Yeah, nothing says commitment to the SUW mission like a whole mess of .50s, a tank cannon, and a bomb bay full of skip bombs. My only question is if you fly with the window open will your cigar stay lit?
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Q'ns about retired airframe
- Thread starter Max the Mad Russian
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Yeah, but it's still Army. USAAC to that date
By that time it was the USAAF.
Max the Mad Russian
Hands off Ukraine! Feet too
Thanks, U R right as usually.
BTW, Capt Rubel once wrote that during his first DivO tour with light VA squadron embarked on USS Independence in Med (1972-73) there was a pilot who endlessly smoked Lucky Strike while piloting Corsair. Was that really possible to smoke in a cockpit back then?
The T-34 and H-46 used to have ashtrays in the cockpit.
P-3Cs still do although smoking hasn't been officially allowed for quite some time now.
I started flying the SLUF in 1977 and there were still several old timers around who were known to light up in the cockpit, usually in the marshal stack at night before commencing the approach.
Because nothing says “night ball flying” like ruining your night vision first.
Or calming your nerves.Because nothing says “night ball flying” like ruining your night vision first.
There's a video of a legacy Hornet where a hand, with a lit cigarette between two fingers, manipulates the pushbuttons on the R DDI during an intercept.
Showed up 20 years too late to the party.
Showed up 20 years too late to the party.
Sweet replacement lid of the ashtray, fabricated by the airframes shop, in a TH-57. I guess the COTS aircraft probably have to conform to the type certificate or there is some reg along those lines. It's not as pretty as the original but it's functional.
Do you really need night vision when there's only blackness and some lights (which look to be pretty dang bright on the CVN) to be seen?Because nothing says “night ball flying” like ruining your night vision first.
In 1981, there was a front-seater in my sister squadron who smoked in Phantoms. He used the spare lens compartment of his issued flashlight as an ashtray. And, hell no, it wasn't authorized, but he was an old, crusty combat veteran that did what he wanted.
(He must have been in his late thirties - doesn't seem so crusty nowadays.)