Somewhere I wrote about those onerous Ford steering wheels I remember from my vehicles during my teenage years but I can't recall specific words to find again those references.
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Star Trek Generations (1994)
COMPUTER VOICE: Primary stabilisers off-line. Engaging secondary systems.
RIKER: Report!
TROI: Helm controls are off-line!
DATA: Oh, shit...
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Star Trek Generations (1994)
KIRK: I must have jumped that fifty times. Scared the hell out of me. Except this time.
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Leaving Port
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Charleston Leaving Port
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Charleston Leaving Port
USS Wainwright CG-28 Goes to Sea
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:57 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Charleston
I was disappointed to see on the news today the destruction of the old Cooper River Bridge in Charleston, SC. I sailed under that bridge more often than I drove across it. I actually found it kind of intimidating to drive across in my Ford Explorer pickup when I was 19.
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Ahoy Charleston
THE HISTORY BEHIND THE ARTHUR RAVENEL BRIDGE
February 26, 2013 3:38 PM ByChas Harbor Tours InCarolina Belle
Who is Arthur Ravenel, Jr.? He is a retired U.S. Congressman who ran for the South Carolina Senate with a goal to solve the funding problem they had with the replacement of the old and dangerous, previous bridge called the John P. Grace Memorial Bridge.
Chances are if you have visited Charleston, you have seen the beautiful architecture of the Arthur Ravenel, Jr. Bridge at some point, with its two diamond-shaped towers on the horizon. Perhaps you have either driven, walked, or bicycled over it (in the special pedestrian walkway) and admired the beautiful view of the Cooper River as you crossed from Charleston to Mount Pleasant on this great cable-stayed bridge. By the way, the aircraft carrier that you will see as you travel across the bridge is the U.S.S. Yorktown, docked at Patriot’s Point in Mount Pleasant.
Briefly, the original bridge that was used to access Mt. Pleasant from Charleston was called the John P. Grace Memorial Bridge, and was built in 1929. From all accounts, by today’s standards, this bridge was frankly…scary to cross! Originally, it was deemed “the first roller-coaster bridge” stating that the “steep approaches, stupendous height, extremely narrow width, and sharp curve at the dip conspire to excite and alarm the motorist.”
By the 1960s the Grace Memorial Bridge became insufficient, having been built for the Ford Model A’s. A new bridge was constructed beside it named for the South Carolina Highway Commissioner at that time, Silas N. Pearman Bridge, and opened in 1966. This bridge carried northbound traffic only and the older, Grace Memorial Bridge carried the southbound traffic into Charleston. By 1979, both of these bridges had become obsolete. They could no longer accommodate larger and more modern land vehicles, as well as larger shipping vessels that traveled beneath it.
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Springfield! Springfield!
Chasers (1994)
This ain't one of our trucks.
Boys, this is your lucky day.
l must've been right behind you.
Was on the bridge
when l heard it on the radio.
-How you doing?
-All right.
This ain't no Navy vehicle.
Navy vehicle, sure ain't.
We're private contractors.
My boss is an ex-Squid.
Still got friends at the motor pool.
Sometimes they throw him a bone.
-You a private firm?
-That's right.
Just last month they had me towing
a truckload of torpedoes!
Oh, man!
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 9/26/2006 2:21 PM
I’m thinking my memory of being on the Sheffield when it was hit is represented by that memory of the water tank I have written of a couple times. I wrote about a damage control exercise on the Charleston navy base where they filled up a metal compartment that resembled an area in a ship. I can still almost hear that metallic clang on the side of the compartment that started the exercise as a symbolic hit by a missile. Then they started pumping in December temperature water from the nearby Cooper River as we were supposed to patch the hole in the side of the symbolic ship. We couldn’t fix it and would have been completely engulfed in that compartment if I hadn’t opened a port hole. I wonder if that represents how close I was to going down with the Sheffield.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 9/26/2006 2:32 PM
I must have really gone to Princeton and that is why CG-59 was given that name.
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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.
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IMDb
Bon Voyage! (1962)
Release Info
USA 17 May 1962
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- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 03:55 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Saturday 10 September 2016
