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Post by daoleguy A.J. Hoehn (deceased) on Oct 22, 2007 7:06:44 GMT 9
....or is this a fact? I seemed to recall in this old mind that at Loring the MA1 guys used to love scanning the HQ building making the flouresent lights flicker at night. I think I remember hearing how the civilian night guard in the building used to freak at the lights flashing. I do recall we used to take the small gas indicator bulbs and wear them on our lapels around the aircraft. Anyone remember this?
This popped in my head last night before sleep as I thought about the IR head nitrogen fueling and how at Tyndall a Crew Chief got a charge out of flash freezing a toad in the overflow bucket. I do remember stomping LOX overflow for the small bang you could get sometimes doing it.
I think we all may be at or close to that stage in life where the "There I was...." tales get confused between fact and reality. Either way it makes for some fun and pleasurable memories.
AJ
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Post by Cougar on Nov 2, 2007 4:16:14 GMT 9
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Post by lindel on Nov 2, 2007 4:52:47 GMT 9
When the radome was off, we'd lock on to a hapless SP with the seeker head and slave the antenna to it. Used to freak them out when the antenna would follow their every move...
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Post by Mark O on Nov 2, 2007 10:27:20 GMT 9
We used to throw snowballs at the SP's when I was at Grand Forks! They would park on the line somewhere - hopefully near a KC-135 we were working on - then fall asleep in their car or 4x4. Perfect! We'd be up on the jet, notice them napping and the game was on!! It never failed!! They thought they were dreaming until they saw us laughing so hard we had to hold onto a maintenance stand to stop from falling down!
Mark
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Post by 615crewdog on Dec 23, 2007 9:05:01 GMT 9
I was at Loring from '78 to '81 and I don't recall our MA-1 guys painting any buildings. Where our alert barns was located they might have painted the BUFF nose docks but that would have been about all. I have seen them hold a 2 foot long fluorescent tube in one hand and a screwdriver in the other as they tweeked the radar set. When the light began to glow they knew the radar was working.
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Post by sixerviper on Jan 5, 2008 13:21:24 GMT 9
I've painted and locked on to Air Force One with F-16 radar before. They used to come down to Richmond and shoot touch & goes for a few hours once or twice a month and if we were running radar we'd track 'em and lock 'em. Of course, if the modern-day TSA knew how many civilian airliners we've locked onto and run missile solutions on over the years, they'd be a tad upset.
I was just an Instrument Weenie on the Six so I didn't get too much of a chance to play with its radar. I just had to do the damn pitot-static leak checks when y'all reinstalled the radome. Never understood why they couldn't have mounted that radome on a hinge like other jets.
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