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01-17-2011, 01:42 PM
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Opulence, I has it...
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: TX
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20 Years ago....Flying 1 v. 1 against the "enemy" everyday (student pilots will kill you--at least try real hard to!)
10 years ago...learning how the "real" Air Force works, as a Reservist
5 Years ago...Kandahar "Terminal" & my C-17
All seems like yesterday...
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Joe Ferraro
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01-17-2011, 01:43 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: SC
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As one who didn't have the opportunity to serve, I would like to thank you for putting it all on the line for me, my family, and our country. For without your dedication and service, the rest of us wouldn't enjoy the freedoms we do.
THANK YOU!
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Bill R.
RV-9 (Yes, it's a dragon tail)
O-360 w/ dual P-mags
Build the plane you want, not the plane others want you to build!
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01-17-2011, 02:44 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: MN
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Great thread, I love the pictures!
Echoing the others with a sincere Thank You!
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01-17-2011, 03:14 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Elkhart, Indiana
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January 17, 1991
Hmmm ... exactly 20 years ago today I was doing pretty much the same thing as I'm doing today ... except that the turbines were screaming at around 400,000 rpm and looked like this:
... and today I use lasers. And I have MUCH less hair and MUCH more fat.
But I do still have my Operation Desert Storm sweatshirt with an F-15 on the front. Does that count?
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Don McNamara
Peoria, AZ
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01-17-2011, 04:41 PM
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20 Years goes by fast
I remember it well. I was in basic training when Iraq invaded Kuwait. We had no idea what was going on. I was between basic and tech school when the actual war kicked off. I couldn't get in touch with my sponser as he was in Spain supporting the war effort. Eventually I found myself in Riyahd, Saudi Arabia. This picture was taken just before graduating tech school at Chanute, AFB in Rantoul, IL.

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David Taylor
RV-7 N207DT
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Warner Robins, GA
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. "
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01-17-2011, 05:10 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Winder Ga
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pierre smith

When I was a young whippersnapper Avionics instructor at Ft. Gordon, Ga. during the Viet Nam era...this photo around 1968/69, teaching ADF theory, VOR and ILS systems and ....TACAN!!
Since then built a Cassutt, RV-6A and most of a -4.
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Ahhh yes the ol' ARN-21 US Navy version of TACAN. took me two tries to pass that course at NATTC Memphis in 1959. Was that really 42 years ago?
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01-17-2011, 05:15 PM
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Can't count either
Yhat was 52 not 42 Jerry 
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Jerry Fischer KW4F
VAF# 1646
USS Randolph CVS-15 V-6 Div. AT2
RV7 N364SJ Miss Sandy sold 
RV1 N1583 "Mockingbird 1" SOLD
EAA volunteer SNF
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01-17-2011, 06:22 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Saint Simons Island , GA
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Tempus Fugit
My oh My how time flies..
this was taken at Williams AFB, AZ in 1974, 37 big ones gone..
[IMG]  [/IMG]
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Jerry "Widget" Morris
RV 8, N8JL, 3,000+ hours on my 8.
VAF #818
Saint Simons Island, GA. KSSI
PIF 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011,2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
 I just wish I could afford to live the way I do
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01-17-2011, 06:28 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Berwick, Nova Scotia, Canada
Posts: 83
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Where Has 20 Years Gone!!
20 years ago I was an infantryman in the deserts of the Middle East. That was my first deployment, and I was 20 years old.
Fast forward 20 years and I find myself in a different desert, still on the ground, and 20 years older!
One of these days I'll finally get a flying tour. I'm about to buy my RV-7A tail kit when I return from this desert. So hopefully the build starts soon
Cheers All
Chris
Last edited by CDBridgesRV7A : 01-17-2011 at 06:40 PM.
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01-18-2011, 02:44 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Penrose, Colorado
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I may have Directed Your Fire
Twenty years ago I was assigned to OP 7 along the Saudi - Kuwaiti border. On the night of 27 January my fellow ANGLICO Marines called in the first air strike on Iraqi mechanized forces moving in front of our position. This was the beginning of the battle of Al Khafji. My CO, Capt. Kleinsmith, called for fire while we coverd him during a firefight between three angry Marines and Iraqi reconnissance forces. He was busy controlling OV-10s, which I would later fly with the US Department of State, Intruders and Harriers. By late evening we were all hunkered down controlling three AC-130 gunships, two F-15s two F-16s and four A-10s. Iraqi artillery fire forced us to reengage from a differnt vector than planned (withdraw), but not before we controlled a single Marine Cobra on-target to a line of T-62s. I remember Capt. K telling us not to worry about the incoming fire because he knew that the circling Cobras would intimidate the enemy from overrunning us. Well, the Cobras eventually needed fuel and we were forced to use our E&E route that took us into downtown Al Khafji through a large salt marsh. Iraqi artillery pursuaded us to leave but not before we handed off the CAS calls to an OV-10 crew who immediately felt obliged to obliterate our former OP. I was put in charge of a six man team that consisted of four Marines and our Navy Corpsman. We joined up with 3rd Force Recon's Company A boys and proceeded to set up shop in a large building on the outskirts of Al Khafji. From there we worked the perimeter defenses with Harriers and Hornets. I remember sitting there in the cold dark night wishing I was a pilot. Twenty years ago... where did the time go?
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