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The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery...part DEUX

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flaps

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. The venerable 'badass' pfantum could flash by anything airborne (except the KA-3/6/7, KC-10/130/135 et al.)!




well, flight planning was easy...... 3000 pph/side as i recall.
 

Catmando

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. The venerable 'badass' pfantum could flash by anything airborne (except the KA-3/6/7, KC-10/130/135 et al.)!

well, flight planning was easy...... 3000 pph/side as i recall.
Yep. Just like baseball. A simple game where 3's are key.

Everybody - including my parents - said to be a Naval Aviator and a Fighter Pilot, one had to know math. Well, I didn't know math for crap! Much less that 'calculoss', whatever that was.

Thank God the Navy gave me an RO who could add and subtract, and an F-4 that had simple, round number fuel flows (and other simple, even numbers to suss such esoteric things)! Thus I became the best fighter pilot in the world!!!!

Tanker posit?
 

MIDNJAC

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You should have plenty of time to read the ever enlightening ACM FTI.......I believe nearly every T-45 on the earth is sitting on the ramp at Oceana right now :)
 

Swanee

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You should have plenty of time to read the ever enlightening ACM FTI.......I believe nearly every T-45 on the earth is sitting on the ramp at Oceana right now :)

Yeah man, those guys had to chase the ship half way up the coast. What a boondoggle.
 

flaps

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re:"Thank God the Navy gave me an RO who could add and subtract,"

yeah, but the math got a lot tougher for the RIO with the early tomcat software.
remember "bogey bearing +/- bogey reciprical = target aspect" ?

i think the stick even then the stick didn't have to do all that math. you just looked at the target bar and heading scale on the
VDI.
 

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06/28/2012
ACADEMY SMOKE SCREEN
A helicopter drops water on the wildfire burning in Waldo Canyon on the U.S. Air Force Academy outside of Colorado Springs, Colo., June 27, 2012. The fires, which have burned more than 15,000 acres, began spreading to the southwestern corner of the academy, causing base officials to evacuate residents. Officials estimated that the fire had spread to about 10 acres of land belonging to the Academy. U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jeremy Lock

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06/27/2012
FIGHTING FIRES
A C-130 aircraft equipped with a modular firefighting system drops retardant on a section of the Waldo Canyon fire near Colorado Springs, Colo., June 26, 2012. Four of these aircraft, assigned to the Air Force's 302nd and 153rd airlift wings, are helping civil authorities combat the fire. The 302nd Airlift Wing is based on Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., and the 153rd Airlift Wing is part of the Wyoming Air National Guard. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Thomas Doscher

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Scooping up water
A helicopter hoists water from the Air Force Academy water treatment plant to dump on the Waldo Canyon fire June 28, 2012. The Waldo Canyon fire has destroyed over 18,000 acres in the Colorado Springs, Colo., area. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher Boitz/Released)
 

BusyBee604

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OMG, floating in the gulf, awaiting the rescue helo, I looked up and that's exactly what my SAR cover looked like. Awesome & comforting, but I was hoping not to become a witness to the most spectacular mid-air in Naval history!:eek:

Meh...worked out OK!:D BzB
 

brownshoe

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OMG, floating in the gulf, awaiting the rescue helo, I looked up and that's exactly what my SAR cover looked like. Awesome & comforting, but I was hoping not to become a witness to the most spectacular mid-air in Naval history!:eek:

Meh...worked out OK!:D BzB

Would you please send me another CD of the radio transmissions that day? I loaned out the one you'd sent me and it’s never been returned.
 

Reconjoe

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Would you please send me another CD of the radio transmissions that day? I loaned out the one you'd sent me and it’s never been returned.

^^ I don't suppose that CD could ever be made public/semi-private somewhere online for the rest of us? Us young ones need some inspiration from time to time, and a little history couldn't hurt.
 
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