Saturday, March 02, 2013
Recently I started to suspect that "foreign helicopter" is my sleeping dream-code for 'Sikorsky.'
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/speeches/1999/02-18Cohen.aspx
Remarks by Secretary of Defense William Cohen and Bill Gates [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Thursday, February 18, 1999
Redmond, Washington
DEFENSE SECRETARY WILLIAM COHEN: Thank you, Bill. (Applause.)
Bill, thank you very much. And Bob Herbold, thank you for inviting me to come here today. (The next comment refers to the former Army officer who is now in MS training) I had mixed emotions about you leaving the military and coming to work here. (Laughter.) And I'll tell you, I gave you mild applause. (Laughter.)
I might also point out that we have some seats that say, "Reserved for the Cohen staff," that anyone who does not want to stand up can use. Though I like the notion of having standing room only -- (laughter) But if you'd like to have a seat, we have plenty of room up front.
Coming to the Microsoft campus was something of a unique experience, as we landed in a big helicopter and I was commenting that they probably think this is "Red Dawn" -- (laughter) -- or an invasion by aliens, coming in this large helicopter.
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Proximo: [addressing his new recruits] I am Proximo! I shall be closer to you for the next few days, which will be the last of your miserable lives, than that bitch of a mother who first brought you screaming into this world! I did not pay good money for your company. I paid it so that I might profit from your death. And just as your mother was there at your beginning, I shall be there at your end. And when you die - and die you shall - your transition will be to the sound of...
[claps his hands]
http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/651/239/158336/
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651 F.2d 239: United States of America, Appellee, v. John D. Long, Appellant
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit. - 651 F.2d 239
Argued Jan. 9, 1981.Decided June 12, 1981
To establish a violation of the RICO statute, the government must show that the enterprise affects interstate commerce.
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affect
to act on; produce an effect or change in: Cold weather affected the crops.
to impress the mind or move the feelings of: The music affected him deeply.
to assume the character or attitude of
to act upon or influence, esp in an adverse way
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[as an executioner tries to draw his sword but can't]
Maximus: The frost, it sometimes makes the blade stick.
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Gladiator (2000)
Budget
$103,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend
$34,819,017 (USA) (7 May 2000) (2,938 Screens)
£3,555,446 (UK) (14 May 2000) (417 Screens)
Filming Dates
18 January 1999 - 29 May 1999
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=gladiator.htm
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Gladiator
Domestic Total Gross: $187,705,427
Distributor: DreamWorks
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $187,705,427 41.0%
+ Foreign: $269,935,000 59.0%
= Worldwide: $457,640,427
"Space: Above And Beyond"
"The Angriest Angel"
11 February 1996
Episode 15 Season 1 DVD video:
US Navy Commodore Ross: For this mission, the fourth planet from Achilles will be designated "Gooch." It lies 240 M.S.K.'s from the Saratoga. Five-eight, as the diversionary squadron, you are the bait. You will patrol this area until engaged by the enemy. At which time Colonel Schrader, trailing the formation will fire the Sewell Fuel missile at the enemy craft while you turn tail and run. It is the nature of this mission and the colonel fully understands that if engaged by the enemy he is going one-on-one.
US Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel T.C. McQueen: Commodore Ross. If I may have a word, sir.
US Navy Commodore Ross: Have it.
US Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel T.C. McQueen: Sir, the colonel has become aware that he has not been assigned the mission of his design.
US Navy Commodore Ross: That's affirmative. Colonel Schrader has been assigned.
US Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel T.C. McQueen: Sir, the admiral himself assured the colonel -
US Navy Commodore Ross: The final call is mine, Colonel. You are not fit to fly.
US Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel T.C. McQueen: Sir, the colonel knows the commodore to be a man of honor.
US Navy Commodore Ross: You are not fit to fly, Colonel.
US Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel T.C. McQueen: Sir, I have not been presented with the opportunity to demonstrate to the contrary, sir!
US Navy Commodore Ross: I don't have the time to let you go through qualifications.
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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Miniseries (2003) [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Helo: Hey. Check out that pyramid game on Geminon?
CAG: What were you doing on Geminon?
(The camera is swinging around the table; Tigh and Starbuck are glaring at each other.)
Helo: There's a girl there I know.
Boomer: What girl don't you know?
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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Miniseries (2003) [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Starbuck: Ohhh, Helo. When you gonna learn? First you're flying with rooks, and then... (Boomer hits her)
Boomer: Hey.
Starbuck: And then you're betting against Starbuck. (Helo makes a 'bring it on' gesture.)
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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Miniseries (2003) [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Tigh: Starbuck. That's a good call sign. Starbuck-buck-buck-buck-buck-buck-buck. (Making it sound like a chicken clucking.) Where'd you get that nickname, anyway? Was that before you were thrown in the brink for drunk and disorderly as a cadet, or after?
Starbuck: After.
Tigh: After, that's right, it was... after.
Helo: I'm in. Thanks to you, XO.
Starbuck: (not amused) How's the wife?
Boomer: Too early for that kind of money.
Helo: Hey. Check out that pyramid game on Geminon?
CAG: What were you doing on Geminon?
(The camera is swinging around the table; Tigh and Starbuck are glaring at each other.)
Helo: There's a girl there I know.
Boomer: What girl don't you know?
Tigh: The wife is just fine.
Starbuck: Talk to her lately?
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(Caption: Galactica Attack Squadron, 2 hours from Caprica)
CAG: Boomer. Acknowledge Galactica signals. Send them our position, tell them we've detected a formation of Cylon fighters directly ahead, and I intend to attack. Boomer, do you copy?
Boomer: Copy that.
Helo: Ease up there, Boomer. Take a deep breath.
Boomer: Stand by. Helo?
Helo: I show ten, no, no make that five, Cylon raiders on course 324, mark 110, speed 7.1, time to intercept, 7 minutes.
CAG: You don't sound too sure.
Boomer: There's a lot of jamming going on. Cylons are using a lot of defensive decoys. Sorting through them, but-
CAG: Understood. Just take your time, guide us in, we'll do the rest.
Boomer: Yes, sir.
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(Caprica)
(Helo fires at the ground.)
Helo: That's as close as you get, now just settle down. Settle down, and no one gets hurt.
Man: I have to get on board. I'll give you fifty thousand. (Other people yell similar things.)
Helo: We're not taking money. This isn't a rescue ship, this is a military vessel, and we're not taking money.
People: You can't just leave us here! What about the children?
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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Miniseries (2003) [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Helo: Hey. Aren't you Gaius Baltar?
Baltar: Yeah, I haven't done anything. This lady has ticket number 47. This lady here.
Helo: Could you come up here, please.
Baltar: Here.
Boomer: (to Helo) What are you doing?
Helo: (taking her hand) I'm giving up my seat.
Boomer: Like hell.
Helo: A civilian should take my place.
Boomer: You're going.
Helo: Look at those clouds. Sharon, look at those clouds, and tell me this isn't the end of everything.
Boomer: Helo...
Helo: Whatever future is left is gonna depend on whoever survives. Give me one reason why I'm a better choice than one of the greatest minds of our time.
Boomer: Helo-
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helo
Informal. helicopter.
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Independence Day
:31:23
Not to mention
that this whole cockamamie plan
:31:25
depends on a machine that no one
in this world is qualified to operate.
:31:31
I wouldn't say that, sir.
:31:32
I've seen them in action.
I'm aware of their manoeuvring capabilities.
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Dr. Hollingshead: Perhaps you are mistaking me for someone else.
Walter Mitty: Oh, no. No one looks as much like you do as *you* do.
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Naval Flight Officer
A Naval Flight Officer (NFO) is an officer in the United States Navy or United States Marine Corps that specializes in airborne weapons and sensor systems. NFOs are not pilots (Naval Aviators)
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 2:58 PM Saturday, March 24, 2012
The dream I awoke from had me in some kind of residential building. I was sitting in a hallway outside a door of an apartment or condo and I was waiting for other people to join me. We were there to visit my grandmother. Earlier, I had seen myself as a passenger in a car and I had a guitar and I forget the precise dialog I had with the woman who was driving, while other passengers sat in the backseat, but I was trying to match the radio signal on the radio inside my guitar with the radio broadcast from the radio in the dashboard of the car we were riding in.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 24 March 2012 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 08/04/10 2:00 PM
"At the end of the drive the lawmen arrive"
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 08/04/10 2:01 PM
"an F-14 Tomcat with me in the backseat"
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 04 August 2010 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 01/24/07 1:36 AM
Very odd dream about trying to drive a car. The problem though was that I was in a seat behind the driver's seat and to the right. It seems like a forgotten dream that has recurred a million forgotten times. I was trying to navigate the car, it was some kind of van actually at that point, while in traffic, with heavy rain, going down a steep, long hill that is vaguely familiar as I analyze that image still in my waking mind. Sometime later I was stopped and I think it was a car at that point, perhaps at the bottom of the hill. I got and was trying to do something, perhaps rearranging the stuff in the car. There was a lot of stuff in there and I remember from that dream that it was somebody's else but I don't know whose it was and why it was in there. But one item I do remember was there was a garbage can full of garbage in it that was spilling over onto the driver's seat and I was moving that to another location in the back of the car. I was parked next to the garbage can from the house I was in front of and thought about leaving the garbage there but did not. Someone I knew from somewhere, perhaps in the place I had just left, walked by and said something that I don't remember.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 01/24/07 1:46 AM
It seems like a important detail that when I was trying to steer that van while seated in a rear seat, I could hardly see anything outside. All the side windows were blocked and I don't remember looking towards the rear of the van. Even the windshield was partially covered, leaving only a smaller clear area to see through.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 24 January 2007 excerpt ends]
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United States Naval Aviator
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A United States Naval Aviator may be a commissioned officer or warrant officer qualified as a pilot of the United States Navy or a commissioned officer of the United States Marine Corps
Naming Conventions
In the U.S. Navy, most Naval Aviators are Unrestricted Line Officers (URL), eligible for command at sea; however, a small number of Limited Duty Officers and Chief Warrant Officers are also trained as Naval Aviators. The U.S. Marine Corps does not separate categorize its officers in line and staff corps categories as does the Navy, however, all of its Naval Aviators are considered combat officers and are analogous to the Navy's URL officers.
Prerequisites
Except for an extremely small number of enlisted personnel selected for flight school under LDO/CWO programs, Student Naval Aviators must first obtain an officer commission.
Student Naval Aviators (SNAs) progress through a significant training syllabus typically 18 months to two years for initial "winging" as a Naval Aviator via either the Advanced Strike pipeline for those destined for sea-based fixed-wing aircraft (with a slightly modified pipeline for prospective E-2 Hawkeye pilots), the Maritime pipeline for those en route to multiengine land-based aircraft, and the Rotary Wing pipeline for those who will fly helicopters or tilt rotor aircraft (with a slightly modified pipeline for MV-22 Osprey pilots).
Rotary-Wing pipeline
Student pilots selected for helicopter training report to NAS Whiting Field, Florida and complete advanced training in the helicopter training squadrons there as well, flying the TH-57 Sea Ranger. Students learn the unique characteristics and tactics of rotary-wing aviation, to include basic helicopter familiarization, instrument flying, night familiarization (including use of night vision goggles or NVGs), low level flight, helicopter formation flight, and airways navigation.
Once they receive their Wings of Gold, Navy helicopter pilots report to their respective Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS) for training: NAS North Island, CA for the MH-60R Seahawk (HSM) with HSM-41, SH-60F/HH-60H Seahawk (HS) and MH-60S Knighthawk (HSC) with HSC-3, NS Mayport, FL for the SH-60B Seahawk (HSL) and MH-60R Seahawk (HSM), HSM-40 trains pilots for both aircraft, or NS Norfolk, VA for the MH-53E Sea Dragon (HM) and MH-60S Knighthawk (HSC) with HSC-2.
Marine Corps helicopter pilots report to the FRS at MCAS New River for the CH-53D Sea Stallion and CH-53E Super Stallion, MCB Camp Pendleton for the AH-1W Super Cobra, AH-1Z Viper, UH-1N Twin Huey, UH-1Y Venom and CH-46 Sea Knight, or MCAS New River for the MV-22 Osprey.
Insignia and winging
The Naval Aviator Insignia is a warfare qualification of the United States military that is awarded to those aviators of the United States Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard who have qualified as Naval Aviators. The Naval Aviator insignia is identical for all three branches, as are the similar Naval Astronaut and Naval Flight Officer badges.
Naval Astronauts
Naval Aviators who fly in space are designated Naval Astronauts, and are issued the Naval Aviator version of the Astronaut Badge.
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Talking Heads
Life During Wartime
Heard of a van that is loaded with weapons,
packed up and ready to go
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Independence Day
:31:19
We don't have the manpower or the resources
to launch that kind of a campaign!
:31:23
Not to mention
that this whole cockamamie plan
:31:25
depends on a machine that no one
in this world is qualified to operate.
:31:31
I wouldn't say that, sir.
:31:32
I've seen them in action.
I'm aware of their manoeuvring capabilities.
:31:37
With your permission, General,
I'd like the opportunity to try.
:31:41
That thing is a wreck.
:31:44
It crash-landed in the '50s.
We don't even know if it's capable of flying!
:31:48
Jim, remove the clamps.
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Boeing AH-64 Apache
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The Boeing AH-64 Apache is a four-blade, twin-engine attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear arrangement, and a tandem cockpit for a two-man crew. Originally, the Apache started life as the Model 77 developed by Hughes Helicopters for the United States Army's Advanced Attack Helicopter program to replace the AH-1 Cobra, and was first flown on 30 September 1975. The AH-64 was introduced to U.S. Army service in April 1986.
The AH-64 Apache features a nose-mounted sensor suite for target acquisition and night vision systems. It is armed with a 30-millimeter (1.2 in) M230 Chain Gun carried between the main landing gear, under the aircraft's forward fuselage. It has four hardpoints mounted on stub-wing pylons, typically carrying a mixture of AGM-114 Hellfire missiles and Hydra 70 rocket pods. The AH-64 has a large amount of systems redundancy to improve combat survivability.
The U.S. Army selected the AH-64, by Hughes Helicopters, over the Bell YAH-63 in 1976, and later approved full production in 1982. McDonnell Douglas continued production and development after purchasing Hughes Helicopters from Summa Corporation in 1984. The first production AH-64D Apache Longbow, an upgraded version of the original Apache, was delivered to the Army in March 1997. Production has been continued by Boeing Defense, Space & Security; over 1,000 AH-64s have been produced to date.
The U.S. Army is the primary operator of the AH-64
Development
In the mid-1980s, McDonnell Douglas studied an improved "AH-64B" design with an updated cockpit, new fire control system and other upgrades. In 1988 funding was approved for a multi-stage upgrade program to improve sensor and weapon avionic systems and incorporate some digital systems. However, rapidly improving technology led to the upgrade program being canceled in favor of more ambitious changes. Development of the more advanced AH-64D Apache Longbow was approved by the Defense Acquisition Board in August 1990. The first AH-64D prototype flew on 15 April 1992, testing of the prototypes ended in April 1995. During the testing, six AH-64D helicopters were pitted against a numerically superior group of AH-64A helicopters; the results were that AH-64D has a seven times increase in survivability and four times increase in lethality compared to the AH-64A. On 13 October 1995 full-scale production of the Apache Longbow was approved, and a $1.9 billion five-year contract was signed in August 1996 to upgrade and rebuild 232 existing AH-64A Apaches. The first production AH-64D flew on 17 March 1997 and was delivered on 31 March.
Design
Overview
The AH-64 Apache has a four-blade main rotor and a four-blade tail rotor. The crew sits in tandem, with the pilot sitting behind and above the copilot/gunner. The AH-64 is powered by two General Electric T700 turboshaft engines with high-mounted exhausts on either side of the fuselage.
Avionics and targeting
One of the revolutionary features at the introduction of the Apache was its helmet mounted display, the Integrated Helmet and Display Sighting System (IHADSS); among other abilities the pilot or gunner can slave the helicopter's 30 mm automatic M230 Chain Gun to his helmet, making the gun track head movements to point at where he looks. The M230E1 can be alternatively fixed to a locked forward firing position, or controlled via the Target Acquisition and Designation System (TADS). The AH-64's standard of performance for aerial gunnery is to achieve at least one hit out of 30 shots fired at a wheeled vehicle 800–1200 m away.
The AH-64 is designed to endure front-line environments and to operate during the day or night and in adverse weather via its avionics and onboard sensor suites. These systems include the Target Acquisition and Designation System, Pilot Night Vision System (TADS/PNVS), passive infrared countermeasures, GPS, and the IHADSS.
Armaments and configurations
The AH-64 is adaptable to numerous different roles within its context as Close Combat Attack (CCA), it has a customizable weapons loadout mounted on stub-wings for the role desired. In addition to the 30-mm M230E1 Chain Gun, the Apache carries a range of external stores on its stub-wing pylons, typically a mixture of AGM-114 Hellfire anti-tank missiles, and Hydra 70 general-purpose unguided 70 mm (2.76 in) rockets.
Starting in the late 1980s, the Stinger and AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles and the AGM-122 Sidearm anti-radiation missile were evaluated for use upon the AH-64.
Variants
AH-64D
The AH-64D Apache Longbow, is equipped with an advanced sensor suite and a glass cockpit. The main improvement over the A-variant is the dome installed over the main rotor, housing the AN/APG-78 Longbow millimeter-wave fire-control radar (FCR) target acquisition system and the Radar Frequency Interferometer (RFI). The raised position of the radome enables the detection of targets and launching of missiles while the helicopter is behind obstacles (e.g. terrain, trees or buildings). The AN/APG-78 is capable of simultaneously tracking 128 targets and engaging the 16 most dangerous ones, and can initiate an attack within 30 seconds, while passing data on the other targets to other Longbow Apaches via data link. The data link is housed in a radio modem integrated with the sensor suite allows data to be shared with ground units and other D-models; allowing them to fire on targets detected by a single helicopter.
Sea Apache
Naval versions of the AH-64A for the United States Marine Corps and Navy were examined from 1984 to 1987.
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Captain Steven Hiller: I have got to get me one of these!
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
Walter Mitty: [singing while daydreaming that he's Anatole of Paris] And why do I sew each new chapeau with a style they must look positively grim in?/Strictly between us, entrez-nous, I hate women.
[giggles]
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Independence Day (1996) [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Captain Steven Hiller: [after crashing the alien spaceship by the Grand Canyon] *That's* what you get! Ha Ha! Look at you! Ya ship's all banged up!
[shouts]
Captain Steven Hiller: Who's the man? Huh? Who's the man? Wait till I get another plane! I'm a line ya friends up right beside you!
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SGA 1.01 "Rising Parts 1 And 2" Transcript
EXT—SPACE
[The puddle jumper flies through the Space Gate.]
INT—PUDDLE JUMPER
SHEPPARD
Wow. This is cool.
FORD
It looks like you've got the hang of it.
SHEPPARD
I tell you what, Lieutenant. I know a lot of fighter pilots who'd kill to fly this thing. It's like it reads your mind.
[A display appears superimposed on the windshield in front of them, displaying lots of data.]
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Rendezvous pitch maneuver
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The R-bar pitch maneuver (RPM), popularly called the rendezvous pitch maneuver, was a maneuver performed by the space shuttle as it rendezvoused with the International Space Station (ISS) prior to docking. The shuttle performed a backflip that exposed its heat-shield to the crew of the ISS that made photographs of it.
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STS-71
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STS-71 was the third mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, which carried out the first Space Shuttle docking to Mir, a Russian space station. The mission used Space Shuttle Atlantis, which lifted off from launch pad 39A on 27 June 1995 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
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INT—ATLANTIS JUMPER BAY
INT—PUDDLE JUMPER
[McKay and Sheppard enter the ship. It lights up as they move inside. Sheppard walks to the pilot seat and touches the console. It immediately lights up.]
MCKAY
You think you can fly it?
SHEPPARD
What do you say we find out?
[He sits in the pilot's chair.]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 04/04/09 4:53 PM
I was standing in line at the check in desk of a nice hotel in a dream that occured just before I awoke. At least I think it was just before I awoke. I think I woke up about 1.5 hours ago but maybe less or slightly more. Less I think. I cannot recall all the details about why I was at that hotel but I probably can if I try. The detail that seems most compelling is that as I walked up to the line where there seemed to be two different groups ahead of me I noticed a part to the washing machine that was on a shelf that was sort of out of the way in that room. It seems important to try to describe better my observation but I cannot think of any better way to describe. But what I do remember is that it was the part that activated the washing machine. I have never seen any such component outside that dream so I am not really certain what it was in terms of a real washing machine.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 04/04/09 4:58 PM
In what I think were earlier scenes I seemed to be at a lake and that seems pleasant to think about but I cannot remember hardly any details. At another point I remember I was talking to someone and I remember that I specifically mentioned my wife.
This also reminds me of a dream I had a day or two ago. I was sitting at the controls of a helicopter and I was getting ready to pilot it into the air. I could clearly hear the blades chopping the air and I could vaguely see that I looked down at the controls next to the seat. I was annoyed by one of the controls and I thought several times after I awoke that I was flying a foreign helicopter but I was talking to someone else there in the front and to my left and I was comparing the capabilities of that foreign helicopter to the Seasprite helicopter the U.S. Navy flew for many years. Then I was operating the controls and I clearly felt in the dream when the helicopter began to rise into the air.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 04 April 2009 excerpt ends]
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Kaman SH-2 Seasprite
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The Kaman SH-2 Seasprite is a ship-based helicopter, originally developed in the late 1950s as a fast utility helicopter for the United States Navy. In the 1970s, anti-submarine, anti-surface threat capabilities were added to the design, including over-the-horizon targeting, resulting in modifying most existing UH-2 models to the SH-2 Seasprite.
This aircraft extends and increases shipboard sensor and weapon capabilities against several types of enemy threats, including submarines of all types, surface ships and patrol craft that may be armed with anti-ship missiles. It served with the U.S. Navy from the 1960s until the last SH-2G helicopters were retired in 2001.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: dated 2006
I guess it's very possible I was piloting one of the transports or the helos into Iran in 1980. If I flew an F-16 all the way to Baghdad carrying a couple -84s at 100 feet off the ground, then dodged anti-aircraft, I assume very heavy fire judging from my memory from the Wainwright, and then hitting the target, I must have been a pretty good pilot. And I was remembering something Randy Romine said about 100 feet. We were going to go scuba diving in De Queen lake and I asked him how deep we were going. And I remember thinking about, this seems weird, that the lake was deeper than that. What was the point, was something I remember thinking. These questions represent something much different, but I can't figure out what it is.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 2006 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 06/15/09 8:20 AM
This actually sounds more similar to being the bombardier/navigator in an A-6 Intruder than as the pilot of an AH-64 Apache helicopter as I read it again just now. Until I just read it again I have been thinking it was about my time flying the Apache helicopter. It is the part about being behind the driver seat and to the right of the steering wheel that makes me think it is actually about the Intruder. As I recall the seat for the B/N is slightly behind the pilot although from looking at it from the outside you really cannot tell the difference. Also, I wrote about 'steering' and navigating and that part about the windows being covered sounds as though I was looking into the navaigation display which has a shroud around it. If I was the navigator then I was creating navigation points in the computer that the pilot would then steer towards based on his instrument panel.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 15 June 2009 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 05/31/08 12:58 PM
Damnit.
Something just flashed into my mind about a dream I had when I last was asleep, having woken up in the past hour or so.
But what was it I just saw?
Something about flying the Apache attack helicopter?
There was something very detailed in my dream but something just flashed into my mind for a fraction of a second and I could not keep it long enough to focus on it.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:04 AM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal May 21, 2006
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I think it was my first thought after waking up this morning that I used to date Julia Roberts a long time ago.
I also have these unexplained thoughts that I was a fighter pilot in the U.S. military, although I'm not sure which service, but I may have been in two different branches over time. I am also confused about thoughts that I may have been a helicopter pilot. What's next? A space shuttle pilot?
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/28/2006 4:13 PM
That explains all the crazy behavior that has surrounded me for years. They think they are the one to wake me up. Some dumbass at Microsoft even said something like that to me at work one day. We were in some training class, I can’t remember the name of it, the instructor had used me to demonstrate something about not giving in to a salesperson or something where I was the person who was non-committal. Then we broke up into groups of three to practice and this one guy said something about making breakfast in bed for me. Earlier, another guy was telling me that he had been an Apache helicopter pilot.
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