Actually, I'll correct myself. I saw 2.5 negative G's and 3.5 positive
at the bottom of the loop. I have no idea what the max the bird can do.
I did fall in love with the plane and would buy one if I could afford it.

I was not even a trainee. It was an orientation flight. I bet my
instructor he
couldn't make me puke--thinking I'd get a better ride and that I'd probably
puke anyway. I did and I did. I was not a pilot and did not go on to
fly anything. The Air Force valued my degree to much, and my eye sight
was not perfect. I could have had a back seat in an F-4, in the Marines,
but didn't think my bum knee could handle all the running required.

If I'd gone to the Naval Academy I might have got a waiver for my
eyes. My Dad pulled my application without telling me twice! It was
his dying wish that I go to his and my grandfathers school--Lehigh
University, which I did, and graduated with a BSEE and a commision
in the Air Force instead of the Navy. I would have prefered the Navy,
and the Academy. Looking back I wish I called my congressman and
got switched into the Navy. At the time the Air Force threatened to
make me an enlisted man if I didn't take an officers' commission.

Some people called the T-37 "the screamer". It was loud. Sounds
like you had a fun job! They are cool planes and subsonic is fast
enough for me. Acrobatics are more fun than going fast, just as
manueving a sailboat is more fun that going in the straight line.

My cousin Ron had more fun in the Air Force. He flew F-15s
for many years, married an astronauts duaghter, and later
commanded the Thunderbirds. But then he does not have a mast,
and doesn't know how to sail.

Bart

Lady Pilot wrote

"Bart Senior" wrote:

The only time I have felt
hotter was pulling 3.5 negative gees in humid 98 degree weather
in a T-37.

Tweet? Were you the trainer or trainee? If trainee, what did you go on
to
fly, C-130's? I used to work at an FBO with a military contract. My job
was to launch and recovery military and civilian aircraft with hand
signals,
back in the early '80's. I can remember the tweet, because it was the
loudest of all the aircraft that I parked. It was probably the most fun
job
I've ever done. I was more interested in the Harriers and the fighter
jets
though.

Last weekend we had the huge Aerospace America airshow here in OKC.
They've
been having it on my birthday for over 20 years now. The Blue Angels got
here a day early and buzzed the shingles off my roof! The local TV
newscaster was taken up in #7 by Lt. Otter. He first did around a
positive
6 g out of a negative g and the newscaster didn't hook. The second time
he
was more prepared and they did a 7.3 g. His 200 pound bodyweight felt
like
around 1500 pounds, Maj. Seagraves said.

I thought you could do up to about 6 g's in the T-37?

LP