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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,927
    edited September 2020
    Milito wrote: »
    CH46E wrote: »
    afterburnt wrote: »
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    what the heck is that? Looks wicked. Judging by the turbines its mid 60's?

    B58 Hustler?


    Yes it's a Hustler. Wicked airplane (in every sense of the word). Same engines (well... mostly) were used to power the Convair 990 commercial jetliner. Also a wicked, and, when all was said & done, wickedly unsuccessful aircraft. :(

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    Cool as heck, though.

    49086579156_1edacc7a04_b.jpg23_0002621 Convair Image Convair 990 Coronado Engine & Pod by SDASM Archives, on Flickr
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  • NotaSuv
    NotaSuv Posts: 3,871
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,927
    edited September 2020
    Nightfall wrote: »
    @mhardy6647 she was super mint

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    !
    :)

    I miss mine every day (srsly).

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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    edited September 2020
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Milito wrote: »
    CH46E wrote: »
    afterburnt wrote: »
    myjqq9oy83w6.jpg

    what the heck is that? Looks wicked. Judging by the turbines its mid 60's?

    B58 Hustler?


    Yes it's a Hustler. Wicked airplane (in every sense of the word). Same engines (well... mostly) were used to power the Convair 990 commercial jetliner. Also a wicked, and, when all was said & done, wickedly unsuccessful aircraft. :(

    y6k6xc4z6fbt.png


    Cool as heck, though.

    49086579156_1edacc7a04_b.jpg23_0002621 Convair Image Convair 990 Coronado Engine & Pod by SDASM Archives, on Flickr

    Politics killed the Hustler. Then they chopped them up real quick.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,927
    It just dawned on me -- I don't think that beautiful white Bronco has any windshield wipers. Mine had a big plastic cover thingy over the mechanism -- at the top of its (hinged) windshield. :|

    Were that white one mine -- I think I'd invest in a roll bar, too. :)
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,927
    27595927462_3fd44e5086_b.jpgLockheed A-12 ‘06924’ & SR-71 ‘17973’ by Alan Wilson, on Flickr

    One of these things is not like the other. :)
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    k10k99vpyta6.jpg These probably ended up beer can pop tops. Probably not, pop tops weren't around yet.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,927
    afterburnt wrote: »
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Milito wrote: »
    CH46E wrote: »
    afterburnt wrote: »
    myjqq9oy83w6.jpg

    what the heck is that? Looks wicked. Judging by the turbines its mid 60's?

    B58 Hustler?


    Yes it's a Hustler. Wicked airplane (in every sense of the word). Same engines (well... mostly) were used to power the Convair 990 commercial jetliner. Also a wicked, and, when all was said & done, wickedly unsuccessful aircraft. :(

    y6k6xc4z6fbt.png


    Cool as heck, though.

    49086579156_1edacc7a04_b.jpg23_0002621 Convair Image Convair 990 Coronado Engine & Pod by SDASM Archives, on Flickr

    Politics killed the Hustler. Then they chopped them up real quick.

    IIRC, I think they had a tendency to kinda kill their crews.
    They also were bombers when the strategy was moving missle-wards.
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  • CH46E
    CH46E Posts: 3,595
    NotaSuv wrote: »
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    I really like the Raptor. When I arrived at my Squadron HMM-764 in April 2001 at Edwards AFB CA, they were still testing the F22. Our squadron was moved there from El-Toro when Bill Clinton closed a bunch of bases. On a almost daily basis while working on our CH46E SeaKnights we would see the F22s testing. They would roll right past us and head to the runway. Got so see a few up real close at the wash rack. Cockpit was unlike anything I had seen before. The skin of the aircraft has a very unfamiliar texture.

    We got to see a lot of cool things at Edwards AFB. Airbus A380 testing. My very first day on the flight line my wife and I watched an F35 doing a vertical take off. Did not see much of the F35 after that. They must have been wrapping up their testing there. Seen two Space Shuttle landings. Seeing a 747 with the Shuttle mounted on top take off was pretty amazing! I never saw it fly but there was a SR71 with yellow NASA printed on the tail and a large long aerodynamic looking contraption on top, parked near the wash rack. I think it might have been an experimental ram or scram jet engine on top. Watched a U2 take off. It looked like it was going 45 mph but pitched up and just climbed out of sight. We had a B17 parked behind our hanger for a week during an air show. Got to climb all over it. They are a lot smaller than they look on TV. That was a treat as my Grandfather was a Crew Chief and door Gunner on the Judy J B17 over Germany based out of England. We would see several Global Hawk/Predator drones. I think they were practicing from what was then Indian Springs AFB in NV but is now known as Creech AFB. Us Marines did all our night vision flight training at Indian Spings AFB before it became Creech. Our training unit HMMT-164 was based at Camp Pendleton San Diego CA. Air space was too conjested and there was too much light pollution for safe night vision training. So we went to the NV desert north of Vegas, Indian Springs.


    Well, I think that's the longest post I've ever made.



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  • CH46E
    CH46E Posts: 3,595
    edited September 2020
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    27595927462_3fd44e5086_b.jpgLockheed A-12 ‘06924’ & SR-71 ‘17973’ by Alan Wilson, on Flickr

    One of these things is not like the other. :)

    They are just outside Edwards AFB. Lancaster and Palmdale are the main areas outside the base. And the closest In-N-Out burger. Lockheed's Skunkworks is in Palmdale.

    The A12 was the predecessor to the SR71 right? Or was the A12 the CIA plane and the SR71 the USAF plane?
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  • fish357
    fish357 Posts: 304
    edited September 2020
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    Currently helping a buddy. Home made harness, hot stamped wire all terminations finished by hand. Anyone know what that is by the color?
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  • CH46E
    CH46E Posts: 3,595
    What kind of car???
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  • fish357
    fish357 Posts: 304
    edited September 2020
    CH46E wrote: »
    What kind of car???
    Correct. Depending how diehard some of you may be about this vehicle, the color should give it away. It is a stock color for this particular whip.
    Need to get some better pictures, but we’re closing in on the finish, and I never think ahead of time to shoot my work.
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  • CH46E
    CH46E Posts: 3,595
    edited September 2020
    fish357 wrote: »
    CH46E wrote: »
    What kind of car???
    Correct. Depending how diehard some of you may be about this vehicle, the color should give it away. It is a stock color for this particular whip.

    Ford something??? Mustang or a tractor? Or a Lamborghini Countach? AMC Hornet? GTX?

    Oh, maybe a Cobra?
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  • fish357
    fish357 Posts: 304
    edited September 2020
    Damn son, your good! Actually my buddy told me I’m wrong. This color wasn’t factory to his vehicle, but it was factory to early 70’s Mustang. Ford Grabber Blue...
    This is a hybrid ‘69-‘71 Bronco. I’ll get better pics another day.
    Edit- I didn’t mean anything by saying son, it’s just how I talk, no disrespect intended.
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  • fish357
    fish357 Posts: 304
    @CH46E My son and I love military aircraft.
    He could rattle of specs on war birds when he was 12 that would make grown men’s jaws drop. Ha!
    I miss going to Wright Pat with him.
    What did the pilots think of the thrust vector turning?
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  • CH46E
    CH46E Posts: 3,595
    edited September 2020
    fish357 wrote: »
    Damn son, your good! Actually my buddy told me I’m wrong. This color wasn’t factory to his vehicle, but it was factory to early 70’s Mustang. Ford Grabber Blue...
    This is a hybrid ‘69-‘71 Bronco. I’ll get better pics another day.
    Edit- I didn’t mean anything by saying son, it’s just how I talk, no disrespect intended.

    Please bro! Aint no snowflake here. It would take a LOT more than that to bother me.

    Fiy, here is my favorite photo of my watch collection. You may need to "zoom in" to see the "watches".

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  • fish357
    fish357 Posts: 304
    edited September 2020
    I don’t care about anything else other than, where can I get that blue “watch” you’re wearing? Lmao
    Love the Shepherd chillin’ in the background.
    Are you a handler, by chance?
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  • CH46E
    CH46E Posts: 3,595
    fish357 wrote: »
    @CH46E My son and I love military aircraft.
    He could rattle of specs on war birds when he was 12 that would make grown men’s jaws drop. Ha!
    I miss going to Wright Pat with him.
    What did the pilots think of the thrust vector turning?

    Not sure. Never spoke directly to a raptor pilot. Only the ground crew. Id imagine they like it. My wife's cousin is a F15 pilot. He was one of the pilots that hit a "pharmaceutical" company in Iraq that was featured on the national evening news several years ago.
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  • CH46E
    CH46E Posts: 3,595
    edited September 2020
    fish357 wrote: »
    I don’t care about anything else other than, where can I get that blue “watch” you’re wearing? Lmao
    Love the Shepherd chillin’ in the background.
    Are you a handler, by chance?

    Belgian Malinois actually. She was imported and trained by Garrison and Slone to be a bomb detection dog but her handler beat her. It ruined her at 8 months old. We took her home at 12 months old and she is a prime example of a pure bred Belgian Malinois.

    Zoe
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  • joecoulson
    joecoulson Posts: 4,943
    Loving the blue watch also
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,882
    She'd go crazy at my house!
    Gustard X26 Pro DAC
    Belles 21A Pre Upgraded with Mundorf Supremes
    B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
    Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
    Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
    Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)

    There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus
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  • CH46E
    CH46E Posts: 3,595
    edited September 2020
    audioluvr wrote: »
    She'd go crazy at my house!

    Oh man. Yes with all that property you have. For sure.
    So far she has taken a squirrel, a rabbit a black racer snake and a possum. Possum was just last week in my neighbors yard. I'm afraid she is going to get sick. She is no joke..... a prey driven killing machine.
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,882
    I had an imported German Shepherd once I schutzhund trained and did search and rescue with her as well. I miss that dog.
    Gustard X26 Pro DAC
    Belles 21A Pre Upgraded with Mundorf Supremes
    B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
    Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
    Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
    Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)

    There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus
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  • CH46E
    CH46E Posts: 3,595
    audioluvr wrote: »
    I had an imported German Shepherd once I schutzhund trained and did search and rescue with her as well. I miss that dog.

    Oh yes. We miss our Kado, a German Shepherd Long Haired. He was and still is the hardest to let go. I know your pain brother.
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  • fish357
    fish357 Posts: 304
    Gorgeous dog. Oh, I know what she is, should have said Belgian. Von Liche kennels is here in Indiana. I’ve built many a K-9 kennel in commissions for officers across the country.
    Many of them have Malinois as a partner.
    Damn, miss that job.
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,882
    edited September 2020
    The only thing I don't miss about her is she absolutely hated skunks! She'd prance home all happy with a dead skunk and her face was soaked with spray. Clearly mace would not deter her from ripping the throat out of an intruder.

    Luckily I developed a fool proof de- skunk recipe
    Gustard X26 Pro DAC
    Belles 21A Pre Upgraded with Mundorf Supremes
    B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
    Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
    Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
    Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)

    There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus
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  • fish357
    fish357 Posts: 304
    I promise to knock first if I ever come to either of your homes.
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  • CH46E
    CH46E Posts: 3,595
    This was Kado. 13 years old in Seattle. We moved a year later to FL. Sadly he was not with us.

    https://youtu.be/2_P21MoTk2I
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,882
    Teddy. Half Belgian half German Shepherd. At night the only way you could see him was if he showed his teeth. He fell in love with the elderly couple a few houses down so I gave him away. He spent more time there then here anyway.
    Pretty sure their house is secure.

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    Gustard X26 Pro DAC
    Belles 21A Pre Upgraded with Mundorf Supremes
    B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
    Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
    Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
    Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)

    There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus
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