The Humorous/Interesting Video Thread

[Jimbuna]

[Jimbuna]

[ET2SN]

I wasn't sure if this was the right thread, but kick back just the same and enjoy:





NAS Atsugi was the closest I got to Naval aviation outside of Subic Bay. I was homeported in Sasebo, about halfway between Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

Go ahead and say it, get it out of your system- "TOMCATS!".

Getting back to Atsugi, I never got to visit the base. When we'd truck on up to Yokosuka, I found all the fun I wanted in Yokohama.
Iwakuni was the closest air base to Sasebo but we never had a reason to go there.

Anyway, there's some neat points to ponder in the video. The "rah rah" stuff at the beginning was more or less to remind the folks in the 'burbs outside of Yokohama that jets make noise. Something that was an issue with Atsugi during this time until they managed to shut down the base.

Also, for you flight simmers in the group, notice the Tomcat on short final at the half way point in the video. Those guys are crabbing like its going out of style. I have the old Iris F-14 in FS2004 and this is one of the things that always bugged me. With the wings fully extended and the boards hanging out- it flies like a kite in a strong cross wind or a leaf on a windy day.
If anything, it shows that the flight dynamics that Iris used are pretty close.

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[Eisenwurst]

"New York, New York, so good they named it twice" - Gerard Kenny.

Sister cities with Wagga Wagga

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[Eisenwurst]

Definitely a time capsule from when we had a national identity, and it all disappeared due to Woke only a generation or two later.

Spike shows us around his adopted home....an honorary Aussie

Just up the road and a country mile from where I live. Know the area very well..... and avoid it like the plague now

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[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

[Eisenwurst]

I've lived a long life ( 70 plus years ) and seen many changes in the world around me. But nothing like the changes this gentleman has experienced

Wow...being instrumental in taking his country from an isolationist Feudal/ xenophobic society to a burgeoning World Power in half his lifetime.

Quite a story.....and great illustrations too

Thanks for posting.

[Jimbuna]