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Navy Carrier Pilots - Overpaid?
Keyser Söze wrote:
On 2/21/15 11:46 AM, Califbill wrote: John H. wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 22:04:40 -0600, Califbill wrote: Wayne.B wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 20:33:18 -0500, wrote: I got the offer several times to go on a sight seeing ride but we never got around to it. It wasn't really that high on my bucket list. === There's nothing like it on a nice day. The views of the water and beaches are just spectacular. One of my great airplane rides was on a Douglas C-117 back in about 1966. From Ogden, UT to the airbase in Novato, Ca. Is a DC-3 variant and we had to stay below 10,000 feet and it cruised at maybe 200 knots. Beautiful summer day. Could watch the skiers in the CAlif foothill lakes, and we were maybe at 1000' AGL over Donner pass. We followed I-80 the whole way. We flew home from Puerto Rico, in 1954, in a C-124. Great flight. I was ten years old and got to ride in the cockpit almost the whole way back. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...emaster_II.jpg When I first went to Travis AFB in 1965 our mobile communications squadron unit shared a building I with the parachute riggers in the back and storage of those big Rotary engines for the 124's. When I was at Hamilton, there were still some 124's flying with the reserves and ang. That MATs plane was probably out of Travis. That is the Marin end of the Golden Gate Bridge. Going out toward Lands End there were coastal gun emplacements in WW2. I fish salmon just north of there during the summer. Back in the day when I was a reporter/feature writer for the KC Star, I drew the assignment of going out to the AF Academy to write a series of articles on KC-MO-KS students. The Star was very friendly with the military establishment in those days. I was flown out in a two seat jet trainer, a T30-something or other, and it was a cool and what thought was a pretty fast flight. That plane was not available a week later, so the AF flew me back on a DC-3. That was fun, too, but it took a lot longer. Both planes were very noisy, and the DC-3 had lots of rattles. When I went to basic, from Dallas to San Antonio, I rode a Trans Texas Airways DC-3. With the cutest stewardess, I ever saw. Fuselage shook left to right, and front to back, and the wings shook up and down. But kept flying. They were the original Puff gun ships. |
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Navy Carrier Pilots - Overpaid?
On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 19:00:18 -0600, Califbill wrote:
Keyser Söze wrote: On 2/21/15 11:46 AM, Califbill wrote: John H. wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 22:04:40 -0600, Califbill wrote: Wayne.B wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 20:33:18 -0500, wrote: I got the offer several times to go on a sight seeing ride but we never got around to it. It wasn't really that high on my bucket list. === There's nothing like it on a nice day. The views of the water and beaches are just spectacular. One of my great airplane rides was on a Douglas C-117 back in about 1966. From Ogden, UT to the airbase in Novato, Ca. Is a DC-3 variant and we had to stay below 10,000 feet and it cruised at maybe 200 knots. Beautiful summer day. Could watch the skiers in the CAlif foothill lakes, and we were maybe at 1000' AGL over Donner pass. We followed I-80 the whole way. We flew home from Puerto Rico, in 1954, in a C-124. Great flight. I was ten years old and got to ride in the cockpit almost the whole way back. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...emaster_II.jpg When I first went to Travis AFB in 1965 our mobile communications squadron unit shared a building I with the parachute riggers in the back and storage of those big Rotary engines for the 124's. When I was at Hamilton, there were still some 124's flying with the reserves and ang. That MATs plane was probably out of Travis. That is the Marin end of the Golden Gate Bridge. Going out toward Lands End there were coastal gun emplacements in WW2. I fish salmon just north of there during the summer. Back in the day when I was a reporter/feature writer for the KC Star, I drew the assignment of going out to the AF Academy to write a series of articles on KC-MO-KS students. The Star was very friendly with the military establishment in those days. I was flown out in a two seat jet trainer, a T30-something or other, and it was a cool and what thought was a pretty fast flight. That plane was not available a week later, so the AF flew me back on a DC-3. That was fun, too, but it took a lot longer. Both planes were very noisy, and the DC-3 had lots of rattles. When I went to basic, from Dallas to San Antonio, I rode a Trans Texas Airways DC-3. With the cutest stewardess, I ever saw. Fuselage shook left to right, and front to back, and the wings shook up and down. But kept flying. They were the original Puff gun ships. Might've been the same plane I flew from into Lawton, OK (Ft. Sill), way back when! -- Guns don't cause problems. The behavior of certain gun owners causes problems. |
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