The Down Range Forum
Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: MikeBjerum on January 15, 2010, 10:03:16 AM
-
I found this while cleaning files over the weekend, and I thought it needed a thread of its own.
I know Dof, and am good friends with his father and his younger brother who now runs the business. This was from 1992. Dof was in it from the first night run. The morning after, while his mother was fretting over a missing F-18, he called home, said he was fine, and they would not hear from him for at least a week ... No news would be good news!
After his discharge several years later he and his wife, a Navy F-14 front seater, became commercial pilots.
(http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e330/m58/Scannedat1-15-20109-48AM.jpg)
There are several good stories that come from a "retired" pilot. Two happened fairly close to home, and one I witnessed - It appears that on your final flight across country before discharge you can get away with a few things ;D Another one has to do with an "unrestricted take off" and the veiw of this manuever by civilian airport control towers.
Dof also explained the difference between a "smart bomb" and dumb bombs like he carried. He could only put his in the box of a pickup going down the highway at 60 mph. If you wanted to take the rearview mirror off without hurting the pickup or scratching the paint ... well ... you need to call his wife for that.
-
Great story m58. ;D
hoorah!!!!
-
Good stuff.... We have a company called McVeigh Remodeling here in town....
-
We love our Marines (yeah, I'm ex-Navy, but we still love our USMC) Kudos to the caption writer, too. Dude has a sense of humor as well. Semper Fi, my brothers.
-
I like that. ;D
-
I found this while cleaning files over the weekend, and I thought it needed a thread of its own.
I know Dof, and am good friends with his father and his younger brother who now runs the business. This was from 1992. Dof was in it from the first night run. The morning after, while his mother was fretting over a missing F-18, he called home, said he was fine, and they would not hear from him for at least a week ... No news would be good news!
After his discharge several years later he and his wife, a Navy F-14 front seater, became commercial pilots.
(http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e330/m58/Scannedat1-15-20109-48AM.jpg)
There are several good stories that come from a "retired" pilot. Two happened fairly close to home, and one I witnessed - It appears that on your final flight across country before discharge you can get away with a few things ;D Another one has to do with an "unrestricted take off" and the veiw of this manuever by civilian airport control towers.
Dof also explained the difference between a "smart bomb" and dumb bombs like he carried. He could only put his in the box of a pickup going down the highway at 60 mph. If you wanted to take the rearview mirror off without hurting the pickup or scratching the paint ... well ... you need to call his wife for that.
Mrs. T's brother is a partner in a company that makes everything for the smart bombs except the part that goes "boom". During the shock and awe phase of the Iraq war, he and his partner were watching TV, going "cha-ching" everytime one of the bombs dropped.
-
I see Capt. Donovan, was part of the 72 Virgin Coordinators Executive Committee. Sweet...
;D
It appears that on your final flight across country before discharge you can get away with a few things
I have heard the sonic booms from those pilots on their "discharge" flights when I lived in NC. They would rip south down the coast and really enjoyed "burning some fuel".... 8)
"Request permission for a fly by"
"Negative Ghost Rider, The Pattern Is Full"""""
;D
Couldn't help it,.....buzzing the tower at over 400 knots is just something I've dreamed about...
-
I see Capt. Donovan, was part of the 72 Virgin Coordinators Executive Committee. Sweet...
;D
It appears that on your final flight across country before discharge you can get away with a few things
I have heard the sonic booms from those pilots on their "discharge" flights when I lived in NC. They would rip south down the coast and really enjoyed "burning some fuel".... 8)
"Request permission for a fly by"
"Negative Ghost Rider, The Pattern Is Full"""""
;D
Couldn't help it,.....buzzing the tower at over 400 knots is just something I've dreamed about...
I don't know what elevation he was trying for, but he went right down the main highway through town. About a mile out of town there is a grain elevator that has 120' silos, and a forty foot head house above that. When he turned to come back I could not see him behind the elevator! We also have a 400' TV tower across the street from the old office, and he had to twist and turn to miss it.
Then there are the reports of when he buzzed his dad and brothers in the field where they were tiling. Out in the wide open he could get really low!
-
It never hurts to advertise!