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On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:19:46 -0500, "Leanne"
postulated : Ah ha, the old ASQ-17. It was used on the A4D, F-8U, and believe the F-11. I hated the damned thing so much I forgot the designation but then it's been almost 50 years and I'm entitled! |
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My grandfather, Naval Aviator #711, told me about standing up
in the cockpit and peeing over the side of his plane. That brings to mind of an old gentleman that I met in Mississippi many years ago. We were discussing radar and electronics careers and he said back in his day, he was the radar. He stood up in the nose cockpit of the seaplane and scanned with binoculars. I think he said that he was flying out of Kaneohe, Hawaii in about 1924. Leanne |
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W. D. Allen Sr. wrote:
For what it's worth... At the Naval Academy in the early 1950s we got fam flights in N3N floatplanes. It was great fun. The engine flywheel had to be hand cranked to provide the energy to turn over the engine to get it started. The plane then pushed off the Severn River bank by white hat crewmen. My dad was one of this white hats, an E1 but a future chief aviation storekeeper. They had flying chiefs driving them things too. He still loves to tell stories about middies heading back out to the plane with a bucket and mop for a post-flight barf removal session. |
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was held by Tzus (sp?) fasteners at the rear Its Dzus, at least thats the way it was spelled on the last blueprint I saw. |
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:02:34 -0700, "Leadfoot"
postulated : was held by Tzus (sp?) fasteners at the rear Its Dzus, at least thats the way it was spelled on the last blueprint I saw. After I sent the message I suddenly remembered . Been way too long. Thanks. |
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SO YOU'RE THE ONE!!!!
(ha,ha,ha) WDA end "Greasy Rider" wrote in message ... On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:44:36 -0800, "W. D. Allen Sr." postulated : For what it's worth... (snipped) It was a dark and stormy night aboard the Intrepid in the fall of 1957. A twenty year old Aviation Electronics Tech (AT3) was tasked with replacing the UHF radio (ARC-27) in FJ-3M number 204 tied down on the flight deck. The radio set was mounted in the nose and the top cover of the nose was held by Tzus (sp?) fasteners at the rear while the front had two tangs that slipped into sockets forward. This unnamed AT3 popped the fasteners and the metal cover became airborne and was gone in the wind. Some soul was taking a smoke break on the fan tail and saw a dark shadow hit in the water. Man Over Board was quickly sounded and CVA-11 slowly started circling with her two DDE plane guards. Search lights lit up the North Atlantic and there was much mustering of all hands and naturally 15 or 20 are missing in a crew of maybe 3,500. The AT3 knew that the cover would be found and dusted for finger prints. The AT3 knew that the Navy would charge him for all fuel oil and expenses encountered. The AT3 slipped quietly into the cat walk and went to muster. The AT3 reported to his Shop Chief the next morning that he noticed the nose cover of 204 was missing. Has the statute of limitations run out from 1957? |
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"Dave in San diego" wrote in message . .. Greasy Rider wrote in : On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:44:36 -0800, "W. D. Allen Sr." postulated : For what it's worth... (snipped) It was a dark and stormy night aboard the Intrepid in the fall of 1957. A twenty year old Aviation Electronics Tech (AT3) was tasked with replacing the UHF radio (ARC-27) in FJ-3M number 204 tied down on the flight deck. [remainder redacted] You had to go and do it - bring up old painful memories. The ARC-27 was my second least favorite piece of tron gear to replace. The ARN-21 TACAN ranked first, primarily because of its generally more difficult location in the a/c. Can you believe they still had those boat anchors around into the 80s? We had the landbased companion the GRC-27 which was the size of a refrigerator in 1979. Lots of tiny gears to get in sync and loads of fun bending silver tabs (which acted as capacitors) to tune it. You'd get every thing right at 375MHZ and then find everything off at 250MHZ. Since it was being junked they finally decided to let the E-4s and above work on it and only if it was actually broke. It did provide one of my more funnier movements in the Air Force. Our NCOIC who was as well the custodian of all the squadrons radio equipment was a stickler for every tiny screw being with his equipment and 8 of the cover screws were missing from a GRC-27. For some reason supply couldn't find a good part number and eventually our chief of maintenance , a very foxy female 1st LT, called and I was the lucky guy who answered the phones when she asked me about the the screws. The team leader for that equipment was in the office and I put my hand on the mouthpiece aid "Hey Lt Blank is on the phone and wants to know about 8 screws for a GRC-27? His reply? "hell I don't need 8 screws from a GRC-27, I'll screw her for free." Which promptly put the whole shop into uncontrollable laughter including (although not known at the time) her future E-4 husband. Got to give her credit, she was a pretty good sport about it when she finally found out what had happenned. Dave in San Diego O-level Tweet ('70 - '75) |
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"Leadfoot" wrote:
was held by Tzus (sp?) fasteners at the rear Its Dzus, at least thats the way it was spelled on the last blueprint I saw. Yes, Dzus is correct...god knows I turned a lot of them on Lancaster engine cowlings 'lo these many long years ago'... (you don't pronounce the "D") -- -Gord. (use gordon in email) |
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"Bob McKellar" wrote:
My grandfather, Naval Aviator #711, told me about standing up in the cockpit and peeing over the side of his plane. Try that in an F-18! Bob McKellar Yeh...I suppose the 'flail' action is somewhat more prohibitive (and hazardous) in the F-18?... -- -Gord. (use gordon in email) |
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"Nice Guy" wrote:
Try peeing in the rear seat of an AF while wearing a "poopy" suit. I'd guess that the phrase 'in the rear seat' is likely more descriptive than you had intended?... -- -Gord. (use gordon in email) |
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