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F16CrewChief β View from the Boom Pod
Published: 2011-01-09 16:01:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 1177; Favourites: 35; Downloads: 43
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Blue Angels Number Four, Lieutenant Pat Walsh, Gasses up A-4F 154180 from Arizona ANG KC-135E 56-3638 high over South Dakota.Note the refuel basket that is mounted on the flying boom. This has to be installed prior to flight in order to refuel an aircraft with a refueling probe, such as US Navy aircraft.
Photo taken on 22 June 1986, the last year the Blues' operated the Skyhawk.
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Those drogue baskets were a pain in the neck to install and remove.Β An operation that could only be done on the ground.
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Yeah, before I got on the jet, I saw them hanging the basket. I got to see TO and landing from the boom pod w/ the vizor opened. The Guard crews did not mind...
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building KC 10 in secondlife now just cause mos of the other ones are low detail and fly like crap.
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Not sure what that means, but to quote SpongeBob "We good lck with that"!
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the game most of 3d stuff made for, I tend to create lot of aircraft for it. drawback when gamers dictate things vs real pilots and aviation people
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Thank you! Glad you liked it!
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22nd of June? In a mere 5 days from that date, I was born. I always loved the Angels patterned Skyhawks.
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Wow, a mere five days before that date I had been in the AF forΒ five years.
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I guess I am old...
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