Dan Wilson

rsqload wrote: Don\'t worry about that, it would take alot to offend me and you didn\'t. OPSEC is always a good thing to run through the filter before posting something on the internet, its just in this case there really isn\'t a concern, its a pretty open system with lots of info available to everybody. The system pretty much a strategic and tactical value of zero. Dan

Come on guys, we are talking RESCUE flares and smoke here. This is nothing defensive, sensitive and nothing classified. http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/dumb/luu4.htm http://www.designation-systems.net/usmilav/asetds/u-l.html http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1111237 Dan

DC10FE wrote: If this is the Greenville guys ramp and those are their plane, they would be far from \"common use\". Don\'t know what they do but I am pretty sure they don\'t do it in a uniform. Dan

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Okay, thanks guys - I think I have all the numbers back where they should be At least the guys still working will have more use for the Lockheed manuals and Alison books than I will. What the heck, I still have my \"Herky Handbook\" and the -7 engine/prop Lockheed book that got missed in my housecleaning:cheer: Dan

donwon wrote: Nope, thats wrong (actually thats right but that wont fit into my little rant). Thats when the \"president (and I am using that term very very loosely) tried to save his re-election chances. Primary reason for calling off a second rescue attempt? Carters advisor\'s told him even if it was successful he still wouldn\'t get re-elected so he called it off. Bad as this sounds, Hillary was a better president than frigging Carter was. He was a loser then and I wish he would shut his mouth now. Dan

Take many flour bags, lapes tape the ends (so they don\'t get broken when their driven out of the tubes), load tubes up and now you have a bombing system capable of testing all crew members (except the pilot) ability to eyeball the BZ/DZ (whatever you want to call it). Makes a really nice visual on where it hit! Plus if you let the nav\'s twisted sense of humor take over you can have some real fun and get into some real trouble:lol: Have you ever noticed, the really really big practical jokes (that usually go really really wrong) are almost always initiated by the Navs? Eh Eric? Dan

Okay guys, thanks for the answers. What had me screwed up was I thought that 103.5 is what we always taught for fuel topping, but then I read that Lockheed manual the other day that said 104.5 to 105.5! Unfortunately I don\'t have any other references left to check it against and my pharmaceutical soaked brain just couldn\'t get out of the vapor lock it got into. I really wish I would have kept my books, but after I was med disqualified I got rid of a lot of stuff; it was pretty painful for the first year, still in the Air Force and in a flying squadron but cant fly anymore:( (they just didn\'t want to go for that 15th waiver) At least I finally got past that point so now when I see one of you guys buzzing the house I can say \"you lucky bastards\" and not hurt too bad! Dan

Your flare launcher tube should be active, I don\'t ever recall a TCTO deactivating them, or at least hey still worked when I retired in 04. Even though normally the load just chucked em out and didn\'t bother with the launch tubes. As to the storage, if your talking about LLU-4\'s and that kind of pyro, I want to say they were stored in clips on either side of the cargo door or cargo ramp. If its a rescue bird that has the rescue bin installed they may also be stored there (it been too long since I\'ve seen a loaded rescue bin to remember though). Easiest way to find out is go up to the FE\'s or loads section and get one of them to dig out a -1 and do a quick go over with you. Dan

Okay guys, as much as it pains me I am missing some numbers in my head. What RPM did fuel topping occur, initially I was thinking 103.5% but now I have 105% popping up in my head, which was it? And then pitchlock was at 103% or 103.5%? Jeez this sucks Dan

Ohhh those Europeans liberals are so smart, glad they told us this - we would have never guessed this one!! You know it would be nice if these \"human rights watch\" type would actually worry about some of the people killed by the skum that they are so worried about protecting. Maybe we should start kidnapping and torturing them instead Dan

Yep its dangerous stuff but the fun you can have... One night it involved a rat we caught on the flightline at Tinker - sweet. There have been many incidents in the air force over the years with maintenance folks getting bit by this stuff, thats the reason they have some pretty graphic training films about screwing around with the stuff. I think we called it the pizza man film. Dan

Used to be if the bottle was less than 50 PSI but more than zero you charge and drain the bottle three times, charge and store. If it was zero you had to turn it in for depot inspection. Reason being, if it was zero, certain things inflight can result in a negative pressure and this would let the bottle pull in cabin air and assorted junk, so they had to be returned to have the regulator removed and bottle interior inspected for rust or garbage. But then again I remember time changes on engines, and gear struts too. Dan

If your talking about the fuel control fuel topping (103%) it is far from a myth. From the Lockheed Engine training manual (-7, B model book) \"A flyweight governor, in the fuel control, limits engine speed to 104.5 to 105.5 percent RPM. The governor works on the principle of spring force opposing engine speed (as sensed by flyweights). As engine speed increases, the flyweights move outward and push a rod. This rod is attached to the governor spring. As the governor spring is compressed, the rod contacts the servo bleed in the end of the metering piston. This causes the fuel flow to decrease, controlling the engine overspeed.\" Interesting that they say fuel topping doesn\'t start until 104.5-105.5 So as primary RPM control you have the prop but should that fail then the fuel control can interact and \"try\" to limit the overspeed. This is referred to as \"fuel topping\" Dan

gmat wrote: That in of itself does not necessarily mean an A model. Early E models had the forward cargo door as well and by inference I would guess all the B models had it too. Don\'t know about the angle between the radome and flight deck thing though. Dan

They wouldn\'t belong to the Air Force spook squadron out of Greenville would they? Dan

Well the flight doc that started the crap with me was McCreary, he is such a loser. He is a chiropractor (osteopath) and I have trouble believing the Air Force even allows that career field let alone let that quack be a flight surgeon. He has a good history too, Air Force - Private Practice - Army - Private Practice - Air Force. Man he is a loser all the way around, when I sic\'ed the 58th SOW IG on him, he starts copping an attitude on the 06 from the 58th LOL. Needless to say I ended up getting my 12 waivers in the end of it. Sorry to hear you ended up on the short end of the goofball train too. Dan

Dont know but that guy in the front right is flashing gang sign! Better Watch out:blink:

Its all BS and for no apparent reason for it, the real bad part is it costs MILLIONS to just change these designators around and at a time when the Air Force has so mismanaged its budget that it doesn\'t have two shekels to rub together they go and do some more changing to spend the money they don\'t have. I still have my 37th TAS patches, that a T as in TACTICAL - take that McDork! Dan

I never had a real problem with the cake eaters messing with my overhead. If the pilot was quizzing his right hand stick actuator he would usually have the courtesy to either let me know or ask to mess with the overhead. If I was in the back and they messed with it that was cool as long as they let me know what they did when I came back up. I wouldn\'t have been in the back if they hadn\'t outlawed smoking and forced me to the damn safety valve, aint that right Zak? The only time I consistently seen a zero mess with the overhead was some pilots had a bad habit of just reaching up and moving the rheostat for the flight deck AC, joke on them though is that I almost always flew in manual temp control so I would sit there and watch them twist it this way and that until they finally would fess up and ask whats wrong with the temp control, I would just tell them it must have the incorrect actuator installed for temp control LOL. Back in the far off days after I got upgraded to instructor and we did a bleacher flight with extra pilots for a pilot pro I would clear it with the AC and then stick one of the co\'pilots in the FE seat for the flight until it was their time up to bat. That way they could see what it was like to run told data, run all the checklists from engine start to before landing. But then again those were the days where I could get stick time as well, nowadays I think they would kick you out of the Air Force for doing anything so wrong as cross seat training. Dan

Yeah, I can remember several times in 7898 you would be flying along and the gear handle lock would just unlock, then later on relock or you would have to override the dang thing to put the gear down. Dan

I dunno, I gave up all hope for any common sense after McDork changed wings at Rhine Main/Ramstein from the 435th and gave it to a C-5 wing for \"historical\" purposes?!?!?!?WTFO Its all BS that wastes money better spent on tangible things and not stupid stuff. Bet this paper change of a stinking number costs in the millions, time to be writing you congressmen. Dan

Use substandard material you get substandard results! Dan

Not flying anymore? Did you get medically bagged? If that is what happened I can tell you that flight (klown) surgeons office there is about as f\'ed up an organization as I ever sic\'ed the IG on. When I got there there was some really good docs but when I left they were a bunch of boobs, the Head FS was a friggin eye doc. You know I never thought about it but I started my tour there with the legal office and ended it with the IG\'s office, guess you could say that base was glad to see me go LOL Dan

I remember hot humid days trying to take off out of Kessler with a full fuel load and a capsule full of whining butt enders in the -7 birds. Even with the Keyhole it was tight getting out and barely maintaining separation from the houses on a south departure. So I could see where the J would make it close on basically two engines. Dan