Eh. I could do a better job now, I should recapture it!
Posted on 10/31/2022 3:58:53 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Eh. I could do a better job now, I should recapture it!
Yup, the big ol’ girl... One of the prettiest things I’ve ever seen (as a Navy guy)
Yes I do. I much preferred working fighter types, A-10s, F-15s, F-16s, T-38s. They did exactly what we told them to do, when we told them to do it. F-35s and F-22s, were not yet in the inventory, when I retired. I worked heavies at Travis. They were big and slow, but it seemed to take forever to follow instructions. We had parallel runways, end to end. We used to run the fighters 500 feet over top of the heavies. It was exciting. 🤪🤗🤭
Have you forgotten about the AN-124 airplane?
"The Antonov An-124 Ruslan (Ukrainian: Ан-124 Руслан; Russian: Антонов Ан-124 Руслан, lit. 'Ruslan'; NATO reporting name: Condor) is a large, strategic airlift, four-engined aircraft that was designed in the 1980s by the Antonov design bureau in the Ukrainian SSR, then part of the Soviet Union (USSR). The An-124 is the world's 2nd heaviest gross weight production cargo airplane and heaviest operating cargo aircraft, behind the destroyed one-off Antonov An-225 Mriya (a greatly enlarged design based on the An-124) and the Boeing 747-8.[4] The An-124 remains the largest military transport aircraft in service.[5] The lead designer of the An-124 (and the An-225) was Viktor Tolmachev.[6] "
Yes, I recall-you were ATC?
LOL, of course you were ATC, it is only in your tagline!
Affirmative sir 🤪 I forgot to mention, C-130 drivers, were almost as responsive as fighter pilots. It’s the heavy pilots that caused us problems. It was exciting, however, running fighters, in the over head pattern, 500 above the heavies, in the conventional pattern.
Vietnam, was an absolute nightmare. Sometimes I miss ATC, and other times, I wonder how I survived as long as I did.
A MASSIVE landing ...
((sorry, not really related to your thread but it is funny))
Thank you for your service, and Welcome Home sir!
Funny-I can see how in the “old days” that must have been a hair-raising job, but I always thought that with computer programs available now that it must be less so.
Until, of course, I consider they might be running on Windows which could blue-screen at any time, just to keep things...spicy!
I retired in 88. We didn’t use computers at all. The centers did, to generate IFR clearances. They might use computers more now, but I just don’t know exactly what they use now. They still use radar. When I was in, we were using broadband radar. Now, they use narrow band radar. It’s pretty nice. I have been out of the loop so long, I don’t really know how they are doing it now, but the computers don’t control the aircraft. The controller still does it.
Some have.
I used to commute through a training area for them and have had them in my rear view mirror, low over me, and one day, beneath me and in front.
A mile back, not massive.
Approaching close, massive.
Passing by, beneath, maybe 100 yards away, kind of big.
Beneath was from Indian Head, an rock formation at the south end of Franconia Notch in NH.
Two A-10s flew by me about 100 yards out and 100 yards below.
I think one of the pilots and I saw one another as he glanced up just as he went by.
Fat Albert is what we called the C-5 in the Air Force, like Warthog is to A-10, not the name of one plane.
That’s interesting. It seemed to me an area that would have exploited computers, and even AI, but...knowing what I do about them...er, maybe not!
Very interesting though.
Very nice thank you.
Let’s hear it for Ike.
Didn’t the Antonov get blowed up?
In the early to mid 90s my office was near Dobbins AIr Reserve Base, which is co-located with a huge Lockheed-Martin facility. Of course, this was the plant that built the C-5, and every now and then one would show up. They were pretty amazing on final approach, they were so big they seemed to move so slowly they must fall out of the sky. Of course they didn’t, but the size really affected your perception of motion.
Agree, but it does have a BIG GUN. smile.
Ship into the wind and underway helps.
That is a Huge bird to land on a carrier.
The only AN-225 did. There are many AN-124's.
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