useless info: (don’t change) you can manually fire a 20mm
by rotating the barrels.! so. they would not hold the barrels.
irl: back in 87 a fng was showing off to his family,. and
turned the barrels on a AH-1 an put 3 holes down range.
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Huh! Now that was something I would not have thought of. Closest I’ve ever
been to a vulcan was march of 80 when I was babysitting the ATIS I installed
at Kunsan. After the installation since I was the only one on the team with
any experience with ATIS I was the one who got to sit in the tower to be
available to train the trolls on how to operate it and be available if the
equipment hiccupped while burning in. (It didn’t.) There were several vulcans
on the other side of the runway from the tower and they’d shoot off a burst
from every gun every morning. Things were LOUD even across the
runway/taxiway/ramp and 30 feet up! After firing they’d make sure it would
rotate 360° and full elevation. Not a great feeling having one of those
things pointed your way.
That would make sense, but it would be bad if they were transporting
the craft and got a call-in, they’d have to land and release them. even
with a remote release in the cab, you have to check before trying to fire.
military has the red “Remove Before Flight” banner/tag.
that locks out the ‘system’. .. but .. this craft IS in flight
an in hostile area.
( irl: an the idiot pulled them, so as not to ruin the photos. )
Yeesh! No way in hell… I have an intense fear of falling since my accident,
the first year was hell, almost every time I started to drift off to sleep it’d
feel like I was falling and I’d wake up in a panic. If I’d have to ride a runner,
you’d have to blindfold me and tie me to it. It’s that bad…
Poor girl, I figured she’d suffer like Miral did when they were fast-tracking
her training. Yeah, officer training is very intensive, I’m glad I didn’t try that.
I’m just a tinkerer/fixer/maker, I don’t bark orders unless someone screwed
up and didn’t tell me, I’m the one that gets yelled at if any of my guys f’ed
up and didn’t report it.
You can tell how tired she is, she’s laying face down, and knowing how uncomfortable
that was for my wife to lay like that… I’d have to dig out cups in the sand so she could
tan her back. Not to mention Marise’s ears are unsupported as well. She’s going to be
stiff and sore and have a headache come morning!
I had wondered if it was wise to do this with unprotected ears and
hats that close to the engines. I had a nightmare about someone
firing up the burners in the big conveyor ovens while I was
cleaning the orifice, and when I was actually doing that someone
thought it would be funny to start the big 3 1/2 foot squirrel cage
fans in the combustion chamber. this oven was 15 ft high and 40
feet long, the combustion cambers were 6ft long and 4 1/2 high with
heavy, insulated, explosion release hinges on the access doors.
This a-hole heard me tell a friend about the nightmare so when I
was inside they slammed the door shut and started the fans,
sucked my hat off my head and made it hard to breathe!
In my panic I body slammed the door hard enough to pop the release
hinges, I think I scared the fool more than I was! By time I was
able to catch my breath he was long gone. Roughnecks love to prank,
needless to say the next time we had a in-house fire I knocked him
down and about drowned him with the 2 in hose heheheh….
Anyway the air flow was bad enough from those big fans much less the
grav engines! I’m glad they braided their hair, it could of been
ripped out when she rotated the drives forward into flight position.
You are WWWAAAAYYYYY too nice! When I got my breath
I would have beat the living shit out of him! I would have
most definitely wiped the smile off his face.
Each door weighed 75 lbs, the latches were spring loaded and weren’t suppose to
be that easy to pop open. I hit that door hard enough to send it sliding on top of
tripping all 4 latches. This guy was 6 ft tall and an a-hole ( as you can tell) and I
scared him enough that he sprinted away.
Normally he would of stood there laughing at me. I could of gotten him wrote
up and suspended instead I hosed him off his feet AND shot him point blank in
the face with a fire hose in front of everyone, trust me, what I did was far worse
than beating the crap out of “water boy.” That nickname stuck to him until they
closed the plant down heheheh… Fire hoses use 90 psi at 18 gallons per minute,
trust me I did beat his face in 😉
I argued that point many times before that nightmare fuel situation. No there
was only motor starters on the far wall from the oven. I had tried to kill the
power to that row of switches, it also kills the lights. This building was built
in 1934, so there wasn’t as much in the way of safety in some parts. There
were many additions to the original building, so in the newer areas the OSA
regs were applied. The one time I was nearly electrocuted once because
someone bypassed the safety switch and didn’t mark the new one.
480 VAC with any kind of load on it will cause the fuse to explode if it arcs, I
have burn scars up my left arm for that happening. I had clamped on my puller,
and stepped to the side before pulling it, otherwise I’d have the same on my
face and chest. I was SO pissed off about that and ranted at both my boss
and HIS boss! To top it off, they sent me to the hospital to be drug tested
before anything else was done. They had to dig out chunks of brass out of
my arm… Lesson learned, I stopped trusting the markings on ANY “safety”
switch after that.
Grease in the fur isn’t fun, I’m pretty hairy and I’ve had grease up both forearms AND
in my shirt enough to know it’s a major task to clean up, I can only imagine what SHE’s
going through!
Goop or Mac-13 hand cleaner works the best, soap just doesn’t cut it.
That or straight Dawn dish soap…
Gas or fuel oil works good too, but not a good choice for a fireman!
I’ve had Skydrol sprayed on me – fireproof aircraft hydraulic fluid.
Trust me, you don’t want that stuff to stay on your skin, it starts
to really hurt.
And you really, really don’t want it soaking into your underwear.
I left a trail of clothing to the emergency shower. Which, sadly,
was in full view of the passengers and stewardii as they walked
to their flights.
The best reaction was our single, male, gay flight attendant. He
didn’t know why I was using the emergency shower out in the open,
but he brought me a bar of soap then parked the airport van to
block the view, and brought a towel and a set of his clothing (that
he’d worn to work) and left them in the van for me.
His clothing was higher quality than anything I owned, for sure.
But yeah, I wouldn’t accept any gay jokes among the other
mechanics after that little adventure.
I can guess! I’ve had to use an ER shower as well, acetone burns pretty bad.
The forklift driver was careless and busted 3-5gal jugs he was unloading and I
was helping to unload. He was on the ramp and I was signing the paper work
below the ramp. I heard a CRACK and was splashed from behind. I seen my
watch had started to smoke (plastic band) so I ripped it off and ran to the john.
There were 4 showers in there just for that reason. I stood in there for an hour
naked and shivering while I waited for my wife to bring a change, that stuff was
pure and uncut. I looked like I fell asleep while sunbathing heh. That lucky SOB
delivery driver seen it coming and didn’t say anything just leaped back (grumbling).
If that’s true Kima may stay behind as a pilot instructor once a replacement is sent
for him, the Sparrow is no slouch, but I fear that scout and the Pteran cruiser would
be hard pressed to defend the entire planet if the core sends a battle group.
It’s easier to train a crew than to train competent instructors.
Wanna bet that the Sparrow crew are there for the long haul?
They’re the founding academy cadre, after all… building it
from the ground up.
True, I keep forgetting this military uses more than 5% of their brains!
It makes sense, which is why I was expecting the PTB to say “no, get
back on patrol!” They won’t be bored, that’s for sure, once more
instructors arrive it’ll get easier, but only for the teachers, not the
students 😉
Miral: “You doing ok, Scars?” (in a strained voice) “Yeah, just hurry and call ahead for
a bottle of whiskey and a couple of Xanax!” She chuckles “OK!”
Many people, mostly my friends call me Scars. If you if you were to see my stomach,
you’d know why. I have 8 surgery scars on my belly, 2 more on my back, over a 20
year period. I chose Scarsdale as my user name because I’m a village of scars heh…
I don’t know about Xanax, and personally I prefer Bailey’s Irish Creme
(chilled, straight, no ice) or Honeywood Mead to whiskey. Of course,
those are just as slow sipping drinks.
After a ride like that, yeah, whiskey, rum, etc., in quantity would
probably be required.
I would definitely be in a padded room panic in that situation,
Phobias are a very real issue, I’ve faced down druggies
desperate for a fix, muggers, and a-holes that felt a white guy
(cracker) had no business in “their” town. I did the 4th wall
break with Miral simply because she has the same issue with
falling that I do, so she would understand the white knuckle
panic I’d have.
As far as the choice of rotgut? I have a friend that’s tinkering
with a small still, he gave me a batch of 130proof rum he
cooked up, man, talk about smooth! It didn’t burn the mouth
OR stomach! Almost made me want to take up drinking again 😉
Xanax is a very strong tranq’ I used to work with someone on it,
no emotion, no reaction, pretty much a zombie. Poor dumb girl got
piercings in a sensitive spot, and had constant orgasms as a result.
It was how the doctor “helped” her. Got addicted too…sigh…
.. scars .. heh, i’ve said before i’m a 3rd scar tissue.
so, we are similar, not same.. and most of mine was
between 13 an 17.. oh an ‘clinically dead’ twice..
useless info: (don’t change) you can manually fire a 20mm
by rotating the barrels.! so. they would not hold the barrels.
irl: back in 87 a fng was showing off to his family,. and
turned the barrels on a AH-1 an put 3 holes down range.
Yeah……I wasn’t thinking of manually firing the guns,
but of pulling them off alignment and zero.
Huh! Now that was something I would not have thought of. Closest I’ve ever
been to a vulcan was march of 80 when I was babysitting the ATIS I installed
at Kunsan. After the installation since I was the only one on the team with
any experience with ATIS I was the one who got to sit in the tower to be
available to train the trolls on how to operate it and be available if the
equipment hiccupped while burning in. (It didn’t.) There were several vulcans
on the other side of the runway from the tower and they’d shoot off a burst
from every gun every morning. Things were LOUD even across the
runway/taxiway/ramp and 30 feet up! After firing they’d make sure it would
rotate 360° and full elevation. Not a great feeling having one of those
things pointed your way.
Maybe the Imperial version locks in place until the pilot releases them
precisely to avoid such misfires.
That would make sense, but it would be bad if they were transporting
the craft and got a call-in, they’d have to land and release them. even
with a remote release in the cab, you have to check before trying to fire.
military has the red “Remove Before Flight” banner/tag.
that locks out the ‘system’. .. but .. this craft IS in flight
an in hostile area.
( irl: an the idiot pulled them, so as not to ruin the photos. )
Yeesh! No way in hell… I have an intense fear of falling since my accident,
the first year was hell, almost every time I started to drift off to sleep it’d
feel like I was falling and I’d wake up in a panic. If I’d have to ride a runner,
you’d have to blindfold me and tie me to it. It’s that bad…
Poor girl, I figured she’d suffer like Miral did when they were fast-tracking
her training. Yeah, officer training is very intensive, I’m glad I didn’t try that.
I’m just a tinkerer/fixer/maker, I don’t bark orders unless someone screwed
up and didn’t tell me, I’m the one that gets yelled at if any of my guys f’ed
up and didn’t report it.
You can tell how tired she is, she’s laying face down, and knowing how uncomfortable
that was for my wife to lay like that… I’d have to dig out cups in the sand so she could
tan her back. Not to mention Marise’s ears are unsupported as well. She’s going to be
stiff and sore and have a headache come morning!
You guys made some valid points.
Plus a few I noticed in addition.
Panel 4 has been changed.
I had wondered if it was wise to do this with unprotected ears and
hats that close to the engines. I had a nightmare about someone
firing up the burners in the big conveyor ovens while I was
cleaning the orifice, and when I was actually doing that someone
thought it would be funny to start the big 3 1/2 foot squirrel cage
fans in the combustion chamber. this oven was 15 ft high and 40
feet long, the combustion cambers were 6ft long and 4 1/2 high with
heavy, insulated, explosion release hinges on the access doors.
This a-hole heard me tell a friend about the nightmare so when I
was inside they slammed the door shut and started the fans,
sucked my hat off my head and made it hard to breathe!
In my panic I body slammed the door hard enough to pop the release
hinges, I think I scared the fool more than I was! By time I was
able to catch my breath he was long gone. Roughnecks love to prank,
needless to say the next time we had a in-house fire I knocked him
down and about drowned him with the 2 in hose heheheh….
Anyway the air flow was bad enough from those big fans much less the
grav engines! I’m glad they braided their hair, it could of been
ripped out when she rotated the drives forward into flight position.
“in-house fire”
You are WWWAAAAYYYYY too nice! When I got my breath
I would have beat the living shit out of him! I would have
most definitely wiped the smile off his face.
Each door weighed 75 lbs, the latches were spring loaded and weren’t suppose to
be that easy to pop open. I hit that door hard enough to send it sliding on top of
tripping all 4 latches. This guy was 6 ft tall and an a-hole ( as you can tell) and I
scared him enough that he sprinted away.
Normally he would of stood there laughing at me. I could of gotten him wrote
up and suspended instead I hosed him off his feet AND shot him point blank in
the face with a fire hose in front of everyone, trust me, what I did was far worse
than beating the crap out of “water boy.” That nickname stuck to him until they
closed the plant down heheheh… Fire hoses use 90 psi at 18 gallons per minute,
trust me I did beat his face in 😉
And yes that IS my face, as you can tell I’ve never taken a “selfie” before heh.
No lockouts? The main power switch should have been
locked OFF with your own padlock before you went in.
I argued that point many times before that nightmare fuel situation. No there
was only motor starters on the far wall from the oven. I had tried to kill the
power to that row of switches, it also kills the lights. This building was built
in 1934, so there wasn’t as much in the way of safety in some parts. There
were many additions to the original building, so in the newer areas the OSA
regs were applied. The one time I was nearly electrocuted once because
someone bypassed the safety switch and didn’t mark the new one.
480 VAC with any kind of load on it will cause the fuse to explode if it arcs, I
have burn scars up my left arm for that happening. I had clamped on my puller,
and stepped to the side before pulling it, otherwise I’d have the same on my
face and chest. I was SO pissed off about that and ranted at both my boss
and HIS boss! To top it off, they sent me to the hospital to be drug tested
before anything else was done. They had to dig out chunks of brass out of
my arm… Lesson learned, I stopped trusting the markings on ANY “safety”
switch after that.
Grease in the fur isn’t fun, I’m pretty hairy and I’ve had grease up both forearms AND
in my shirt enough to know it’s a major task to clean up, I can only imagine what SHE’s
going through!
Goop or Mac-13 hand cleaner works the best, soap just doesn’t cut it.
That or straight Dawn dish soap…
Gas or fuel oil works good too, but not a good choice for a fireman!
I’ve had Skydrol sprayed on me – fireproof aircraft hydraulic fluid.
Trust me, you don’t want that stuff to stay on your skin, it starts
to really hurt.
And you really, really don’t want it soaking into your underwear.
I left a trail of clothing to the emergency shower. Which, sadly,
was in full view of the passengers and stewardii as they walked
to their flights.
The best reaction was our single, male, gay flight attendant. He
didn’t know why I was using the emergency shower out in the open,
but he brought me a bar of soap then parked the airport van to
block the view, and brought a towel and a set of his clothing (that
he’d worn to work) and left them in the van for me.
His clothing was higher quality than anything I owned, for sure.
But yeah, I wouldn’t accept any gay jokes among the other
mechanics after that little adventure.
I can guess! I’ve had to use an ER shower as well, acetone burns pretty bad.
The forklift driver was careless and busted 3-5gal jugs he was unloading and I
was helping to unload. He was on the ramp and I was signing the paper work
below the ramp. I heard a CRACK and was splashed from behind. I seen my
watch had started to smoke (plastic band) so I ripped it off and ran to the john.
There were 4 showers in there just for that reason. I stood in there for an hour
naked and shivering while I waited for my wife to bring a change, that stuff was
pure and uncut. I looked like I fell asleep while sunbathing heh. That lucky SOB
delivery driver seen it coming and didn’t say anything just leaped back (grumbling).
If that’s true Kima may stay behind as a pilot instructor once a replacement is sent
for him, the Sparrow is no slouch, but I fear that scout and the Pteran cruiser would
be hard pressed to defend the entire planet if the core sends a battle group.
It’s easier to train a crew than to train competent instructors.
Wanna bet that the Sparrow crew are there for the long haul?
They’re the founding academy cadre, after all… building it
from the ground up.
True, I keep forgetting this military uses more than 5% of their brains!
It makes sense, which is why I was expecting the PTB to say “no, get
back on patrol!” They won’t be bored, that’s for sure, once more
instructors arrive it’ll get easier, but only for the teachers, not the
students 😉
Miral: “You doing ok, Scars?” (in a strained voice) “Yeah, just hurry and call ahead for
a bottle of whiskey and a couple of Xanax!” She chuckles “OK!”
Scars?
Many people, mostly my friends call me Scars. If you if you were to see my stomach,
you’d know why. I have 8 surgery scars on my belly, 2 more on my back, over a 20
year period. I chose Scarsdale as my user name because I’m a village of scars heh…
Doh! I missed the breaking of the fourth wall. I was thinking
it was intended as a Miral comment to someone in the comic.
More coffee – STAT!
I don’t know about Xanax, and personally I prefer Bailey’s Irish Creme
(chilled, straight, no ice) or Honeywood Mead to whiskey. Of course,
those are just as slow sipping drinks.
After a ride like that, yeah, whiskey, rum, etc., in quantity would
probably be required.
I would definitely be in a padded room panic in that situation,
Phobias are a very real issue, I’ve faced down druggies
desperate for a fix, muggers, and a-holes that felt a white guy
(cracker) had no business in “their” town. I did the 4th wall
break with Miral simply because she has the same issue with
falling that I do, so she would understand the white knuckle
panic I’d have.
As far as the choice of rotgut? I have a friend that’s tinkering
with a small still, he gave me a batch of 130proof rum he
cooked up, man, talk about smooth! It didn’t burn the mouth
OR stomach! Almost made me want to take up drinking again 😉
Xanax is a very strong tranq’ I used to work with someone on it,
no emotion, no reaction, pretty much a zombie. Poor dumb girl got
piercings in a sensitive spot, and had constant orgasms as a result.
It was how the doctor “helped” her. Got addicted too…sigh…
.. scars .. heh, i’ve said before i’m a 3rd scar tissue.
so, we are similar, not same.. and most of mine was
between 13 an 17.. oh an ‘clinically dead’ twice..
PC, I shot you an email, with the info you’ll need about the parts.
>ride the skids
Sure, most everyone has done that. And have the demerits / demotions
for such a safety violation!
>policy to not separate mated couples
Just be sure to fall for someone on a garden world. Not someplace like Hoth :}
There will be an update soon. I spotted a serious mistake at the last minute.
I’m redoing four panels and all of the dialogue. Sorry.
All done. Update complete.