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Good catch. I remembered it being vice versa. Must be a different plane I'm thinking of.

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Maybe a P-39 Aircobra. I believe they had a nose cannon.

Could always ask 777, I think he started out in those. :)

Sitting on my back porch enjoying my morning coffee and one of these little guys comes rolling by pushing his poop ball.
Never seen one in action but I gotta say I’m pretty impressed. After a little research come to find out that they can push around something 1,000 times their weight. Roughly the equivalent of me pushing six fully loaded semi’s.



Ain’t that some shite…


( Edit…I guess his walk-in music would be “They see me ROLLING….”)

:)

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Were those j79s on a certain number of hours for SOAP sampling or was it on a case-by-case basis?

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IIRC J-79’s were one of the few two engine birds tested every flight. SR-71’s were usually every flight. All single engine birds (F-16, F-106, etc)were SOAP’d every flight F-15’s with the F-100 engine were every other flight I believe, but not sure on that one.
Before I joined Engine shop used to handle the SOAP program but because they had a tendency to stretch the trends over the line they took it out of their realm of responsibilty and put it on the NDI labs shoulders.

I can still hear that old SOAP AE unit buzzing in my ears LOL

Felt my nuts pulling back up into my body those last two minutes of the run.

Anyone figure out when he hit the marmot during his run?

That's a good-un Spots...I'm guessing @ 9 1/2-10 ft ?

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I've helped do some significant damage to the ale inventory in several Lakenheath area pubs

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East Anglian Beer/cider sales dropped 57% upon my PCS out of the country, or so I heard.
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newspaper
what is this?

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That medium of dispensing information that came along well after you got out of H.S.

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what Ben Rich would have said about stealth

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Highly recommend his book “Skunk Works”……great read on him, and Kelly Johnson as well.

Did I ever mention I spent the better part of a week inside an SR-71 doing inspections. ;)

On my second 3.0 Silverado as well

Fantastic truck. 3.0 is the best engine going for anybody not towing > 7,000 lbs.
Smooth, quiet and great mpg. Tows my full size bassboat like it’s not back there.

Best truck out there.

Would just recommend a full drain/refill of the trans fluid every 50K miles if towing on a regular basis. But ten-speed trans is solid match for the 3.0.

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I was talking to another friend of mine when I got that verbal lashing.

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I woulda had to kill a m-f for being disrespekted like dat.
Be talking to me like dat out here on da skreet……. Ma-a-a-a-n-n-n-n