'Combat Buckeye', since we flew them in VF-126, a joke.

AKA the "Trusty Tubbyjet." We're retiring them as Intermediate Strike
trainers this summer. Last class is pretty much through instruments ...
Fam, Form, Guns, and FCLP to go. We're running a TPS class now to get their
NATOPS qual before checking in up at Pax River. Interesting group with
several foreign cross-training guys. I had a Dutch F-16 driver for his
first cockpit intro EP hop. Great OCF airplane, but I suspect they're
limiting the number of three-axis departures per hop to stretch the service
life. A far cry from my VF-126 hop when Farkle and I did 3 lomcevak's for
dessert ... the last with a healthy negative G spike.

We tried out the T-2 in ACM. Pushed the A-4 all around the sky. T-2 versus
T-37 would be no sweat. Two J-85's versus two J-69's ... a far better
energy package. Now the A-37 ...

R / John