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« on: July 12, 2009, 08:47:50 AM » |
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Back in 1983 during a ride in our second b-model F-106. We went out over the water and did some dogfighting with a few A-7'S from the navy. Those were the good old days when the guy that worked on the jet could get a ride. Note how close we were flying on return to Fresno.  |
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« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2009, 09:15:32 AM » |
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Niiiiiiiiiiiiiice!!!!! I always wanted to take a ride in a REAL plane like that... (Although I'd never fit, even if the opportunity did present itself)
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« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2009, 12:02:10 PM » |
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Thanks, back then we jet engine guys flew often. Sometime 3-4 times a month. Most times it was in the T-33's but it was always a treat to get a ride in the back of a 106. The F-4 was a good ride as well but the 106 was smooth and fast. The pilots would take us up to 1.5 mach and up to 50,000 feet. COOL TIMES INDEED!!! Niiiiiiiiiiiiiice!!!!! I always wanted to take a ride in a REAL plane like that... (Although I'd never fit, even if the opportunity did present itself)
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« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2009, 12:09:23 PM » |
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Thanks, back then we jet engine guys flew often. Sometime 3-4 times a month. Most times it was in the T-33's but it was always a treat to get a ride in the back of a 106. The F-4 was a good ride as well but the 106 was smooth and fast. The pilots would take us up to 1.5 mach and up to 50,000 feet. COOL TIMES INDEED!!! Niiiiiiiiiiiiiice!!!!! I always wanted to take a ride in a REAL plane like that... (Although I'd never fit, even if the opportunity did present itself)
When my son was in the Air Force and working on F-15's I was surprised to learn that the crew chiefs didn't get to fly. When I was in the Army my first unit was an Air Cav unit. The crew chief on a helicopter was always the first person to ride after any maintenance was performed. I always figured that was the Army's way of making sure that they fixed it right the first time. |
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« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2009, 05:18:05 PM » |
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Great pic! Back when I first got my A&P I used to do the maintenance for the Navy Flying Club at Boca Chica. One of the guys that used to help me out was an AME over at one of the A4 outfits on the base. He got his pilot's license through the club. Right after "Griz" got his private pilots licence, one of his pilot buddies in the squadron asked if he wanted to go up in one of the squadron's TA-4s (two seaters). Of course, he jumped at the chance. Right after they broke ground, his pilot buddy says ok, its all yours. In disbelief, he says really. His buddy says really. I can do anything I want? His buddy says anything you want. I can do an aileron roll? His buddy says anything. So, he takes the stick and yanks it full deflection into an aileron roll.
Now something I should interject here. In a small light plane like the Cessna 150 that Griz learned to fly in, when you wanted to make a turn, you banked the wings by deliberately turning the yoke a liberal amount. A 150 has a lot of drag and its relatively slow. The ailerons are are moved directly by cables connnected to the yoke. It took a pretty good deflection on the controls to get a healthly bank angle. An A4 on the other hand, has hydraulically boosted flight controls. It has to because of the forces involved in moving a control surface with airspeeds in excess of 500 knots. Being an attack aircraft, the A4 has to be fairly agile. If I remember correctly it has a roll rate of around 720° per second. When you want to bank the wings, you didn't physically move the yoke, you just kind of think bank right or bank left and and your body english moves it enough to bank into the turn.
So anyway, when Griz grabbed a handful of aileron, the nimble A4 did its thing. The pilot told me he figured that ole Griz had done around 13 aileron rolls in the few seconds of confusion before the pilot could take it away from him. It made a lasting impression on Griz.
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« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2009, 05:50:25 PM » |
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Very cool.
In '87 at Incirlik AB Turkey, I got a 40 min "incentive" ride in back of an F-16B model (2 seater). Maj Gen James A. Baker, 16AF/CC out of Torrejon AB Spain owned the plane, but their NATO mission was to deploy to Incirlik, and my Wing Commander gave me the ride. I took the controls and made some gentle movements for about one minute. Had wing tanks so could not do mach, but did an afterburner takeoff almost straight up, and 8 g turns and I tried not to black out... with the G suit squeezing the hell out of me. Flew over two castles that had been occupied by Richard the Lionheart (low), flew inverted through the Taurus Mountains, and out over the Med. The last thing he told me on takeoff was to turn the hot mike off if I had to puke, he didn't want to listen to it. I did not puke, but did have a sh!t eating grin.
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« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2009, 07:31:27 PM » |
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Unless I am mistaken this is still the top speed record holder for single engine Jet!
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« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2009, 01:33:25 AM » |
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F-106 Speed Record set by Colonel Joe Rogers 15 Dec 1959, Mach 2.31 (1525.23 MPH @ 40,000ft), taking away Russian Ye-152-1 (test version of a Mig 21) record.
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« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2009, 04:20:13 PM » |
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Stock aircraft with wingtanks installed to boot!!  F-106 Speed Record set by Colonel Joe Rogers 15 Dec 1959, Mach 2.31 (1525.23 MPH @ 40,000ft), taking away Russian Ye-152-1 (test version of a Mig 21) record.
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« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2009, 02:04:49 PM » |
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F-106, just read through your post and you mentioned old jet engine guys. Glad to see another QUALITY maintenance guy is around. I finished a 29 year career on F-16's and then Pratt & Whitney for a short time. I did not fly with them as I turned down my opportunities and gave them to the young'uns. Probably should have gone because next to a Valkyrie an F-16 is a REAL kick-in-the-A---S! Thanks, back then we jet engine guys flew often How would you like to try this out for size????? It's a sound barrier burst.  |
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