Thanks, Bob. We all had Nicknames -- or "handles" as they were called. We painted "Black Max" and "Cossack" on our airplane, which was one of the very few to bear the number 13. In reality, he was "Max Gross" because when he took his semiannual flight physical, the flight surgeon would ask the corpsman "What's the max weight allowed for a 6'0" flight crew," and would then write in that number (ie, the max gross weight.) I was the Mad Russian, because in boot camp, the redneck drill sergeant asked what the hell kind of name "Matalooa" was, and when I said it was Rusyn, he responded: "I knew it, I knew it, your're a Mad Rooshian spy sent here to f*** up my mind."
Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Bob W-PDML <[email protected]> wrote: > Great stuff! With a name like Black Max he should have been flying WWI > bi-planes. > > We were stationed on some Phantom bases when I was a kid, iirc. > > B > > > On 15 May 2017, at 14:48, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I was younger then: > > > > https://www.photo.net/photo/9674748/dan-during-phantom- > pre-flight-inspection > > Asahi Spotmatic, smc Super-Takumar 50 mm F 1.4 > > > > I set up the shot, but my pilot, Black Max a/k/a Max Gross, pressed the > > shutter. > > > > Dan Matyola > > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > -- > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
