For a while here at Shaw AFB and at the Marine Corp Air Station in Beaufort the sign with the base name at each location had a slogan. “The noise you hear is the sound of freedom”. Very well said. Shaw at the time had F4’s,F16’s and MCAS had f-18 Hornets.
Steven
F4’s are nothing but a little noise and a lot of smoke! Try busting down Arizona Hwy 277 between Heber and Snowflake in a ‘73 Gran Torino, windows down, 351C ticking over about 3800 in “top gear” for an FMX and a 3.00 rear chunk, girlfriend in a snap-front western shirt practically sitting in your lap; when (you never hear it coming) the earth starts vibrating and you’re practically flipped upside-down by the jet-wash as a freakin’ B-52 barely clears the car’s roof on a “nap of the earth” practice run. You let the car slow, pull off the road, check your underwear, push all the fillings back in your teeth, re-snap up her shirt; and keep on going, just a lot more slowly.
After the initial shock of experiencing that flyover, her general attitude changed A LOT for the rest of the day; so much so that we had to pull off down a dirt road and “unwind”.
Twice.
I was 20, that day she accepted my THIRD marriage proposal; so it must have been 1982. If I ever find that BUFF pilot; Imagonna buy him a beer. Or 20 beers. My wife (who was my girlfriend/fiancee in 1982) can drive us home.
Oh yeah, Bones are awesome, sort of like a C5 or C6 'Vette or a G6 or “new GTO”. But a big old '52, even just sitting there dripping on the apron, droopy wings taking up space that could be occupied by a couple-three Bones; that Big Ugly Fat F**er is just impressive as Hll.
Which would you rather drive, a C6 Vette or New GTO; or maybe, say… Gunner.
Then one could keep the sticker intact on the port wheel as well! But I kinda doubt there’s enough “gull” in the wing (or height in the gear strut) to keep from making a big loud "SC-CC-CRR-AAAA-AA-PPE! sound just before the bird turns into the weeds
Uhhhhhh, waitaminute… If the prop is at midline of the fuse; it’s gonna arc up and to the right while you’re trying to unicycle the poor thing down the runway! (Or is it left? Gotta get a good pic of a stationary Corsair to look at prop pitch and determine rotation)
Whichever is the case, you could throw in a lot of opposite stick to counteract the torque roll.
Theoretically.
If you had arms the size of 200-year-old redwood tree trunks.
Before the (over) loaded gear strut folds up like origami.
LOL…we had one based in OKC while I worked my way through school…WWII vet owned/flew it, when he wasn’t putting it up as collateral for another oil well drilling. According to him, it would, “flip right over, and fold itself up”…:shrug:…I believed him.
LOL!! Afraid I have no info on any of them. Found a memory card laying in the floor by the front door one day at work (restaurant) and after no one called looking for one, took it home a few days later. Curiosity got the better of me, so checked it out and all the pics on it were from a car show somewhere sometime. I was hoping someone on here would recognize some of the cars and could at least tell where it was at. There are some more pics of the truck and the (I also think it is a Nash) and I will try to post them tonight when I get home from work. The Nash has a chute on the back of it!! There are some other very cool looking cars on it also that I will probably post later.