Old airframe, new engine

On 10/14/03 11:05 AM, in article
, "R"
wrote:


"Jim Strand" wrote in message
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Every year or so I post a similar version of this. Always nice to see
SNIP

For me the winner would be the F-8. You never forget your first love.
Whether it was climbing out of Key West after a Cuban MIG, doing a vertical
pass on a Bear, or flying under the power lines in southern California

Something tells me that "under" the power lines was once an "over" but
became an "under" over time.

trying to sneak up on Yuma it was great aircraft.



--Woody

"Doug "Woody" and Erin Beal" wrote in message
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On 10/14/03 11:05 AM, in article
, "R"
wrote:


"Jim Strand" wrote in message
...
Every year or so I post a similar version of this. Always nice to see
SNIP

For me the winner would be the F-8. You never forget your first love.
Whether it was climbing out of Key West after a Cuban MIG, doing a
vertical
pass on a Bear, or flying under the power lines in southern California

Something tells me that "under" the power lines was once an "over" but
became an "under" over time.


Well it only happened once! I could have sworn that the power lines were a
couple miles on the other side of the Aqueduct.:-)

Heck, I was lucky, one F-8 driver put out the lights in SoCal, (actually it
was daylight, but never let the facts interfere with a good sea story.) Both
he and the aircraft survived, to face the wrath. It just proved that the
titanium intake was a good cable cutter.

trying to sneak up on Yuma it was great aircraft.



--Woody

Besides if it didn't happen that way it should have.

Red

Doug "Woody" and Erin Beal wrote:

On 10/14/03 11:05 AM, in article
, "R"
wrote:


"Jim Strand" wrote in message
...
Every year or so I post a similar version of this. Always nice to see
SNIP

For me the winner would be the F-8. You never forget your first love.
Whether it was climbing out of Key West after a Cuban MIG, doing a vertical
pass on a Bear, or flying under the power lines in southern California

Something tells me that "under" the power lines was once an "over" but
became an "under" over time.

Check out the F-4 at the Combat Air Museum in Toopeka KS. It is called
the Wichita Lineman since it came back from a mission streaming cable
from the vertical stabilizer.

MAH

I did not see it listed on the web site.
http://www.combatairmuseum.org/aircraft.htm

Any other information on this bird?

Woody

mah wrote:
Check out the F-4 at the Combat Air Museum in Toopeka KS. It is called
the Wichita Lineman since it came back from a mission streaming cable
from the vertical stabilizer.

MAH

James Woody wrote:

I did not see it listed on the web site.
http://www.combatairmuseum.org/aircraft.htm

Any other information on this bird?

Woody

The aircraft was there 3 years ago during my visit. I assume it is
still there. I'll look through my photos and see if I can dig up a tail
number.

MAH

James Woody wrote:

I did not see it listed on the web site.
http://www.combatairmuseum.org/aircraft.htm

Any other information on this bird?

Woody

Dug through my photos from the trip. 66-268 looks to be a C/D with a
Mig kill on 12 Oct 1972. Left side painted as it was when assigned to
SEA, right side painted when assigned to KS ANG. The aircraft is decked
out for air defense with drop tanks, 4 x sidewinder, and 4 x sparrow.

Don't have access to binary groups through my ISP or I'd post photos.
If you are interested in photos, I can email them. (I remove the
NOTAT?)

MAH

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 06:44:58 -0500, mah wrote:

Doug "Woody" and Erin Beal wrote:

On 10/14/03 11:05 AM, in article
, "R"
wrote:


"Jim Strand" wrote in message
...
Every year or so I post a similar version of this. Always nice to see
SNIP

For me the winner would be the F-8. You never forget your first love.
Whether it was climbing out of Key West after a Cuban MIG, doing a vertical
pass on a Bear, or flying under the power lines in southern California

Something tells me that "under" the power lines was once an "over" but
became an "under" over time.

Check out the F-4 at the Combat Air Museum in Toopeka KS. It is called
the Wichita Lineman since it came back from a mission streaming cable
from the vertical stabilizer.

MAH

There's an account of a Su-24 Fencer picking up a piece of fence at
the end of a runway in Afganistan and completing the mission with said
fence attached to the aircraft.