You Know You're Old Dept.

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Wayne Paul wrote:
I get the same type of a blank stare when I mention A3D.
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Roger that.

Even worse, see what happens when you mention an A-5 :-)

-R.S.Hoover


Even when I say A-6 most think of the Prowler instead of the Intruder.
http://www.soaridaho.com/Family_Pict..._A3_On_Cat.jpg
Notice that the above A3D doesn't have a refueling probe.
http://www.soaridaho.com/Naval_Pictu...6A_Takeoff.jpg
Lightly loaded A-6A

Wayne
HP-14 "6F"
http://www.soaridaho.com/Schreder

Nah, when you know you're getting old is when you _start_ finding them in
the museum. By the time you can only find them in museums you already know
you're an old fart, and you're probably volunteering at the museum.

And I just got a flashback of a 90+ yr old volunteer at the Vintage Flying
Museum who flew B-17's in WWII and still gives tours, clambering all over
the airplane to teach people about the history of the airplane. Everytime I
think about that it reminds me what it feels like to see "awesome" in
person...

"Wayne Paul" wrote in message
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I get the same type of a blank stare when I mention A3D.

You know you're old when ...the only place you can find an aircraft you
flew during your military career is a museums.

Wayne
HP-14 "6F"
http://www.soaridaho.com/


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You know you're old when some kid posts a picture of a plane you've
flown in captioned: 'What the hell is THIS?'

(It's an AJ-2, son. A nice airplane and one of the largest to have
flown off an Essex-class carrier.)

-R.S.Hoover






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Juan,

You may be correct. Now let me see where I fit. Definately not 90+;
however, SNJ, SMB, T-33, T2J, T-28, T-34, A3D, A6A, P2V, P5M, R4D. Oh my, I
must be getting old!!

Wayne
http://www.soaridaho.com/Schreder


"Juan Jimenez" wrote in message
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Nah, when you know you're getting old is when you _start_ finding them in
the museum. By the time you can only find them in museums you already know
you're an old fart, and you're probably volunteering at the museum.

And I just got a flashback of a 90+ yr old volunteer at the Vintage Flying
Museum who flew B-17's in WWII and still gives tours, clambering all over
the airplane to teach people about the history of the airplane. Everytime
I think about that it reminds me what it feels like to see "awesome" in
person...

"Wayne Paul" wrote in message
...
I get the same type of a blank stare when I mention A3D.

You know you're old when ...the only place you can find an aircraft you
flew during your military career is a museums.

Wayne
HP-14 "6F"
http://www.soaridaho.com/


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You know you're old when some kid posts a picture of a plane you've
flown in captioned: 'What the hell is THIS?'

(It's an AJ-2, son. A nice airplane and one of the largest to have
flown off an Essex-class carrier.)

-R.S.Hoover






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The only one in that list that I've flown is the T-28. The other day I was
in Charlotte and it turns out they have an aviation museum there. Of all
things, they have an H-46 helo from the last Marine squadron I worked at,
HMM-161. That was a weird feeling.

"Wayne Paul" wrote in message
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Juan,

You may be correct. Now let me see where I fit. Definately not 90+;
however, SNJ, SMB, T-33, T2J, T-28, T-34, A3D, A6A, P2V, P5M, R4D. Oh my,
I must be getting old!!

Wayne
http://www.soaridaho.com/Schreder


"Juan Jimenez" wrote in message
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Nah, when you know you're getting old is when you _start_ finding them in
the museum. By the time you can only find them in museums you already
know you're an old fart, and you're probably volunteering at the museum.

And I just got a flashback of a 90+ yr old volunteer at the Vintage
Flying Museum who flew B-17's in WWII and still gives tours, clambering
all over the airplane to teach people about the history of the airplane.
Everytime I think about that it reminds me what it feels like to see
"awesome" in person...

"Wayne Paul" wrote in message
...
I get the same type of a blank stare when I mention A3D.

You know you're old when ...the only place you can find an aircraft you
flew during your military career is a museums.

Wayne
HP-14 "6F"
http://www.soaridaho.com/


wrote in message
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You know you're old when some kid posts a picture of a plane you've
flown in captioned: 'What the hell is THIS?'

(It's an AJ-2, son. A nice airplane and one of the largest to have
flown off an Essex-class carrier.)

-R.S.Hoover






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Wayne Paul wrote:

I get the same type of a blank stare when I mention A3D.

Hughes Electronics has a fleet of them operational at Van Nuys Airport,
California. They even have a C.O.D. version of sorts, complete with
passenger windows. They come in and land, then utilize drogue chutes
after touchdown. They're based out of the old Volpar building by the
looks of it.

"DABEAR" wrote in message
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Hughes Electronics has a fleet of them operational at Van Nuys Airport,
California. They even have a C.O.D. version of sorts, complete with
passenger windows.

As a kid, I remember checking out a VIP Transport A-3 at Andrews. It had
leather seats!!

anon wrote:
"DABEAR" wrote in message
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Hughes Electronics has a fleet of them operational at Van Nuys Airport,
California. They even have a C.O.D. version of sorts, complete with
passenger windows.

As a kid, I remember checking out a VIP Transport A-3 at Andrews. It had
leather seats!!

I've had only one opportunity to fly in an aircraft as a passenger and
find myself sitting in leather seats:

Swift Aire Lines, DeHavilland Heron, four-engines if you can believe it
(old RAF Military Utility Transport ~ the twin version was the "Dove"),
from Los Angeles to Santa Maria.

Would love to get me one of those!

Mojave has a flight tester, modified, just sitting with the wings
off...tempting! G

Five Questions out of curiousity: 1) Are all ultralights single
engine, and if not, 2) what ultra light(s) possess the most? 3) What
is the lightest engine in use on an ultralight? And 4) how much does
the engine weigh? 5) I've been told that the replica Wright Flyers
qualify as Ultra Lights, as do some of the pioneering aircraft 1903 -
1914 ~ is this true?

Thanks in advance for any answers I can get...

"DABEAR" wrote ...



I've had only one opportunity to fly in an aircraft as a passenger and
find myself sitting in leather seats:

Swift Aire Lines, DeHavilland Heron, four-engines if you can believe it
(old RAF Military Utility Transport ~ the twin version was the "Dove"),
from Los Angeles to Santa Maria.


Hey Bubba, if you remember Swift Aire, You ARE old.

Rich

anon wrote:
"DABEAR" wrote in message
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Hughes Electronics has a fleet of them operational at Van Nuys Airport,
California. They even have a C.O.D. version of sorts, complete with
passenger windows.

As a kid, I remember checking out a VIP Transport A-3 at Andrews. It had
leather seats!!

I've had only one opportunity to fly in an aircraft as a passenger and
find myself sitting in leather seats:

Swift Aire Lines, DeHavilland Heron, four-engines if you can believe it
(old RAF Military Utility Transport ~ the twin version was the "Dove"),
from Los Angeles to Santa Maria.

Would love to get me one of those!

Mojave has a flight tester, modified, just sitting with the wings
off...tempting! G

Five Questions out of curiousity: 1) Are all ultralights single
engine, and if not, 2) what ultra light(s) possess the most? 3) What
is the lightest engine in use on an ultralight? And 4) how much does
the engine weigh? 5) I've been told that the replica Wright Flyers
qualify as Ultra Lights, as do some of the pioneering aircraft 1903 -
1914 ~ is this true?

Thanks in advance for any answers I can get...

On 31 Dec 2006 22:25:37 -0800, "DABEAR"
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You can bet I'm old, I can remember when many early military aircraft
used to stop at Visalia, California airport when flying through the
central valley. Visalia had a long runway for those days. Among the
aircraft I saw there were a squadron of Curtiss Hawk P6E's from
Selfridge Field in the Snow owl paint jobs; a squadron of Martin B-10
or 12's; several versions of the Northrup attack and Consolidated
attack aircraft, I can't remember the numbers; an Grumman F3F1 and
later at the start of the war it was a base for Lockheed Hudsons,
P-61s and A-26s. B-17s, B-24s and B25s frequently landed there.