Comments on: Ramp strike video http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/01/31/ramp-strike-video/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:12:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: FbL http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/01/31/ramp-strike-video/comment-page-1/#comment-45469 FbL Sun, 04 Feb 2007 16:16:07 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/01/31/ramp-strike-video/#comment-45469 Nose, thank you so much for the offer! I will definitely take you up on it. :) Nose, thank you so much for the offer! I will definitely take you up on it. :)

]]> By: blackeagle603 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/01/31/ramp-strike-video/comment-page-1/#comment-45351 blackeagle603 Sun, 04 Feb 2007 08:07:10 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/01/31/ramp-strike-video/#comment-45351 Was that NorPac Fall of '86 you're thinking of? That was some serious deck movement, with some of the heaviest winds and lowest visibility I ever recall on the roof. Blue water, no bingo... A wee bit of pucker factor to be sure. Was that NorPac Fall of ’86 you’re thinking of?

That was some serious deck movement, with some of the heaviest winds and lowest visibility I ever recall on the roof.

Blue water, no bingo… A wee bit of pucker factor to be sure.

]]> By: Nose http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/01/31/ramp-strike-video/comment-page-1/#comment-45299 Nose Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:51:03 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/01/31/ramp-strike-video/#comment-45299 PS Bob, We came up with a pretty good LSO concept for CVX a long time ago, it involved a section of the flight deck that was transparent and LSOs in Barcoloungers on the O-3lvl below watching the landings. Jerks at Lakehurst thought we were kidding. N PPS If anyone hasn't read Oyster's story, it is well worth it. Oyster, I've always wondered what Max said to you right after you landed, I've never heard, but I heard it was good. Nose PS Bob,

We came up with a pretty good LSO concept for CVX a long time ago, it involved a section of the flight deck that was transparent and LSOs in Barcoloungers on the O-3lvl below watching the landings.

Jerks at Lakehurst thought we were kidding.

N

PPS If anyone hasn’t read Oyster’s story, it is well worth it.
Oyster, I’ve always wondered what Max said to you right after you landed, I’ve never heard, but I heard it was good.

Nose

]]> By: Nose http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/01/31/ramp-strike-video/comment-page-1/#comment-45238 Nose Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:32:12 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/01/31/ramp-strike-video/#comment-45238 FbL, Because it's all I really ever knew, I love talking about Landing on the ship. You can ask me anything any time! bd1315 (at) google.com Best, Nose FbL,

Because it’s all I really ever knew, I love talking about Landing on the ship. You can ask me anything any time!

bd1315 (at) google.com

Best,

Nose

]]> By: FbL http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/01/31/ramp-strike-video/comment-page-1/#comment-45154 FbL Sat, 03 Feb 2007 17:48:59 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/01/31/ramp-strike-video/#comment-45154 Wow. Wish I'd read the comments while the conversation was still on and I could get my questions answered. Fascinating stuff--even though I only understood about 60 percent of it, raised my heart rate for sure! Wow. Wish I’d read the comments while the conversation was still on and I could get my questions answered. Fascinating stuff–even though I only understood about 60 percent of it, raised my heart rate for sure!

]]> By: Neptunus Lex » Flotsam and jetsam, II http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/01/31/ramp-strike-video/comment-page-1/#comment-45118 Neptunus Lex » Flotsam and jetsam, II Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:33:26 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/01/31/ramp-strike-video/#comment-45118 [...] Those of you paying attention to the comment thread here got to see Oyster - one of the few men whom I know personally who has landed aboard an aircraft carrier at night, with one engine not just out but shattered (not before having taken most of the other one with it) and with what damned little gas he had left more or less feeding a raging airframe fire - and I engage in a bit of reminiscing about the old days. The “bad night” we were talking about was the subject of one of my earliest posts on the old blog, reproduced here. I wrote it before I had developed the characteristically taut prose for which I have so often been complimented by you, my dedicated readership, who have been awfully generous with your correspondent over the course of the last several and for which I thank you kindly - gratitude being one of the last barricades for comity in a world where civil correspondence is everywhere encroached upon by those who would instead craft their words almost as missiles, like, for the purpose of hurting others, the bassids. *cough* So, like I was saying - the story rambles a bit, but may be worth a perusal for those such as haven’t read it. [...] [...] Those of you paying attention to the comment thread here got to see Oyster – one of the few men whom I know personally who has landed aboard an aircraft carrier at night, with one engine not just out but shattered (not before having taken most of the other one with it) and with what damned little gas he had left more or less feeding a raging airframe fire – and I engage in a bit of reminiscing about the old days. The “bad night” we were talking about was the subject of one of my earliest posts on the old blog, reproduced here. I wrote it before I had developed the characteristically taut prose for which I have so often been complimented by you, my dedicated readership, who have been awfully generous with your correspondent over the course of the last several and for which I thank you kindly – gratitude being one of the last barricades for comity in a world where civil correspondence is everywhere encroached upon by those who would instead craft their words almost as missiles, like, for the purpose of hurting others, the bassids. *cough* So, like I was saying – the story rambles a bit, but may be worth a perusal for those such as haven’t read it. [...]

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