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[MID]

DONTEATUS, on 10 January 2012 - 12:41 AM, said:

Me too Mid`s now whats on the agenda for this weeks training? Im ready for roll call and have all the mission stores list ready for you to approve !

Well,
I can take the mission stores now.
They can be checked.

But this week begins some tricky Mars atmospheric flying training.  Looks like we'll be flying the shuttles around, but Sweetie's going to be making some long trips around the planet as well.  Mars flying is kind of tricky.  Sally, Bade and I will be working it alot over the next month!

Sweetie's retrofits are going to be a bit heavy as well.   We're going to be weighing in at over 1 million pounds  (We need to add He-3 reserves (You know from the face to Spirit is half way around the planet?!).  We may be changing our landing site as well to avoid 7000 mile trips...and of course, Martian weather is a little touchy at times too!


Ya Hoo!
Practice, practice, practice, D!

[DONTEATUS]

Well Im back from SPI and I got fourty two tons of 6-count shrimp and you are going to Love the Dishes I make on this trip !

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Edited by DONTEATUS, 16 January 2012 - 12:50 AM.

[MID]

DONTEATUS, on 16 January 2012 - 12:45 AM, said:

Well Im back from SPI and I got fourty two tons of 6-count shrimp and you are going to Love the Dishes I make on this trip !

OK D, about 500,000 of those beauties will keep everybody happy!!!!   FOR A LONG TIME!!!

[DONTEATUS]

MID, on 18 January 2012 - 01:51 AM, said:

OK D, about 500,000 of those beauties will keep everybody happy!!!!   FOR A LONG TIME!!!

Good math there Mid ! my pencil broke its lead off at  thirty two shrimpies per crew member X two weeks divided by four meals a day+ any over time eatting+ snacking all night long= a Fewe tons of shrimps . That outta Keep the bellys full in any case !
Well JUst wait until I get the new smoker outfitted with the auto-roto-demi-glazer ! Its da bomb ! Really ! This baby is made out of the long lost but not forgotten Fat man Two, bomb from WWII . the one that they had hidden under the WHite house just in case,the Aliens were  to actually land on the White house lawn in the late fourty`s ! like 1947  ? Hum ? why does that date ring a Balloon train ?
Get Badeskov`s on deck for a meeting we need to go over the stores needed for the Bars this trip will be a All night Drink-a-thon!

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[MID]

DONTEATUS, on 18 January 2012 - 03:02 AM, said:

Good math there Mid ! my pencil broke its lead off at  thirty two shrimpies per crew member X two weeks divided by four meals a day+ any over time eatting+ snacking all night long= a Fewe tons of shrimps . That outta Keep the bellys full in any case !
Well JUst wait until I get the new smoker outfitted with the auto-roto-demi-glazer ! Its da bomb ! Really ! This baby is made out of the long lost but not forgotten Fat man Two, bomb from WWII . the one that they had hidden under the WHite house just in case,the Aliens were  to actually land on the White house lawn in the late fourty`s ! like 1947  ? Hum ? why does that date ring a Balloon train ?
Get Badeskov`s on deck for a meeting we need to go over the stores needed for the Bars this trip will be a All night Drink-a-thon!

No better use I can think of for the shell of Fat Man Two but for the UM Smoker Bomb to Mars!


Did you see the Oak, Hickory, and Mesquite piles I put in the forward end of the galley????
A ton and a half of wood....mmmm hmmmm!

[MID]

By the way, Newbie zero G training commences this Saturday, 1-21.
No Vomit comets here....we're doing large parabolae aboard Sweetie, with Sally at the helm.

We plan several sessions with everyone, then, we're going to do a short hop around the end of the month, into orbit, for a day of zero g familiarity.   That'll make the mission's roughly 110 hours of zero g flight time seem like a flash in the pan!

[psyche101]

Hey Skyeagle - can you sort the next in flight movie please? I just woke up from the last one, and like 150 pages have gone past.


LINK - You win fan boys: George Lucas is retiring from blockbusters - Lucas's last blockbuster about Tuskegee airmen

Lucas has personally bankrolled the entire production of Red Tails, which tells the story of the Tuskegee airmen, the African American pilots who won glory during the Second World War but whose feats have largely been ignored.


You would be the best man for the job I figure


Cheers.

Edited by psyche101, 19 January 2012 - 03:59 AM.

[Hazzard]

I cant wait to see that movie!  


But while we wait for the movie to start,... lets have a look at this!















Oh, sorry... here is the original if you havent seen it before.

Edited by Hazzard, 19 January 2012 - 11:18 PM.

[MID]

Hazzard, on 19 January 2012 - 11:16 PM, said:

I cant wait to see that movie!  


But while we wait for the movie to start,... lets have a look at this!


















Oh, sorry... here is the original if you havent seen it before.

It'll play great on the deck one big screen!

[DONTEATUS]

Go tell Alice ,or was that SAL ? well anyway Im bringing this to shoot all our videos thru to give us a new richness to our film work ! Think the weight will make me throw out at least fourty two pounds of shrimps to adjust !

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[Hazzard]

Im sorry, but I just HAD to put this somewhere ...  

[DONTEATUS]

THe only thing one can say is "OMG" Were doomed ! Come and Eat us E.T. quick ! before we get dumber and are put on the  Galaytic unsafe to Eat List

[MID]

Hazzard, on 20 January 2012 - 02:38 AM, said:

Im sorry, but I just HAD to put this somewhere ...  

Hwy HAZZ, ever have any fixed wing time?

Maybe you'd accept my invite to Sweety's flight deck for liftoff and boost into Earth orbit next month???

After all, this adventure was your origination.




  

[MID]

Hazzard, on 20 January 2012 - 02:38 AM, said:

Im sorry, but I just HAD to put this somewhere ...  

HAZZ:

We'll talk to Sal about using that as a preview for some of the movies we're planning to show on the big screen during the flight...and the flight!
That reminds me...



Flying the other day, I remembered that SAL has this amazing training program that can assist you in actual flight.

Ever had any fixed-wing time?
How would you like to be on the flight deck for liftoff, climbout, and insertion into orbit?  You have to be able to hack around 3.7 g on the flight deck for around 8 minutes.

And, maybe some stick time during climb out???


After all, it's your party, and flying that helicopter the way I saw...well, you got to give it a shot!
Flight deck, comfy seat, a few gs to make you go WOOOOOOO!
and, Jameson's, courtesy of Bade, on deck!

Edited by MID, 21 January 2012 - 01:03 AM.

[Hazzard]

MID, on 21 January 2012 - 12:42 AM, said:

Hey HAZZ, ever have any fixed wing time?

A couple,... Never liked it though,... I guess its one of those "if you push it fast enough it will fly" things.

RCH vs FW.

I have no idea why, but thats the way it was at LGB back in the 90s. FYI (I can believe I just said that) A helicopter, especially the R-22 took some focus to master. As an instructor, I have seen grown men shead tears,... Seriously.