posted 09-08- 06:23 PM               

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Hey Michael Harrison, please don't move this, nobody goes to the off topic section! Ok, since I cant post a pic of myself because of the Who's Who contest, here are some pics of my Dad, try to guess where I got my love of planes. Here we go in chronological order!

Here is my Dad in a T-38 cockpit during his training.

Here is a picture of my Dad in front of his bird, the one and only Double Ugly. This picture isn't the best quality due to being about 23 years old.

Here is my Dad today (foreground) working at Lockheed Martin, this about the best pic you'll find of him and his sim ( He works in a top secret facility with the JSF simulator and this isn't even the best one) the good one is in a huge dome (or so i'm told).

And finally here are some pics of some WWI models I did, the Nieuport was my fist model I did with spraypaint, the DH2 I did with a paint brush. Enjoy!

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posted 09-08- 07:09 PM               

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Great shot of the Phantom... really shows the size of that plane. It never ceases to amaze me how large that jet is.

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posted 09-08- 09:17 PM               

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I have that model of the Nieuport!

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posted 09-08- 09:28 PM               

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Nice pics!

I can't help but think BRICK when I see a phantom. That was the first plane I worked on in the USAF as a crew chief. I was pretty shocked at the shear wait of the thing when I "thought" I could go ahead and lift up the arrestor hook, even if budge the thing. It was in the down position and I almost blew out a vein trying, it was impossible. Totally solid, and that got me thinking this sucker is a flying brick! How in the hell can it even fly?

Anyways just the look of it, big and mean IMHO is so cool. I've always loved the Phantom. I actually saw one crash while living in Cairo, Egypt for a few months. Over there they had problems with the pilots punching out to quickly, rather than trying to save their planes when even a small problem was encountered. So they removed the ejection seats and viola, problem solved! Crazy ain't it (for them!). Anyhow a two ship formation took off and when the rear guy JUST got airborne a huge flame came out of one of his engines (not the afterburner btw). He climbed, started to look as if he was gonna do one pattern and land. He didn't, he kept going straight (downwind), went over a sand dune and dove straight into the ground. It was pretty dramatic.

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posted 09-08- 09:31 PM               

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Nice pics!

I can't help but think BRICK when I see a phantom. That was the first plane I worked on in the USAF as a crew chief. I was pretty shocked at the shear wait of the thing when I "thought" I could go ahead and lift up the arrestor hook, even if budge the thing. It was in the down position and I almost blew out a vein trying, it was impossible. Totally solid, and that got me thinking this sucker is a flying brick! How in the hell can it even fly?

Anyways just the look of it, big and mean IMHO is so cool. I've always loved the Phantom. I actually saw one crash while living in Cairo, Egypt for a few months. Over there they had problems with the pilots punching out to quickly, rather than trying to save their planes when even a small problem was encountered. So they removed the ejection seats and viola, problem solved! Crazy ain't it (for them!). Anyhow a two ship formation took off and when the rear guy JUST got airborne a huge flame came out of one of his engines (not the afterburner btw). He climbed, started to look as if he was gonna do one pattern and land. He didn't, he kept going straight (downwind), went over a sand dune and dove straight into the ground. It was pretty dramatic.

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posted 09-10- 03:57 AM               

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Nice pics. I'm gonna scan some pics of me and my models too, so everybody know what they laugh at when I say something stupid
Now, after I finish my 1/48 Lancaster, i'll start my Hobbycraft Nie.17!

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posted 09-10- 04:15 PM               

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A phantom pilot I have had the honor to fly with online, describes the phantom as a model some kid build, and did not wait for the glue to dry!
Crank

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posted 09-10- 05:04 PM               

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hi
i just wanna say i envy u:))
and also that phantom f4 is my favourit jet as is dodge viper (rt10s) my dream car:))

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posted 09-10- 10:49 PM               

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Giday Aladar.
yer Dad works at lockheed Martin huh? Thats cool. When did he join them?
Did he know/know of Ben Rich (sorry if it's spelt wrong)?

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posted 09-11- 01:09 AM               

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Well, Biggles my dad's been working for the Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth Texas for a few years now, but before that the plant that he works at now used to be a General Dynamics, and he worked there since I think 79 somewhere around there. He is actually quoted a number of times in the Code One magazine that lockheed puts out, the article was one the Virtual Battlefield, his name is Gene Dawson. I'll have to ask him tomarrow afternoon about the Ben guy, but I know he knew the guy that flew the First F-22 Raptor, and I think he knew the guy that crashed the F-22 Prototype. And if that isn't hard enough to believe, they are gonna get the same guy to fly the new Lockheed Martin JSF prototype. Yep, i'm pretty damn proud of my Dad. It's neat getting to hear all of his storys, one for instance, he was awarded a plaque for destroying a Firebee Drone with a dummy missle, ripped the wing clear off ! SchaF, the F-4 is my favorite jet too, never seen one fly sadly enough, he said that that sucker made LOTS of noise! We have the barrel to a gun pod similar to what is seen in the above pic (2nd from top).

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posted 09-11- 03:13 PM               

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The crash of the F-22 wasn't pilot error. It was a combination of modes in the control software that hadn't been caught in simulation. The pilot raised the gear as he applied afterburner. The control software switched from reduced authority to full authority on the stick. So suddenly instead of a slight nose up attitude that he had the stick set for, the plane pitched up violently. He got into a pilot-induced occilation and didn't have quite enough altitude to recover from it. The control software has since been changed to handle that situation more gracefully, so the pilot won't be caught off guard by a suddenly very responsive plane.

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posted 09-11- 04:04 PM               

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Mighty, my Dad gave me a very detailed explination (as he was a pilot), what happened was a PIO, he was constantly trying to correct, and each time would over compensate, if the pilot had simply let go of the control stick and let the plane climb he would have been ok.

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posted 09-12- 01:48 PM               

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Yes, it was PIO, but the official report didn't list it as pilot error. My information comes from an article in Aviation Week.

Let's put it this way. You're less than 100 feet from the ground and descending and the nose of the plane isn't doing what you expect. Are you going to let go of the stick and see if it settles down on its own before hitting the ground? Have you seen the video? The entire incident only lasts about five seconds.

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posted 09-12- 02:24 PM               

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BTW, here's the video. http://www4.ncsu.edu/~caltino/videos!.htm It appears the PIO lasted about seven seconds, probably less than 50 feet off the deck.

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