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DS10.1
VF-154 F8Ds coming
into the break on USS Coral Sea |
DS10.2 VF-154 F-8Ds - about 1965: 10
seconds of inverted flight |
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DS10.3 F8D from VF-154 on cat #1 USS
Coral Sea - probably mid 1960s |
DS10.4 Mom and Jim at China Lake
1967, drone control DF-8A |
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DS10.5 Chase
Field, Tx - Jim is back from his last F-11 flight |
DS10.6 Chase
Field, Tx - Dad and Jim on the flight line: Jul '63 |
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DS10.7
LT Chuck Tinker and Jim at Chanute Field with a TF-9J - spring '63 |
DS10.8
TF-9J trainer at Beeville - 1963 |
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DS10.9 F8D 20mm guns firing /
purge doors open / AIM-9D / droops down |
DS10.10 The F8 NAS Glenview tuckunder
break boys |
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DS10.11 Dick Ferg and Jim in F8Es at
NAS Glenview - Mar 66 |
DS10.12 Pre-Flight Graduation - May
1962: Jim B. #5 in line |
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DS10.13
F8C tanking with an A4
tanker - a
routine event during Viet Nam fiasco |
DS10.14 Mom and Jim at NAS
Pensacola School of Preflight graduation |
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DS10.15 VF-154 F8Ds inverted
formation - this can be really "dangersome" |
DS10.16 USS Oriskany intentionally
sunk to make a reef |
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DS10.17 F8 coming up on an A3 tanker
for a drink - a routine event in the Viet Nam misunderstanding |
DS10.18
Phil's first "high roller"
was the F-111 attack aircraft - supersonic** |
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DS10.19
Phil graduated to the
front seat of the F-15E Strike Eagle - this is mucho supersonic** |
DS10.20
Phil was a B-52 BUF
navigator for 22 months - 30+ hour flights in a cramped navigator's
cubby hole without windows to look out |
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Supersonic
... Many aircraft can fly faster than the speed of
sound
link ... ergo
supersonic. Associated with this are "normal" (or
standing normal) shocks, oblique shocks and
expansion waves. Under certain conditions (robust
happy hour, good atmospherics, night and a neophyte
audience) there can also be a "BS" shock. The BS
shock dictates that, after flying fast enough and
long enough, the aircrews will have to wait several hours after landing for the sound waves to catch up
... and allow any in-flight transmissions to be
heard. Phil has had so much supersonic time that the
sound waves from his last F-15E flight just caught up a week ago, last
Thursday! |
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DS10.21
Phil checked out in the
C-130: highly versatile but
severely subsonic |
DS10.22 Here's Phil in the
driver's seat of a C-130 - his smile indicates that "lunch" is on
the way! |
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DS10.23
Jim graduates from Preflight - 1962. Capt J. G. Hedrick was the CO |
DS10.24
Jim arrives at NAS
Glenview - Matt and Jill greet him |
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DS10.25
Jim in an F-8 cockpit at China Lake - ready for a weapons test hop |
DS10.26
Jim in
south
of San Antonio in 1963, Steerman crop-duster - Jul 63 |
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DS10.27 VF-162 F-8E USS
Oriskany Yankee Station - ready to hunt MIGs in North Viet NamS10.25 |
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