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Better airplane? When I was flying 86s out of Naha on Oki-knock-knock
the Navy was flying Panthers - and the Gutless. Even when we switched to F86Ds we could eat both of those beasts alive. During my career the only Navy fighter we respected was the Crusader - everything else was toast to our 104s. Then when we got the Dash 19 engine and a 25% thrust increase there weren't any more Crusaders around! Damn, that F8 was one fine machine. I had four friends flew it on exchange - 2 Marine and 2 Navy. I also had 2 friends fly the Demon on exchange - the less said about that the better. One of them (Larry Davis) had a ramp strike but his part of the Drut slid up the flight deck and he was okay. I always wondered if he got a medal for reducing the inventory of Demons by one. Walt BJ |
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WaltBJ avait énoncé :
I always wondered if he got a medal for reducing the inventory of Demons by one. Why was this plane so awful ? -- Sergio Marchand à la petite semaine |
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On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 11:40:23 +0100, Sergio
disturbed the phosphur particles on my screen with the following: WaltBJ avait énoncé : I always wondered if he got a medal for reducing the inventory of Demons by one. Why was this plane so awful ? Under powered would be my guess. |
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roncachamp- Oh, they have it, it's just more sophisticated. BRBR
Righto sport, why don't ya take the pack off? P. C. Chisholm CDR, USN(ret.) Old Phart Phormer Phantom, Turkey, Viper, Scooter and Combat Buckeye Phlyer |
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Ed Rasimus wrote:
I realize the importance, but it was probably more a case of envy of the "simple life." I, at the time, was an F-4 squadron Ops Officer. My life revolved around getting all those front and back seaters to fill all of those squares every six months. Contrasting the complexities of home squadron life with a board that measured nothing but landing grades was a confusing picture. You would have loved the board we created at VMA-231 - all of those night/instrument hours, approach, etc."currency" items, the entire AV-8A syllabus with *that* currency for each flight in the syllabus. Damn thing was 18+ feet long, and updated each morning with the previous day's flight info. Once each month, all the syllabus flights whose currency had expired, changed their "month" designation from black to red. Pilots short of night/instrument hours/approaches, etc., were the same, in red until they met the six-month minimum. Dates for physiology requirements, NATOPS checks, etc. - dates in black until expiration two months away, then yellow until actual expiration/renewal, red if expired. Flight officer and OpsOs loved it, my clerks hated it. Went through a gallon of plexi-cleaner and a bale of rags every quarter. -- OJ III [Email sent to Yahoo addy is burned before reading. Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast] |
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Only in the Air Force do you get to take on 120,000 pounds of JP-8 in one
shot at night, in the weather over the middle of the Pacific.....wait a minute....that wasn't that fun....disregard everything after "only in the Air Force" BUF, Having watched the heavy v. heavy refueling evolution during the day, my hat's off to you guys. That's NOT easy. --Woody And while it may not technically be fun, there is a sense of accomplishment once your done. BUFDRVR "Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips everyone on Bear Creek" |
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Greasy Rider wrote in message . ..
On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 11:40:23 +0100, Sergio disturbed the phosphur particles on my screen with the following: WaltBJ avait énoncé : I always wondered if he got a medal for reducing the inventory of Demons by one. Why was this plane so awful ? Under powered would be my guess. Correct - and also short-legged. The only fighter I know of that had a mod that incorporated an emergency afterburner switch that when activated would light the AB in idle. Larry told us it was for use in just such cases as he had - going low close-in when it was desperately needed to avert a ramp strike. He dropped in to visit us at RG AFB (south side of Kansas City MO) and the only place he could get to on an IFR flight plan (alternate required) was NAS Memphis. ISTR that's about 300 miles . . . . Walt BJ |
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And while it may not technically be fun, there is a sense of accomplishment
once your done. Buf, Reminds me of the old joke about a Fat girl and a scooter. A lot of fun but you don't want your friends to know you are doing either one. Sparky |
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The only fighter I know of that had a
mod that incorporated an emergency afterburner switch that when activated would light the AB in idle. Larry told us it was for use in just such cases as he had - going low close-in when it was desperately needed to avert a ramp strike. All the airplanes I flew in the marines had propellers on the front end. Sudden application of power at slow speeds could produce surprising, and possibly fatal, results.So the above paragraph raises two questions in my mind: 1. Aren't all jet engines slow in responding when the throttle is pushed forward? (Isn't that why full power is applied when hitting the deck?) 2. Is the engine idling when a jet approaches the ramp? I thought it was a powered approach. Would a prudent pilot cut the power to idle, if a little high, if the engines respond slowly? Seems to me if he were that high, it would be smart to start a go-round. vince norris |
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