Upgrade didn't start until Navy was out of the Legacy Hornet Business. Only about 3-4 squadrons are getting the upgrade. Canadian Hornets are getting it as wellDid any Navy legacy hornets have APG-79? I suspect not.
Did any Navy legacy hornets have APG-79? I suspect not.
I flew in a few of the non-HOL Rhinos at NAWDC. Yuck.Nope, best we got was APG-73 with old mission computers and old CRT DDIs. Some of us didn't even have that![]()
I flew in a few of the non-HOL Rhinos at NAWDC. Yuck.
So your the one?Yeah, those jets were basically big charlesburgers. The LRIP one (can't remember the modex, 105 maybe?) didn't even have the canopy rail handle that the production F's and G's got. To be fair, they were normally "up" jets, unlike the HOL jets at that point in time. I'll say that my one claim to fame of my career is perhaps having gotten to fly every production lot of the A-G and every single model (A/B/C/D/E/F/G), to include the weird esoteric Marine ones (A+, A++, D+, D-, etc), and then I guess LRIP non-HOL Rhino and every other one. When the kids talk about loading a "brick" (now a nice little DTU), there are some of us who still remember loading the real literal 5 lb brick on this old whirry box with all these blinking lights. And you had to stuff this other big ass MX brick into the right side of the jet near the LOX bottle. In conclusion, old guy yells at cloud, but we were not better tactical aviators by any means. I'm jealous that they get to start their careers at the baseline we are at now. Words don't even begin to describe how much better they have to be than I had to be.
I've heard about the A+. Never heard of the A++ or the D- and D+. Details on these. (keeping in unclass obviously)Yeah, those jets were basically big charlesburgers. The LRIP one (can't remember the modex, 105 maybe?) didn't even have the canopy rail handle that the production F's and G's got. To be fair, they were normally "up" jets, unlike the HOL jets at that point in time. I'll say that my one claim to fame of my career is perhaps having gotten to fly every production lot of the A-G and every single model (A/B/C/D/E/F/G), to include the weird esoteric Marine ones (A+, A++, D+, D-, etc), and then I guess LRIP non-HOL Rhino and every other one. When the kids talk about loading a "brick" (now a nice little DTU), there are some of us who still remember loading the real literal 5 lb brick on this old whirry box with all these blinking lights. And you had to stuff this other big ass MX brick into the right side of the jet near the LOX bottle. In conclusion, old guy yells at cloud, but we were not better tactical aviators by any means. I'm jealous that they get to start their careers at the baseline we are at now. Words don't even begin to describe how much better they have to be than I had to be.
Yeah, those jets were basically big charlesburgers. The LRIP one (can't remember the modex, 105 maybe?) didn't even have the canopy rail handle that the production F's and G's got. To be fair, they were normally "up" jets, unlike the HOL jets at that point in time. I'll say that my one claim to fame of my career is perhaps having gotten to fly every production lot of the A-G and every single model (A/B/C/D/E/F/G), to include the weird esoteric Marine ones (A+, A++, D+, D-, etc), and then I guess LRIP non-HOL Rhino and every other one. When the kids talk about loading a "brick" (now a nice little DTU), there are some of us who still remember loading the real literal 5 lb brick on this old whirry box with all these blinking lights. And you had to stuff this other big ass MX brick into the right side of the jet near the LOX bottle. In conclusion, old guy yells at cloud, but we were not better tactical aviators by any means. I'm jealous that they get to start their careers at the baseline we are at now. Words don't even begin to describe how much better they have to be than I had to be.
I've heard about the A+. Never heard of the A++ or the D- and D+. Details on these. (keeping in unclass obviously)
Definitely unlocked my memory about the real brick. Insane to think we actually used that thing.
Edit: also jealous you completed the full gamut. I got ‘em all except the G.
haha yeah no kidding huh? I'd forgotten all about that stupid finicky brick loader box thing until I wrote that. Only thing you missed in the G is the "beep beep boopity boop"s and the third (AEA) menu. Otherwise it is just like an F