Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1
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Built for speed!
Spent many hours in that position in the back seat of an F-4.
Only there was no door to crawl out of.
It was really bad trying to do that in Saudi in August...
Egress? Crew chief? Unconscious RIO because he had only eight hours of crew rest in an air conditioned room with a real bed?
AKA Back-Shops Bullshit.
Nothing like a Republican agenda to create more Democrats on Welfare!
It's a bit of a catch-22. Though it may also motivate Democrats to leave the state and/or not move there in the first place. Locust repellant.
I don't think the people who can't afford to travel out of state for an abortion will be moving out of state instead. Only time will tell, but this may be a very expensive win for Texas Republicans, especially in 2024.
If you don't mind an "off topic" question (just curious)-
IIRC, the F-4 was one of the last fighter jets of its kind that had GPU startup (as opposed to APU). Did you ever consider that a disadvantage when operating it? Were you ever "at risk" in the event of a double engine failure while airborne and not being able to restart?
As a Crew Chief, I approve of this message.
On vacation and my wave picture gets photo-bombed by a bird...
GPU starting was probably a probably a pain for the ground crews (I flew them) but it always worked great. From a ground perspective, I think all maintenance was a pain in the ass and we highly respected and appreciated all the crews.
As far as in the air, the J79 was one of the toughest engines ever made. I could go from idle to military power in under a second, in jest FOD, and compressor stall with no indication in the cockpit (when pushed way beyond it design airflow limits) and no damage. The only way you’d get a double engine failure is if you ran it out of fuel or got both engines shot up. It was an incredible aircraft.
Dropping live CBU on Leach Lake range, Fort Irwin, CA. Approximately mid 87.
Thanks much. I ask, because I did see a movie once that involved a double engine failure due to an (indicated) fire. Remember the "Great Santini" where they flew F-4's?
This video is all of the major flying scenes in the film. Skip to 05.54 for the scene in question.
Our Canberra's had the Avon engine with triple breech starters. The cartridge was made of brass.
They had stopped doing cartridge starts for normal ops by the time I started flying them. I think they had burned up a couple of airplanes using them. The alert birds probably had them standing by for emergency backup.
There's a reason you wear long sleeve shirts and button them to the top when doing this.
If not. I recommend that you start the shower hot to open the pores and clean extra well.
I was think more that it could be energizing the opposition and increasing their voter turn out.
The children that ride that bus are more intelligent and have a bigger heart than President Potato Head.
I’ve never heard of that kind of failure. We had an F4 fly home after all the engine hangers broke and they were laying on the engine bay doors (over G during a night range bomb run). I flew an aircraft from Moffet to Salt Lake with fuel pouring on the engines with no problems (navy over pressurized and broke all the seals on the internal tanks).
There were other types of fires we had but they were not really engine related. Like I said earlier, shot up aircraft would burn but you could fly them a while before you had to give them back to the taxpayers.
With all of the soft porn that people are dumping in this thread it's gets old after a while, however this is one of the hottest pictures posted here. No bare tits or ass, just a hot woman that could hurt you and not in a bad way.
There was no such thing as backshop then. You went out, fixed the jet, brought the part back to the shop, put it on the mockup, replaced the $5 part and turned it back into supply.
At least you knew who to blame if it didn't work on the next jet you put that part on.
Kinda strange seeing a Weasel without a HARM and a 184 pod.
Was that an Edwards jet?
We may have ended up with that jet in Boise, I know we had 265 on the ramp.
not familiar withe the WW tail flash… Guard unit?
Tail flash was unit designation, not role/mission (i.e. Wild Weasel)
edit: found it. 35th FW out of Misawa, Japan (PACAF)
We had but didn’t carry the 119 / 184 every flight. Trying to save the dat to day abuse to them. The planes configured for the weasel training missions would carry the shrikes and then later on the HARMs. The ones scheduled for Air to Air or Air to Ground would carry racks. That was out of George AFB before they closed it down.
All Weasel aircraft (at least George) were WW. At that time the 35th TFW was also based at George. They had a different tail flash but I can’t remember what it was.
The Weasel wing was the 37th TFW. The 37th moved to Nellis when they closed George in 1990 and became the new designation of the F-117 wing.
Agreed. The only issue is anyone stacking small bales by hand has horses. I never met a horse woman who wasn’t 100% psychotic. Just my very personal and anecdotal experience…
