And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I was going through the interview process for an officer flight position when the B1-Bs were pulled from the Air Guard Wing at Robbins AFB. I had a single engine pilots license from when I was a teenager so I figured I had an edge at flight school. The replacement J-Stars were fewer aircraft which meant fewer flight positions. I retired as a Master Sargent and spent my whole carrier in communications.
Would have been a great airplane if the AF had ever bought enough spares for it. My son worked on them and spent quite a bit of time at the boneyard in AZ pulling parts to use on operational aircraft.
I completed my BS in MIS at GA Southern and was pressing the age limit for a commission. If the USAF hadn't pulled the B1's I had a good shot as a pilot. I had asperations of working for Fedex or any other air cargo carrier. Instead I worked IT until the 2001 IT bust then worked as a Satcom tech, my military training, making stupid good money until I got hurt and got medically retired.
If memory serves, each engine in full afterburner has a fuel flow rate of something like 56,000 lbs an hour. Works out to about 140 gallons a minute per engine.
We went to the Thunder and Lightning Airshow at Davis-Monthan AFB (Tucson) this past weekend, and s-i-l drove us past the Boneyard in which they had a couple'o Bones parked next to an old Buff. The Airshow was great....a nice performance by the F-35A Lightning Demonstration pilot leading into the Thunderbirds. The finale, of course, was the Thunderbird High Bomb Burst. Grandkids had a great time, which meant that this old guy did too.
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ReplyDeleteI was going through the interview process for an officer flight position when the B1-Bs were pulled from the Air Guard Wing at Robbins AFB. I had a single engine pilots license from when I was a teenager so I figured I had an edge at flight school. The replacement J-Stars were fewer aircraft which meant fewer flight positions. I retired as a Master Sargent and spent my whole carrier in communications.
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Would have been a great airplane if the AF had ever bought enough spares for it. My son worked on them and spent quite a bit of time at the boneyard in AZ pulling parts to use on operational aircraft.
DeleteI completed my BS in MIS at GA Southern and was pressing the age limit for a commission. If the USAF hadn't pulled the B1's I had a good shot as a pilot. I had asperations of working for Fedex or any other air cargo carrier. Instead I worked IT until the 2001 IT bust then worked as a Satcom tech, my military training, making stupid good money until I got hurt and got medically retired.
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DeleteIf memory serves, each engine in full afterburner has a fuel flow rate of something like 56,000 lbs an hour. Works out to about 140 gallons a minute per engine.
ReplyDeleteWe went to the Thunder and Lightning Airshow at Davis-Monthan AFB (Tucson) this past weekend, and s-i-l drove us past the Boneyard in which they had a couple'o Bones parked next to an old Buff. The Airshow was great....a nice performance by the F-35A Lightning Demonstration pilot leading into the Thunderbirds. The finale, of course, was the Thunderbird High Bomb Burst. Grandkids had a great time, which meant that this old guy did too.
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I see them every day...
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