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old fashioned bkboy congratulates Adni in black and white

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For a successful blackmailing there's a firm requirement that I care !

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We were leary of shooting too close to good guys most of the time. The 20s were wobulated to produce a 40 foot circle on the ground. Just a couple of off-nominal rounds in an ammo batch could wind up killing friendlies. Firebases that were being overrun were usually willing to take the risk. Good on ya, Kinrik! "Up close and personal" is almost never boring!

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There are a few slackers out there who still haven't signed onto the blackmail list.

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Det cord is good for removing pythons also.

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JollyFE - we got called on in the AC-130s several times to "mow the lawn" around an aircrew extraction point with the 20mm guns right after Jolly would clear off. Our hope was to convince the enemy that interfering with aircrew rescues was a bad idea. We never got any feedback as to whether this strategy did anything to lessen the fire that the Jolly Greens were drawing. So I don't know if we helped you guys at all, but we sure wanted to! <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/smil

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The museum at Wright-Patt really is a "must see".

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Negative on the XB70. We have a radically modified Gulfstream II jet with Space Shuttle Controls and flight instruments in the left half of the cockpit. All of the flight controls and the engine throttles are controlled by computers onboard, and the student shuttle pilot is in effect playing a video game while the computers fly the plane. The computers make the Gulfsteam do exactly what the Shuttle would do with the given control inputs. The Shuttle is a 200,000 lb glider with nasty handling cha

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bkboy determines that the word onomatopoetic is much too incendiary for MB use and misuse, and rips it from the dictionary. Then burns it. Then scatters the ashes where Glen won't find them!

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You're right about the Texans Zachary. Rosenberg near Houston. Jafo - we used to have a saying that you could build a runway to any length, and Republic could build you an airplane that would take every inch of it for takeoff. The Thuds would occasionally get jumped by trigger-happy F-4 jockeys who flunked aircraft identification classes. Not able to directly outmaneuver the F-4s, the 105s would dive to the treetops and light the burners. The F-4s soon disappeared at 6 o'clock. Th

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Why do they do it ???

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Chris, please slide two cold ones to FL.

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You're you're very very welcome welcome.

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Gee that toolbar and body look soooo familiar!

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Best of the best!

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Hi Doreen! Thanks MichaelO - that's only a few hours from me, and I'm going to take a look next time I head north. The 105 really is bigger than it looks in pictures. I got one ride in a Thud. The takeoff roll was rather lengthy, and when the afterburner kicked in it seemed to go from no-burner to full-burner in one big jolting bang. The pilot had mentioned that before takeoff so I wasn't too surprised. The 105 handled beatifully at normal speeds, but mushed somewhat pulling out of steep dives.

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Glen Eric Reed - dah-dih-dih-dah sounds mildly symphonic and pleasing to the ear. Gimme a break, I'm sorry I made the onomatopoetic reference, and I'm trying to scoot away gracefully!

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Makes perfect sense to me Lloydiboy

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Thank you Zachary, that is indeed another great wall! I have lots of wallpapers I made from gunship photos, a few from B-52s (I pretty much hated the awful beasts), but nothing really good of the 105's. Until today! We did all of our gunship predeployment training at good ol' Hurlburt Field, but weren't considered Air Commandos back then. The four F-4 fighter squadrons at Ubon hated us passionately. (The gunships would rack up more Battle Damage Assessment every month than all four F-4 squadrons

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Got the Thud wall - momentarily speechless. Thanks!

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Wir verzeihen, dass es jetzt ein Deutcher version nicht gibt.

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I got out of USAF in '84 and don't recognize the acronym. Short summary: Tactical Air Command, Special Operations (Spectres) 15 months Strategic Air Command (B-52s) 10 years Detachment of HQ SAC (Simulator s/w developer) 2 years Not very exciting I'm afraid! <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/smile.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmid

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I left EWO training with orders for the Thud Weasel squadron at Korat, Thailand. A Major with friends in the right places walzed off with my assignment, and I had to choose between gunships at Ubon Rachatani, or a nuc alert B-52 at Minot, North Dakota. The decision took about 20 milliseconds. Even today there are few aircraft that can keep up with a Thud running full burn at treetop level. And the engine they had would eat golfball sized shrapnel and keep going. <img src="http://images.stardock

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Yawn.

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Thanks Treetog and Koasati for the neat stories. Original names seem to be a casualty when cultures collide. Like how did the British get Bangkok out of Kroong Tep?