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Holden McGroin · « **Reply #30 on:** November 08, 2007, 02:42:57 AM »

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Originally posted by Tiger
And it was a 27 year old plane... how many people have a car that was made in 1980 that still runs?

I have a 36 foot 1947 ACF Brill Bus converted to a motorhome. Of course in the 1980's the Hall Scott engine was replaced with a 671 Detroit Diesel.

anybody with a 60+ year old vehicle?

Hell my bus is older than a B-52!

LePaul · « **Reply #31 on:** November 08, 2007, 10:28:17 AM »

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Originally posted by AquaShrimp
For a person who spends as much time online as you do, I would imagine that you invest quite a bit emotionally in your online persona. For me, not so much. I can pretty easily recognize who on this bbs is genuine and who isn't. I don't mind agitating the goofballs.

Your assumptions are, like your aircraft knowledge, wrong.

There are many, many others who invest vastly more time on here than I do.

I am certain they are anxious for more of your Madame Cleo/Horse Whisperer predictions of their emotions. Really.

We've all pretty much nailed you're a loser and still swinging.

Maverick · « **Reply #32 on:** November 08, 2007, 10:30:00 AM »

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Originally posted by AquaShrimp
Lol, I post the most bogus stuff I could possibly think of, and my reputation isn't 1/10th of what voss's is.

Fixed for accuracy.

Rino · « **Reply #33 on:** November 08, 2007, 11:19:28 AM »

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Originally posted by Ack-Ack
The Navy operated a handful of modified F-16s as aggressors for their Top Gun school. Used to see them flying all over San Diego before they moved out.

ack-ack

A while back they flew one into Morristown, NJ on a "training" flight.
I figured the pilot must have given his CO some fine line of BS to authorize
a 3000 mile training flight to go to a family wedding

I believe they called it an F-16N, and it's home base was Miramar, Ca. It
was in the desert USSR paint scheme.

Rino · « **Reply #34 on:** November 08, 2007, 11:30:06 AM »

From the age when dinosaurs ruled the flightline:

We were at Tyndall AFB for 2 weeks doing some Dissimilar Aircraft Combat
Training in 1983 operating F4e Phantoms. Two interesting things happened
on that TDY. One, the middle weekend was the Tyndall open house where
we got to see the Thunderbirds operate the new F-16. The second was an
F4 that managed to over-Gee the aircraft positive and negative on the same
flight.

I saw the G meter carats at 10 positive and 8 negative in the aft cockpit after
the flight. The damage to the aircraft was extensive but was repaired.
Apparently both engines lost their mount bolts and were only retained by the
doors. An AIM-7 Sparrow launcher decided to depart the aircraft completely,
which is remarkable considering it was INSIDE the airframe!

Of course the F4 isn't really an aircraft, it's just an engine demonstrator for
General Electric, so maybe it doesn't matter if it bends like a banana inflight

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #35 on:** November 08, 2007, 12:47:08 PM »

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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
I have a 36 foot 1947 ACF Brill Bus converted to a motorhome. Of course in the 1980's the Hall Scott engine was replaced with a 671 Detroit Diesel.

anybody with a 60+ year old vehicle?

Hell my bus is older than a B-52!

I think my camp had a '58 bus. They chopped off the top of the back of the bus, installed heavy roll bars, and padded them.

I was there for a little party when it completely rolled the odometer over.