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2022-07-29 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Navy loses more aircraft to rough weather

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Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 The woke morons won't tie their planes down because it's racist to enslave the planes.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2022-07-29 02:43|| 2022-07-29 02:43|| Front Page Top

#2 ...The birds were on the ramp at Norfolk; they aren't normally tied down while ashore - in fact, I don't think you can tie them down ashore. The idea is that the weather guys give you enough warning that you can get the birds under some kind of cover or fly them out.

Clearly that didn't happen here, and that may unfortunately come under the heading of 'one of those things'.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2022-07-29 04:53|| 2022-07-29 04:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Nothing compared to having a tornado rip through an Air Force base.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-07-29 06:49|| 2022-07-29 06:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Time for fire sale. Perhaps a Biden move give them away to Ukraine.

Posted by Dale 2022-07-29 08:56|| 2022-07-29 08:56|| Front Page Top

#5 My understanding is there was an order given to tie down the aircraft, and the winds started flipping them 12 minutes later. Plus, during an active thunderstorm, they're required to call personell in to avoid lightning hazards.
So the guys with the tie down chains are standing in the hangar videoing the birds flipping. Which is where the pictures came from.

Posted by ed in texas 2022-07-29 14:21|| 2022-07-29 14:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Embarrassingly, the Atlantic Fleet Weather Center is at the Norfolk Base.

Posted by Lord Garth 2022-07-29 14:28|| 2022-07-29 14:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Lol and this is the navy that wants fight China?
Hope that the USA has a magic secret weapon in his arse..nal

Posted by ACA JOE 2022-07-29 14:58|| 2022-07-29 14:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Hope that the USA has a magic secret weapon in his arse..nal

Yeah - I hear we have a special super-elite battalion which is practicing calling people by improper pronouns even as we speak.
That'll show them!

Posted by CrazyFool 2022-07-29 15:02|| 2022-07-29 15:02|| Front Page Top

#9
"You! Cease and desist!"
"I'm not Yu, I am a Xi!"
"Oh sorry, Miss. But we insist."

"Miss? Son of a whore!
[unzips pants and pees]
Here's how China resist!"

Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-29 15:13|| 2022-07-29 15:13|| Front Page Top

#10 Like....how banged up?
-looks in wallet-

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-07-29 17:11|| 2022-07-29 17:11|| Front Page Top

#11 I don't think you can tie them down ashore.

What nonsense! Every NAS airfield I have ever been on has padeyes in the aircraft flight lines.

Posted by Tyranysaurus Jones4656 2022-07-29 21:53|| 2022-07-29 21:53|| Front Page Top

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