Shoup Airlines

Today’s ponderances

How exactly can Jeff Kent announce his retirement tomorrow when SportsCenter is announcing it today?

If your last name is Lemieux and you are in the NHL, is it a requirement that you retire for 4 or 5 years before returning to the sport?

Lastly, how many times can one not from ‘Bama tolerate Sweet Home Alabama while imprisoned in ‘Bama before making Charles Manson look like the poster child for Buddhism?

Realism

I got to land the Blackhawk on a helicopter carrier yesterday.

In the dark, under NVGs.

While it was raining.

With winds off the port bow gusting to 45 knots and swells at 15 to 20 feet.

In the sim.

But the pit stains and frustration were ALL TOO REAL!

I Got Nothing

Two days back in the lovely little town of Enterprise and we still haven’t flown.  Only in the deep South would you get pea soup fog one night and then massive thunderstorms the next in the middle of JANUARY! Tonight is supposed to finally be the big break in weather, but of course I’m starting to come down with something and not sure if I’ll even make it to the helicopter.

So I’ll leave you with a short I saw a while back and found eerily interesting.  I bring it to your attention only because I have nothing else and Hollywood has gotten a hold of it and left their greasy paw prints all over it.

And here’s the mainstream trailer for the curious: