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On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:41:47 +0100, "José Herculano"
wrote: No jet ever made (or that ever will be made) had enough power. Possible exception of the F/A-22 Raptor under current conditions... How about the big black twin two-seater I used to work on? Whatever its limitations, lack of thrust wasn't one. It's not every airplane that can burn 85,000 lb of fuel in just over an hour, you know. Mary -- Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer |
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Its been over 30 years, we don't remember how it was, only how it should
have been. The gator was perfect around the boat Perfectly unforgiving. It had the highest ramp strike rate of any tactical aircraft that operated on angled deck carriers. There was a reason there were no bad F-8 drivers. R / John |
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On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 16:05:49 GMT, "R" wrote:
For me the winner would be the F-8. You never forget your first love. Whether it was climbing out of Key West after a Cuban MIG, doing a vertical pass on a Bear, or flying under the power lines in southern California trying to sneak up on Yuma it was great aircraft. Recalling the VFR days of the 60's did you ever fly the VFR High Performance West departure out of NKX? Or the essentially same SCAMP-1? NKX was certainly a thrilling place to be a controller in those days. Was amazed at how well pilots and controllers managed to mix the Atlas entries with Mission Bay entries, avoiding MYF and radar traffic. *********************************************** ACC USN ret. NKX, BIKF, NAB, CV-63, NIR 67-69 69-71 71-74 77-80 80-85 & 74-77 Co-founder of newsgroup - RAMN Anti-spam measures in action. For e-mail response delete "nospam" *********************************************** |
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Only did it a couple times. By the time I got there, 1971, the scamp was
NOT encouraged. R / John "Jim Strand" wrote in message ... On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 16:05:49 GMT, "R" wrote: For me the winner would be the F-8. You never forget your first love. Whether it was climbing out of Key West after a Cuban MIG, doing a vertical pass on a Bear, or flying under the power lines in southern California trying to sneak up on Yuma it was great aircraft. Recalling the VFR days of the 60's did you ever fly the VFR High Performance West departure out of NKX? Or the essentially same SCAMP-1? NKX was certainly a thrilling place to be a controller in those days. Was amazed at how well pilots and controllers managed to mix the Atlas entries with Mission Bay entries, avoiding MYF and radar traffic. *********************************************** ACC USN ret. NKX, BIKF, NAB, CV-63, NIR 67-69 69-71 71-74 77-80 80-85 & 74-77 Co-founder of newsgroup - RAMN Anti-spam measures in action. For e-mail response delete "nospam" *********************************************** |
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Mary -
Is there any sensible reason why your airframe was retired from service when it still seemed to be viable? Was it only a money issue or is there more to it than that? Regards, On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:10:02 -0700, Mary Shafer wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:41:47 +0100, "José Herculano" wrote: No jet ever made (or that ever will be made) had enough power. Possible exception of the F/A-22 Raptor under current conditions... How about the big black twin two-seater I used to work on? Whatever its limitations, lack of thrust wasn't one. It's not every airplane that can burn 85,000 lb of fuel in just over an hour, you know. Mary |
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Sorry Mary - the above posting is mine. I used a different posting
nym to try to solve a NG retrieval issue. My apologies. Regards, On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:49:15 -0500, catsrus wrote: Mary - Is there any sensible reason why your airframe was retired from service when it still seemed to be viable? Was it only a money issue or is there more to it than that? Regards, snipped... |
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An A3 (all 3 dead) NFO of my acquaintance called the Crusader the
"Ensign Eater." Sounds like a REALLY steep learning curve... Mark |
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Doug "Woody" and Erin Beal wrote:
On 10/14/03 11:05 AM, in article , "R" wrote: "Jim Strand" wrote in message ... Every year or so I post a similar version of this. Always nice to see SNIP For me the winner would be the F-8. You never forget your first love. Whether it was climbing out of Key West after a Cuban MIG, doing a vertical pass on a Bear, or flying under the power lines in southern California Something tells me that "under" the power lines was once an "over" but became an "under" over time. Check out the F-4 at the Combat Air Museum in Toopeka KS. It is called the Wichita Lineman since it came back from a mission streaming cable from the vertical stabilizer. MAH |
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I did not see it listed on the web site.
http://www.combatairmuseum.org/aircraft.htm Any other information on this bird? Woody mah wrote: Check out the F-4 at the Combat Air Museum in Toopeka KS. It is called the Wichita Lineman since it came back from a mission streaming cable from the vertical stabilizer. MAH |
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James Woody wrote:
I did not see it listed on the web site. http://www.combatairmuseum.org/aircraft.htm Any other information on this bird? Woody The aircraft was there 3 years ago during my visit. I assume it is still there. I'll look through my photos and see if I can dig up a tail number. MAH |
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