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

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Counter to what the rest of the US thinks

Outside of a 20 mile circle of manhattan, the state is “red” when the votes are in. It’s just we are outnumbered

Well, it's a bit more than just a 20 mile radius. Don't forget Ulster county, where all the hippies stayed after Woodstock was over... some of them actually in the City of Woodstock. I know this, because my cousin has a house there.

This map is still pretty accurate.

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You are correct in that most of NYS is "red" politically ("green" per this map). The red section down near Long Island is obvious. The pale red section directly north is Saratoga/Schenectady. The red in the lower center is Tompkins and Chemung Counties. The county seat for Tompkins is Ithaca (Cornell Univ., Ithaca College, etc. etc.). To the west we have Genesee County. The home of many things, including the Attica Correctional facility. Ulster county holds the cities of Woodstock and Bearsville. OTOH, Duchess county is pretty green. I've been there, to the ciity of Amenia in Duchess county... home of the Amenia Fish and game club. I had a meeting there once. Very pro-2A.


So, not totally pro-2A but a lot of it is.
 
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A little rough tanking off of one in a fighter, but a great plane.
I have some video of the T-birds refueling on our way to air shows down under. They were hotdogging and showing off the whole way when connecting/disconnecting. They didn't seem to mind. Now refueling Navy Hornets 3 at a time was a trick.
 
I have some video of the T-birds refueling on our way to air shows down under. They were hotdogging and showing off the whole way when connecting/disconnecting. They didn't seem to mind. Now refueling Navy Hornets 3 at a time was a trick.

I don’t know if it was the wing engines being closer or the fuselage shape but there is a lot more turbulence under the 10 relative to the 135. Still manageable though. The other thing is that the wing on the boom is so big that some boom operators would push us around. No big deal, always got my gas.

As for the thunder chickens, those light blue flight suits are gay as shit. They used to tell the crowd they could be combat ready in days. I guess they planned to formation fly them to death.
 
Good picture. I was a Betty Rubble guy, everyone else was a Wilma guy. Both wife's are brunettes so I guess it played out. I always wanted to be a Flintstone.
Wait...you have 2 wives?
I mean, no judgement man. Sister wives and all of that shit.
But there is no fucking way I could be married to more than one at a time. You either have the patience of Job or your are just one ALPHA mutherfucker in charge of shit.
 
Well, it's a bit more than just a 20 mile radius. Don't forget Ulster county, where all the hippies stayed after Woodstock was over... some of them actually in the City of Woodstock. I know this, because my cousin has a house there.

This map is still pretty accurate.

iu


You are correct in that most of NYS is "red" politically ("green" per this map). The red section down near Long Island is obvious. The pale red section directly north is Saratoga/Schenectady. The red in the lower center is Tompkins and Chemung Counties. The county seat for Tompkins is Ithaca (Yale Univ., Ithaca College, etc. etc.). To the west we have Genesee County. The home of many things, including the Attica Correctional facility. Ulster county holds the cities of Woodstock and Bearsville. OTOH, Duchess county is pretty green. I've been there, to the ciity of Amenia in Duchess county... home of the Amenia Fish and game club. I had a meeting there once. Very pro-2A.


So, not totally pro-2A but a lot of it is.
I have a house up in margeretville about 20 miles west of Woodstock on 28. Still some hippy stores up there lol
 
I don’t know if it was the wing engines being closer or the fuselage shape but there is a lot more turbulence under the 10 relative to the 135. Still manageable though. The other thing is that the wing on the boom is so big that some boom operators would push us around. No big deal, always got my gas.

As for the thunder chickens, those light blue flight suits are gay as shit. They used to tell the crowd they could be combat ready in days. I guess they planned to formation fly them to death.
You got pushed in a F-4. A flying school bus lol?
 
I don’t know if it was the wing engines being closer or the fuselage shape but there is a lot more turbulence under the 10 relative to the 135. Still manageable though. The other thing is that the wing on the boom is so big that some boom operators would push us around. No big deal, always got my gas.

As for the thunder chickens, those light blue flight suits are gay as shit. They used to tell the crowd they could be combat ready in days. I guess they planned to formation fly them to death.
Lol... never paid attention to the pilots. Thought the maintainers looked gay as shit in their get-up.
Now I heard from other pilots that opined that the third engine and size of the horizontal stabs caused the turbulence but I really have no idea. I can say that more than one Buff, Bone or B-2 was really happy to see us over the Indian Ocean. They never had an issue, guessing to mass.
I was part of a crew to assist in a recovery of crew from a downed Bone on way back to Diego in 2002.
 
Thunderbirds actually did a conversion test.

I'd be curious what block the tbirds are flying today. That "test" was done a looong time ago when there weren't as many variants.
Although, I bet it would take the pilots a lot longer to get current than converting the aircraft.
Realistically though, if it came down to that, what are a couple handfuls of f16's going to do?