Prowler1111
Charter Member 2011
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Steady as it goes
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Prowler
Steady as it goes
More at our forums
Best regards
Prowler
More on the SLUFF
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Navy Chief
Senior Member
Never thought I would say this, but I miss working on those ugly jets.
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MCDesigns
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Beautiful! A must have for me! :ernae:
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EgoR64
Guest
Very nice !!
The clues are starting to come together,
a-6e,
desert storm,
kc-12,
Mission,
Colonel Mustard,
Kitchen,
candle stick,
T-55,
Sluff........Hmmmm
Sounds like Fun to me !! :d
Many Cheers !!
:ernae:
Prowler1111
Charter Member 2011
It´s SOONware....:costumes:
Prowler
Prowler
I hear ya Chief! You can’t see it in these screen shots, but directly under the belly of this beastie is the ASN-190 Doppler radar system radome. To get at the antenna required removing 60 or 70 screws. And since the belly of the A-7E sat about three feet from the ground, removing those 50 screws meant sitting on the ground while doing it. If the plane was parked over the ship’s catapult track (which they always were) then you had to sit on the hot steel cat track, smelling stinky steam, and getting your butt burnt. Ah, the memories. Loved that old plane! :d
Looking forward to the "soonish" release!
Don't even get me started on the "SOONware"......hehe:costumes: Still trying to pick my jaw up off the floor!! All I can say is.....
:ernae:Three or four months ago, I was sitting in the hospital waiting room twenty miles south of where we live here in northeastern Washington when a guy sitting with his wife across the room said to me, "I was in the Air Force, too." (I was was wearing, like always, my USAF Retired baseball cap.) He was about fifteen years younger than me so I asked, "Where were you stationed. Maybe we crossed paths somewhere." He started rattling of countries and when he mentioned Thailand, I stopped him and asked what base. He said Korat and I said I spent a year there myself. "When were you there?" He said 1974. My mouth probably dropped open, because I'd been there the same year. I asked him what he did and he said he'd been a pilot. So I asked him what he flew and he answeredl, "A-7s." By now I was completely flabbergasted and told him I probably worked on his plane, 'cuz I was an aircraft electrician in the Air Force. That experience brought home to me how small the world can be sometimes. Over thirty years later and 10,000 miles away we meet in a little town way up in the mountains just a short distance south of Canada. :isadizzy:
Prowler1111
Charter Member 2011
D´s will be on the package as well....
Navy Chief
Senior Member
One of many memories: our shop was assigned removal of the four Leading Edge Flap Actuator panels every 40 days for a corrosion inspection/cleaning. It never failed that at least 5 or so of the screws would either strip out, or the built-in nut (cannot remember correct nomenclature) would break loose inside the panel. Major pain in the arse.
But probably the worse thing about that task, was taking a "bath" in hyd fluid, once the panel came off. Never failed. The running joke by the troubleshooters was, "If it ain't leaking, it must be out of fluid."
It was common to have a AMS troubleshooter called over to check a hyd leak on a SLUF. Oftimes they would wipe off the fluid from the panel, and say "Launch it". Unless the bird was leaking profusely, they rarely downed it.
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But probably the worse thing about that task, was taking a "bath" in hyd fluid, once the panel came off. Never failed. The running joke by the troubleshooters was, "If it ain't leaking, it must be out of fluid."
It was common to have a AMS troubleshooter called over to check a hyd leak on a SLUF. Oftimes they would wipe off the fluid from the panel, and say "Launch it". Unless the bird was leaking profusely, they rarely downed it.
NC
I love the "Don't tread on me" snake.
The Marines Corps first flag/banner: Don't Tread On Me
Yellow background, rattle snake, don't tread on me; I'll have to count the rattles but I'm pretty sure it was 13. And yes, for real, it was the Corps first banner.