RD's Retirement Flight
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Re: RD's Retirement Flight
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
When setting a job up for myself it must be Idiot Proof as well, as I am a bigger idiot than most people I know, and I prove it to myself everyday.
When setting a job up for myself it must be Idiot Proof as well, as I am a bigger idiot than most people I know, and I prove it to myself everyday.
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Re: RD's Retirement Flight
Even if it was a bit late, that's a great retirement video clip to share - nice flying, RD!
I meant to dig into the "search" zone here and discover who is active/retired or former military pilots of any type on this forum (or your Rossi forum) -
I was just a volunteer VA State Guard for three years, but my mom's brothers were AF. Uncle Bob was a photorecon tech on RB-29's, RB-50's in Korea. Uncle Jim was a B-47 bomber pilot '57-'62, then later piloted MAT aircraft during VN such as the C-130.
Another uncle was an F-105 Thud pilot, later transitioned to the early F-16's. Neat stuff!
As a kid, I remember watching B-52's taking off near one of the air bases in the Tidewater area of VA when we were on summer break. Can't remember exactly where that was - Dad was ex-army, so he'd take advantage of the post pass and we would camp or sleep over on various military bases like Fort Story or maybe Fort Eustis.
Adam
I meant to dig into the "search" zone here and discover who is active/retired or former military pilots of any type on this forum (or your Rossi forum) -
I was just a volunteer VA State Guard for three years, but my mom's brothers were AF. Uncle Bob was a photorecon tech on RB-29's, RB-50's in Korea. Uncle Jim was a B-47 bomber pilot '57-'62, then later piloted MAT aircraft during VN such as the C-130.
Another uncle was an F-105 Thud pilot, later transitioned to the early F-16's. Neat stuff!
As a kid, I remember watching B-52's taking off near one of the air bases in the Tidewater area of VA when we were on summer break. Can't remember exactly where that was - Dad was ex-army, so he'd take advantage of the post pass and we would camp or sleep over on various military bases like Fort Story or maybe Fort Eustis.
Adam
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Re: RD's Retirement Flight
A fully loaded Buff at full mil power on take off is a site that can't be forgotten particularly when thy had to old smokey engines. The Buff left Dayton and Wright-Patt a lot of years back, but they aren't forgotten.
Make smoke,
Make smoke,
Curt.......makin' smoke and raising my carbon foot print one cartridge at a time 
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Re: RD's Retirement Flight
Those Buff's could put a lotta hurtin' on things. It takes 32 F4G's to deliver the payload of one Buff. The NVA and VC had a dread fear of 'em....
Dan
Dan