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Rifle is Sauer 202.The planes are already identified!!
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here's a Buffalo Jorge... the other Australian one is a Wirraway Boomerang..
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Rifle is Sauer 202.The planes are already identified!!
I got to handle one of those once before.. what beautiful rifles! I really liked those and the old Sako 75s...and the 1990s vintage Tikkas, not that new plastic one they sell now..
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Rotary wing... Agusta A129 Mangusta, Italian attack helicopter?
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A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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From the Bush Family Album: Oh hell, the Air Force is going to kill me for this!!! F 106 sleddin'!
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340boy, my oldest and best friend was an RF-4 IP in the Idaho ANG at Boise. He flew a bunch of combat missions from Thailand, went on to be a T-37 instructor (when I met him) then the RF-4 and finally an Alaska Airlines 737 jockey. He is now retired and lives in Eagle. None of which is of the slightest interest to anyone here.
I have 40 hours, mostly solo, in the bastardized AT-33. It was half T-33 trainer (two seats) and half F-80 (guns and rocket/bomb pylons) that I flew out of Cannon AFN, NM. They were used as in-country trainers for guys called up to Korea, and then mothballed until needed to upgrade us Forward Air Controllers who were destined to work with the US Army (an Army requirement). We called it "Instant Fighter Pilot School" because we came out of it with the genudamnwine official rating of "Fighter Pilot." Rocky, I envy you and your friend your experiences in the AF. Also, thank you for your service to this country, sir.
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Dang, where's Pugs? He would be eating this thread right up. Other side of the globe right now so keeping up is too hard! You guys get them while I'm snoring. I figured it had to be something like that.
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Apologies for the fuzz, the I-Phone zoom is not all that great. Picture was taken today about 12:15 just west of Ocala, Fl. The writing on the side says...... US NAVYFaster we go the behinder we get sometimes. I understand the Navy is doing live bombing practice at Pine Castle Range in Ocala this week. I'd bet that blimp was en route to observe bomb results.
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Here's a pretty easy one. But a cool plane anyway.
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Pine Castle and Lake George complex, man what a nightmare to bomb there! way too constrained, way too many people around and hell, half the time we went in there to lay a string of DST-36s we first had to do a few passes at proscribed altitudes just to shoo-off the inbreds fishing in the lake. And on the bombing range, the parameters were so tight you really had to be careful not to sling a blue pill off target..
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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340boy, sometimes I read my own bio and am half-convinced that nobody could have had such a highly improbable life.
But I did.
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Here's a pretty easy one. But a cool plane anyway. Israeli(designed) Kfir??
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340boy, sometimes I read my own bio and am half-convinced that nobody could have had such a highly improbable life.
But I did. Rock, from what I know about you, you are definitively not one of those poor souls who lead boring, insignificant lives, never tasted fear, victory or defeat and of course like Patton said YOU never " shoveledshit in Louisianna!"
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Very cool Roundup! Queen Easy was my father's plane when he was in VP 40!
When we're you at Sangley?
LagIng Handa! I was there in 1956 and 1957. I was attached to FASRON 119 (Fleet air service squadron). We weren't a flying outfit but pretty much doing repairs on the P5m's. Worked with VP-40 and 42 plus a couple of others. Also with VQ-1, which was a different story. Mabuhay!
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Pine Castle and Lake George complex, man what a nightmare to bomb there! way too constrained, way too many people around and hell, half the time we went in there to lay a string of DST-36s we first had to do a few passes at proscribed altitudes just to shoo-off the inbreds fishing in the lake. And on the bombing range, the parameters were so tight you really had to be careful not to sling a blue pill off target.. Wouldn't it make sense for the Navy to share Avon Park with USAF? Avon Park is considerably larger and inherently less prone to people being around.
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A little less easy. ID this bird wreck....
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A little less easy. ID this bird wreck.... F-101 Voodoo.
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