Hello! My name is Olie (She/Her) and I am the aviation-obsessed person running this blog.
main blog/ao3: @waitingforsols
band of brothers: @magnoliasforyourmedic
BACKGROUND: I have a mechanical engineering degree with an aerospace minor and I work in the aviation industry.
WHAT DO I LIKE?
Masters of the Air (esp Harry Crosby)
Top Gun (esp Tom “Iceman” Kazansky)
EAA AirVenture
Research & History
Everything Aviation
QUICK MOTA REFERENCE POST LINKS
Base Hospital / Intercom & Radio System / Bomber Crew Clothing / Group Headquarters / Mess Halls & Clubs / Flight Bags / First Aid Kits / PX Shop / Pathfinders / Radio Callsigns / 8th AF Casualty Stats/ 100th BG Crew Stats /
MY FANFICTION (MORE ON AO3)
let it wash over me
masters of the air, crosie explicit one-shot
main themes: the great ‘gator coup w/ leafy hill, croz feels insecure because of leafy hill and Rosie reassures him
if I said you were all that I had to live for
masters of the air crosie one shot
main themes: the getting together fic
got my heart in your hands
masters of the air pre-crosie one-shot
main themes: all fluff and pining
in your arms i hide away
masters of the air, crosie whump one-shot
main theme: croz has a minor crash out after finding out he was promoted on what was supposed to be his last mission, minor protective rosie
something to hold on to
masters of the air, crosie hurt/comfort, one-shot
main theme: rosie is in the hospital after crashing on September 10, 1944 and receives some visitors (and bad news), established crosie, they’re so soft for each other, rosie & everyone
out of the fog, you’re calling my name
masters of the air, crosie whump, one-shot
main theme: crosby gets a mysterious phone call, set one month after Rosie was shot down (March 1, 1945 to be exact), they’re in love your honor
a lesson in international relations
masters of the air, Croz whump, one-shot
main themes: croz and bubbles get jumped by the Riff RAF, hurt croz, croz & everyone, smart croz!!!
the war is over and we are beginning
masters of the air, Croz/Rosie, one-shot
main themes: buck’s rosebush, croz/rosie, rosie with a rose, fluff, they’re both so soft for each other
and maybe if i hold you now
masters of the air, croz x bubbles one-shot (like 4k words)
main themes: Crosby x Bubbles, post-reunion in episode 5, misunderstandings, mutual pining, fluff and angst and smut (in that order), Harry Crosby is insecure AF, explicit sexual content (see Ao3 for specific tags), sharing a bed, Harry Crosby definitely experimented in college, Harry Crosby is the dumbest smart person, these boys deserve to be happy
we rest amidst the tumult of war
completed masters of the air croz x rosie multi-chapter fic (8k words)
main themes: crosby/rosie but can be read as platonic, part 6 rewrite, flak house, horseback riding (like actually), fluff and hurt/comfort but mostly comfort, basically 10k words of flirting, these boys deserve to be happy, ft. Rosie’s Riveters, lots of good-natured teasing and jokes, short jokes, insecurities, everyone needs a hug
QUICK F-14 REFERENCE LINKS
F-14 Tomcat Accidents & Issues
F-14 Tomcat Variants
Flight of the Tomcat
What Did F-14 Tomcat Pilots Wear?
FREQUENT UNIQUE TAGS
# mota musings
same as #justalittlethingiwrote but for Masters of the Air and Harry Crosby
# just a little thing I wrote
where you’ll find my Top Gun h/c’s, writings, musings, rants, prompts, analysis, etc.
#FFFOTD or #F-14 Fun Fact of the Day
want to learn something new about the F-14 tomcat?
#research or #information or # reference
basically what it says
#top gun or #masters of the air
makes sense
#f-14 tomcat
kind of a given, but will likely include primarily technical posts
#f14 tomcat has ✨issues✨
if you’re looking for ways to hurt your favorite top gun characters without it being pilot error, check out this tag
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Highly recommend watching Pressure, the D-Day movie that just came out if you can! I absolutely adore seeing the sort of work that went on behind the scenes for military operations and this movie absolutely delivered. I found it incredibly compelling to watch how things went down, and even though we all know the result of D-Day, I was still on the edge of my seat! It was so beautifully shot too, like I was stunned. And the bits of real footage sprinkled in was absolutely perfect.
Jim Blakely, the son of Everett Blakely, wrote an article for the March 2023 edition of the 8th AF Newsletter titled “Thirteen Empty Bunks.” Attached with the article are several pictures, but one in particular stands out—a diagram of a Nissen hut with harrowing annotations.
“Those small huts could get crowded; yet by mid-October 1943, there was plenty of room in one. Thirteen of the sixteen cots were empty. Three of four B-17s had been lost in a short span of time. The other plane was damaged beyond repair. Each bed had a tale to tell. And the tale told by the empty beds was especially nerve-wracking.”
And though there were many huts at Thorpe Abbotts like it, with empty beds aplenty and similar stories to tell, this one was just a little bit more special because Blakely, Crosby, and Douglass were the last three members of the “Original” 100th flight officers left on base.
The article goes on to share the stories of the men who once slept in the empty bunks of his father’s Nissen hut, and I highly recommend reading it for the amazing insight into the lives of these men.
Harry Crosby: It was just terribly exhausting, and I'd come home—or back to base—and I'd be absolutely and completely dehydrated. I was one of the people who didn't take his ration of whiskey, and always gave it to somebody or traded it to somebody for something. But I would just absolutely drink every liquid that I could—water and milk and so on—just because I was so dehydrated from just this tension of this sometimes ten hour flight.
To all those wondering, the answer is to ask either of the goblins the following question:
“What road does the other goblin think I should take?”
And then you will take the opposite road of whatever they say, no matter what.
It doesn’t matter who you ask because you’ll get the same answer from both. If you ask the goblin who always lies, then he would lie and tell you the opposite road of what the truthful goblin would say (aka the road to damnation). If you ask the goblin who tells the truth, then he would be honest and tell you exactly what road the lying goblin wants you to take (aka the road to damnation).
Both goblins will answer the question with the road that happens to lead to damnation, which is why you will want to take the opposite road.
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“On September 27 and October 2, I felt for the first time that I might finish my tour. We bombed harbor installations at Emden, and our fighter escort went with us all the way. We saw them out there, those sleek, fast Mustangs with auxiliary gas tanks fixed to their wings. When our Little Friends dropped their wing tanks, we knew they saw bogeys.”
Every mission had a unique phrase that would be used over VHF (very high frequency radio) to recall the formation when a mission was called off, usually due to poor weather conditions or maybe some other factor. They were coded phrases because they didn’t want the Germans, who could easily overhear the message over VHF radio, to figure out where they were and send the Luftwaffe after them.
In his book, John Clark included scanned images of his notes taken during each of his pre-mission briefs. Here are just some of phrases chosen for his missions:
a new instillation of my “deep in the delphinium daze” series aka the nsfw series ft. Crosby sleeping around :)
words: ~4.5k
rating: explicit (nsfw)
pairing: Croz/Bucky
summary:
It’s the job of the squadron commander to check out new pilots in their squadron, which usually entails taking them on a flight to ensure they’re competent. If you’re in the 418th, that means buying Bucky a drink at the officers club.
After the successful mission to Trondheim, Bucky decides has something else in mind for his squadron’s new lead navigator.
May 8, 1945 marked the end of war in Europe and celebrations broke out across the entire world. But while people flooded the streets, the men of Thorpe Abbott remained on lockdown, unable to join in on the celebration with the locals.
Lt Col Robert ‘Rosie’ Rosenthal was one of the few men lucky enough to be on leave in London on VE Day.
Rosie recalled how he’d “be walking through a throng of people with a pretty girl on my arm and all of a sudden she was gone, replaced by another one. It was a madhouse, a beautiful, beautiful madhouse.”
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I just posted the first part of a new fic for my ‘navigate me through the nightshade’ series! This will make the most sense if read after “out of the fog, you’re calling my name” but could in theory be read separately.
chapters: 1/2
words: 8.5k
summary:
Rosie’s coming home and Crosby struggles to find the courage to tell everyone. Still, rumors spread until inevitably the truth comes out, just in time for Rosie’s long-awaited return.
Me after realizing the first chapter of my Croz shifter AU is 15k meanwhile the rest are shaping up to each maybe have half as many
I’m probably just going to leave it as is with the first chapter being massive because I planned it where each chapter is a day and also I love it too much to split it up
“At Dummer Lake, where the 100th had been hit so disastrously two days before, John Bennett felt comfortable as he saw what he thought was a cover of Mustangs off to the right.
It was a ruse. On that day the Germans imitated American fighters by seeming to fly escort. Suddenly the "escort" peeled off and hit the Forty-fifth Wing head-on. More than 150 E.A. in one wave.
The Forty-fifth Wing lead went down. The deputy lead went down. More planes went down.
Attack after attack, and soon little was left of the Forty-fifth.
Its planes fell back and fitted onto the 100th, leading the second wing.
Now, with John Bennett in command, the 100th was leading the whole formation to Berlin.”
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Main Theme: aka a friends to lovers, pain-sharing Soulmate AU fanfic ft. Harry Crosby/Robert “Rosie” Rosenthal
Summary:
Rosie and the Pathfinder crew go down somewhere over France on their way back from Nuremberg. It isn’t a coincidence that Crosby collapses around the same time Rosie was reportedly last seen with the formation, afflicted with pain that doesn’t quite feel like his own.
In episode three of Masters of the Air, we see that Crosby, Douglass, and Blakely are just as surprised to see they’re going to Africa as all of the other flyboys. In reality, the officers of Just-a-Snappin’ were well aware of their destination.
In early August, two lead crews were chosen from each group and brought to 3rd Air Division Headquarters where they were briefed by Curtis LeMay on what would later be called the “double-strike mission.” They, along with their commanding officer, would be given details so that the lead crews could train and prepare themselves ahead of time.
LeMay: "It's a hard target. Bombardiers and navigators will come [to Elveden Hall] every other day and be briefed for the route and target. It's a dangeous mission, especially for you lead crews. Tomorrow two new planes will arrive at your base, and you get them. No one but your line crews is even to touch them. Certainly no one is to fly them. … This is top secret. Nine people in each group know about it, and no one else. We're redundant on this. We're training two crews for the lead. We will select the one to go on the day of the mission. Pilots will go up every day to simulate as much of the mission as we can. When you aren't here for training, you will all be in the air. When we call the mission, we want you to be ready."
It was Jack Kidd who was picked by higher bomber command to lead the 100th BG on the inevitable mission instead of their commanding officer. Unlike the CO of every other group involved, Colonel Harding was kept in the dark, which Crosby believed was due to him (and the 100th) falling into disfavor due to poor results and their negative reputation.
“No one else knew about our forays and only Jack Kidd and Swartout's crew knew why we weren't flying missions. Major Egan, our Squadron C.O., was told he was not to question us, and Flying Control was told they were to clear any flight plan we requested. Everyone was told to stay away from our plane. We could tell that Egan was steaming, but he never said anything.”
