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Old 21st Jun 2006, 14:19
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HOW ABOUT THIS

This should scare the enemy.
http://www.navy.mil/management/photo...-8591H-383.jpg
Dont know how to copy the link. UKAR Aviation Waffle, Photo opportunity.
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Old 21st Jun 2006, 14:30
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Stand by to pipe WEBF aboard.
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Old 21st Jun 2006, 14:32
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Happy Birthday Mr President????
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Old 21st Jun 2006, 14:33
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Superb! Doesn't it make you green with envy top see more striking power than most other countries in one place?

I see that the Seahawk pilot had been asleep at the briefing, though...
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Old 21st Jun 2006, 14:45
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Ha, the UK could beat that.............40 years ago.

We might now manage a cub scout carrying a pea shooter.
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Old 21st Jun 2006, 14:54
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the scariest part of all of it is lurking around 20 or 30 metres under that lot...
 
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Scares the cr*p out of me for sure
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"Aircraft position blah, the is the USS John F Kennedy, conducting photo operations. You are entering a restricted zone blah... You are instructed to divert your course....."

etc
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Old 22nd Jun 2006, 09:40
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I wonder if this photo was taken from that famous lighthouse?
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Old 22nd Jun 2006, 09:44
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Yep, the Yanks beat us hands down every single time. But only when it comes to Quantity vs Quality....you can train a monkey to press a red button, which would explain a lot when it comes to Uncle Sam.
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Old 22nd Jun 2006, 10:10
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Perhaps they've finally found the location of that rogue Japanese whaler roaming the Pacific....
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Old 22nd Jun 2006, 10:31
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Quantity vs Quality....
... but quantity has a quality of its own.....
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Old 22nd Jun 2006, 10:35
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Originally Posted by teeteringhead
... but quantity has a quality of its own.....
...especially when it comes to fusing large amounts of sand into glass. The first word many in the US military learn is "saturate".

Which is better than the French, who learn "capitulate".
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Old 22nd Jun 2006, 11:13
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Or matleots that learn "Fornicate"

and Bootnecks that learn "anihalate"
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Old 22nd Jun 2006, 11:16
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The lighthouse incident

Originally Posted by LunchMonitor
I wonder if this photo was taken from that famous lighthouse?
Is that the one where the US aircraft carrier kept calling the unidentified vessel to get out of the way and, eventually, the vessel identified itself as a lighthouse

All time classic
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Originally Posted by LunchMonitor
I wonder if this photo was taken from that famous lighthouse?
The famous apocryphal lighthouse.
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Originally Posted by Confucius
The famous apocryphal lighthouse.
I thought it was a red and white lighthouse?!?!?!?
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Old 22nd Jun 2006, 15:00
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A shame the guy on the right is out of formation. And who parked that Seahawk in the background? Would have looked even better with F-14's. Apart from that, not bad at all!
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Is that the one where the US aircraft carrier kept calling the unidentified vessel to get out of the way and, eventually, the vessel identified itself as a lighthouse

All time classic
Classic BS

http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthse.htm
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is that a mark I or mark II deathstar off the b2 right wingtip?
anyone know what happend to the chopper pilot who blundered into the picture?
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