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coffelt2 wrote:
"Alan Erskine" wrote in message ond.com... The final flight of the F-111 took place today. Holy Cow! Went to the first F-111 maintainer's school over 50 years ago. (it hadn't flown yet) No, it hadn't, and it wouldn't fly for more than four more years. Hard to believe "the first F-111 maintainer's school" was conducted over 50 years ago. Some of the original design features didn't make the cut, I guess. (the wing ordinance hard points that rotated in conjunction with wing sweep.. I don't think made it into production) They did. |
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Holy Cow! Went to the first F-111 maintainer's school over 50 years
ago. (it hadn't flown yet) No, it hadn't, and it wouldn't fly for more than four more years. Hard to believe "the first F-111 maintainer's school" was conducted over 50 years ago. Yup, our unit at Edwards AFB was supposed to get one or two of the first three off the line for flight testing. Maintenance familiarization classes were held at Air Force Plant # 4, Ft. Worth, where General Dynamics was still in pre-production stages. When I left Edwards AFB about a year after the classes, there were still no F-111's there for tests. I think the engraved cigarette lighter General Dynamics gave us at the school is still buried somewhere on my "work" bench. Old Chief Lynn |
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