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wyntrout
04-22-2023, 08:57 AM
Happy Earth Day!

19890
wyntrout
04-22-2023, 10:02 AM
19892
mr surveyor
04-22-2023, 11:26 AM
My gang celebrated Earth Day for at least 20 years ... always a bonfire with the rules of "bring your own beer and brickabrack (for the extra smoke offering)". The best I can remember was in 1992 when we still had beer left but the fire was dwindling and there were no more old tires or paint cans to feed it. Our "host" that year remembered he had an old, cracked, 17 foot fiberglass canoe shoved back in an old shed .... that made a great colored smoke offering to Gaia and allowed us to pleasantly finish the remaining beer. I miss those days.

jd
getsome
04-22-2023, 05:52 PM
Happy Earth Day!

19890

Rolling Coal in the Free World!
Planedude
04-22-2023, 08:10 PM
Happy Earth Day!

19890

MITO takeoffs were an AWSOME sight to behold as a kid growing up on SAC bases. While the locals were freaking out, thinking "the end is near", we were okay, as my dad would always know it was just another ORI.
...and yes they really did lay on the coal. At Carswell AFB in Fort Worth, MITO takeoffs across the lake would "fog the (little) city Lake Worth for skeeters" on the other shore.

Ahhhh the good old days.

Peace (through superior firepower)
340pd
04-23-2023, 08:04 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1e5HAZo4iw
yqtszhj
04-23-2023, 11:41 AM
I can’t help but remember this movie when I see the B-52’s taking off.

https://youtu.be/snTaSJk0n_Y



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snTaSJk0n_Y
Armybrat
04-23-2023, 06:51 PM
MITO takeoffs were an AWSOME sight to behold as a kid growing up on SAC bases. While the locals were freaking out, thinking "the end is near", we were okay, as my dad would always know it was just another ORI.
...and yes they really did lay on the coal. At Carswell AFB in Fort Worth, MITO takeoffs across the lake would "fog the (little) city Lake Worth for skeeters" on the other shore.

Ahhhh the good old days.

Peace (through superior firepower)
I remember when the BUFFs warmed up at Bergstrom about 6 or7 miles away from our South Austin home in the early 1960s.
The windows on our house rattled with all the really loud rumbling.
Awesome flying machines!