tinyclark

We had one doing this, and we finally changed out the A/P servo clutch, not just the servo.

A new safety supplement to the -1's issued in April changed the setting of the inverter switch to the DC position during flight.

They just need to get rid of the hat requirement all together.

While I was at Ramstein, they came up every year with a few technicians and all of their broken APN59 parts. The aircraft would drop them off them and then pick them up the next week.

They'd take orders for wine, salamis, cheeses, whatever and bring it back when the picked their guys up. We always let them raid our bench stock too.

I pray for anyone who has ever donned a uniform for our country.

May they rest in peace, and may the future people in uniform, including my daughter, who went to basic on 19 May, hold the flag and our country in the highest esteem, and protect it forever. Freedom lives only because of sacrifice.

Since we're in the bible and talking history, did you know that women having PMS was mentioned in the bible?

"...and Mary rode Joseph's ass all the way to Bethlehem."

"It was not clear what caused the crash, but several witnesses described seeing its right wing fall off while it was still in the air."

A 1980 model?? I hate to speculate, but I am wondering if they were doing the rainbow fitting/spar cap inspections, at all.

When they closed Khorat, they actually in-processed us into Clark AB. Well, all of our stuff got shipped there, but almost all of us ended up going to Hill AFB.

Not that Ogden isn't the wildest place to go after leaving Thailand, but...

Way to go Casey!!!! My hat is off to you.

I didn't have the patience to be a babysitter, but I'm still here after all these years. Only 1 1/2 more to go.

One would think there is a landing gear warning horn as well as the GCAS going off. Sorry, but it is inexcusable, IMHO.

I went out to California for the QOT&E flight testing of the APQ175, and that Ka picture was unbelievable. It painted a great picture of the plowed fields below us, right along with all the irrigation piping, and just about everything else.

It's amazing what 70kW at 32GHz will do.

RADAR troops do it with higher frequency.

They added a bottom antenna to aid with picking up the zone marker.

I can get some, but we don't have a bird rolling into ISO until next Wed, and I'll be TDY until a week after that.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30223592/

C'mon John, we have the best politicians money can buy!

The ADIs run off the copilot's AC inverter, not the AC Inst and FC inverter.

I don't see how it was powered by two different sources, but $hit does happen. It wouldn't be the switch causing it, it would most probably have to be a relay with an internal broken contact arm or some other FM cause.

No reason at all that they couldn't be on. Get yer book changed.

If they were at Mt. Home, the would be in cold AND boring storage. That's why I joined the AF, to get out of the wonderfully exciting Mt. Home.

Here's 502 taking a drink in Italy.

The filter they are referring is the one under this retainer. This view is looking straight up just inside fuselage station 245. This should have a retaining ring installed. The NSN for the filter is 5325-00-529-3720. The retaining clip is 5325-00-807-5335.

Tiny,

Did you ever get the s*** knocked out of you trying to adjust the centering on one of the IP-268 scopes. I did, three times in a row setting at Cam Rahn Bay. I was cpvered with sweat and told the shop chief I quit for the day my hands were shaking so bad.

Gary Robinson

Many a times, even with F4 tape on the other end of the scribe. That deflection voltage was a sumbitch. I've been nailed with worse tho. I'm surprised I'm still alive.

Just wondering why they left the radome nipples on if they took out the whole glycol system.

I sent you an e-mail.

I did send some his home e-mail account.

Tiny,

Your critique of the original displays is pretty much on the button.

Those systems that were upgraded to replace the scopes and sweep generators with the digital scan converter faired much better.

That said, the APN59 scope and power supply blows too. We're still using a frikkin' mechanical rotating yoke display in the 21st century???? That would have been money well spent, putting a converter and CRT video screens on the APN59. I think they did it on the KC135.

The original H models were modified from APN59 to APQ122V(5), just X-band, and they paid to put the APN59 back on those.

Only Pope and Rhein-Main/Ramstein had them. I worked the system when it was just a few years old, and it was a piece of $hit already. This was especially true with the antenna and the pilot scope-sweep generator. Actually, the nav scope sucked too.

Maybe I'm being too kind...

The countermeasures on the air deflector doors was called SNOWSTORM.

That's a dumbass name, but I do remember that from somewhere. To me, a "snowstorm" would be RF jamming, but not for IR.