"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
10/25/2013 at 17:58 • Filed to: Planelopnik
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
10/25/2013 at 17:58 • Filed to: Planelopnik | 1
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A terribly slow day at Dyess AFB today. Two hours of reading and cigar smoking yielded only a couple of T-1A Jayhawks doing touch-and-gos. The T-1A Jayhawk is a medium-range, twin-engine jet trainer used by the US Air Force's Air Education and Training Command to train student pilots to fly airlift or tanker aircraft. The Jayhawk is a version of the Hawker Beechcraft 400A. It has cockpit seating for an instructor and two students and is powered by twin turbofan engines capable of an operating speed of Mach .73. The T-1A differs from its commercial counterpart with a single-point refueling system with greater capacity and increased bird strike protection in the windshield and leading edges for sustained low-level operation. This particular aircraft is from the 47th Flight Training Wing at Laughlin AFB near Del Rio, TX.
Osiris - I can haz Euro spec?
> ttyymmnn
10/25/2013 at 18:15 |
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I love it when Air Force stuff leaks over! Granted I don't fly planes, but I still get all giddy like a kid when I see our F-22's taking off! Not to mention the C-130's, C-5's, Blackhawks and more!
Dunnik
> ttyymmnn
10/25/2013 at 18:19 |
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"And when not being used as a primary trainer, Air Force generals use it to send their mistresses to Paris to do a bit of shopping."
Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
> ttyymmnn
10/25/2013 at 18:49 |
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That program has had more names than Liz Taylor. Starting as the Mitsubishi Diamond, then the Beech 400, then Hawker 400 (then bankruptcy). Now Nextant takes them and rebuilds them as the 400XTi with glass panels, new interiors and Williams FJ44 engines, making them the fastest light jet with a high speed cruise of .7M. Btw, are you ATC at Dyess?
M54B30
> ttyymmnn
10/25/2013 at 18:53 |
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Ah, Dyess. Greetings from Ellsworth, the other B1 wing. We have had lots of B-52s in our area the last few months, they're doing runway repairs soon at Minot so they'll be doing some ops from here.
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ttyymmnn
> Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
10/25/2013 at 19:03 |
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Not at all. I'm a trumpet player and avid plane spotter. I come up to Abilene about once a month to play with the orchestra. In my free time, I usually go hang out at a park right off the runway and see what's going on, smoke some cigars and take some pictures.
Jayhawk Jake
> ttyymmnn
10/25/2013 at 19:22 |
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Hey, it stole my name...