737Originally Posted by 2xAGM114
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I usually just take a grease pencil and draw a horizon, waterline, and pitch ladder on my sun visor but it is useless at night.
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The airspeed update rate is pretty slow, too.
If I see my CA squirming I add thrust, if they ask if I’m trying to make a tight commute I reduce a tad.
It's been three years since I was last PIC, I'm enjoying these pictures.
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
When I lived and worked in Homestead, every so often I would see a couple of Phantoms scramble to intercept a flight from Cuba. Headed to the plant in the 5:00 a.m. darkness, it was an awesome sight (and sound)!
Biplane under construction:
Granddad, mid 1970’s:
Grumman AgCat converted to a two-place. This was a lot of fun to fly:
Cessna 185 I used to fly a good bit. An absolute beast:
My little one with a B-29:
Worked the runway as crash crew in Pensacola in 69 for a Blue Angles show. They had F-4's at that time. They used AB on takeoff and just about broke our trucks. I remember a coffee cup dancing across the dash from vibration. Loudest thing I've ever heard even with ear protection.
Phantom using AB on takeoff will blow your mind, especially if you happen to be close to it.
Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds is a good book about flying the F-4 in combat in Vietnam.
In the P-F basket of deplorables.
When I was a cadet, I did a summer program working at Randolph AFB, TX. I spent a week on the T-38 flight line, launching and recovering the trainers. One of the crew chiefs shepherding me explained that the F-4 burned more fuel on takeoff than a T-38 held. At the time, I thought the Phantom was the baddest-ass jet in the fleet. Its still my favorite fast jet.
Which models have a HUD, the MAX and 800/900? Most of the 73s I've seen are beat up dogs from the 90s. I flew 74 freighters for a while, a couple decades behind that stuff.
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