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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

St. Louis Art Museum Lawn 20th Anniversary of 9/11
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It's a bit of a catch-22. Though it may also motivate Democrats to leave the state and/or not move there in the first place. Locust repellant.
I don't think the people who can't afford to travel out of state for an abortion will be moving out of state instead. Only time will tell, but this may be a very expensive win for Texas Republicans, especially in 2024.
 
Spent many hours in that position in the back seat of an F-4.
Only there was no door to crawl out of.
It was really bad trying to do that in Saudi in August...

If you don't mind an "off topic" question (just curious)-

IIRC, the F-4 was one of the last fighter jets of its kind that had GPU startup (as opposed to APU). Did you ever consider that a disadvantage when operating it? Were you ever "at risk" in the event of a double engine failure while airborne and not being able to restart?
 
I don't think the people who can't afford to travel out of state for an abortion will be moving out of state instead. Only time will tell, but this may be a very expensive win for Texas Republicans, especially in 2024.
Not in 2024, unless newborn babies finally get to vote. In a couple generations if we don’t get on track, then yes absolutely.
 
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If you don't mind an "off topic" question (just curious)-

IIRC, the F-4 was one of the last fighter jets of its kind that had GPU startup (as opposed to APU). Did you ever consider that a disadvantage when operating it? Were you ever "at risk" in the event of a double engine failure while airborne and not being able to restart?

GPU starting was probably a probably a pain for the ground crews (I flew them) but it always worked great. From a ground perspective, I think all maintenance was a pain in the ass and we highly respected and appreciated all the crews.

As far as in the air, the J79 was one of the toughest engines ever made. I could go from idle to military power in under a second, in jest FOD, and compressor stall with no indication in the cockpit (when pushed way beyond it design airflow limits) and no damage. The only way you’d get a double engine failure is if you ran it out of fuel or got both engines shot up. It was an incredible aircraft.
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Dropping live CBU on Leach Lake range, Fort Irwin, CA. Approximately mid 87.
 
GPU starting was probably a probably a pain for the ground crews (I flew them) but it always worked great. From a ground perspective, I think all maintenance was a pain in the ass and we highly respected and appreciated all the crews.

As far as in the air, the J79 was one of the toughest engines ever made. I could go from idle to military power in under a second, in jest FOD, and compressor stall with no indication in the cockpit (when pushed way beyond it design airflow limits) and no damage. The only way you’d get a double engine failure is if you ran it out of fuel or got both engines shot up. It was an incredible aircraft.
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Dropping live CBU on Leach Lake range, Fort Irwin, CA. Approximately mid 87.

Thanks much. I ask, because I did see a movie once that involved a double engine failure due to an (indicated) fire. Remember the "Great Santini" where they flew F-4's?



This video is all of the major flying scenes in the film. Skip to 05.54 for the scene in question.
 
GPU starting was probably a probably a pain for the ground crews (I flew them) but it always worked great. From a ground perspective, I think all maintenance was a pain in the ass and we highly respected and appreciated all the crews.

As far as in the air, the J79 was one of the toughest engines ever made. I could go from idle to military power in under a second, in jest FOD, and compressor stall with no indication in the cockpit (when pushed way beyond it design airflow limits) and no damage. The only way you’d get a double engine failure is if you ran it out of fuel or got both engines shot up. It was an incredible aircraft.
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Dropping live CBU on Leach Lake range, Fort Irwin, CA. Approximately mid 87.

Could always go old school...but be advised, they stink to high Heaven.


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Not in 2024, unless newborn babies finally get to vote. In a couple generations if we don’t get on track, then yes absolutely.
I was think more that it could be energizing the opposition and increasing their voter turn out.
 
Thanks much. I ask, because I did see a movie once that involved a double engine failure due to an (indicated) fire. Remember the "Great Santini" where they flew F-4's?

This video is all of the major flying scenes in the film. Skip to 05.54 for the scene in question.

I’ve never heard of that kind of failure. We had an F4 fly home after all the engine hangers broke and they were laying on the engine bay doors (over G during a night range bomb run). I flew an aircraft from Moffet to Salt Lake with fuel pouring on the engines with no problems (navy over pressurized and broke all the seals on the internal tanks).

There were other types of fires we had but they were not really engine related. Like I said earlier, shot up aircraft would burn but you could fly them a while before you had to give them back to the taxpayers.
 
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