Author Topic: Johnny Johnson, maths and the 1989 Society of Test Pilot report; revisited.  (Read 22917 times)

Offline Stoney

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"Can we be incorrect at times, absolutely, but I do believe 15 years of experience does deserve a little more credence and respect than you have given from your very first post."

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Good guess.  I got that nickname some 45 years ago in Cherry Point, NC

The book title, however, was a play on the squadron nicknames "Angels=358FS, Bulldogs =354FS and Dragons=357FS".  I am just now finishing Volume I of a II volume set on the 355th from its inception through last year.

The 358FS in their infinite wisdom changed from Angels to Lobos in Vietnam era but the 354 and 357FS have kept their WWII squadron names and they have remained intact through Korea and Vietnam and Iraqi Freedom and Afghanistan. 

Have been flying 'Hogs for last 30 years and under constant deployment cycles a squadron at a time.

Care to go have some fun in an RV? I'll drop by Grenville and we can go have some breakfast in Cedar Mills on a Sunday morning?

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Care to go have some fun in an RV? I'll drop by Grenville and we can go have some breakfast in Cedar Mills on a Sunday morning?

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Care to go have some fun in an RV? I'll drop by Grenville and we can go have some breakfast in Cedar Mills on a Sunday morning?

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HT - just now got back to this thread.  We are going to Irish Festival at Fair park tomorrow and will take a couple of our Irish Wolfhounds and hang with other Wolfie 'persons'. If you have time the Festival is a lot of fun with bands, hounds, beer swigging lunatics and gerneral Dallas riff raff.

I think we are planning to be there around Noon'ish and plan to find the wolfhound herd as a central base of Ops.

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Guys - I didn't realize that the Gaston virus had infected other threads than WWIIaircraft.  what a piece of work!

You should read his stuff on the Ubisoft boards, those are even funnier than his posts on WWIIaircraft or on here.

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Man...how can anyone actually search out this guy's posts?  I feel stupider just from reading some of this thread...it's like he's sucking brain cells right out of my skull into an intelligence vacuum.
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AHEM I thought this thread was clased HHHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMM   :noid :noid

Maybe i was wrong  :bhead
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Offline PJ_Godzilla

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There is absolutely no way for anyone to have a meaningful discussion with Gaston on these boards, as he neither possesses, nor desires to gain, any significant knowledge of aerodynamics.  He refuses to acknowledge that anecdotes are useful for context only.

It's worse than that. He doesn't even know how to do simple statics and dynamics. I don't think he even knows how to calculate simple vectors like moments. 

I chuckled at his acceptance of the anecdote as probative. I note that the British pilot even uses the word SEEMINGLY (any data there? - nope) and posits that the bandit will have him in a couple of turns - something that was entirely speculative and probably based on fear.

You're right. The whole damn thing is pointless.

Now all we need is Thorsim in here.
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Offline PJ_Godzilla

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Oh scheissse, I think I just necro-boofed.
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Offline RTHolmes

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Ive been following his stuff on warbirds.com forum - I get the same feeling trying to understand his theories as I do looking at a marcel duchamp sculpture ... :headscratch:
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Oh scheissse, I think I just necro-boofed.

Don't worry, it's only been a month since the last post.
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Don't worry, it's only been a month since the last post.

Wow. The bbs has gone soft. You're supposed to post up that picture of the girl's face being impacted by the fat guy's belly while the text. "Holy Necro-Bump!" scrolls. You'd better hope most of the guys here don't read that or you'll become the prison-yard favorite.   :)

That said, I'm tempted to ask Skuzzy if we can make an exception to the "no threads intent on berating someone - on PAIN OF DEATH" rule to rip on Gaston and maybe Thorsim as well.

Just kidding, Skuzzy... just kidding.

However, it became painfully clear to me in the 190A5 vs. 190A8 thread that Gaston has little/no physics or engineering background, does not understand simple rules of physics. That's not really bashing him so much as it is being truthful.

My advice: Socrates, I believe, said, "debate a wise man vigorously but only give a fool the byatch-slap" - or something like that. They had ho's and byatch-slapping back then, right? Sharpton would be a good guy to ask - since he likes talking about "them Greek HObags".
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Inconceivable this thread is!  (in my best Yoda speak) :D   Been gone months from this forum and I find this thread still alive.  :rock
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Inconceivable this thread is!  (in my best Yoda speak) :D   Been gone months from this forum and I find this thread still alive.  :rock

Yeah, way to go PJ...

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