tinyclark

I found out it was 68-0935 this morning.

Hard to believe they have that much money. APQ122(V)5? Holy Dog, we took that off the H1s in 1988 and the C5s some time around there as well, maybe in the very early '90's. With all those parts and the (V)1 AWADS parts that AFSOC couldn't use for the (V)8, that would give them a few spares.

I thought lousy soldier covered that enlistment thing, as he was also kicked out of the Army intelligence school. But I digress... After all of the chatter, I will admit Ted Kennedy was a human being.

LMAO, that's microsteps.

GPS? It wasn't originally part of SCNS, and I don't think our crews ever got lost. A ring laser gyro INU is pretty accurate, and added to everything else, the old SCNS solution wasn't that far off. If GPS is so good, why do we still need the ADF?

He was a liar, lawyer, politician, lousy soldier and Democrat. He was also a womanizer and a drunk, so at least he got two things right.

How much is 150 billion Naira? $50,000?

I assume the trim tab is trying to drive the aircraft back and not actually causing the condition. If I'm thinking right, if the aircraft starts to pitch up, the trim tab should go up, trying to force the elevator down. Is that what's going on? I never did see anything after I posted something about the servo clutch. Have you changed that out, and not just swapped the servo?

There once was a senator from Mass, Who went out in search of some a$$; He lucked up and found it, F****d up and drowned it, And that was the end of his a$$. Man, was that limerick writer very wrong. Of course, he didn't know anything about the people of Taxachussetts.

Tuna, peanut butter, crackers, a Ruger 10/22 magnum, and a strong handgun. I choose the 10/22 mag because you can easily carry around thousands of rounds of ammo.

Damn, I heard about that same one.

OK, I guess I got lucky. I missed out on the 1980 Kenya mud bog via a coin toss. DAMMIT!

"The investigation found that there was insufficient back pressure on the control stick of Thunderbird #1 during the loop." That sounds like the joystick actuator to me.

Can't help you there, but I still think they were the best Thunderbirds.

Even though I hated picking up Comm/Nav maintenance for the 435th OMS Enroute, it was nice working a C141 with the APU running and heat on it during the winter months.

Any TDY with the 7th SOS blackbirds from Rhein Main was good.

That's pretty much it Archie. I can't believe what they've done/are doing to my Air Force. I could give the CSAF an ear full.

At least it didn't go across your chest!! Usually, you're OK if that doesn't happen. Yea, I hated working on that thing, but I like to think I raised the reliability rate on the RT289 in Europe quite a bit while I was there. I basically overhauled them when they came in. Tube checks, new PFN, TR tube, ATR tube, thyratron, magnetron, etc. They were always bitching about what we spent on our bench stock though.

Hey, this is the more kind, more gentle Air Force.

That is a funny site, run by men. Do a search for woman, or girl.

There aren't any A/C inlet plugs down inside the intake, are there? While at the 'Dorf, we had two aircraft we got from somewhere over in the far east that had plug covers inside the fight deck A/C intake. One of them had two sets. "What the hell is happening to my covers? Someone must be stealing them..."

We got sucked into the ACC program when that command took control of the C130s back in 1992, and then promptly gave them back to AMC as soon as they woke up and decided they may have to chew their arm off to get away from the old girl. We're the red-headed step children of the program. We are deployable, but haven't as of yet, since we don't send a full squadron as the fighters do. Not that I don't want your respect, but I can't take credit where it isn't due.

APQ175 was X band and Ka band. The replacement for the APQ122 had to be form/fit/function. They had to put a lot of crap into that system that wasn't necessary, just to meet the "guidelines". Ku band is only 12-18 GHz. From the shop manual: Frequencies (SRGM) (nine selectable channels) 32.2 GHz +/-50 MHz 32.3 GHz +/-50 MHz 32.4 GHz +/-50 MHz 32.5 GHz +/-50 MHz 32.6 GHz +/-50 MHz 32.7 GHz +/-50 MHz 32.8 GHz +/-50 MHz 32.9 GHz +/-50 MHz 33.0 GHz +/-50 MHz 70.8 kW peak min at RT/antenna interface flange

I don't know what the saying was. It was heavy, and I was big, so they ball and chained me to that RADAR mockup. We used to sneak up behind people working on it, and this included me, with some bubble wrap, packing tape to rip a big piece off, or an end bell to drop to scare the crap out of person working the bench.

That would probably be an APN59 RT, which I am very familiar with, especially being shocked. There was a capacitor on the transmitter deck that would charge up real good if the thyratron tube didn't fire (or if I took off the top cap of the thyratron). Turning off power and shorting it to ground would sound like a .22 going off.