New Queer? for the fleet, EF-18G

First snowfall in 6 years???

It must have been a dream, the 3-4 inches (some places in Island
County got 6) of the white stuff that closed the base (except for
non-essentials) for 2 days in December 2001. Not nitpicking
Yofuri,,,but maybe you were deployed?

The Gold Plated Canopy required? for what? So the crew would feel
protected??? LOL, it sure never was "required" when it had delaminated
and there were no replacements back in 1999-2001!!! And the only way
you could get a replacement is if the delamination affected the pilots
vision, "safety of flight". (and/or if a Geekmos helmet had banged
away a Iarge percentage) I heard Jacksonville remedied this awful
situation and got more funding to start RFI'ng canopies about the end
of 2001. Then the first batches they put out were defective, but it
finally was fixed.

Yofuri, these comments may seem negative, sure hope you don't take
them that way, my perspective thats all, Happy New Year!!!


On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 23:19:19 -0800, "Yofuri"
wrote:

Shucks, I had forgotten we had snow here at Whidbey. Today is the first
snowfall in six years, and it's melting tonight.

No big EMI problem. The isolated power systems for the main bangers largely
keep it away from the aircraft's internal circuitry. The RATS eat the EMI,
in other words. I'm sure the gold-plated canopy will still be required,
though.

Rick