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Talk about the Devil, Strategic Air Command is playing tonight on
Adelphia cable Channel 53. I'm planning to watch it. "11:55PM Wednesday, Mar 17 on Channel 53 Get All TV Listings Strategic Air Command Movie / Adventure (1955) 1 hr 54 min NR TVG The Air Force recalls a baseball player (James Stewart) who has a pregnant wife (June Allyson) to fly long-range bombers. director Anthony Mann cast June Allyson, Bruce Bennett, Rosemary DeCamp, Frank Lovejoy, James Stewart, Barry Sullivan details (CC) " |
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"bryan chaisone" wrote in message
om Talk about the Devil, Strategic Air Command is playing tonight on Adelphia cable Channel 53. I'm planning to watch it. It would help to post the name of the network. Even if we were all Adelphia subscribers, not all Adelphia networks may have Ch.53 running the same network. -- John T http://tknowlogy.com/TknoFlyer http://www.pocketgear.com/products_s...veloperid=4415 ____________________ |
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On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 07:27:28 -0900, Dale wrote:
In article , (Corky Scott) wrote: The Navy did some amazing work with the PB4Y-1 and -2. I've read/been told of patrols as long as 18+ hours. They worked as single-ships or two-ships most of the time. Brave men. Dale L. Falk He returned to the states after his first deployement, and worked up in the PB4Y-2 as a plane captain. The -2, as you probably know, was a B-24 with a single vertical stabilizer/rudder instead of the twin rudders of the Air Force version. I saw a few photo's of him practicing attacks on submarines, shot from another airplane. He said he had to work hard to overcome "target fixation", which is the tendency to concentrate on getting your aim correct on the approaching target that you forget to pull out in time. I'm sure that happened to more than one crew during WWII. Anyway, he was headed back out for his second combat tour when the war ended. He was "marooned" on Hawaii for several months, eventually hitching a ride home on the aircraft carrier Saratoga, along with MANY other returning Navy people. Corky Scott |
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On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 22:38:59 GMT, Robert Moore
wrote: (Corky Scott) wrote He returned to the states after his first deployement, and worked up in the PB4Y-2 as a plane captain. Corky, if your father was a Naval Aviator, he probably was not a "plane captain". In the Navy, a "plane captain" is an enlisted man who is responsible for the preparation of the aircraft prior to flight. He "owns" the aircraft while it is on the ground. The terminology for the PIC of a patrol plane has changed a little through the years. When I first qualified in P-2V Neptunes, the PIC was called the "Patrol Plane Commander" (PPC), this being the final step of the PP3P, PP2P, PPC qualificaion procedure. The Navy allowed a nugget pilot 18 months to qualify as a PPC, however there was no garantee that there would be enough aircraft in the squadron for every PPC to have a plane and crew. It was common to have a copilot who was a rated PPC in the aircraft but was not senior enough to command a crew. Later, just as I left the Navy after a tour in P-3 Orions, non-pilot tactical co-ordinators were replacing the PP3Ps back in the "tube" running the tactical aspects of the mission. As time went on, these "TACCO"s became senior to the PPCs and the conduct of the mission was turned over to the senior qualified man on board as the "Combat Aircrew Commander". The Brits had used this system for many years. Bob Moore PPC P-2V VP-21 CAC P-3B VP-46 Thanks for the information Bob. He was a pilot then, not a plane captain. He learned in the CPT program and moved on to Stearmans, BT-13's, SNJ's and then began training in PBY's. From there he moved on to PB4Y-1's, then -2's and was qualified in R4D/DC-3's, R5D/DC-4's and during the Korean war, flew P2V's. In civilian life he eventually became a corporate pilot, first flying a DC-3, then transitioning to a DH-125 jet. He told me the only time he really thought he was in trouble with the P2V was when he lost an engine right after taking off in a snow storm out of Kodiak Alaska. They were full of fuel and had to circle around in the zero visibility to land immediately. Thanks for the correction. Corky Scott |
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