000 today (and made in China or Bangladesh). Thought at the time if I'd had a girlfriend, what a heck of a gift that would make, be hard to find something like that in the lower 48 at the time.
Our brains sure hold a lot of memories after a few decades. If/when people can live a couple centuries, wonder if we'll still have the earliest memories. Talking to Mom a few years before she died, I asked if she remembered something I described, and she was amazed I remembered that with a fair amount of detail, said I was around 9 months old when that happened. Then memory skips about 2 years... so my earliest memory is late October, early November, 1947. And these days, the mind sure does wander...
kinda like here......