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Phantom Friday...
...traps...
... to wrap us up for this week.
Until next time.
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A Star Trek moment...
Star Trek: The Next Generation S5E6 "The Game" was a bit silly but it is one of my favorite episodes.
The premise, this week's baddie slips this game on board and soon everyone (even the Captain?) is playing it. It gives you an endorphin hit when you "score"...
... Beverly looks like she is enjoying it a bit too much.
The problem is that it turns the player into a zombie helping the baddie to take over the ship.
Wesley is on board for a visit, grows suspicious, and is fighting to stop all these shenanigans. Soon tho things are looking rather dire for Wes...
... until Data (whom the zombie Doctor Crusher had knocked out of action earlier) comes in with his magic flashlight to save the day. I couldn't find an image of that.
The best part is Ashley Judd as Ensign Robin Lefler...
... who only appeared twice, in "The Game" and also S5E1 "Darmok".
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Phantom Friday...
...brings the heat.
A river of hot exhaust pours out of the J-79 engines of this JASDF F4-EJ KAI Phantom under the watchful eye of the crew chief.——————————–—
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The Marilyn Monroe Archives for Friday June 20.
Marilyn Monroe known then as Norma Jeane Mortenson posing for a portrait on a farm in Northern California, 1945.
Photo by André de Dienes © MUUS Collection.
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Phantom Friday...
...starts her up.
cough...cough...
While it looks like a mishap in progress, there is nothing to be alarmed about here.
This Phantom is performing a "cartridge start". A charge of (obviously not smokeless) powder is burned, the hot gases are fed into a small turbine that spins the engine enough to get it running. The other engine can then be started with bleed air from the first.
Cartridge starters were standard equipment for most cold-war-era aircraft, the idea being to get the aircraft started quickly without messing with huffers. This would get them away from the base before they were destroyed by an incoming nuclear weapon. Downsides were that they were dirty and left fouling in the engines, and the cartridges had to be replaced after each use.
Modern fighters have an on-board APU (auxiliary power unit) fueled by hydrazine to get the engines running. Fun fact, airliners also have one of those in the tail that run on jet fuel from the aircraft tanks for this very purpose.
The J-79 would take over the task of smoke production from this point on.
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Rolling one-wire...
After what was obviously a poor approach, this F/A-18C Hornet touched down much too close to the end of the deck and is actually rolling on the mains and ripping a trail of sparks with the hook before even getting to the #1 wire. The red light on the nose gear signals that the aircraft's angle-of-attack is too low and that the aircraft is flying too fast. Not very much lower and shorter and the pass would have ended in a "ramp strike" hitting the back end of the ship.
The LSO will have some choice words for this pilot.
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The Marilyn Monroe Archive for June 17.
Marilyn in her apartment in 1952.
She's considered by many to be "just an actress" and this many years later is only the image, but there was a serious intellect behind that pretty face. I can't make out many of the titles in her library, but I see art books about Goya and Botticelli among other things.
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just now on the bridge...
(ps... Flying Thru Space was a Win98 screen saver.)
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Classic Hollywood Glamour...
Ava Gardner has mischief on her mind.
Photo by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1944.
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Star Trek History...
Desilu studio techs build the Talos IV exterior set for the failed Star Trek first pilot "The Cage" in 1964.
Clapper Loader Bill McGovern signals the start of a take on the bridge set, scene 9C take 3 on December 3 1964.
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I remember at about that age gifting my then-girlfriend her first nice camera.
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Phantom Friday...
...calls it a wrap...
... with our JASDF friends in the golden twilight.
Until next time.
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Phantom Friday...
...gets gas from what exactly?
A KC-135 with portholes???
This odd tanker is a NKC-135, a variant that was used for a variety of optical scientific testing. Sorry I can't be more specific, that's all the info I can find.
If it was modified for such specialized purposes I also don't know why it was also still being used here as a tanker. Whatever the details, that Phantom was probably just happy to get the gas.
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Phantom Friday...
...don't shoot me!
This Pacific Missile Test Center QF-4B Phantom II (aircraft call-sign Wolverine 41) is seen deploying a TDU-34A tow-target to support a 1979 mission over the Sea Test Range.
The TDU-34/A is a passive radar target. It consists of a reinforced aluminum tube body, four aluminum fins, a steel towline adapter, and radar-reflective nose and tail sections. It is deployed by an A/A47U-3A tow target reeling machine-launcher system that can stream the target behind the tow aircraft on up to 42,000 feet of 0.097-inch diameter 1 by 7 stranded steel cable. This allows for gunnery practice for other aircraft without putting the tow aircraft in jeopardy.
Since nobody will be shooting at the QF-4, there is a crew on-board and the old Phantom will return safely... this time at least.
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Phantom Friday...
...cat shot!
VF-151 Vigilantes F-4 Phantom off of cat #1.
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