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"Moose" wrote in message ...
Hi Walt I could tell you a few stories about the weak nose gear involving Deuces of the 59th FIS up at Goose (64 to 67). Hey, Moose, I was up at Thule in the 332 FIS Aug 63 to Aug 64. I spent a few weeks down at Goose escaping Thule, harassing the Goose Club and making a general nuisance of myself. ADC made us get sim time - Thule didn't ever have a Deuce sim, so every quarter we had an escape alibi. Twice I sniveled my way back to RG AFB for sim becuz my wife was living just off base there. Twice I harassed the Goose. About the only guy I remember was the Ops officer, a guy named Caldwell. Knew Jack Dale and still know Howie Kidwell, both at Goose about that time, down at Homestead in the 319th. Howie's living in Austin TX. Walt BJ |
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Hey AK we miss ya over at WT :-)
I thought all AF fighters had the trigger dedicated to the gun, and that Navy fighters fired selected weapons with the trigger. Am I way off here or is it always "personal preferance" ? -- Curiosity killed the cat, and I'm gonna find out why! "Andy Bush" wrote in message ... "Dweezil Dwarftosser" wrote in message ... ALL fighter aircraft worked this way (for missiles, though not for rockets in later machines). Not sure what you mean here. Interceptor rocket attacks had the firing signal coming from the weapons computer when in the "full up" mode...but the AIM-9 was hot once the Master Arm was armed. Press the pickle button and that puppy was gone, tone or no tone, lock or no lock. In the 104, we used the trigger to fire the heaters. |
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That's why I mentioned the 104. I flew the G model which had the
missile/gun/rocket selector function on the weapons select panel. The trigger fired all three...the "pickle button" was for non-forward firing ordnance/stores. "Boomer" wrote in message ... Hey AK we miss ya over at WT :-) I thought all AF fighters had the trigger dedicated to the gun, and that Navy fighters fired selected weapons with the trigger. Am I way off here or is it always "personal preferance" ? -- Curiosity killed the cat, and I'm gonna find out why! "Andy Bush" wrote in message ... "Dweezil Dwarftosser" wrote in message ... ALL fighter aircraft worked this way (for missiles, though not for rockets in later machines). Not sure what you mean here. Interceptor rocket attacks had the firing signal coming from the weapons computer when in the "full up" mode...but the AIM-9 was hot once the Master Arm was armed. Press the pickle button and that puppy was gone, tone or no tone, lock or no lock. In the 104, we used the trigger to fire the heaters. |
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Boomer wrote:
Hey AK we miss ya over at WT :-) I thought all AF fighters had the trigger dedicated to the gun, and that Navy fighters fired selected weapons with the trigger. Am I way off here or is it always "personal preferance" ? I suspect it may be more company preference. The F-8 had AIM-9s on the pickle button, guns on the trigger, but the F-4 had everything A/A on the trigger. The navy (or McAir) went with the F-4 method for the F-18, while the F-16 uses the trigger for guns/pickle for AAMs approach. I know the latter set up led to at least two inadvertent AIM-9 launches during DS, when the same F-16 pilot, on two different missions, switched from A/G to A/A mode while pulling off target, while still holding the pickle button firmly depressed. To be fair, the situation was rather hectic on both occasions, but after the second occurrence his squadron mates rather forcefully insisted that he be returned to the states, as they were getting tired of having to watch for errant AIM-9s in addition to SAMs and AAA. Guy |
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thanks guys :-)
-- Curiosity killed the cat, and I'm gonna find out why! "Guy Alcala" wrote in message . .. Boomer wrote: Hey AK we miss ya over at WT :-) I thought all AF fighters had the trigger dedicated to the gun, and that Navy fighters fired selected weapons with the trigger. Am I way off here or is it always "personal preferance" ? I suspect it may be more company preference. The F-8 had AIM-9s on the pickle button, guns on the trigger, but the F-4 had everything A/A on the trigger. The navy (or McAir) went with the F-4 method for the F-18, while the F-16 uses the trigger for guns/pickle for AAMs approach. I know the latter set up led to at least two inadvertent AIM-9 launches during DS, when the same F-16 pilot, on two different missions, switched from A/G to A/A mode while pulling off target, while still holding the pickle button firmly depressed. To be fair, the situation was rather hectic on both occasions, but after the second occurrence his squadron mates rather forcefully insisted that he be returned to the states, as they were getting tired of having to watch for errant AIM-9s in addition to SAMs and AAA. Guy |
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