#Training Mission

[thatsrightice]

THE LEGEND OF BRADY’S CREW AND THEIR CRASH WAGON

The crash landing we see John Brady’s crew conduct in Part 1 of Masters of the Air was not their first. On Christmas Eve of 1942, Brady’s crew took off on a training mission but crash landed in the snowy mountains of Evanston, Wyoming due to inclement weather and a lack of gas. No one was injured thanks to Brady’s skillful flying (and Harry Crosby’s Scottish descent, according to the young woman who found them).

Afterward, the crew received a brand new B-17F, serial number 42-30071. Though officially titled “SKIPPER”, the Fort had immediately been given a name: “BRADY’S CRASH WAGON” in homage to the legend of their training accident.

Their second crash landing, the one we see in the show, actually occurred at an Air Depot in Warton on the east coast due to the landing gear being frozen. Their belly-landing damaged their aircraft so they were forced to take a train to Diss and then a truck to Thorpe Abbotts.

42-30071 “BRADY’S CRASH WAGON” would be repaired and sent to the 96th Bomb Group. It was irreparably damaged in another belly-landing on April 18, 1944 and scrapped.

[bafflement]

Deaged Oz AU ; The Consequences Of Assuming

"General? Why exactly do you want us listening to this... child?" Clover sounded plaintive. "I'm aware that orders are orders, but he's just a little kid. Surely we'd know better?"

"Appearances are often deceiving, Clover." The General responded, sounding slightly annoyed. "Besides, as the leader of the Ace Operatives you are sworn to following my commands. And I say you listen to him."

"The probability of the General knowing what he is talking about stands at 99.98%" Vine stated calmly. "As such, I would rather doubt that young Tip Pine is precisely as he appears to be. Besides, it is merely a training exercise."

"We're all gonna die because of the General's kid." Marrow muttered, before seeming to realise where he was and coming to a salute in front of a visibly unimpressed James.

"He is not my child." This was stated flatly. Oz made a slightly incredulous noise at the thought even as, behind him, the others traded smirks.

"Well, we heard the orders. Kid? Don't get us killed." Clover sounded resigned in the face of the fact that it was rather obvious that Ironwood wasn't going to be changing his mind.

"It is merely a training exercise." Oz said, softly. "I sincerely doubt anything too bad would be permitted to happen. Besides, you stated that if this goes well, you would stop treating me like a child.

"Huh." Marrow said. "We did say that, yes. Kid... juat do us a favor and grow a bit? You're short enough it's a bit embarrassing."

"I'm aware." Oz sounded rather fed up, but then he had been getting short jokes for over a year. He was used to being one of the tallest in the room, this was embarrassing, even if not quite for the reasons the Ace Operatives assumed. But then, seemingly only Winter had been let in on the whole identity problem. He supposed that made sense, considering how much of Atlas was technologically based. Salem still had at least one hacker after all.

The mission? Was over in about twenty minutes, all objectives achieved. Clover couldn't meet his gaze for a week, which he took as a win in itself.

[rotten7rat]

Just gonna leave this here

[seafoamdew]

A Meme

[oraclenthusiast]

everyone wants batman to be treated like a human and have him lose to his kids... personally i think dc should lean into his unbelievable wins. need to defeat this insanely powerful supervillain? call batman. need to fight god? batman. no explanation whatsoever, just him winning quite literally impossible fights. sic him on capitalism next.

[nyooomcat]

[farshootergotme]

I've read too many batfamily fics. I need to read a fic that is about Dick spending time with everyone EXCEPT the batfam.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 87

“Mother, I crave violence.” 

  Danny paused in the middle of his work, turning off the torch as he turned towards Dan. Who had once again be de-aged for destroying a world a few years before. (Ellie had cackled for hours about her being the older sibling now) The currently-six year old was scowling, definitely not pouting. 

  He raised an eyebrow, setting his tools down. “Jordan, we’re literally in an assassin’s den right now-” Honestly running into someone he’d met in his time-traveling was rather interesting, apparently his old rival had become so ecto-contaminated that he was immortal now. “-and I know you just got out of sparring, so are you really ‘craving violence’ or are you just bored?” 

  Dan pouted, sorry, he scowled. “Your ‘friend’s’ kids kept tryin’ to copy me and got in the way.” He hopped up onto one of the chairs, visibly not happy about not being able to fly as he glared at tiny legs. Tough shit, he knew better than to destroy worlds, they couldn’t always reverse time. 

   Danny sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose. “They’re just trying to play-” Maybe to a human they wouldn’t, but honestly everyone here was so liminal they were probably closer to ghosts than anyone except for Amity. Which had also been displaced in time after getting dragged to the ghost zone, so it had been soaked in ecto longer anyway. 

   “They got in the way and I almost stabbed Dusan!” Dan whined, despite what he’d insist. “At least Elnath can go intangible and Nyssa can dodge!” Ah, that was the issue. He’d been worried. 

   “Little sunbeam, you don’t have to worry,” Danny soothed, scooping up the ghostling. Even though he had been an adult, the chemicals in the brain and body were still that of a child’s. A young child at that. “The trainers are there to keep an accident from happening.” 

  Not to mention that he was rather confident that between Ras and himself they could keep any injuries to minor ones. Sam would have loved to meet him, Danny thinks. Honestly they would have been best friends, but Sam was off on another world on a mission to collect every plant in existence, so good for her, and Tucker was back in the reincarnation cycle. 

  Oh well, at least he wasn’t waiting for them alone, and maybe Dan having more siblings would help stop another timeline-breaking accident from happening. 

[pick-a-lane]

ghoap nap

a little soapghost doodle I did tonight.. can you tell I was also a bit sleepy lmao. I forgot about daylight savings so tomorrow I will be tired :( enjoy this little sketch though! (also these are new brushes yay very fun :) )

[theforgottengreatpoem]

"Find them Skullcrusher. Find them."

[sohaoying]

experimenting w the homies

[waiting4kraven]

Just lemon and tangerine having fun.

[freaky-wasatch-range]

"mormonism is american exceptionalism" has gotta be my least favorite anti-mormon take out there like you could talk about literally anything and THAT'S what you're going with????????? like you can talk about our weird relationship with manifest destiny and colonisation (extremely valid talking points!!!!!!) but to act like some kind of specific allegiance to the united states as an institution is inherent to our doctrine is so..... silence......

[twelverriver]

Ilsa Faust + being a ghost (or why I think she's still alive)

Fallout Script / Dead Reckoning Part One / Dead Reckoning Part One Soundtrack / Dead Reckoning Part One / Mission: Impossible (1996) / Light The Fuse Podcast: Interview with Christopher McQuarrie / Dead Reckoning Part One