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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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I got to meet Brig. Gen. Olds a few years ago before he passed away. VERY nice guy and humble as hell. God speed sirOriginally Posted by crob1
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.
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!
Just for fun: Col Robin Olds returning from his 3rd and 4th MIG kills
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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.
You know I like my coffee sweet in the morning
and I'm crazy about my tea at night
In the dirt. Not a Hurk...
You know I like my coffee sweet in the morning
and I'm crazy about my tea at night
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.
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"When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." -Frederic Bastiat
"I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin."
― Russell Kirk, Author of The Conservative Mind
Thats us. We fly 6-7 days a week. Morning, noon and night.
You know I like my coffee sweet in the morning
and I'm crazy about my tea at night
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...
You know I like my coffee sweet in the morning
and I'm crazy about my tea at night
First, one "oldschool"...
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