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Fighter Pron

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 1:40 pm
by kham
SFB 2009 Hornet porn for the strike fighter guys :mrgreen:

Re: Fighter Pron

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:44 am
by Weapon X
(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!

Re: Fighter Pron

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:52 pm
by Mynock
Cool find. I know almost nothing about fighter jets but watching them in action is always fun.

Re: Fighter Pron

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 8:10 pm
by water_bug_62208
Oh, yes, very cool indeed! Really neat watching those things go supersonic. Thanks for sharing!

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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:16 am
by schlamm
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Re: Fighter Pron

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:50 am
by kham
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...

Re: Fighter Pron

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 11:42 am
by DangerGirl
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.

Re: Fighter Pron

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:32 pm
by kham
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:

Re: Fighter Pron

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:11 pm
by Duncan Edwards
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.


I'll never get used to seeing those without a different kind of star on the side. 8-)

Re: Fighter Pron

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:31 pm
by kham
: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