Aircraft thread?

Just a friendly reminder if you like aircraft, and I do to you can see them up close and in the air" this month!!
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Your C-5 experience must have differed. No windows, no movie, but same seats as a passenger airliner. I totally drooled over my tray when I napped.
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A C-141 is a little roomier than a C-130 at least. Extra room to stretch out when there isn't a bunch of cargo strapped down in the middle.
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A couple of years back I was in Tucson AZ for my wife's company sponsored Christmas party, so while she was in the main office doing some work stuff I got the chance to visit the Pima Air & Space museum. It is the second largest museum of it's type in the US. Lots and lots of aircraft to see, including a SR71A, lots of B52's, a couple of Air Force One's from the 60's, and a row of Russian MIGs. I only visited the main part of the museum that has about 300 aircraft. They also have tours of the boneyard located in another area.
If you like aircraft and history, this is definitely a place to visit.


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Ok bragging time! I'm an Air Force brat. Born and at Edwards Air Force Base. My dad was a Test Pilot there, first a student then and instructor.

Growing up, planes were all I knew and my dad being a fighter pilot was just a normal thing to me because he did it, his friends flew and everyone else around us were pilots too. Now that I am older, I realize how BAD ASS my dad was! I went the music route and studied music which is cool, but my dad and I have planted the aviator seed in my son and hopefully he will one day be a cool pilot like my pops, call sign "Cho Cho" which is a Nicaraguan slang term....

Here he is below with his F-15 while stationed in Bitburg Germany in the early 80's on patrol for Russian Migs....

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when I was a kid, my buddy up the street's dad was involved in the restoration a WWII fighter. It was stored in their very large garage.
We used to play in it all the time, having mock battles.
It wasn't until much later that I learned how significant what I had been playing in was - A Japanese Zero - the only airworthy example left powered with an original Sakae radial engine. It's in Chino now.
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I was a Structure Technician for 10 years on the B2 Stealth Bomber.
Left hand wingmate
Then the Mod Program
  • Towed it
  • Removed and replaced Landing Gear, Engines, Hot Decks, Leading Edges, Rudders, Trailing Edges, Wingtips
  • Wheat Starch blasted coatings removals
  • Jacked it up in the air 15 feet off the ground
Yeah, those were cool days...
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Now I build these:

and these:

and these:

..and a bunch of other stuff I can't Taco 'bout...
 
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Northrop Grumman just cranking out all these tail-less UAVs designs.

The VTOL/STOL F-35 has quite a different profile to it than other F-35s. The space the fan unit in the center needs, adds quite a bit of beef to the jet.

BTW, why would you need to jack up the aircraft so high? Never jacked one higher than it needed, to just get the wheels off the ground for clearance to retract the landing gear and perform other hydraulic system tests. Trying to imagine the same wheeled tripod jacks I used, just scaled up for a bomber. 100+ ton jack with its own ladder? :D
 
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I took a dump in the woods the other day. I felt my inner Marine, then I buried it!

Once, on a trans-pacific flight, I saw an old man go into the lavatory wearing only socks on his feet. He came out holding 2 piss soaked socks. 747-400, Korean Air, fine stewardesses. ..
 
Varaxis said:
Northrop Grumman just cranking out all these tail-less UAVs designs.

The VTOL/STOL F-35 has quite a different profile to it than other F-35s. The space the fan unit in the center needs, adds quite a bit of beef to the jet.

BTW, why would you need to jack up the aircraft so high? Never jacked one higher than it needed, to just get the wheels off the ground for clearance to retract the landing gear and perform other hydraulic system tests. Trying to imagine the same wheeled tripod jacks I used, just scaled up for a bomber. 100+ ton jack with its own ladder? :D
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It was for more then gear swing. It was the set requirement to conduct the wheat starch blast process to remove the skin coatings. It was like moving the B2 into a bead blast chamber. They still do it today for depot maintenance.
 
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