Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Sunday, June 22, 2014

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

T-33:


Time was that you could find a T-33 in damn near every A&P school in the country, as the Air Force donated a buttload of them to the schools.
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3 comments:

Deadstick said...

It's not as loud as the sound of the gas pump...;-)

6/22/2014 11:57 AM
LRod said...

T-Bird!

Well, Miami-Dade Junior College (where I got my license/ratings) didn't have one, but we did have a cockpit simulator of one.

In the '60s and early '70s, though, every Air Force base had them. It was a standing joke in ZJX (where we had six AFBes) that you could tell when it was the end of the month as our skies filled with T-Birds, as desk jockeys got out in them en masse so they could get enough hours in before the 30th to keep their flight pay.

The problem was, even though they were a jet, they were a jet in the same category as a Slow-tation (Citation)—not much more than 400 KTAS when all the carriers were doing 500 (before the fuel crunches).

They were also the original stealth aircraft. Not a problem when the transponder was working, but they were notoriously hard to see with skin paint (primary radar).

I can't remember the last time I worked one—probably in the '80s, but we never got very many of them at ZAU anyway, with no AFBes in our area.

LRod
ZJX, ORD, ZAU retired

6/22/2014 12:10 PM
Anonymous said...

The RCAF flew the Canadair built version until 2005. The main difference was the use of a Rolls-Royce Nene engine. There was a specially modified two-seater that was used for ejection seat testing.

Al_in_Ottawa

6/23/2014 10:22 AM

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