Author Topic: Miltitary Aviation Experience (Read 1694 times)

expat · « **Reply #30 on:** April 24, 2007, 06:00:18 AM »

Same same as XBRIT , 15 years ROYAL AIR FORCE in the back of C130'S L1011'S and VC10'S not forgetting the mighty Andover and the 125'S

Nowadays i get to play with USAF/USN C130'S , USN C2'S EA6 and F18'S which all seem to emergancy divert in the middle of the bloody night !!!!!

TequilaChaser · « **Reply #31 on:** April 24, 2007, 06:20:13 AM »

Served Navy, was a nose picker ( AD - jet mech ), , assitant flight line co-ordinator, both Low & High POwer Turn Qualed. auxillary duties include fuels samples petty officer

Worked on A4's, F4's, A7's some TOD on CC Team doing prep work for the first 2 F18's assigned to the Blue Angels, then finished up on S3A's & B's including Special Weapons Selection Team

when out to sea served on both the Nimitz and the Roosevelt carriers, on the Nimitz served as TroubleShooter during night ops.....

PanosGR · « **Reply #32 on:** April 24, 2007, 06:54:12 AM »

Iam a journalist

Have flying experience (as a backseater of course) with F-4F ICE of JG 73 “Steinhoff”, S-211 (an aermacchi turbofan basic trainer aircraft now called M-311), T-6 Texan II primary basic trainer of the Hellenic Air Force, and many hours with CH-47D, AB-205, Grumman UH-16 Albatross (!!), P-3B Orion. and hopefully soon enough with a Mirage 2000-5 Mk 2.

-VM- · « **Reply #33 on:** April 24, 2007, 07:05:00 AM »

First hitch boot tester and Huey yo-yo. Re-upped for Aviation Hydraulics on F-4 "Phantom" . Flight line trouble shooter . Red line . Windmill . CDI. FMFLANT & WESTPAC. I did get to participate in F/A 18 acceptance inspection when we first got them in Beaufort, S.C. right before E.A.S. Hornet is an awesome bird but to watch a Phantom "GO FAST " is a site to behold. My son is a Marine now. I went to visit him before he went to AL ASAD. He took me to New River to see the Osprey. OMG when you see it up close the thing is huge. My grand father was a Naval Aviator. Aviation has become a tradition in my family. SWING WITH THE WING. For all you ole Jarheads I got 3 months corrosion control duty in the P.I.

Laurie · « **Reply #34 on:** April 24, 2007, 02:19:25 PM »

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Originally posted by Furball

Where out of?

i am an RAF cadet, get free flights regualarly thanks to her majesty,

RAF wyton is a regular base i use.

expat · « **Reply #35 on:** April 25, 2007, 04:34:57 AM »

Yr an air cadet and youve flown in a Earofighter and a Harrier??

festus · « **Reply #36 on:** April 25, 2007, 04:57:01 AM »

I make my living as "self loading baggage" (flight doc)

. I have been privledged to log time in the F-15, F-16, T-38, T6, T-1, C-130 several models including the LC version, C-17, HH-60, UH-60.

WWII a/c: B-25, and B17.

asilvia · « **Reply #37 on:** April 25, 2007, 05:15:18 AM »

(Aviation Sheetmetal Mechanic) US Army
Worked on UH-1, UH-60, AH-1, OH-58, AH-64
Test flights in UH-1 and UH-60

Agusta Aerospace Contractor US Army
Worked on CH-47D (triple hooker baby)

Laurie · « **Reply #38 on:** April 25, 2007, 12:45:20 PM »

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Originally posted by expat
Yr an air cadet and youve flown in a Earofighter and a Harrier??

with assistance i have stated yes, don't take off or land but once we are in the air they give me control for most of the time.

they are modified to have duel control so instructor.vet. can take over at any time.

Shifty · « **Reply #39 on:** April 25, 2007, 01:00:48 PM »

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Originally posted by Laurie
with assistance i have stated yes, don't take off or land but once we are in the air they give me control for most of the time.

they are modified to have duel control so instructor.vet. can take over at any time.

Just wondering........ Years ago I got a few incentive flights in F-16s, A-37s, and OV-10s. If the pilot was doing a lot of aerobatics or hard manuvering and I got green around the gills, he would let me fly. It was the best medicine for my air sickness. If I had control of the aircraft I could do the same manuvers, not nearly as well of course, as the pilot but it didn't have the same effects on me as if he did them.

I always thought that was kind of strange, but it worked. On me anyway.
Do you ever have this experiance?

The last aerobatics I got to do was about 7 years ago in the Cavanaugh air Museums Steerman. The guy didn't want to give me the stick and he got me fairly puny feeling. I've never thrown up in a plane, but theres been a few times I would have felt much better if I had.

Zippy41 · « **Reply #40 on:** April 25, 2007, 01:32:39 PM »

Anybody else make it to retirement? 20 years, two wars and Damn proud of it!!!!!!!!!!

~~all of those that have served, are still serving and plan to serve!!!! You've earn it!!!!!!:aok~~

kotrenin · « **Reply #41 on:** April 25, 2007, 02:07:49 PM »

None for me, but my wife's grandfather was marine fighter pilot from '42-'60something.

Members of VMF-224 pose by one of their fighters on Guadalcanal in mid-September 1942. Rear row, left to right: 2dLt George L. Hollowell, SSgt Clifford D. Garrabrant, 2dLt Robert A Jefferies, Jr., 2dLt Allan M. Johnson, 2dLt Matthew H. Kennedy, 2dLt harles H. Kunz, 2dLt Dean S. Hartley, Jr., MG William R. Fuller. Front row: 2dLt Robert M. D'Arcy, Capt Stanley S. Nicolay, Maj John F Dobbin, Maj Robert E. Galer, Maj Kirk Armistead, Capt Dale D. Irwin, 2dLt Howard L. Walter, 2dLt Gordon E. Thompson. All in this picture are pilots except MG Fuller, who was the Engineering Officer. Photo courtesy of BGen Robert E. Galer

My wife's grnadfather is 2dLt Howard L. Walter (first row, second from right) with the baseball cap flipped up.

DAVENRINO · « **Reply #42 on:** April 25, 2007, 02:18:02 PM »

CH-47 crew chief/gunner in ChuLai and DaNang 71-72.

Also, made 65 sport jumps from UH-1's at FT Lewis jump club.

DAVENRINO · « **Reply #43 on:** April 25, 2007, 02:20:07 PM »

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Originally posted by KayBayRay
Well dont know if this counts but....

Got a ton of hours in Chinooks, Huey's and Seaknights as a passenger way back in the dark ages when I was in the Corps.
KayBay

KayBay, you in Kaneohe?

kotrenin · « **Reply #44 on:** April 25, 2007, 02:21:21 PM »

P.S. He joined a few weeks after Pearl Harbor with 4 friends and classmates from Northwestern University. They all became carrer military pilots and lived to retire together. He was forced to stay in through part of Vietnam. He was C.O. of MAG 33 and retired a full Colonel. Unfortunately he passed away a few years before I would have a chance to meet him.