Any fliers?

On 20 May 2004 21:05:09 GMT, (BUFDRVR) wrote:

Mike Marron wrote:

Both the doggy ol' '56 Cessna spamcan and the BUFF would
bore me to tears

I'll take you on night/NVG TA sortie through the foothills of the
Sierra-Nevadas, if you're bored, you haven't got a pulse

Can I go instead!?

OK thanks, thats great! Where and what time?

:-)


--
Steve.

Okay, Art Buchwald was the world's funniest writer until Dave Barry
grew up.

Oh, I know who Art was, and is; we are fellow former jarheads. But I
wonder if the "sprouts" have any idea who he is.

vince norris

In article ,
wrote:

Okay, Art Buchwald was the world's funniest writer until Dave Barry
grew up.

Oh, I know who Art was, and is; we are fellow former jarheads. But I
wonder if the "sprouts" have any idea who he is.


He's still publishing. Depends if they can read.

Gordon wrote:

Mmm, agreed. Can't imagine who would want to fly a BUFF. ;-)

Probably would still be fun, except having to handle a committee of throttles
all the dang time!

No problem if you hands are big enough....and what's that they say about guys
with big hands?


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"

Steve (from the UK?) wrote:

Can I go instead!?

OK thanks, thats great! Where and what time?

Damn, you're asking for a Global Power! RAF Fairford to western Montana and
back. I'm guessing thats in the 20+ hour ball park (unless we can get great
circle routing across the Atlantic into Northern Canada). Are you up for almost
an entire day airborne?


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"

On 23 May 2004 18:46:41 GMT, (BUFDRVR) wrote:

Gordon wrote:

Mmm, agreed. Can't imagine who would want to fly a BUFF. ;-)

Probably would still be fun, except having to handle a committee of throttles
all the dang time!

No problem if you hands are big enough....and what's that they say about guys
with big hands?

Big hand....big gloves?

Peter Kemp

"Peter Kemp" wrote in message
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On 23 May 2004 18:46:41 GMT, (BUFDRVR) wrote:

Gordon wrote:

Mmm, agreed. Can't imagine who would want to fly a BUFF. ;-)

Probably would still be fun, except having to handle a committee of
throttles
all the dang time!

No problem if you hands are big enough....and what's that they say about
guys
with big hands?

Big hand....big gloves?

Peter Kemp

Careful, pretty soon he'll claim to have a big watch. ;-)

JB

"BUFDRVR" wrote in message
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Steve (from the UK?) wrote:

Can I go instead!?

OK thanks, thats great! Where and what time?

Damn, you're asking for a Global Power! RAF Fairford to western Montana
and
back. I'm guessing thats in the 20+ hour ball park (unless we can get
great
circle routing across the Atlantic into Northern Canada). Are you up for
almost
an entire day airborne?

Heck with him. Take me for that ride and I'll come to which ever
base is most convent to you. All I ask is notice equivalent to road
miles between the Louisville KY area and that location at an average
of 80mph -I have to allow *some* time for fuel stops and dodging
cops.

Ed Rasimus wrote:
It's a "****-hot hat", not a Rat hat--there were Rats at a lot of
places, both AF and Navy, that didn't were the SH hat. Mostly it was a
thing of F-105 drivers at Korat and Takhli.

Interesting how the language mutates with time... for a while, at least
(for me, early 80s), a "**** hot" was a tailored flight suit. After a
number of guys got badly burned during ejections or other
unscheduled events (the custom zoombags were NOT Nomex) the
Word came down to lose 'em. So guys would get their issue
Nomex tailored instead. Not that **I** ever did, y'understand...


It has resided atop my desk lamp for nearly two years now. It
provides a perverse sort of motivational factor when writing stalls as
it occasionally does.

Whatcha working on now that _Phantom_Flights_ is being printed up?
The writing bug is hard to squash once you let it out.


The Doofer Book was a green ledger book that sat on the ops counter
and was used as a sort of communal diary. Squadron guys could write
anything they wanted in the Doofer Book. Stories, anecdotes, humorous
events, embarrassments, criticism, commentary, etc were all fair game.

Hit Log, we called ours. Mostly used to record embarassing
events during deployments and dets.



Jeff

On Mon, 24 May 2004 08:22:09 -0600, "Jeff Crowell"
wrote:

Ed Rasimus wrote:
It's a "****-hot hat", not a Rat hat--there were Rats at a lot of
places, both AF and Navy, that didn't wear the SH hat. Mostly it was a
thing of F-105 drivers at Korat and Takhli.

Interesting how the language mutates with time... for a while, at least
(for me, early 80s), a "**** hot" was a tailored flight suit. After a
number of guys got badly burned during ejections or other
unscheduled events (the custom zoombags were NOT Nomex) the
Word came down to lose 'em. So guys would get their issue
Nomex tailored instead. Not that **I** ever did, y'understand...

I employed the "reverse tailoring" technique. I'd simply expand at the
waist line to fit the available space within the suit.

One of the weirdest abberations of the SEA war was at Udorn where the
squadrons developed "work suits", custom tailored, short-sleeved
jumpsuits with embroidered wings, name, rank and squadron patches.
Flight suits were donned for flying and then work suits were put on
for hanging around the ops building. Didn't make much sense to me. I
think that was the only place that did it.

Whatcha working on now that _Phantom_Flights_ is being printed up?
The writing bug is hard to squash once you let it out.

I haven't started anything yet. I'll be busy with copyediting and
proofing of Phantom Flights next month.

I've had a couple of ideas, but they have varying degrees of
potential. First, I've had a concept for a novel for a while--not sure
if I can pull off fiction, but it involves an F-4 squadron deployed to
Turkey during the Greek/Turk conflict over Cyprus. Nuke weapons are
stood down, but a "strike enable" plug falls into the hands of a rogue
Turk commander. Eventual showdown in the air as the brave USAF ops
officer tracks down and engages the Turk enroute to deliver the nuke
on either Athens or Tel Aviv. Sex involved too!

Second, wife wants me to do a collection of growing up in Chicago
memoirs, sort of an urban boy version of "Ya-Ya Sisterhood."

And, my personal favorite, is a co-authored bio of Robin Olds. I've
proposed the concept to Robin and live close enough to work the
interviews with him. He's been reluctant, but his story needs to be
told. I'll probably visit him in Steamboat this summer and
face-to-face the proposal again.



Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN #1-58834-103-8