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Yeah, and I've got a great resource, too. My uncle was a USAF test pilot in
the F-104 program, and I've never taken the time to really talk to him about it. Might have something to do with the fact that I've only seen him twice in about 15 years. The B-58 Hustler is another amazing aircraft, along with the B-36 that I'd like to hear more about, too. Amazing feats of aviation when you look back at them. Looking at Concorde up close, you get a real sense of stepping back in time, as well. Although she looks "futuristic", she really is a relic of the design days of the late 60s when Vulcans, Valkyries, and Century Series fighters were all being built to similar constraints and principles. Shawn "Jay Honeck" wrote in message newsl0Ab.432326$Tr4.1215008@attbi_s03... Funny, but you don't hear too many people talk about that period in aviation these days. I'd love to hear more about what being in the USAF and flying things like the F-94 was like. See Flight Journal Magazine (http://www.flightjournal.com/) for some really interesting articles from this amazing era of flight. It really was an amazing period, when the Air Force (and, actually, air forces all over the world) was rolling out a new aircraft every few months -- for years at a time! -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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Corky Scott wrote: Ah Har. I'm a "packrat" and my wife is a "tosser". Many years ago I dated a "tosser". She helped me clean my shop once. She started asking how long it had been since I used plug in a tool here. When she said she had a policy of tossing out anything she hadn't used in over a year, I resolved never to let her in the place again! Half my tools would've been in the dust bin. George Patterson Some people think they hear a call to the priesthood when what they really hear is a tiny voice whispering "It's indoor work with no heavy lifting". |
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"DeltaDeltaDelta" wrote in message ...
snip Don't know if this counts as best sounding aircraft. I was standing by a taxiway at NAS Fallon, NV watching an F-18 make a high speed, low pass on the runway (about 50-75 ft). He accidently busted through Mach 1. The double crack of the boom less than 100 yds away was probably the coolest sound I've ever heard (and felt!) come out of an airplane. John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180) |
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The B-58 Hustler is another amazing aircraft, along with the B-36 that I'd
like to hear more about, too. The Hustler *is* truly amazing. We visited the Chanute Air Museum (formerly the Chanute Air Force Base), in Rantoul, IL, last week, where they have the B-58 Hustler that set the speed record from the U.S. to Japan. (I think the record still stands...) From every angle, the plane is perfect. Even the engine pods, which look kind of odd at first, hanging down below the delta wing, blend in nicely from all angles, just like the toy Hustler I had as a boy. The wasp-waist flows nicely into the aft fuselage, and the whole thing just SCREAMS "speed!"... Until you get up close, and take a look at the construction. Even though the designers used some exotic materials, due to the extreme heat build-up at Mach 2+, the construction techniques don't look dramatically different from the B-29s and even the B-17s that were built just a few years earlier. You could literally take large pieces off the plane with a simple Phillips screw driver, and the cockpit instrumentation would be right at home in a Piper Apache. And those engine pods have some really bizarre details, with elaborately curved, flush-riveted, intricately cut pieces butting up against plates that are simply screwed on. The whole aircraft is a perfect "period piece", bridging the gap from World War II, past Korea, and right into the Viet Nam era... One of the coolest planes ever conceived. Wish I had seen it fly. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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A few years ago I was at work, which happened to be near the local
airport. Listened to planes going over all day. Then one day I heard the unmistakable sound of a Merlin go over. Hmm... that sounded like TWO Merlins. What could that be - a Mosquito? I couldn't get outside soon enough to see it, so had to stop by the airport after work. Tuned out to be something even rarer - a Spanish-built postwar HE111 - with two Merlins. I understand that the plane was specially fitted out as an executive transport, and was in it's day the personal airplane of Francisco Franco. |
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Shawn
Talk to your uncle before he dies and the data goes with him. I know a lot about the 104 but there is so much more from Edwards and WP that would make an exciting story. One of my very good friends was Commander of one of the first two Squadrons and the bird killed him (along with many others until they got things debugged). '58 also a wonderful beast. I stoppd to refuel at one of their bases one night and one took off. I have never as much noise and fire and lights around a airplane as came out of the engines in A/B with all the nav and obstruction lights on. Big John On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 15:46:56 -0000, "ShawnD2112" wrote: Yeah, and I've got a great resource, too. My uncle was a USAF test pilot in the F-104 program, and I've never taken the time to really talk to him about it. Might have something to do with the fact that I've only seen him twice in about 15 years. The B-58 Hustler is another amazing aircraft, along with the B-36 that I'd like to hear more about, too. Amazing feats of aviation when you look back at them. Looking at Concorde up close, you get a real sense of stepping back in time, as well. Although she looks "futuristic", she really is a relic of the design days of the late 60s when Vulcans, Valkyries, and Century Series fighters were all being built to similar constraints and principles. Shawn "Jay Honeck" wrote in message newsl0Ab.432326$Tr4.1215008@attbi_s03... Funny, but you don't hear too many people talk about that period in aviation these days. I'd love to hear more about what being in the USAF and flying things like the F-94 was like. See Flight Journal Magazine (http://www.flightjournal.com/) for some really interesting articles from this amazing era of flight. It really was an amazing period, when the Air Force (and, actually, air forces all over the world) was rolling out a new aircraft every few months -- for years at a time! -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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