KC-45A Name
05-19-2008 | 05:04 AM
#51
Gets Weekends Off
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From: 757/767 FO
jeff122670's profile says he flew T-34, T-1, T-39, AT-38, F-15E ... that is, I would think, an uncommon route to a Strike Eagle. Have there been many guys/gals who went the T-1 route and then went to fighters?
Back on topic ... I don't speak French, but I did a quick search on a French-English translation site, and it appears as though "gas passer" would translate as "Essence en Passant" ... how 'bout that?
Back on topic ... I don't speak French, but I did a quick search on a French-English translation site, and it appears as though "gas passer" would translate as "Essence en Passant" ... how 'bout that?
p.s. I think that Jeff guy is a bitter IFF or RTU washout who ended up joining a guard unit as a shoe clerk. Now he's just parroting some invective he overheard from the real pilots.
Jeff, not to change the subject, but please make sure you put two slices of ham in my box lunch next time. And I really hate those BBQ flavored potato chips.
05-19-2008 | 05:43 AM
#52
Libertarian Resistance
Joined: Feb 2007
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From: 757 FO
nope, not a LT, just someone who has seen my fair share of crappy tanker fatties unable to hold altitude or have the SA to find their way out of a thunderstorm.
i will admit that there are a FEW SELDOM occasions that tanker guys have helped us out, but for the most part, they hold up their end of drinking coffee while orbiting in the tanker track while we do all the work.
hey, dont get me wrong, i think the French have done some shaddy things, but we are not talking about that here. We are talking about tankers and, in this case, a very good tanker crew that was flying a KC-135 and doing a great job. Again, like i said, they were the best tanker crew i have ever refueled from.
with regards to WW (winged wheeler), i would suggest you go back and check your facts with regards to drogue only....maybe you could read a book about it while you orbit in the tanker track, practicing your ability to hold altitude within 500 feet.
i have a pic of us on the boom...PM me for it or i will post it in the thread to prove that WW doesnt know what HE is talking about..
Cheers,
i will admit that there are a FEW SELDOM occasions that tanker guys have helped us out, but for the most part, they hold up their end of drinking coffee while orbiting in the tanker track while we do all the work.
hey, dont get me wrong, i think the French have done some shaddy things, but we are not talking about that here. We are talking about tankers and, in this case, a very good tanker crew that was flying a KC-135 and doing a great job. Again, like i said, they were the best tanker crew i have ever refueled from.
with regards to WW (winged wheeler), i would suggest you go back and check your facts with regards to drogue only....maybe you could read a book about it while you orbit in the tanker track, practicing your ability to hold altitude within 500 feet.
i have a pic of us on the boom...PM me for it or i will post it in the thread to prove that WW doesnt know what HE is talking about..
Cheers,
I am prepared to admit that I am wrong, however, as long as I have flown the KC-135, I have never known the French to do refueling other than with the drogue attached to the boom. I have seen ATO assignments with a drogue equipped US tanker refueling French fighters, but I have never heard of a French tanker refueling a non-probe and drogue receiver.
Since the French don't have any UBR equipped aircraft, they must have fairly liberal policies as far as contact currency for the boom operator.
I've spent more time on this than it deserves. I think that you are a poser and a flamebaiter. Show me where I am wrong
WW
05-19-2008 | 06:26 AM
#54
On Reserve
Joined: Apr 2008
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From: F/O
WW you are correct!! I just re-read your ealier post and didn't realize what you were gettin at. No frenchy boom receivers... Their tanker is BDA only... "recently" anyway. Can only go back to AB in the history.
05-19-2008 | 08:18 AM
#56
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From: FAA 'Flight Check'
jeff122670's profile says he flew T-34, T-1, T-39, AT-38, F-15E ... that is, I would think, an uncommon route to a Strike Eagle. Have there been many guys/gals who went the T-1 route and then went to fighters?
Back on topic ... I don't speak French, but I did a quick search on a French-English translation site, and it appears as though "gas passer" would translate as "Essence en Passant" ... how 'bout that?
Back on topic ... I don't speak French, but I did a quick search on a French-English translation site, and it appears as though "gas passer" would translate as "Essence en Passant" ... how 'bout that?
Might be that Jeff FLEW IN those aircraft on his way to becoming a WSO. Wouldn't that be the training track of an AF backseater?
USMCFLYR
05-19-2008 | 08:21 AM
#57
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From: B737 Captain
Oh it's Monday morning and Jeff is quiet. My intel suggets he's been PID'd, or is about to be. Jeff, thanks for responding to my PM. SMEE, keep fighting the good fight...also, thanks for all the good work you and your bros provide all of us receivers.
05-19-2008 | 11:46 AM
#60
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From: Retired Naval Aviator
There have been a few guys busted on the net pretending to be military aviators and in one case, a WSO pretending to be a pilot. Gotta love the net, it lets folks live out fantasy's. I outted (way to much time on my hands obviously) one individual on a car site who had an elaborate story of being a B-52 pilot shot down in the first Gulf War. Ended up, he was in the reserves, an O-6 
intel type trying to look cool.
intel type trying to look cool.
