OTHER HOBBIES OF MEMBERS ??

[Ron (r273)]

Shoot anyone that can afford this hobby could get that big one, just sell 6 or 8 of your best slots.

Ron

[StatFreak]

Shoot anyone that can afford this hobby could get that big one, just sell 6 or 8 of your best slots.

Ron

                                                             
Yea, but your slots won't blow up if you pull the handle the wrong way.         $15,000 - $20,000 is a lot to lose because you sneezed. 

[a69mopar]

Hey Stat,  I'll fly it if you buy it.  It would cost about the same as a new sled, but a sled is much more fun.

Thanks
Wayne

[brichter]

My favorite, but then I'm partial to BUFFs.

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[CaptainHappy]

 

If I won the lottery................................................................................. (I guess that I have to play to win though?)

These people have cool toys. They must have to have a special stakebed truck to transport their toy to the runway, unless of course they are like Travolta and they have their own runway in their backyard!!!

But, I bet that they don't have cool slot machines!!! 
(OK, they probably have sweet slot machine as well!!!  )

CaptainHappy

[StatFreak]

...
These people have cool toys. They must have to have a special stakebed truck to transport their toy to the runway, unless of course they are like Travolta and they have their own runway in their backyard!!!

But, I bet that they don't have cool slot machines!!! 
(OK, they probably have sweet slot machine as well!!!  )

CaptainHappy

There are more cool toys in this world than one man can master.    But then, that's a good thing, isn't it?!     

...Of course, most women would say that there are too many.     

[Ron (r273)]

That brings back memories brichter. I use to guard them in my young life in the AF. I did get to taxi down the runway one time during a practice alert. Boy that was a 100 years ago.

Thanks for sharing.

Ron

[stayouttadabunker]

Those jets are pretty kewl ! 

I had a helicopter a few years ago....I stress the word..."had"...

I also over-stressed every moving part on it too...never try to land a helicopter sideways 

[Buzz]

That brings back memories brichter. I use to guard them in my young life in the AF. I did get to taxi down the runway one time during a practice alert. Boy that was a 100 years ago.

Thanks for sharing.

Ron

Ron did Orville and Wilbur pay you to watch after thier aircraft or were you just frinds with them ?

[StatFreak]

I also over-stressed every moving part on it too...never try to land a helicopter sideways 

Ouch! I'm glad you weren't the pilot on my last Grand Canyon tour!    "A tail here; a rotor blade there; model parts flying everywhere."
Look at it this way: It wasn't your fault that your helicopter didn't survive your landing; they just aren't making ground as soft as they used to.

[Ron (r273)]

That brings back memories brichter. I use to guard them in my young life in the AF. I did get to taxi down the runway one time during a practice alert. Boy that was a 100 years ago.

Thanks for sharing.

Ron

Ron did Orville and Wilbur pay you to watch after thier aircraft or were you just frinds with them ?

You know, it was so far back I can't remember

[jay]

There are just not that many old Helicopter pilots for much the same reason.
Unlike a plane you can't just glide in. Any kind of a mechanical failure and you drop like a stone.

[StatFreak]

That brings back memories brichter. I use to guard them in my young life in the AF. I did get to taxi down the runway one time during a practice alert. Boy that was a 100 years ago.

Thanks for sharing.

Ron

Ron did Orville and Wilbur pay you to watch after thier aircraft or were you just frinds with them ?

You know, it was so far back I can't remember

Ron, you probably just went over to the Wright's to play with their kids at the time, and they were probably older kids as well.   Buzz, on the other hand, was probably at the helm of some of their first test planes before Kitty Hawk and was too old to pilot the maiden flight, which is why he's not famous today.  

There are just not that many old Helicopter pilots for much the same reason.
Unlike a plane you can't just glide in. Any kind of a mechanical failure and you drop like a stone.

Yea, but you sure don't land like one! 

[brichter]

That brings back memories brichter. I use to guard them in my young life in the AF. I did get to taxi down the runway one time during a practice alert. Boy that was a 100 years ago.

Thanks for sharing.

Ron

Ron did Orville and Wilbur pay you to watch after thier aircraft or were you just frinds with them ?

You know, it was so far back I can't remember

Ron, you probably just went over to the Wright's to play with their kids at the time, and they were probably older kids as well.   Buzz, on the other hand, was probably at the helm of some of their first test planes before Kitty Hawk and was too old to pilot the maiden flight, which is why he's not famous today.  

Alright you clowns!


Ron, I was crew chief on them in my young life in the AF, so you don't have to feel too bad...

[Buzz]

Bill don't tell anyone but I worked on the YF12A, later called the A11 and ended up calling it a SR71 Black Bird, The first ones were suppose to be called FY12A ( fighter experimental )but when Pres. Johnson released photos of the plane to public he called it YF12A, now the Pres. can't be wrong so they changed the name of the aircraft. Fighter my ass it takes 20 miles to make a turn. Another little tidbit when the plane was on the ground, they would leak fuel so bad you had to wear a rain coat to walk under the wings. they say the engines expand 3 to 4 inches when in flight. I didn't make this up we have a park in town called The Black Bird Park they have a YF12A and a SR71 on display oh and in a back corner there is a OLD ragged B52

[stayouttadabunker]

lol...All U.S. fighter jets began with an F such as the F-15 or F-111...
Johnson might of had my reverse-problem (alternate medical term...I'm NOT a doctor  )
The Air Force publicity personell must of freaked when he mis-pronounced the jet's name...  
I'm constantly correcting myself because I type backwards a tol...

[Neonkiss]

Bill don't tell anyone but I worked on the YF12A, later called the A11 and ended up calling it a SR71 Black Bird, The first ones were suppose to be called FY12A ( fighter experimental )but when Pres. Johnson released photos of the plane to public he called it YF12A, now the Pres. can't be wrong so they changed the name of the aircraft. Fighter my ass it takes 20 miles to make a turn. Another little tidbit when the plane was on the ground, they would leak fuel so bad you had to wear a rain coat to walk under the wings. they say the engines expand 3 to 4 inches when in flight. I didn't make this up we have a park in town called The Black Bird Park they have a YF12A and a SR71 on display oh and in a back corner there is a OLD ragged B52

Buzz your absolutely correct about the fuel leaks. However that was by design. The plane would actually grow in flight. Once fueled on the ground it would get refueled inflight and continue. At altitude it didn't leak a drop.
The Airforce still today will not release the top altitude  or airspeed that the SR71 was capable of.
It's amazing what the engineers could do in those times without computers and only using a slide ruler.

[Buzz]

In the mid 60's the Russian' s  held the fix wing aircraft speed record, I think it was around 1800 miles per hour.  At Edwards AFB they set up some clocks to time a YF12A.  So along comes the plane at about 1000 feet elev. ( right over the runway ) He beat the Russian's record by a small amount. After the plane cleared the timing lights the Pilot hit afterburner, pulled back the stick and hauled ass !! I think that was to show the Press that he had some speed left . I can tell you this is a true story, As a young GI stationed at Edwards I watched this whole thing happen. Last time I was out at NASA Edwards they still had 2 SR's they fly, and one B52

[jdkmunch]

Buzz is absolutely correct.  My brother is a colonel in the air force and he has shown me some crazy stuff.  I should dig up vid we took in a fuel tanker.   We got down on our bellies as the tanker dropped the hose to fuel and I recored it.  It's on vhs now and I should convert it to digital.  It was really amazing.   He was stationed at Holloman base in New Mexico for many years. -  so I'm familiar with the area. 

[brichter]

Bill don't tell anyone but I worked on the YF12A, later called the A11 and ended up calling it a SR71 Black Bird, The first ones were suppose to be called FY12A ( fighter experimental )but when Pres. Johnson released photos of the plane to public he called it YF12A, now the Pres. can't be wrong so they changed the name of the aircraft. Fighter my ass it takes 20 miles to make a turn. Another little tidbit when the plane was on the ground, they would leak fuel so bad you had to wear a rain coat to walk under the wings. they say the engines expand 3 to 4 inches when in flight. I didn't make this up we have a park in town called The Black Bird Park they have a YF12A and a SR71 on display oh and in a back corner there is a OLD ragged B52

i had a ex-GF that worked on them out of March AFB, I got up close and personal with the rain of jet fuel once or twice. They'd put just enough fuel in 'em to get airborne, then fill 'er up at altitude. The less the fuel load on the ground, the less they leaked.

Buzz, even the newest B52 is OLD.   Heck, I worked on the G models (H are the newest), and mine was 24 years old when I got to it! Darn thing was born before I was...

[Buzz]

I'm pretty sure the first B52 flew in 1952, First landing was at Edwards and it blew out some tires when it landed. the base didn't have anything big enough to pick it up, so as the story was told to me it sat on the runway for a week or so until they could get a Crane   to pick it up. Edwards to this day only has one runway. But one big a__ dry lake bed they can use.

[reho33]

Ham radio here and satellite (FTA) receivers

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[stayouttadabunker]

 
That thing moves!!!!