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Fighter Pron

Postby kham » Tue Oct 25, 2011 1:40 pm

SFB 2009 Hornet porn for the strike fighter guys :mrgreen:
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Postby Weapon X » Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:44 am

(Sigh) Talk about nostalgia! I miss working on those Hornets. I was an F/A18C Avionics tech in the Marines from 94-99 with VMFA 314 (the Black Knights). I might have a few pics on my laptop from the USS Nimitz World Cruise, somewhere on here. My fav was working with the FLIR pods (Forward Looking Infra-Red); I would sit in the cockpit at night and track a coyote a mile away on the other side of the flight line!
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Re: Fighter Pron

Postby Mynock » Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:52 pm

Cool find. I know almost nothing about fighter jets but watching them in action is always fun.
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Re: Fighter Pron

Postby water_bug_62208 » Thu Oct 27, 2011 8:10 pm

Oh, yes, very cool indeed! Really neat watching those things go supersonic. Thanks for sharing!
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Re: Fighter Pron

Postby kham » Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:50 am

For followers of Cap'n Lex's Blog you usually find some good Hornet nostalgia there (and his flying and A-K stories are great :mrgreen: ) Even more so now, since he has recently switched jobs from flying bugsmashers for one of these...
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Re: Fighter Pron

Postby DangerGirl » Fri Oct 28, 2011 11:42 am

kham wrote:For followers of Cap'n Lex's Blog you usually find some good Hornet nostalgia there (and his flying and A-K stories are great :mrgreen: ) Even more so now, since he has recently switched jobs from flying bugsmashers for one of these...

Ah, the F-21. I had no idea the Aggressors were still flying those.
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Postby kham » Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:32 pm

Not sure they are, the outfit he working for is a private company that does contract work for the Navy as simulated targets, missiles and DACM opponents. From his writing, the Kfir aint no F-18, and that's just the fuel system :) But all things considered, he seems very happy driving this now compared with a Beechcraft :mrgreen:
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Re: Fighter Pron

Postby Duncan Edwards » Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:11 pm

DangerGirl wrote:
kham wrote:For followers of Cap'n Lex's Blog you usually find some good Hornet nostalgia there (and his flying and A-K stories are great :mrgreen: ) Even more so now, since he has recently switched jobs from flying bugsmashers for one of these...

Ah, the F-21. I had no idea the Aggressors were still flying those.


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Re: Fighter Pron

Postby kham » Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:31 pm

:D

It is a bit of a dragster, with high speeds for rotation and landing, as well as needing a drag chute. Short legs too, you can tell it was designed for its' theatre of operations, and that's it
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