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"Stack Gas" - 1964

jmbiii

jmbiii

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Back in the day 'plane guard' meant breathing 'stack gas'. I envy today's crews, as the carriers are nuclear and the DDs and support ships don't burn bunker oil. Only the 'old salts' can really identify with 'stack gas'.:playful:

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A repaint of one of my squadrons helos from 1964.

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I can still smell that sooty, sulphurous stack gas odor from my time aboard USS Coral Sea (CVA-43). Not only did it hang over the flight deck, it filtered down to the 02 level and stunk the place up big time. Some years ago one of our neighbors apparently had an inefficient-burning oil furnace in their home and if I went outside on a cold night my nose would give me a Coral Sea flashback. :biggrin-new:
 
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