Looking into the wrong end is not advisable
Mar 16, 2016 17:50:35 #
When the first American jet fighter, Lockheed's P-80 Shooting Star, was delivered to the U.S. Army Air Force in Germany, these AAF officers could not resist looking up the tailpipe. A year later all those planes were recalled because they ran out of spare parts. Meanwhile, the Russians in their Occupation Zone had their own working jets while we had only a few piston-engine P-47 Thunderbolts from 1944. Fortunately, the Russians were not interested.
Checking the tailpipe of America's first jet fighter plane - 1946
GIs in Occupied Germany swarm over a new P-80 jet fighter - 1946
Mar 16, 2016 17:55:53 #
Mar 16, 2016 17:59:14 #
Mar 17, 2016 06:07:19 #
RichardQ wrote:
When the first American jet fighter, Lockheed's P-80 Shooting Star, was delivered to the U.S. Army Air Force in Germany, these AAF officers could not resist looking up the tailpipe. A year later all those planes were recalled because they ran out of spare parts. Meanwhile, the Russians in their Occupation Zone had their own working jets while we had only a few piston-engine P-47 Thunderbolts from 1944. Fortunately, the Russians were not interested.
Yea I can just see them saying "Let's see em crank this baby up" :D
Mar 17, 2016 12:51:07 #
:shock: Hahahahahaha ... this one got a big laugh when I open it up. It's especially funny to me because military people are looking in there. I know it's probably just at an exhibit or something, but still .. it's funny. Kinda reminds me of Gomer Pyle. :lol:
Mar 17, 2016 14:19:51 #
Nightski wrote:
:shock: Hahahahahaha ... this one got a big laugh when I open it up. It's especially funny to me because military people are looking in there. I know it's probably just at an exhibit or something, but still .. it's funny. Kinda reminds me of Gomer Pyle. :lol:
No, no, Nightski -- That P-80 was the real thing! It was flown in the day before, and since it was the first time our airbase in Occupied Germany saw a jet, they decided to let the GIs get a look. It was not a public exhibition. I have no idea what those officers expected to see inside that tailpipe. The woman in the background was either a WAC or a Red Cross gal, or possibly one of the newly arrived wives, since the Army only recently had brought the first families into Occupied Germany..
Mar 17, 2016 17:36:57 #
RichardQ wrote:
No, no, Nightski -- That P-80 was the real thing! It was flown in the day before, and since it was the first time our airbase in Occupied Germany saw a jet, they decided to let the GIs get a look. It was not a public exhibition. I have no idea what those officers expected to see inside that tailpipe. The woman in the background was either a WAC or a Red Cross gal, or possibly one of the newly arrived wives, since the Army only recently had brought the first families into Occupied Germany..
Okay .. they are definitely Gomer Pyle material then. LOL
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