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The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery...part DEUX
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You didn't use enough bondo, or buff it enough.
Some Fury love from my logbook. Per the log book, the flight of NG 404, (Buno 139472)... was flown on either 12, or 18 Nov. 1958. Both flights originated/terminated at NAAS Fallon, where we were deployed for self-famming our recently assigned FJ-4s.
*Blast from the past!
BzB
Some Fury love from my logbook. Per the log book, the flight of NG 404, (Buno 139472)... was flown on either 12, or 18 Nov. 1958. Both flights originated/terminated at NAAS Fallon, where we were deployed for self-famming our recently assigned FJ-4s.
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*Blast from the past!
BzB
It's good to see that Orville was able to get a good deal on buying those blue log books in bulk....some things will hopefully never change.
1. Should have cut it to idle as the nose approached the windline.
2. Thanks. Long after you're gone, we'll all have to sit through 'Vette training at our safety stand-arounds.
1. Should have cut it to idle as the nose approached the windline.
2. Thanks. Long after you're gone, we'll all have to sit through 'Vette training at our safety stand-arounds.
And fill out tons of ORM forms if we decide to buy a sports car, as well as take a sports car drivers course annually, and a drivers safety course prior to driving on base.
Are civilian jet warbirds allowed to arm their seats, or did the FAA nix that?Seeing your photos of that beautiful F-86, reminded me that on occasion, they have had a tragic side. On 24 September 1972, a private F-86 (N275X) on the airshow circuit, was taking off from Sacramento, CA Airport, suffered engine failure just after liftoff. Having no other recourse, the pilot ejected & barely escaped. Unfortunately, the Sabrejet bellied in past the runway... slid at high speed through a perimeter fence, across a highway, through a parking lot directly into a crowded Farrells Ice Cream Parlor, where many familys/children were celebrating children's birthdays. 22 lives were lost in the parking lot & inside the building, of which half were children. It was a dreadful disaster for the 'Sacto' community, as well as a slow death knell for the previously popular 120+ store Farrells chain, of which only one last store exists today.
It was sad for the lives that were lost, fortheir families, the community, and for a thriving business chain that bore no responsibility for the carnage that occurred on their property (although their were some "after the fact" inquiries, questioning the wisdom the of locating such a mini-mall so close near the extended centerline of a major airport runway".
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*Google F-86 crash Sacramento for particulars.
"Spun the Vette"? Hope no one injured, min damage... pix?
BzB
They did things a little differently in the way-back when.
My Dad went from CQ in an SNJ directly to F8F Bearcats at Cabaniss Field for advanced and then to JTU-1 flying ex AF F80's for jet transition at Whiting. I have some pictures around here somewhere from those days. He lost his logbooks when his Reserve squadron at NAS Dallas moved hangars and the Ops Office managed to lose the box containing all the logbooks.
Remember, that tragedy happened over 40 years ago. If FAA banned armed seats, I suspect it was more recent than 1972. Airshow Huggy would probably know?
Sure did. There was no RAG/FRS yet at that time, the squadron veterans (front office/DHs), briefed and chased all the fam hops for us 7 "nugget" ENSs. It was only a couple of months after winging (350 total hrs) on my first Fury flight!
I believe RonDebMar flew A-1s in advanced at Cabiness in the early '60s, probably a few years after your Dad.
The two things I've guarded jealously and more securely in life than my wallet, are my Navy Flight Jacket & my 4 Flight Logbooks!
BzB
Cabiness? ...OLF Corpus? ...I think we did FCLP there.
VT-30 was just a very busy, hazy, fun-filled blur for this NavCad with wheels. Spent most (many?) weekends in Matamoros, Reynosa, or Nuevo Larado, Jun to Sep 1962 or thereabouts. Good times!
A check of the ol’ logbook shows I had only 144.5 hours total time when I first flew the TA-F9 with VT-24 in Beeville. Got to fly the single-seat AF-9 later... but the instructors usually hogged those single seat fighters.
Regardless, I always loved and wanted to fly the FJ Fury even more than the Cougar.
Pushing the envelope, I see. BTDT. Some cars and some people were made for it. (And some are conversely not, sometimes tragically.] As long as no one hurt, no harm, no foul.
Once upon a time I 'knew' I could go much faster than my vehicle could. Now - having pushed way too many envelopes in my youth - I know my Porsche is far faster than I now want to go... but damn, we both still push some envelopes ...albeit more 'gingerly'.
Not as old as Banty, BzB, or Cat, but I stepped into the A-7E (the TA-7C hadn't been invented yet) with 244.0 total hours. Even though I was chased by the XO of VA-174 on that first flight, the ol' ticker was still beating pretty quickly, stepping into a heavier-than-air jet propelled machine for the first time, solo.
Ah so, when I did advanced at Beeville in early '58, A-1 advanced was at NAS Cabaniss. From Chase, we also did weekends in Nueva Laredo (& a couple in Monterey, Mex.), plus San Antonio. You're right, a blur... but good times.
A different era, I wouldn't go ANYWHERE near the border these days!
BzB
OK. You guys got me lookin’.
FWIW.... which is neither here nor there, just the timing of the times.
1st F-4J flight in the RAG after winging and the instrument RAG of VF-126…….@ 296.4 total flight hours.
1st F-4 ‘green ink’ combat flight Vietnam ....... @ 493.7 total flight time.
FWIW.... which is neither here nor there, just the timing of the times.
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