Jim Scanlon (deceased)
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Commander South Texas outpost of the County Sligo Squadron
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Joined: July 2007
Retired: USAF
NBA: Spurs
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MLB: Giants
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Apr 22, 2012 5:04:18 GMT 9
Mark got me thinking about the airplanes I worked on in my Twenty, including those I worked on in Tech School. Seeing some of us have worked on a plethora (don't you just love the sound of that word) of airplanes, maybe it would be of interest, to more than me, to know how wide and varied our experiences are. As for me: Tech School - Shepherd Field, Texas 1952 B-29 B-25 F-84 - we actually got to start the engine on that one. It was the only jet I worked on in Tech School. I'm sure the engine had more "hot starts" than was safe for any engine. YC-125 - made by Jack Northrup. Got to start all three engines. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YC-125_RaiderSioux City Air Base, Iowa (The SCAB) 1952 - 1959 T-6D - Assistant Crew Chief C-47 - Assistant Flight Mechanic & Ground crew C-45 - Ground crew L-20 - Ground crew F-51D - Heavy maintenance crew B-25 - Transient maintenance crew RB-29 - Assist as needed crew C-82 - Hanger crew & ground crew C-119 - Hanger crew & ground crew C-123 - Ground crew C-124 - Transient maintenance crew F-4F Panther - Transient maintenance crew F-86D - Crew chief F-86L - Crew chief Goose Air Base, Labrador (The Goose) 1959 -1960 F-89J - Crew chief and alert hanger L-20 - Crew chied TF-102 - Crew Chief F-102 - Crew chief and alert hanger Nellis AFB, Nevada 1961 F-105D - Crew Chief Minot AFB, ND 1962 - 1967 F-106A - Phase Dock F-106B - Crew chief F-89J - Turn-around chief F-101B - Turn-around chief Maintenance control 1966 - 1967 Ubon Royal Thai Air Base 1967 - 1968 F-4C - Crew chief & Phase F-4D - Crew chief & Phase George AFB, California 1968 F-4D - Crew Chief Went to Maintenance Control at George and after that and didn't work on planes. Except one time at DaNang an F-4D training situation. Will post that story separately. DaNang and Mt. Home in Maintenance Control Jim Too  |
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Post by shadowgunner on Apr 22, 2012 8:12:03 GMT 9
I'll play! Tech School 1967 462X0-4 (ADC Wpns) F101/F102 29FIS Billings,MT 1967F101B Wpns Shop Rookie, no security clearance yet, couldn't do much yet and got shipped out to Minot after 90days  Billings was just a reflex pad and it was great! Minot, not so much! 5FIS Minot AFB,ND 1968 F-106 MB-1 Shop/Wpns Load #3man Phan Rang AB, RVN 1969  AC-119G Aerial gunner Misawa AB,Japan 1969-71F4D/RF-4C Wpns Load Team Chief Hamilton/Castle AB,Ca 1972-74  F-106 Wpns Load Teamchief/Wpns Maint Shop Udorn RTAFB 1975F4D/RF-4C/F4E Wpns Maint/TODO Castle AFBCa 1976 B-52 G/H Wpns Loader Wpns Load Teamchief Fresno ANGB,Ca F-106 Wpns Load #2 man Hayward ANGB, Ca HH-3/HC-130 WpnsShop/Scanner that pretty well covers my short career.  |
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Post by Gene on Apr 22, 2012 8:14:29 GMT 9
:salute :salute to the both of you  |
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Post by LBer1568 on Apr 22, 2012 9:53:12 GMT 9
1958-1962 AC Wd45, WD17, WD 19, IH Model H and M
1962-1963 Printing Weekly Reader and Current Events for USA Schools
April 1963 Registered Mail from President of US...commonly called Draft Notice...Joined UASF instead of Army
1963 MA-1 School.
1964-1967 F-106, 32251A, 539th FIS McGuire AFB NJ
1967-1971 F-106, 32271A, ADC Weapons Center, Tyndall
1971 Cross trained into Flight Simulation career field, Chanute AFB IL
1971-1973 34271, Instructor Flight Simulations School, Chanute AFB IL
1973-1978, 34271,F-111E Flight Simuilator, RAF Upper Heyford UK
1978-1980, 34290, F-4 Flight Simulators, Spangdahlem AFB GE
1980-1983, 34290, C130/C-141 Flight Simulators, McChord AFB WA
1983-1986, 99501, Test Manager C-130/C-141/C-5 Flight Simulator Acquisition, WPAFB OH
1986-1999, (civ) Logistics Support-WPAFB OH C-130U Gunship, All C-130 Tech Data manager, Royal Saudi Air Force F-15 Tech Data manager, Air Force One Tech data manager
1999-2000, (civ) Y2K IV&V Manager, all Deptment of Interior Critical Information Systems
2000-2007 (civ) USAF Financial Information Systems Security manager
2007- Present, Chief honey Do List maintainer
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Post by steve201 (deceased) on Apr 22, 2012 12:53:49 GMT 9
   to you all ya'll.... dang.....I can't claim I worked on anything in the AF....   started out at 18 yrs old..joined the AF and after basic and got to my first pcs...I worked at nors control....then at grandforks I was assigned to msl for the FIS sqdn there....they flew f106's at both hamilton and grand forks....got transfered back to calif and travis where I was at the 60aps ....talk about boring...so...got out...went to college...got a few jobs that pretty much sucked and got hired onto Mare Island Navshpyd where I was assigned to 2340 test group...reactor plant testing for fast attack submarines... I found that job boring after the first yr and was able to transfer to the electrical systems integration group...basically I designed all the electrical systems installations into nuclear submarines...my specialty became wave guides and electrical wireways design outside the hull..did alot inside too but for here..I got drafted into a spook group (ie Ocean Engineering) designing the SSN685 USS Parche..which was used to spy on the soviets...couldn't talk about it until after they made it into razor blades and a book and movie.....(Blind mans bluff) cost me a marriage too....was working crazy long hrs and all... then moved to mississippi where I worked on the USS Kidde class destroyers....122mil dollar overhaul....also worked on the Battleship USS Wisconcin BB63 reactivation... from there we moved to Virginia where I worked on the USS Seawolf SSN21 nuclear attack submarine for 7 yrs....quietest submarine ever designed and able to do more than any submarine in history..there were only 3 boats built for the navy...SSN21,22,23.. ..the 23 boat is called the USS Jimmy Carter (don't get me started on that one) where she was converted to specops replacing the USS Parche's job of spying on our enemies...I ended up spending 17 yrs designing nuclear attack subs and surface combat ships.....then moved to boeing.... I'm one of the few people in the world that can say I've designed under the sea...on the sea...and over the sea.....  my career certainly hasn't been as great as yours..but ..it's been an adventure..... well..I guess I can claim my design experiences.... for boeing commercial airplane group...I've worked on just about every model we have in one form or another..from the 737 to the 787... I started out in 1996 working at boeing on thai airlines 747-400 Electical systems integration then went to Virgin Atlantic 747-400 electrical systems integration got transferred to customer engineering where we supported every model that boeing makes for the customer catalog and supported several options of my own....the catalog is what customer airlines chose models....engines...every option to make thier airplane as unique as the finger print.. since I'm not a degreed engineer...I don't have signature authority but would make decisions and pass it past my engineer for his signature... got laid off in 2003 for 2 yrs when the airlines all crashed and almost went under....almost closed the doors at the plant but they managed to keep going..the airlines turned around and I got rehired to the electromagnetics effects group....been the certification focal for the past 4 yrs now supporting the 787-8 composite airplane....every part that was certified had to go thru me before the AR(authorized rep. for boeing to the FAA) would look at it and sign the doc's required for type cert.......now we're starting to work on the -9 ...should be easier than the -8.. humbly... Steve
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Post by lindel on Apr 23, 2012 8:02:36 GMT 9
Tech School - 1977 - 32152A (MA-1 Flight Line)
F-106A/B - 1978 - 1979 (all but 2 weeks in the Mock Up)
Tech School - 1979 - 32152C (MA-1 Mock Up)
and there I stayed until separation in 1985
TxANG - 1988 - 1993 - 221 Combat Comm Sq. working on the TRC-97 (Wideband Radio) - lots of camping out...
Texas Instruments - 1985 - 1990 - work on several things (all DOD/foreign militia related), but mostly the display system for the Panavia Tornado.
Un/Under Employed for 2 years thanks to TI flooding the market with layoffs.
1992 - Present - Instrument Landing System specialist for the FAA.
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Post by lugnuts55 on Apr 23, 2012 10:25:18 GMT 9
I don't remember working on anything in tech school. We probably did something but I just don't remember. I do remember thinking I knew everything about airplanes when I was home on leave. Then I got to Minot on April 1970 and saw my first F-106. That's when reality hit me and I realized I barely knew anything about airplanes.
I worked on F-106A/B
F-4E
F-4D
steve201, so you didn't work on anything in the AF. It sounds like you more than made up for it after leaving the AF. You have some pretty good accomplishments there in your story. The Air Force is about airplanes, but it takes a lot of people on the ground to get one up in the air. Don't sell yourself short. You have done a lot of good with your life. Be proud of what you have done. :us_flag
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Post by steve201 (deceased) on Apr 23, 2012 10:48:42 GMT 9
steve201, so you didn't work on anything in the AF. It sounds like you more than made up for it after leaving the AF. You have some pretty good accomplishments there in your story. The Air Force is about airplanes, but it takes a lot of people on the ground to get one up in the air. Don't sell yourself short. You have done a lot of good with your life. Be proud of what you have done. nope...I worked nors control getting parts....my first few yrs were getting my blood out of my alchohol......basically every payday was chasing skirts and getting hammered....seriously though..I was a parts expediter....fork lift driver extradinaire.....I don't concider that working on airplanes....you guys were the wrenchers that were out there in all weather and hrs getting those things in the air......I'm more at awe at you guys here on this site than at anything I did......I'm only here cuz I was stationed at the units that flew the F106's...I'da given my eyeteeth (or first borne) to fly in the back seat of one..!!! :2thumbsup thanks.......all true stuff there.....I'm a small cog in a big world.... Steve |
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Post by falconkeeper on May 8, 2012 5:52:39 GMT 9
Sept-Dec 1968 Lackland (got a hernia repaired while I was there)
Dec 1968-June 1969 Lowry AFB for TAC missile school (member of drum and bugle team)
Jul-Dec 1969 McConnell AFB - F-105 - worked AIM-9Bs and AGM-12B
Jan-Dec 1970 Tahkli RTAFB, Thailand - F-105 - AIM-9E, AGM-12C, AGM-45, AGM-78
Jan 1971-Jun 1972 McConnell AFB - F-105 - worked munitions control
Jul 1972 - Dec 1975 Aviano AB, Italy - F-4 - AIM-7E, AIM-9E,J,P
Dec 1975 - Dec 1980 Minot AFB - F-106 - AIM-4F,G
Jan 1980 -Sep 1984 Tyndall AFB - FTD - AIM-4F,G, AIM-9E,J,P, AIM-7E3
Oct - Dec 1984 Keesler AFB - retraining to wideband communications
Dec 1984 - Dec 1987 Tinker AFB - 3rd Combat Comm. Group
Dec 1987 - Dec 1988 Osan AB, Korea - Combat Comm.
Retired 1 Jan 1989
Mar 1992 - Mar 1993 - missile technical advisor to Saudi Air Force at Dhahran Air Base
I got to see a good part of the world with the Air Force.
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