(WaltBJ) wrote in message . com...
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Nellis (Las Vegas) was a favorite stop - just one hop even with a
clean bird from RG AFB. Deuce was a good XC bird - autopilot, altitude
hold, heading hold; could cruise clean at .93 and 46000 if you weren't
interested in getting max range out of it. Back then only the 106 and
the Navy F8 (2000 pounds more fuel) could outcruise it. Nice aircraft,
nice radar, wimpy missiles, no gun. (Although my bird did hit a
Firebee with a single obsolete Gar1 radar Falcon. Killed the mother
even though the warhead fuzing had been disabled. Hit it squarely in
the middle.)


I was told c1962 that the A-6 had a slightly longer range (2300 vs
2200 ferry range) and used to **** off the tower at the Las Vegas
civilian airport by asking to land on an extended taxi strip and after
being told to use one of the regular runways would land in something
short of its 'listed' landing distance of 2700 feet and taxi the
distance to the terminal.