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