Rose Parade Air Force fail

"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw) 01/02/2017 at 13:15 • Filed to: None

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So I’m watching the parade with my kids, and the Air Force comes up with these fun little planes, two F16s and a P51. But as somewhat of a military aviation buff, I immediately noticed something wrong with the Mustang...

Reads cowling... looks at pilot...

Hmmmmm

LongbowMkII > RallyWrench 01/02/2017 at 13:20

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Someone put “WWII plane” into google and said close enough

RallyWrench > LongbowMkII 01/02/2017 at 13:22

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Too bad they didn’t also Google Tuskegee Airmen.

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > RallyWrench 01/02/2017 at 13:37

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The air corps been on a down hill slide ever since they left the Army.

*Shakes fist*

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > RallyWrench 01/02/2017 at 13:39

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So much wrong is one picture. Besides the white dude in a Tuskegee “P51". The scale is comically ridiculous, the unit identification is wrong, and the potential for some guy to become a pink mist when running into the propeller.

WilliamsSW > RallyWrench 01/02/2017 at 13:49

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That’s. . . Pretty bad.

facw > RallyWrench 01/02/2017 at 14:02

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What, so you are advocating blackface now?

EL_ULY > RallyWrench 01/02/2017 at 14:04

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omglol!

facw > RallyWrench 01/02/2017 at 14:08

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Story from 2013 about the aircraft:

http://www.march.afrc.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/8839/Article/675377/march-airmen-volunteer-at-125th-rose-parade.aspx

RallyWrench > facw 01/02/2017 at 14:18

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Absolutely not.

RallyWrench > facw 01/02/2017 at 14:23

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That’s really cool, thanks for bringing it to my attention. Just seems disrespectful to me to put a white guy in a plane that’s supposed to represent the Airmen, at least in the context of a public outing without the story to accompany it, because there’s a ton of people out there who have no idea. Great program they have though.

facw > RallyWrench 01/02/2017 at 14:26

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OK, well this guy is going to have a hard time being especially black otherwise:

I mean you could argue it would be better optics to have this guy fly the P-51:

But there are problems with that too.

BorkBorkBjork > RallyWrench 01/02/2017 at 15:20

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Dave the car guy , still here > RallyWrench 01/02/2017 at 15:51

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Whats up with the Air Force that nobody noticed that?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > RallyWrench 01/02/2017 at 17:26

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We’re finished with identity politics.

For Sweden > RallyWrench 01/05/2017 at 13:01

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They aren’t even in Alabama smh