F-106 Picture of the Day (Read 1,902 times)

"Hondo" and I processed onto McGuire AFB NJ at same time. I as newest MA-1 and him as new 539th FIS Commander. He later was assigned to Tyndall AFB FL him for retraining into F-106 and me as MA-1 Debriefer. When he first came into for debrief of his first mission he called out as he remembered me from 539th. He invited me to join him at Club for a breweski after work. Hondo was a large Guy...pun intended. Pilots in F-106 were not supposed to be larger than 6'2". He was 6'4". But he was allowed to fly. Something about knees during ejection would get caught in instrument panel. He would fly the six for the remainder of his tour and occasionally come down from Gunter and fly a couple to get currency.He was one of best Commander's I had during my short 23 year Career. Lorin 

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Not absolutely sure this will work, since it's from my onedrive account. You might have to click on the link to get there. It's a plaque I bought recently and got yesterday. It's 062 in 49th colors.

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Those WWI "kites" were tiny planes built to be flown by tiny-statured men - with the underpowered engines of the day even the weight of simply a second Vickers or Spandau machinegun could dramatically hurt speed and climb rate, and for this reason many of the early aviators were former horse cavalry. (Consider that the largest and heaviest ever allowed as American "pony soldiers" was 5'6" and 120lb - that weight was the absolute upper weight limit of how much man one horse could carry after all the required supplies and fighting gear were piled on. That's about my height but half my weight!)

And even with those small guys, until very late in WWI they didn't even have space or weight capacity for PARACHUTES... from the "Stuff I Work With Everyday" file.  Interesting find, thanks! Forwarded to the WWI nerds I know.

I don't care what you say Pat...VP Al Gore invented the Internet...lol

Pat, I had the pleasure of meeting both Vincent and Bob Kahn at one of the Microsoft Security Summits in early 2000's in Washington DC. Also got to talk with Bill Gates who was keynote speaker. Together Vinc and Bob created first Transmission Control Protocol which allowed packet transfers and Internet Protocol which allowed groups of networks. But one big name not talked in film was Tim Berners-Lee who created the groundwork for the World Wide Web. I think that was a much later invention and formed what we now call the Web.
DARPAnet was slowly grown, mainly in Universities and Commercial Companies. I remember using MOSAIC to "Surf" the Internet. It combined very small photo's with text. We would go from site to site with crude searches and find files, shared among users. I found a lot of interesting sites. It was also very easy to go where no man had gone before. It was easy to accidently go into DoD or other Government sites. Security was very poor at best. Most assumed if you were allowed on one you were honest and could surf. I can imagine that I would have been tracked down and sent to jail in todays world. And remember I worked my way up to 56K modem. Man was that fast back then (As compared to lesser speed ones).
God I wish I could remember a fraction of what I have known.
Lorin