Airplane Pics

I have no photos, just a recommendation. I just finished reading "Fighter Pilot" by Brig. Gen. Robin Olds. What awesome era to be a fighter pilot . He flew P-38s, P-51s and ended up flying F-4s in Vietnam. It's a good book.

An old picture. Somalia 1993. My second trip there.

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Originally Posted by crob1

I have no photos, just a recommendation. I just finished reading "Fighter Pilot" by Brig. Gen. Robin Olds. What awesome era to be a fighter pilot . He flew P-38s, P-51s and ended up flying F-4s in Vietnam. It's a good book.

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I got to meet Brig. Gen. Olds a few years ago before he passed away. VERY nice guy and humble as hell. God speed sir

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Originally Posted by Hoser

An old picture. Somalia 1993. My second trip there.

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Unrelated, but is that you buzzing around the Springs area for the last few days? I definitely could see the bright orange tail number, but I couldn't quite make out which number.

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Originally Posted by firefighter238

I got to meet Brig. Gen. Olds a few years ago before he passed away. VERY nice guy and humble as hell. God speed sir

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Yeah, he was a fantastic guy. For some more fun "good old fighter pilot" reading, you should read Chuck Yeager's autobiography.

Edit: I will say though, Robin Olds wasn't always that humble! [LOL]

Just for fun: Col Robin Olds returning from his 3rd and 4th MIG kills
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Originally Posted by HoneyBadger

Unrelated, but is that you buzzing around the Springs area for the last few days? I definitely could see the bright orange tail number, but I couldn't quite make out which number.

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Might have been me. I have been flying nights this week.

Not all of our planes have MAFFS numbers. Just a couple even though any C-130 can handle the MAFFS system.

When MAFFS is flying I try to hang out on MAFFS 2.

In the dirt. Not a Hurk...

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Originally Posted by Hoser

Might have been me. I have been flying nights this week.

Not all of our planes have MAFFS numbers. Just a couple even though any C-130 can handle the MAFFS system.

When MAFFS is flying I try to hang out on MAFFS 2.

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Yeah, several days in a row, usually in the afternoon, I saw 3 C-130s buzzing around town usually with one out front a few miles and then flight 3 was closely following flight 2... maybe 1/4 mile separation? Flight 2 definitely had the big orange MAFFS number on it while 1 and 3 did not.

Thats us. We fly 6-7 days a week. Morning, noon and night.

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Originally Posted by RMAC757

Damn, Hoser! I can only imagine the look on the mechanics faces everytime you guys land.

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Sometimes we bring them back dirty. No way to play in the dirt without getting dirty. 99.9% of our maint guys get it.

African dust here...

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First, one "oldschool"...

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