Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

[brianf]

I hopped a flight in a B17, bare bones 30 min flight. If I recall, a nose seat cost 200 more, and I really didn't want to crawl in there. Ball turret and tail gunner slots were not an option, and by looking at both, I came to the conclusion that most high school juniors today would never fit in either.
If you are 5'6', -150, GTG!

i did one of those in 2003, no ball turret i forget if they allowed the tail

there was a 24 and a 17, the 24 had the tail gun open but was not flying that afternoon

was over my parents house and i saw a 17 fly over, low

i told my wife, get a ride home with my sister in law im going to track down where he is landing...wasnt happy

was a perfect summer day, even had the top hatch behind the top hump open so we could stick our heads out

50's in the windows and top turret

bombardier seat was open, i have a few pics of me in it "looking"

this wont be cheap but its a once in a lifetime event

 

[DFOOSKING]

It's a B-24, you can tell by the high wing and twin rudder.

Definitely a B24 Liberator. Has 4 engines. If you see the same general shape with 2 engines....likely a B25 Mitchell.

 

[Milo 2.5]

i did one of those in 2003, no ball turret i forget if they allowed the tail

there was a 24 and a 17, the 24 had the tail gun open but was not flying that afternoon

was over my parents house and i saw a 17 fly over, low

i told my wife, get a ride home with my sister in law im going to track down where he is landing...wasnt happy

was a perfect summer day, even had the top hatch behind the top hump open so we could stick our heads out

50's in the windows and top turret

bombardier seat was open, i have a few pics of me in it "looking"

this wont be cheap but its a once in a lifetime event

Have fun! Surreal was the word I used when we landed. I took our godson up, and promised the younger brother we would do it again next yr when he turned 12, min age. They never came back, yr we flew, covid and their turnout was limited at best.
I was just warning you on the ball turret thing, you better be diminutive in size, like the guys that did fly missions, and balls, 5 times bigger than mine, lol

 

[DFOOSKING]

The pediatrician's name was "Benjamin." Benjamin Spock.

Spock didn't spend 4 years in Starfleet Academy earning a Science Officer Commission and the rank of Lieutenant Commander for some schmuck to call him Mister.

Besides the last "Red Shirt" that called him Mister had to do flutter kicks till he begged for the Vulcan Death Grip.

 

[brianf]

Have fun! Surreal was the word I used when we landed. I took our godson up, and promised the younger brother we would do it again next yr when he turned 12, min age. They never came back, yr we flew, covid and their turnout was limited at best.
I was just warning you on the ball turret thing, you better be diminutive in size, like the guys that did fly missions, and balls, 5 times bigger than mine, lol

im 5 10" but i lift weights so im bulky up top

i might be covered in butter to squeeze in if i make it

they have one on the ground that they see if you fit, to begin with

but as long as the hatch closes for 5 min it good enough for me

 

[Maple One]

The character Nimoy played in Star Trek was absolutely, definitely, 100% NOT called Doctor Spock. Doctor Spock was an American paediatrician who wrote books about looking after children. The Vulcan science officer of the USS Enterprise was called MISTER Spock.

Are you Dr. Sheldon Cooper?

 

[Conaso]

I hopped a flight in a B17, bare bones 30 min flight. If I recall, a nose seat cost 200 more, and I really didn't want to crawl in there. Ball turret and tail gunner slots were not an option, and by looking at both, I came to the conclusion that most high school juniors today would never fit in either.
If you are 5'6', -150, GTG!

5'4", 60% mortality rate.

 

[Dirty D]

 

[Dirty D]

 

[Fx51LP308]

Spock didn't spend 4 years in Starfleet Academy earning a Science Officer Commission and the rank of Lieutenant Commander for some schmuck to call him Mister.

Besides the last "Red Shirt" that called him Mister had to do flutter kicks till he begged for the Vulcan Death Grip.

Why not? Surgeons in the UK, Rep. of Ireland, and other "commonwealth" nations (who earned an MD degree and did all that time in residency etc. etc.) are still called "Mister." Only physicians in "Internal Medicine" and related areas, etc. are called "Doctor."

Why are male Surgeons called "Mister"

ETA: How do you know that Spock's education and training at Starfleet actually earned him a Doctorate degree?

 

[TripleBull]

 

[tomcatmv]

Biden knows.

 

[TripleBull]

 

[Boon20]

Cant imagine the slap fight trainig they were doing

 

[Thorny]

 

[timesublime]

Tramp stamp central

 

[Shooter McGavin]

Highly motivated on replacing my Never Summer Snow Trooper Snowboard with a Never Summer Hammer snowboard

 

[502Chevelle]

Tramp stamp special? Yep, but you have to enlarge the page really large to see them. Let me go back and look again just to make sure.....

 

[BG94591]

 

[ZiaHunter]

im 5 10" but i lift weights so im bulky up top

i might be covered in butter to squeeze in if i make it

they have one on the ground that they see if you fit, to begin with

but as long as the hatch closes for 5 min it good enough for me

Father was a ball turret gunner in a B-24 with the 829th of the 485th flying out of Turin during WWII. They have static display of a B-24 with a ball turret next to it at the Pima Air Museum. That thing is really small and never figured out how he fit in it let alone for hours on end during a mission.

 

[brianf]

Father was a ball turret gunner in a B-24 with the 829th of the 485th flying out of Turin during WWII. They have static display of a B-24 with a ball turret next to it at the Pima Air Museum. That thing is really small and never figured out how he fit in it let alone for hours on end during a mission.

ill tell you how

drafted
young (and stupid lol)
not being a pussy

90% of problems in life are solved by not being a pussy..we used to understand that


they have one on the ground to practice getting in and to make sure you fit

 

[168BTHPM]

 

[168BTHPM]

 

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[Expert684]

If you really want to punch Nazi's, head your asses over to Ukraine, you'll get all you want. You fucking pussies!

 

[TripleBull]

 

[918v]

Pontiac?

 

[timesublime]

Pontiac?

Hemi

 

[Milo 2.5]

ill tell you how

drafted
young (and stupid lol)
not being a pussy

90% of problems in life are solved by not being a pussy..we used to understand that


they have one on the ground to practice getting in and to make sure you fit

Lol, truth!
But as a whole, people are considerably larger than in 1944 and it's not all the mcdonalds crowd.
Let us know when you don't fit!

 

[brianf]

Lol, truth!
But as a whole, people are considerably larger than in 1944 and it's not all the mcdonalds crowd.
Let us know when you don't fit!

ill be so pissed, my brother is around 6' but skinny so he might be licking his knees but he'll squeeze in

EDIT... 6' not 6"... im not from pennsyltucky lol

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Penn...nd exurban,to the mountainous central region.​

 

[Dirty D]

 

[breatheandsqueeze]

 

[Ramius]

 

[breatheandsqueeze]

 

[Keepmvng]

Here is a nightmare for you. She could run on the platform of repeating what Biden is doing only worse.

 

[Dirty D]

 

[168BTHPM]

 

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[jbuck88]

ill be so pissed, my brother is around 6" but skinny so he might be licking his knees but he'll squeeze in

Holy shit I'm sure im reading this the wrong way. But that's TMI.

 

[brianf]

Holy shit I'm sure im reading this the wrong way. But that's TMI.

thats funny shit..cell phone has a sense of humor lol

 

[Keepmvng]

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that can be pot, old age or a combination. Hell, when you find yourself naked standing on the side of the freeway, you start to question.

 

[Cowpokey]

 

[cas6969]

 

[Wild dog]

 

[143lrsd]

 

[Cowpokey]

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I know fast food places have pretty low standards for who they will hire, the bar being set that low may still be too high.

 

[Redhook]

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These days are kind of gone. Back in the late '70's / early '80's a local wine producer (I won't use the term winery because things weren't quite as boujee back then) would host an annual golf tournament for their sales guys and good customers. My dad ran the bar at my uncles dinner club, so he hung out with that crowd. All the cart girls/pin girls/hole hosts were at least strippers if not straight up prostitutes.

 

[MarshallDodge]