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Monday, February 3, 2014

Made in the USA


My son-in-law Big Time is a Super Hornet pilot. My daughter The WSO flies the back seat in the two-seat version of the Super Hornet.

 At least back in the day we built our birds pretty tough. I have no doubt we still do.

 Here's a tale from back in the day. Concerning that F/A-18D depicted above. It's over at the Smithsonian's Air & Space Magazine.

 It's got Marines and fast jets. Good stuff. One might say, the right stuff.
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8 comments:

  1. (not necessarily your) Uncle SkipFebruary 3, 2014 at 11:51 AM

    The mention of "the breaks of Naval Air" (aka air brakes) brings to mind another expression which fits the story to a tee, "skidmarks in the sky."

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  2. BuckFebruary 3, 2014 at 11:58 AM

    A sad close to an otherwise great tale.

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  3. juvatFebruary 3, 2014 at 12:20 PM

    Yeah, but can it do this? One of the MANY reasons I liked flying the Eagle.

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    1. OldAFSargeFebruary 3, 2014 at 2:17 PM

      Now that must have been some impressive flying!

      (Betcha he had to change his britches afterwards. I would have!)

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  4. juvatFebruary 3, 2014 at 4:21 PM

    Story is he landed at 300K, blew both tires and ripped out one of the cables, but got it stopped.

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    1. OldAFSargeFebruary 5, 2014 at 6:31 AM

      Damn! At 300K I'm not surprised he blew both tires. But ripped out a cable as well? Wow.

      Any landing you can walk away from...

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