[clamper1797]

Worked on the A7B while in VA-93 USS Midway Vietnam

[rlmorel]

I worked on A7Bs in VA46 on the Kennedy, and we transitioned to the A7E. The A7E was much better IMO, but the engine was kind of odd. It was that strangely shaped TF41 with the thermal limitation (because they had hot turbine issues on those)

VA-46, the Clansmen. I got attacked by four or five black guys down in Cecil Field...a guy kicked me in the ass from behind, and when I whirled around, the guy said “I don’t like your hat” and I said that was too damn bad, and that we were going to have at it, then the other guys came out from behind the barracks.

Funny, it had never occurred to me until now that he may well have thought “Klansmen” and “Clansmen” were the same thing. I thought he had something against our squadron.

Heh, like Steve Martin in “The Jerk”: “Hey! He hates these cans! Stay away from the cans!”

[rlmorel]

My wife and I went out to Arizona on vacation a few years back, rented us a Mustang convertible and drove around a bit… One of the places we went was the Pima air Museum. Imagine my surprise as I'm going through the aircraft exhibits and come across one of the very planes I worked on.

It was kind of a trip… :-)

[Imnidiot]

“Worked on the A7B while in VA-93 USS Midway Vietnam”

A7E, VA-25 Fist of the Fleet, USS Ranger...good ol’ days (when I was a bit younger).