The Associated Press is reporting that one of the jets in the famed Navy stunt-flying team, the Blue Angels - will be out of action - because two members of the squad were having an “inappropriate relationship”.

No identities were released, but a Navy spokesman did go to the trouble of telling AP that this was indeed a relationship between “a man and a woman”.

The squadron will finish its last 3 air shows (in November) with just five jets.

Happy Halloween!

Here’s a detective story:

First the background: 60 years ago, a chartered Northwest Airlines plane left China and crashed into a mountain side in Alaska — and was never heard from again.

Well, that’s not quite true; back in 1999, a couple of Northwest pilots were intrigued by the story — oh, did I mention this?

The plane was thought to be carrying a load of gold.

Anyway, these modern day pilots decided to see if they could find the wreckage. They did find it. They didn’t find any gold, but they did find a mummified arm. It took 9-years of sleuthing, but experts eventually identified its owner — a 36 year old merchant marine named Francis Joseph Van Zandt. He and some of his fellow merchant marines had just delivered an oil tanker to Shanghai, and it was thought to have been paid for in gold.

If it was — the gold is still out there — somewhere. Any takers?