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Looking for gouge? Ask your Stupid Questions about Naval Aviation here (Part 1)
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We tried that a couple of times @ night for "practice EMCON" in the '70's on one of my ships.
Guys were looking for any and all excuses to get out of THOSE recoveries. Talk about a shit-storm behind the ship.
We did them day and night daily during work-ups and North Atlantic cruises in 82 and 85 while Tu-95 Bears and all sorts of other friendly Red air were trying to hunt us down. Gave the E-2 frontseaters something to do. Wasn't easy, but E-2 guys made it work.
We're about to take a couple out to the woodshed and torture them before shooting them (they get one more chance to get with the program)
Probably a wall in several of the Boeing heads .... ??
Can't remember if it was Convair, NARF North Island, or Sundstrand Turbomach, since I worked at all those places.
We tried that a couple of times @ night for "practice EMCON" in the '70's on one of my ships.
Guys were looking for any and all excuses to get out of THOSE recoveries. Talk about a shit-storm behind the ship.
It was about as much use (then) as practicing bleeding ...
It's one of those things Hawkeye guys generally don't like doing - too much procedural crap and the APS-145 isn't worth shit for any kind of precision approach. Update rate's just too slow. If you've got a Hawkeye 2000 and the CEC stars align, it can be pretty money. We can actually control our own approach...that'll blow some minds.
Anyway. We train to it in the RAG, do it in the simulators in the Fleet, a fair bit during workups and once in a blue moon on cruise.
All the Hummer really has to do is get 'em to " 3/4 of a mile, CALL THE BALL" ....
But again; it was 30+ years ago ... I would hope that the personnel and hardware are a little more up to the task today vice in days of yore ...
Hummers and their potential always amazed me, though ... in a WAR at SEA scenario w/ the Rooskies ... some Ensign NFO in the back of an E-2 could be running us and running the whole damn war while the ship was in EMCON.
Truly amazing when one ponders that scenario ...
Is the Air Force the only service that requires its UAV pilots ( operators ) to be rated aviators?
Harrier Dude
Living the dream
Yes.
Ahhhh ... there's your first mistake. Listening to engineers ...
Hey wait a minute! We find problems you didn't even know you had.
(And you were getting along just fine before we showed up.)Steve
Har har, there's one quote I like to think about as well:
"Philosophers and historians may talk about the world, but engineers build it."
"Sigh"... we'll never win.
(Gotta go find my slide rule…. BTW… Have you seen my "pocket protecter?) Steve
"And thank God that hard men are willing to stand on a wall to defend it ... "
I heard that somewhere ... write it down.
I thougt it was philosophers and historians populate it...
What have you built?
Me... well lots of stuff. Runways at Langley, Andrews, Dulles, Patrick Henry and National to mention a few.
Steve
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