It's Monday! Pop Quiz Time!

 Quiz time, Campers! and Answers below!

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What do these two aircraft have in common? Put your answer in the comments.

Hint: There are a lot of "Close but no Cigars" answers but only one gets the much sought after "Worthless Trivia Challenge of the Week Winner" Title.  Answer has been added below.

Now…On with the show!

Update on  The Brown Recluse episode. Swelling is down substantially. Still wearing a bandage, not really needed for bleeding or oozing, rather to protect my hand when I bash it against something. Dr's follow up visit is Wednesday first thing. Black and red areas are substantially reduced also. So, maybe...

Speaking thereof, the bite didn't help in the "getting the House rid of excess crap in prep to put up a for sale" phase of the "Move to College Station" plan.  Most of that phase has been one of three options. 

1) Recycle Center.  Advantage- They unload your vehicle. Disadvantage- You load the vehicle and secure it. Littering is bad, doncha know. Additionally, they don't take just anything, so a careful inventory of the load will save you from having to resecure what's left then figure out how/where to get rid of it.

2) Goodwill. Their website has a list of stuff they will not take. We did that research first. The next good thing...They will unload your vehicle. that's a special advantage trying to move heavy furniture into the store. Yes, Goodwill, my back thanks you profusely.

3) The dump.  They weigh your vehicle when you arrive and again when you leave. No assistance available, but not a lot of items on their "No Dumping" list. 

All three have some level of requirement for the driver to unload or help therein. Not my favorite, especially under the circumstances!

Realtor is coming on Tuesday to inspect. I've heard he wears white gloves while doing this inspection.  We'll see how it turns out. 

And just because

OK The F-4E was tail number 68-461.  The Eagle tail number is 78-564.  In the 80's there was a big sayonara to the Air Force from the fighter pilot community.  The Chief of Staff at the time had flown fighters.  He toured all the bases and found that a large number of pilots were disenchanted.

  

Desk jobs and additional duties (e.g. Snack Bar Officer) took over much of the day.  So they were leaving in droves (and the airlines were hiring). So the Chief put together a team of guys and sat them down to find out what could be done.  Increasing flying hours was a big one of course, reducing additional duties another, and one surprise was brought up by a young LT who' was a big reader of historical flying stories.  

 

He suggested painting a Pilot (and WSO) name on the canopy rail.  Give them a sense of ownership and pride.  It worked.  Aircrew would come out and check on the airplane and crew chief and see if there was anything needed.  Even if it was a steppin fetchit kind of task.  The crew chiefs loved it, because they now had a back door to get things prioritized.  A whispered word to the Pilot who whispered it to his Flight Commander who brought it up in the next meeting with the Squadron Commander who brought it up to the Wing Commander.  A lot of Good Ideas suddenly became reality.

 

Just happened to be looking at Airplane Pics recently,  My Tail Number flying F-4's at Moody was 68-461.  Did a little googling and voila'.  There she was!   Her last assignment was to Terra Haute AB.  Her last flight went to the boneyard.   I would have liked it to be at a Front Gate somewhere.

 

The Eagle, 78-564 was also my airplane while stationed at Kadena.  As far as I can determine, She's still flying last assignment was at Elmendorf AFB AK.   

 

Peace out y'All!  It’s Monday after all!