Official Cool Picture - Video Thread.

[Texasgordo]

 

[Mills]

 

[sidebite252]

The idle time on Lake Texoma I’m guessing mid 60’s

 

[Jakashh]

 

[BRD@66]

I'm gonna take back some of the things I said about Brits.

 

[mongoose]

I'm gonna take back some of the things I said about Brits.

Pretty sorry when the Brits show more emotion during the SSB than most US citizens do.

 

[Jakashh]

Probably American expats and tourists in the crowd, but that definitely changed my opinions on the Queen the first time I saw it.

 

[baboon]

Pretty sorry when the Brits show more emotion during the SSB than most US citizens do.

They know who saved their asses twice not like the French!

 

[Mills]

 

[Mills]

 

[Mills]

6th street in Austin in 1866

 

[Mills]

Charles Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis" airplane in El Paso on Sept. 24, 1927.

 

[Mills]

 

[Mills]

A very casually clothed Lt. Tripp aboard USS Yorktown during World War II.

 

[oohrah]

A very casually clothed Lt. Tripp aboard USS Yorktown during World War II.
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Where the term "paddles" comes from, the Landing Signal Officer (LSO).

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Where the term "paddles" comes from, the Landing Signal Officer (LSO).

Really?
Are you saying this is the first place the term "paddles" was used?

 

[Army 1911]

unless the master chief of a navy canoe was called "Paddles" it was probably the first navy job description of paddles.

 

[oohrah]

Really?
Are you saying this is the first place the term "paddles" was used?

Well, before the mirror landing system and Optical Landing System (or "meatball") was developed, the LSO would help guide planes back to the deck by waving the brightly colored paddles you see in the picture - hence the term (and callsign) for the LSO.

I don't know what else you might be referring to.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Well, before the mirror landing system and Optical Landing System (or "meatball") was developed, the LSO would help guide planes back to the deck by waving the brightly colored paddles you see in the picture - hence the term (and callsign) for the LSO.

I don't know what else you might be referring to.

Sorry, taking what you said literally.
I just figured the term "paddles" was used prior to them being on a flight deck.

 

[kbaxter60]

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Loved it when cars had rocket fins.