"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
11/08/2013 at 20:27 • Filed to: Planelopnik
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"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
11/08/2013 at 20:27 • Filed to: Planelopnik | 0
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F-100 Super Sabre launching from a truck.
Mason-Dixon
> f86sabre
11/08/2013 at 21:01 |
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My uncle works for the USAF collecting data from experimental aircraft. He has some great stories about the different types of oddball ways the engineers tried to get a plane airborne without a runway (mostly from the Cold War).
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f86sabre
> Mason-Dixon
11/08/2013 at 21:11 |
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Collect them and get them up here. Type them out or put the video on youtube. Save the stories!
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Mason-Dixon
> f86sabre
11/08/2013 at 21:23 |
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I was fortunate enough to have parents who encouraged me to record our family's aviation stories at a young age while everyone was still alive. My grandpa was in the Flying Tigers, my great uncle was a Doolittle Raider (and was later imprisoned in Stalag Luft III, made famous by The Great Escape) , my uncle went through SFTI "TOPGUN," and another uncle is a professional biplane stunt pilot. So I guess you could say I have aviation in my blood. I've been saving up for years for flight school.
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f86sabre
> Mason-Dixon
11/08/2013 at 21:28 |
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Props (tee hee) to your parents for encouraging your parents for encouraging you to record those stories. Sounds like some impressive stuff. You should really share some of them on Oppo. Would love to read them.
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Mason-Dixon
> f86sabre
11/08/2013 at 21:35 |
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I shall grant your request. When I go home over Thanksgiving, I will reacquaint myself with the details of the interview. I'll post a cool Doolittle Raid story for y'all about crash landing a B-25 in Japan—and surviving.
ttyymmnn
> f86sabre
11/09/2013 at 01:26 |
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That was such a wild time of experimentation and development. Driven by the Cold War, the military and engineers came up with some truly wacky ways to get weapons where they might be needed. Budgets were seemingly endless, as were the ideas. What an era for flight.
And think of those guys who climbed into the cockpits. That must have been one hell of a kick in the ass when the rocket fired.