Since the designation "A-4C" was the pre-McNamara designation of A4D-2N

Should be "post-McNamara."

I apologize for responding to my own post.

--
Mike Kanze

"I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back."

- Zsa Zsa Gabor


"Mike Kanze" wrote in message
...
John,

For a pilot or an airplane? ;-)

Touché!

Well, when I was flying the A-4C in 1977 or so, the one in the
Smithsonian
Air & Space Museum in DC was newer than the one I was flying!

Since the designation "A-4C" was the pre-McNamara designation of A4D-2N,
you
WERE in all likelihood flying an "oldie." IIRC, the A4D-2N first hit the
fleet in 1959 or 1960.

Not that the Smithsonian's bird necessarily was any "newer" - we would
hope
yours still had usable wing life. g

(Going rhetorical now)
Which brings us - again - to the question, what is "old?" BuNo
seniority?
Airframe hours expended? Declining utility / suitability for a particular
purpose? Increasing lack of spare parts / increasing cost of remaining
spares? Ad nauseum.

--
Mike Kanze

"I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back."

- Zsa Zsa Gabor


"John R Weiss" wrote in message
news:RnPyb.380900$HS4.3131487@attbi_s01...
"Mike Kanze" wrote...

What is "old?"

For a pilot or an airplane? ;-)

1) You don't know what "old" is (or feels) until you see a bird whose
BuNo
adorns several of your logbook entries sitting in a museum somewhere.
In my
case: KA-6D, BuNo 152910, now sitting forlornly in the back lot of
the
Western Aerospace Museum at Oakland airport

Well, when I was flying the A-4C in 1977 or so, the one in the
Smithsonian
Air &
Space Museum in DC was newer than the one I was flying!