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07-08-2010, 10:38 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2010
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T-41 Hondo, Tx
T-37,T-38 Vance AFB-7608
A-7,A-10 Myrtle Beach
A-10 Bentwaters, Davis-Monthan
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Pentagon
A-10 Air Force Reserves, Bergstrom
USAF retired 1994
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Robert "Earl" Young
RV3B
Princeton,NC
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07-08-2010, 08:15 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Southlake, Texas
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Slow climbing
Hey Danny, I see you spent 24 years in the 72. I bet most of that was spent climbing!
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True! The old 727 was a slow climber, but she would out run most of the others when you lowered the nose. She was a man's airliner. Not many fancy boxes to do the work for you, but she was a blast to hand fly.
They retired the old girl right out from under me, so I finished my career at the other end of technology in the 777. What a bore by comparison.
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Beautiful Doll 80434 TT 1675 hours
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07-09-2010, 12:58 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Seattle, wa
Posts: 679
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Private/Com/Inst 76-84
UPT 85-05b Willy
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T-38
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07-09-2010, 06:14 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Woodstock, GA
Posts: 24
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USAF 1980-84
Chanute AFB 1981
Ellsworth, AFB 1981-84
Minute Man II 44th SMW
Instructor Missile Mantanice, basically worked on the pointy end of an ICBM.
Lots of Huey stick time, not "legal" wink wink!
1988 Phantom Ultralight 2001-02 99hrs
1941 J-3 Cub 2002-03 100hrs
1954 L-21 Italian Super Cub 2004-08 450hrs
1996 RV-4 2008 350hrs and climbing
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07-09-2010, 08:42 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Marysville, Ohio
Posts: 1
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Ohio Air National Guard
2003-2010 --> Avionics Tech F-16 (full time)
2010-Present --> Newly Commissioned 2d Lt hoping to get selected to go to UPT
Beau
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07-09-2010, 09:12 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Elkhart, Indiana
Posts: 1,186
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Originally Posted by Danny King
Hey Danny, I see you spent 24 years in the 72. I bet most of that was spent climbing!
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True! The old 727 was a slow climber, but she would out run most of the others when you lowered the nose. She was a man's airliner. Not many fancy boxes to do the work for you, but she was a blast to hand fly.
They retired the old girl right out from under me, so I finished my career at the other end of technology in the 777. What a bore by comparison.
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Yeah, all the captain has to do was push the Big Red Button to get started and the plane does everything else, right? And all the button does is tell the stew that you're ready for your coffee.
At least, that's how Danny described the job of a 777 cap'n.
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Peoria, AZ
Builder: RV-8 "Smokey"
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07-10-2010, 11:43 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 1,231
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T-37/T-38 Class of 83/08 Laughlin AFB (Del Rio-by-the-sea)
AT-38 FLIT Holloman AFB
F-4E RTU George AFB (Roy and Dale were still living legends and delightful neighbors; also enjoyed meeting Burt Rutan at Mojave)
All the obligatory survival schools, plus Intercept training at Hurlburt.
F-4E Air Defense, Keflavik, Iceland (best kept Navy secret, but a living **** if you don't like blond haired blue eyed women...  ). Fun flying close formation with the Bears; 1.8 hrs backseat F-15D laughing my butt off as the Chief of Weapons got his butt handed to him in intercept/ACT training. Too much reliance on computers, not enough understanding what the radar is really saying and too much contempt for anyone in the back seat listen to a second opinion...
F-4E + 2.2hrs F-4G Spangdahlem AFB, GE (Wild Weasel squadron); 4 months of that in Zaragosa (Tharagohtha) including green bean and "drinking and driving"; Pissed off a Colonel by not "volunteering" for the "Weasel conversion" resulting in...
OT-37s (a temporary oddity) and OV-10 Broncos at Shaw AFB; Just about every Army exercise, including the last full-scale Reforger; NTC Ft Irwin; some wonderful nights crawling around in the swamps of Louisiana or Arkansas, not that there's any difference that I could tell at night in the swamp. Apart from the "consolation flying" and "ambassadorial duty in the dirt," my actual combat mission during that time was FAC/ALO on the ground (Panama City, 1989 with the 4/6 Mech; Desert Shield/Desert Storm with 1-327th/101st Div). During that time I was "credited" with 6 American lives saved (I'm no hero, it was "friendly fire" from idiots in a gunship who couldn't tell square from round, and I was just in the right place at the right time with a radio to tell them to stop being idiots) and 339 Iraqis captured (again no hero - we just did what we had to do to keep another dysfunctional officer from obliterating the poor saps), the previously mentioned Colonel so unhappy with me for turning down Weasel school was summarily discharged from the Saudi theater for .... (ah, if I told why I'd be no better than him - it's just about how Karma always works in the long run).
Never wanted to be a General, and was happy to leave after accomplishing my personal goals to defend my nation; acquit myself acceptably in that role; and fly fast.
Oh, and if there were ever any doubt - Phantoms Phorever!
My hats off and gratitude to all those who served in the "real air wars" of WW-II; Korea; and Viet Nam. My generation, while serving steadfastly, had the distinct advantage of overwhelming superiority, and our "wars" were relatively, for most of us, little more than a few moments of discomfort compared to the sacrifices of those who came before. For me, apart from a few minutes of excitement, "combat" was blessedly boring.
Cheers all,
Bill
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07-10-2010, 12:20 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 215
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Danny King
Hey Danny, I see you spent 24 years in the 72. I bet most of that was spent climbing!
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True! The old 727 was a slow climber, but she would out run most of the others when you lowered the nose. She was a man's airliner. Not many fancy boxes to do the work for you, but she was a blast to hand fly.
They retired the old girl right out from under me, so I finished my career at the other end of technology in the 777. What a bore by comparison.
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I hear retirees say that a lot about the 727. They retire in something big to get the retirement pay but usually the 727 was the highlite of their career as you can fly into some really smaller/non-towered airports in some out of heavy traffic areas and with 3 people in the cockpit to share the workload it was pretty nice for the captains....
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07-10-2010, 03:31 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Chesterfield, Missouri
Posts: 4,514
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lucky
I hear retirees say that a lot about the 727. They retire in something big to get the retirement pay but usually the 727 was the highlite of their career as you can fly into some really smaller/non-towered airports in some out of heavy traffic areas and with 3 people in the cockpit to share the workload it was pretty nice for the captains....
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I have about 9000 hours at the F/E panel in a 727. That seat was a total non event. If you could remember "B" electric hydraulic pumps = boobs = upper rudder, you had it made. On yes, one other item, shut down the APU before take off although we all knew it would run to at least 10,000'. The pilots had fun, but the F/E panel was created for the F/E unions (which had not yet been assigned to extinction) and totally boring.
I chose to skip a 727 pilot seat when my time came and went to the 707 for the over water flying. Now that was a real man's airplane - no hydraulic flight control system or fly by wire, it had aerodynamic anti balance chambers, a very ingenious invention that worked very well. We also navigated with double dopplers and loran, no navigator as navigators were extinct by then. All in all, a very interesting job.
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07-10-2010, 06:17 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 176
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Electro-Environmental 2A676
7 years active duty in the 19th ARW - 1990- 1997 Robins AFB, GA KC-135R
11 years IMA in the 19th ARG - 1997 - 2008 Robins AFB, GA KC-135R
2 Years in the 580th CBSS 2008 - 2010 Robins AFB, GA Computer programmer
Should retire sometime this year
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AIR FORCE needed to get on board. Can't let the
Navy and Army show us up.
KC-135A-------------Boom Operator 1979-1982
Contacts------------TOO many 
Drogues------------Watch out for that thing flopping around
RV-7A-------Current
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"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. "
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