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Post by akdrtfan on Apr 13, 2009 9:49:32 GMT 9
I will be in the Seattle area for may be 3 weeks starting on Wednesday April 15th. My wife needs an operation at Virginia Mason Hospital. Is there anyone who is a retired AF who would be willing to show me the museum? I can't get on base because I am not a retired service man. I understand the security for this. I can't promise but I would sure like to see it. I would take you to breakfast or lunch. Iam a charter member of the Museum of Flight so I could take you there if you would be interested. George Bonnett.
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Post by pat perry on Apr 13, 2009 10:47:13 GMT 9
I will be in the Seattle area for may be 3 weeks starting on Wednesday April 15th. My wife needs an operation at Virginia Mason Hospital. Is there anyone who is a retired AF who would be willing to show me the museum? I can't get on base because I am not a retired service man. I understand the security for this. I can't promise but I would sure like to see it. I would take you to breakfast or lunch. Iam a charter member of the Museum of Flight so I could take you there if you would be interested. George Bonnett. Hi George, Best wishes to your wife on her surgery. If you haven't been to visit the Boeing Plant at Everett, you got to make that trip. It's only about 30-40 miles North of Seattle. The assembly plant and museum are a very nice day trip. Pat P.
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Post by Gene on Apr 13, 2009 12:21:06 GMT 9
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Post by Bullhunter on Apr 13, 2009 13:21:34 GMT 9
akdrtfan posted:
The best day for a McChord Museum visit would be on a Wednesday. I'm a museum member and retired military. We will have to get you a visitors pass at the gate for security. I just won't escort anyone onto the base I haven't know for sometime. Security. If you are interested send me a IM.
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Post by akdrtfan on Apr 14, 2009 13:29:09 GMT 9
Thanks for the offer bullhunter but it won't work out.
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Post by Bullhunter on Apr 14, 2009 14:13:34 GMT 9
Your welcome. Hope all goes well with your wifes surgery and recovery.
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Post by Jim on May 5, 2009 0:48:17 GMT 9
ALASKA DART FAN, When you come back again, please go to your profile and correct your email address- birthday greetings came back as undeliverable...............The Old Sarge
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Post by Bullhunter on May 20, 2009 8:59:03 GMT 9
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Post by Jim on May 20, 2009 9:36:10 GMT 9
Beautiful pics and a few mis nomers or errors in indentification of components that only we would recognize............... Thanks Bull........ The Old Sarge
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Post by Jim on May 20, 2009 10:22:13 GMT 9
Go to the other sites on this web---------man that GUY Deeb sure gets around......Thanks again Bull................ The Old Sarge
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Post by Jeff Shannon on May 20, 2009 10:39:16 GMT 9
Great pics Bullhunter Thanks!!!
They brought back some memories when I saw the cockpit shots.
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Post by Bullhunter on May 20, 2009 10:57:20 GMT 9
Your welcome. I was just looking for a photo of the six's cockpit for my book when I stumbled across that site. I may just take a drive to the Museum at McChord and take my own cockpit pictures. Their flight simulator cockpit is complete. Several photos of it on the internet but none that I really like.
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Post by dude on May 20, 2009 13:17:28 GMT 9
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Post by Bullhunter on May 20, 2009 13:54:15 GMT 9
Thanks dude,,,,Yep I saw those shots. Not what i'm looking for. Need a wide angle shot taking in the whole cockpit. I may just need to drive to the Museum and take my own photos. That's about the last project for my book. Have 245 pages and almost 112,000 words. Getting ready to copywrite with the online file.
As I've mentioned before I was the Administrator and later the Director of the McChord Museum for a short time. It was fantastic duty and I made lots of friends who are still there.
They do some great restoration work.
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Post by dude on May 21, 2009 1:54:59 GMT 9
Thanks dude,,,,Yep I saw those shots. Not what i'm looking for. Need a wide angle shot taking in the whole cockpit. I may just need to drive to the Museum and take my own photos. That's about the last project for my book. Have 245 pages and almost 112,000 words. Getting ready to copywrite with the online file. As I've mentioned before I was the Administrator and later the Director of the McChord Museum for a short time. It was fantastic duty and I made lots of friends who are still there. They do some great restoration work. No I hadn't made the connection. Good for you! Can't tell you how disappointing it was a couple years ago when I was at Langley on business and couldn't even find a Six on a stick. It was like the 48th FIS never existed. Oh well. Guess that's what you get when your an ADC tenant at TAC HQ. I had mentioned earlier that I was a VP with the company that built the FDT for the F-106 (and other aircraft). That was the big yellow barrel (a.k.a. anechoic chamber) that the MA-1 troops would put over the nose to troubleshoot the system. It was the AN/MPM-54 and we had a couple at the plant sitting on the back lot just taking up space. So a few years ago when Hill AFB was getting its Six I offered to donate one to them as an interesting piece of support equipment. The only thing I asked was a little sign that identified it and said Made By AAI Corp. Well you'ld think I was asking them to name the building after me. "Sorry we can't accept that because it would be like we're endorsing a company." I responded, "You've got an F-4 sitting over there with McDonnel Douglas all over it. What am I missing here?" No answer. Then I offered a company donation of $1,000 a year for ten years to maintain the airplane. In doing so I shamelessly required that the Six be tricked out in 48th FIS markings. Thought it wouldn't matter since Hill never had any Sixes of their own. No dice. So at the end of the day they got nothing. I saw the airplane when they had finally put it on display and to me it looked like crap. It must have been a QF at some point because it had a bunch of ancillary sensors all over it. OK last point. I had a boss that was the designer of a unit for the FDT that was actually mounted in the nose wheel well. It was called the Signal Conditioner and Buffering Unit (SCABU). It was about 5 or 6 inches long, about 3 or 4 inches wide and had a single electric plug in the center. Mounted top center forward of the gear. Everytime we'd go to Wright Pat we'd swing by the museum and he would always make me stick my head in the NWW to make sure his SCABU was still there. Just wondering if the McChord bird has one as well. If you swing by McChord how about taking a look?
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Post by Bullhunter on May 21, 2009 4:34:30 GMT 9
I'm not sure I'd know what I'm looking for. Next time I'm there I'll try to remember to take a few pictures of the wheel well and you can see for yourself and point it out for us.
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Post by Bullhunter on Jun 16, 2009 17:48:04 GMT 9
Photo of McChord's F-106 display at night.
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Post by Bullhunter on Jan 14, 2010 12:30:01 GMT 9
Stopped at the Restoration hanger today. Took this pic from above. I expect to assist alittle this spring helping to finish the PBY wings and installing them.
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Post by Bullhunter on Jan 14, 2010 16:14:13 GMT 9
I noticed this hanging on the wall in the museum and i don't recall seeing it before. So I snapped a photo of it.
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