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On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 10:39:47 -0500, Poco Loco
wrote: My uncle, a combat and test pilot was on the F/A-18 Program team and he commanded the first group (MAG-11 El Toro) to get them into the USMC. Three of his four sons are F/A-18 pilots in the USMC. What do you want to know about the F/A-18? I want to know how I can get a ride in one. === Heh, me too. |
airplanes, not boats
On Tue, 4 Feb 2014 20:03:34 -0500, BAR wrote:
In article , says... On Sun, 2 Feb 2014 09:43:17 -0500, BAR wrote: In article , says... On 2/1/2014 1:55 PM, thumper wrote: On 2/1/2014 9:25 AM, Califbill wrote: BAR wrote: The F/A-18 doesn't have vectored thrust. The Blue Angels don't fly with pressure suits and they would surely pass out if they tried some of those manuvers. The correct comparison would be F-22. True about the vectored thrust. I am pretty sure the Blue Angels wear pressure squids during their show. A pilot friend recently told me they didn't. He said it was to eliminate any influence on control precision. The public airshow displays of the Blue Angles do not include high performance, high speed maneuvers that the F-18 is capable of. My uncle, a combat and test pilot was on the F/A-18 Program team and he commanded the first group (MAG-11 El Toro) to get them into the USMC. Three of his four sons are F/A-18 pilots in the USMC. What do you want to know about the F/A-18? I want to know how I can get a ride in one. I've been trying to get in the back seat for years. He used to take over my bedroom when I was in high schools when he had eary meetings in Crystal City, he didn't want to drive from Pax River to DC at 4:00 AM every morning for a couple of weeks. I told him the least he could do was to give me a ride in the back street of an YF-17. Instead I kept getting pictures of him in the plane during flight. See if a new stove will work. In Vietnam I wanted a ride on an OV-10 Bronco. My First Sergeant came in one afternoon and told me I had to get up early and be at the airfield by 0500. Why? 'Cause that's when the Bronco was going to take off. Rode with the pilot for three hours, supporting two bombing missions and then just cruising and doing stunts in that thing. What a ride. When I got back, I asked my First Sergeant how he did it. He had 'found' a stove that had been 'combat lossed' in a mortar attack and made a trade with the Bronco squadron Chief Master Sgt. Those guys could do anything. Oh, this is the plane: http://tinyurl.com/lct59ck |
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