EARLY EPISODE: The Night Witches

I love the idea of invading Atlantis via paratrooper

Steezcake_Factory

Well I love that I jumped to a more obscure aircraft that also happened to be made by the same manufacturer!

Kat

“Boxcar” was the call sign the Alaska air national guard used but as someone further up thread commented, the aircraft was a C-23 Sherpa

What a Hell of a Way to Die

Feels like it should have been an Eagles side project in about 1977.

Matt

Fun fact if you want a dog to release its bite put a finger up it's ass. I've had a dog trainer and veterinarian tell me it works great

Benjamin Henderson

No way nate could have jumped out of a boxcar. They were withdrawn from service in the mid 1970s and also weren't made in Ireland. He could have been thinking of the Short Skyvan but the USAF has never operated them. They ARE popular in Alaska though.

Kat

When I heard about the night witches, I was expecting cream of the crop crews flying massive formations of pe-8s, moving as one gigantic fortress to raze the earth. I did not expect bottom of the barrel pilots flying crop dusters, throwing what are essentialy giant grenades off to the side. That makes it both hilarious and awesome.

Sleepi123

You just put a finger in the dog's ass and it will let go, or so a coworker told me. I feel confident I could take a Labrador just by leaving the room its in and let the little spaz work itself up so bad that it would keel over.

Mark Hardgrove

Re: fighting raccoons. A buddy of mine heard screaming outside his apartment and found three raccoons attacking his neighbors little dog. He decided to wade in and ended up punting one like an American football. He got scratched up by claws but was otherwise unharmed.

Ben Schwabe

Probably still end up more successful than the chief engineer of the newest Berlin Airport… How To Fuck-Up An Airport is a pretty good, short pod about just that

It's weird hearing nitrous canisters not being referred to as Nangs

Gonk_God

I usually depend on the phrase 'there's nothing that can't be fixed if you have enough chewing gum and tin foil' to get me out of fixing stuff for people. i could really walk into a chief engineer job at an airport with that attitude. fuck I've missed a vocation

Anna Wakefield

Nate you're thinking of the C-23 Sherpa the flying connex of death

Grumpy Bowlart

As an Air Force aircraft mechanic saying “oh yeah I'm not qualified” or “oh my qual just lapsed” gets you out of some shitty jobs. Use those lines sparingly.

Anthony9286

Gonna start a band called Communist Superhooker.

ruin

This was good, but it felt like you wanted to tell a specific story about them and the sources didn't entirely back up that story. There were times where the story told just felt like there was a little self contradiction.

Jonathan Liberatore