{"id":433,"date":"2008-06-12T13:09:53","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T18:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=433"},"modified":"2008-06-12T13:09:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T18:09:53","slug":"did-you-look-under-the-sofa-cushions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/433","title":{"rendered":"Did You Look Under the Sofa Cushions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idahoexaminer.com\/columns\/9419\/ive-lost-my-rio\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve Lost My RIO&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I told the Captain that after the G-awareness maneuver, we would do a quick inverted check to verify cockpit security. Looking back, I should have recognized his anxiety when he mocked me and said, \u201cJust a quick inverted check?\u201d then laughed. I didn\u2019t realize hanging upside down with nothing but glass and 11,000 feet of air separating you from the desert floor might not be the most comfortable situation in the world for a surface-warfare officer.<br \/>\n[. . .]<br \/>\nAfter we completed the checks, I asked him, \u201cAre you ready for the inverted check? Do you have everything stowed?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll set\u201d was the last thing I heard him say.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if &#8220;Can we do that again?&#8221; came up in later conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Jargon help:<br \/>\nBlack shoe \u2013 &#8220;Terrestrial&#8221; Navy<br \/>\nBrown shoe \u2013 Naval Air<br \/>\nNVG \u2013 Night Vision Goggles<\/p>\n<p>h\/t to RTS<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallagher.com\/ejection_seat\/\">another ejection story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve Lost My RIO&#8221; I told the Captain that after the G-awareness maneuver, we would do a quick inverted check to verify cockpit security. Looking back, I should have recognized his anxiety when he mocked me and said, \u201cJust a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/433\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}