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Miscellaneous What-Have-You => That's interesting, man. That's fucking interesting => Topic started by: DigitalBuddha on March 02, 2012, 01:53:00 AM

Title: Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force
Post by: DigitalBuddha on March 02, 2012, 01:53:00 AM
Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force

(http://dudeism.com/smf/Themes/classic/images/post/thumbup.gif) Very cool stuff here, dudes..............

Check out - http://www.azcaf.org/

(http://www.azcaf.org/images/banner_images/MitS_air-to-air_sm.jpg)

Awesome -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ey3BM54_qY
Title: Re: Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force
Post by: Caesar dude on March 02, 2012, 05:51:15 PM
You want cool I can give you cool by 3 o clock tomorrow dude....see this ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HJIVs3qOa4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HJIVs3qOa4)

This was one of the first aircraft I ever worked on operationally and the first I ever flew in as a serviceman....from RAF Lossiemouth to USAFB Keflavick in Iceland in 1981.

We went there for a day trip, supporting our Air defence Phantoms (the lump under the nose hides the AN/APS20 Early Warning Radar)...Radar being my speciality at the time.

I was assigned to make sure it behaved. This was fairly difficult as the average flight time of a Shackleton was 8 hours and the average serviceability of the aforementioned radar was about 40 minutes.

Our trip lasted 6 days...due to horizontal rain and an unserviceable navigator.

At the time as a young airman I was being paid 205 pounds per month...due to the local allowances I received whilst stationed there I was given an extra 160 quid for those six days plus an unspecified amount of beer and all the food I could I eat....

Happy days. And what a machine.

Peace and ridiculous aircraft noise to you all... ;)
Title: Re: Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force
Post by: DigitalBuddha on March 03, 2012, 12:17:17 AM
Quote from: Caesar dude on March 02, 2012, 05:51:15 PM
You want cool I can give you cool by 3 o clock tomorrow dude....see this ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HJIVs3qOa4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HJIVs3qOa4)

This was one of the first aircraft I ever worked on operationally and the first I ever flew in as a serviceman....from RAF Lossiemouth to USAFB Keflavick in Iceland in 1981...



Now that is definitely cool, C dude. Fuckin' eh. (http://dudeism.com/smf/Themes/classic/images/post/thumbup.gif)
Title: Re: Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force
Post by: groovypucks on March 08, 2012, 04:02:09 PM
I have actually been in that plane. It's stationed just out side of Phoenix.
Title: Re: Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force
Post by: DigitalBuddha on March 08, 2012, 06:01:42 PM
Quote from: groovypucks on March 08, 2012, 04:02:09 PM
I have actually been in that plane. It's stationed just out side of Phoenix.

Way cool, groovypucks!! (http://dudeism.com/smf/Themes/classic/images/post/thumbup.gif) I was at a local air show at a community airport a few years ago and they had a wing of the Confederate Air Force fly in with a few fighters, a fly-over of a B-17, and a few other cool stuff like a P-58. Fabulous stuff, man!!

(http://www.sikorskymemorialairport.com/_wizardimages/kaolian_aeropix2.jpg)

(http://www.arms2armor.com/uniforms/confederateafs001c.jpg)