A Whole Different World

Posted Saturday, January 15, 2011, at 8:18 AM
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    Mike you may enjoy this clip of the Japanese signing on the Missouri.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=vcnH_kF1zXc&feature=player_embedded

    -- Posted by Eagle_eye on Sat, Jan 15, 2011, at 8:36 AM
  • OLD SHAKY......YOU EVER FLY ON ONE???????????

    TACHIKAWA TO MISAWA WHAT A RIDE.......GLAD I ONLY HAD TO DO IT 1 TIME,HERES ANOTHER RIDE FOR YOU C 121 BACKWARDS ACROSS THE PACIFIC,NAVY OPERATED LONGEST RIDE IV EVER BEEN ON ,HOT, NOISY.THOSE PROPS WOULD PUT YOU TO SLEEP IF IT WASNT SO NOISY THE THINGS WE DID TO WEAR A UNIFORM (SMILE)318TH MCCHORD THEY HAD A FULLY OPERATIONAL SAGE SYSTEM...WELL KEPT SECRET EVEN THE EAGLES DIDNT WANT TO MESS WITH THE 6 BIRD AT ALTTITUDE,THAT WAS A GREAT PLANE.......THEY DONT TALK ABOUT ITS CAPABILITIES TO THIS DAY.....BELIEVE ME IT WAS ONE HOT BIRD........SOME THINGS TODAY CAME OUT OF HER......I LOVED THAT AIRPLANE 57-502 GREAT MEMORYS.AND THE PEOPLE.I CAN SEE THEM JUST AS CLEAR AS DAY......you MIGHT KNOW ONE zook.......JOHN LEONETTI......HE WAS HERE IN 72 ON THE LINE I THINK BLUE SECTION.......SEE YA

    -- Posted by lamont on Sun, Jan 16, 2011, at 12:38 AM
  • For what it's worth accidents do happen. When I was in my early 20's my brothers 2 boys ages 2 & 3 found a loaded gun and the 3 yr old shot the 2 year old. It wasn't my brothers gun and it didn't happen at his house. They rushed the 2 yr old to the hospital and brought me the 3 yr old who pulled the trigger, he was covered in blood and he was very visibly upset but didn't realize what he had done. The 2 yr old survived and to this day the one that pulled the trigger still has problems with what he had done.

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Sun, Jan 16, 2011, at 9:42 AM
  • Sorry I met to put my last post over on your other story.

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Sun, Jan 16, 2011, at 10:28 AM
  • I'll tell you this the six bird was the only thing that could chase the SR AT ALTTITUDE....OUR DASH 1 STATED 85,000 + SO THAT TELLS YOU RIGHT THERE, STANDARD MACH METER IN THE AIRPLANE HAD 2.6 PILOTS WOULD TELL YOU IT WAS A LIE.I ran TA FOR BOTH THOSE EMERGENCYS i have and autograghed picture from one of the pilots.....the place to see one really do its thing was in THAILAND....THEY RAN FROM THE ROCK TO TOHKALI AND BACK.......AND WE HAD U_2 there also.YOU SHOULD SEE A BLACKBIRD DO A 70 DEGREE FULL BURNER TAKEOFF

    DONT BLINK..........OUR DAY OUR MEMORYS.....

    -- Posted by lamont on Sun, Jan 16, 2011, at 11:03 AM
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    There were more than 2 SR-71's land at MHAFB, also U-2's landed here more than once. None of us will know just what the SR-71 could do always been secret and still is even as they set in the boneyard except for the ones NASA have been using.

    -- Posted by Eagle_eye on Sun, Jan 16, 2011, at 1:02 PM
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    Your right Mike, pilots wore space suits and it was also rumored, which I don't know how true it is but the SR was capable of going into space but they didn't think they could bring it back in even with the amount of heat the aircraft had just flying missions at high attitude. I had been told it could pick up a human foot print from 85,000 just from the heat left which isn't much but us low lifes will never know. It was well known the aircraft was way ahead of its time, often wonder what replaced it, surely has to be something out there flying besides the U-2.

    -- Posted by Eagle_eye on Sun, Jan 16, 2011, at 1:46 PM
  • ON some missions our six pilots flew in moon suits

    SOME OF OUR GUYS FROM THE 95TH WENT TO THE YF-12 PROGRAM......They asked for volunteers from the six outfits....that had to be about64-65 they said the program was cancelled because the plane was to complicated,,,,,wrong......couldnt get those first generation missles off the rails at the speeds we were flying......AIM-7'S AIR-2'A

    AIR BREATHING ENGINES YOUR RIGHT. TOO BAD

    NO BODY TALKS ABOUT IT BUT NASA STILL FLYS 3 OF THEM.....

    NEVER WORKED ON THE F-104....BEEN AROUND THEM BUT NEVER TOUCHED ONE,BESIDES THE B-58 I THINK ONE OF THE PRETIEST PLANES IV EVER BEEN AROUND WAS THE B-47 THEY JUST LOOKED LIKE THEY CAME TO FLY.......LOOKED MEAN BUT NO TEETH THE RF-101 speed demon for its time.....from MISAWA IT WENT PLACES IT WAS NOT SOPPOSED TO GO......AND THEY COULD NOT CATCH IT(61-63) 2 J-57'S WITH BURNER

    ANOTHER THEY DONT TALK ABOUT MUCH....(SMILE)

    GOTTA GO

    -- Posted by lamont on Sun, Jan 16, 2011, at 7:19 PM
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