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    Airshow Conversations

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    Originally posted by BritCabDriver:

    Many moons ago there was an RAF bomber called the Victor:

    But you have to admit, that even more than the Vulcan, the Victor was a pretty bizarre looking acft.

    They were all K.'s by the time I first saw them in the late 70's, and I only ever got to see a single one fly, but at the time it seemed that if there was an airshow anywhere in Canada - there was a Victor (the word on the Canadian shows is worldwide).

    Pilot told me that when they scrambled from the UK with the Phantoms, to intercept Bears over the North Atlantic, with their high cruise speed and virtually unlimited fuel supply, half the time the tankers ended up making the initial intercept...

    Mike

    Airshow Conversations

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    Originally posted by Barney A-10:

    A-10 Static:

    (pointing to the travel pod) "what kind of bomb is that?"

    "MK-69 stink bomb"

    Best:

    Ultimate wannabe: "Yeah, these jets are pretty cool. My GIRLFRIEND got airman of the year, so they gave ME (civilian teenage dork) a ride in an A-10. I also got a ride in an F-15 and F-14"

    Me: "There's no such thing as a (flying) two seat A-10, dumbass" (not that the rest of his story wasn't b.s.)

    Maybe they crammed him into the MK69?

    We came in on a weekend to recover a couple of birds due in from an airshow. The pilots said that they'd take care of the travel pods until they found that huge salmon fit through the door a whole lot easier when they're soft and floppy, rather than hard and frozen. We helped out and with a little bit of disassembly and sheetmetal work, no problems...

    Originally posted by Barney A-10:

    Besides combat, airshows are about the most fun you can have in the a.f. Especially after the sun goes down, even better if it's a canadian airshow.

    I second that after years in London, Trenton, Toronto, etc...

    Mike

    Airshow Conversations

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    On top of the conversations what have you seen?

    "Son, your 'chin-up' bar is an antenna that I really need to have attached for me to fly home..." A-10 pilot

    At Dayton one year there was an A-6, preparing to be towed off of the ramp to depart, when some yahoo driving a U-Haul truck, wanting to get one more look, decided to see if it would fit under the stabs. It didn't and crushed a pretty large section of elevator.

    Back at MacDill, late 80's. I'd spent some time talking to a Marine EA-6B crew at the Open House, who had posted themselves around the nose of their aircraft. They decided to 'break for lunch' and walked in one direction, as I went the other. Less than a minute later there was a BANG and looking back I could see smoke from the Prowler. A drunken (I'm assuming) ex-AF maintainer bet his buddy that if you open the little door on the nose, and pull the cable out six feet, that nothing would really happen. Fortunatly no one was hit by the canopies as they came down, and fortunatly for them they were 'apprehended' by bystanders on the scene in the probably seconds before the Marines made it back to the jet. Unfortunatly for them, but quite fitting if you think about it, the civilians that 'apprehended' them didn't do it much more gently than I can imagine that the Marines would have.

    Mike

    Airshow Conversations

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    Originally posted by Coasta:

    From C-17 static display during family day at Boeing Long Beach:

    Stoner Surfer Dude: "Dude, can this thing land on the beach?"

    Me: "Yeah! Once."

    Heard the same while talking to the pilot of one of the NYANG ski-equipped LC-130's "Can this airplane land in the water?"

    Mike

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