mexicanbobSteve,
Go for Red Bull and Vodka! It gets the job done and supports the warbird industry!
I’m a government employee so I can’t afford very expensive tastes. A bottle of Thunderbird or Mad Dog 20/20 wrapped in a paper sack always makes for a fun evening!
mexicanbobI’ve got two theories, but I think either one could be the truth.
#1: I had a friend that was a Captain for Braniff Airlines. He started out on Boeing 247s and retired on 747s. He told me ,probably 20 years ago, that they were called jump seats beacause when you got a checkride from one of the chief check pilots he would sometimes sit in the extra seat to observe you. When you got a checkride that you didn’t expect, it was called “being jumped”. Since that was the check pilots seat, it became the jump seat.
On C-17s in the Air Force today, depending on what kind of checkride you’re getting, the evaluator may sit in the pilot or co-pilot seat. Or, he may sit in one of the two other seats on the flight deck. The two extra seats are called the LACM (lackum) and RACM (Rackum) seats, it stands for Left Additional Crew Member and Right Additional Crew Member. Very few people that fly the C-17’s refer to them as jump seats. Today, pilot and loadmaster evaluators still show up to airplanes un-announced to administer checkrides to crewmembers. I am required to do a certain number every year in addition to the normal scheduled checkrides. According to the regulations that govern these chekrides, they are officially called No-Notice checkrides. But we all refer to it as “jumping”.
Something else, the Crew Rest Additional Crew Member seats just behind the flight deck are called CRACM(Crackum). When we run the checklists, these are how you are refered to: Pilot, Copilot, LACM, RACM, CRACM, and Loadmaster. Assuming you have all the seats filled. It’s actually just a three man flight crew. When performing emergency procedures, the pilot and copilot are refered to as PF and PNF, Pilot Flying and Pilot Not Flying. The actual AC( aircraft commander) may be sitting anywhere on the plane and the guy sitting in the left hand seat may very well be the Copilot. It was much simpler on the C-130! Sorry to go on so long about this. It just struck me as something that might have been of interest to somebody!
#2: When an FAA or airline employee are depending on using a commercial airline as a means to travel on official business, they often don’t know if they will actually have a seat until the last minute. So, they basically “jump on” at the last minute. Since they often ride on the flight deck, it’s called the Jump seat.
I tend to put more faith in #1.
mexicanbobPluto- It’s been told that the military is severly strongarmed into supporting the current administration- even to the point where officers stand outside the voting booth to remind them of who they are supposed to be voting for- I wouldn’t take much stock in their “support” for the pres. and co.
That statement is without a doubt the single stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. (No offense intended) I’ve never seen or heard of that and I’ve been in the military a day or two. In fact, I know for certain that anybody that tried that in the military would be in serious trouble.
Why can’t people just face the fact that the majority of people in the military are supporters of President Bush?
mexicanbobYou mean after it had been passed by the censors and the military re-writers?
Guess Mexicanbob sits on one side of the Atlantic and France appears, to him, to be unsupportive.Flood
Nope, I’m sitting on the other side of the Pacific right now. My military travels don’t allow me to sit on the western side of the Atlantic too much.
I’ve been to all seven continents, well over 100 countries, and swam in most oceans. Been involved in five major military operations. Hati(I know, we turned around before we landed), Bosnia, Somolia, Afghanistan and Iraq. Been involved in most of the peace keeping, humanitarian and training exercises from the last decade.
No matter where I sit in the world or what I’m doing, one thing never seems to change. France appears , to me, to be unsupportive.
Doesn’t mean I don’t like many French people. Doesn’t mean I don’t like to visit France. It just means that I don’t like the French government.
My original post wasn’t intended to be a political statement. Wasn’t intended to be an offense to any WWII Veterans. It’s simply a view of the modern press. With or without the military re-writers and censors.
Mr Grey Area, please tell me the significance of today. Now that I think about it, you’re probably talking about the liberaton of Auswitz. True, that was on the 27th. However, contrary to what it says the time of my original post was, it was the morning of the 28th. I’m in Tokyo. Either way, my original post had nothing to do with that.
mexicanbobAnd it’s spelled “Adolf”, not “Adolph”.
Sheesh!!! :rolleyes:
Sorry, should have ran the spell checker! I didn’t proof read for spelling, just a simple copy and paste. :rolleyes:
mexicanbobNope, the plan is to leave it like it is. That’s all subject to change as stuff progresses.
mexicanbobBuNo 92436, FG1D belonging to the Olympic Flight Museum. Used to belong to the Canadian Warplane Heritage.
mexicanbobWasn’t the P47 designed with an ashtray in the cockpit – or is that another myth?
Flood
My C-17’s have Ashtrays in them.
mexicanbobReally very surprising they don’t bring more money, considering the price of most combat aircraft from the era. Most T-28s sell for more money than the average TBM.
They look good, fly good, haul several people and gear…besides being slow what am I missing?
Steve,
If you decide you are really interested in one, let me know. I’ve got an extra pilot’s manual and checklist I’ll be glad to give you.
mexicanbobfollowing that I’m gonna try an incredibly sentimental/soppy look at the now defunct Breckenridge Airshow in Texas, an article I have wanted to do for a few years…it MAY appear in WD in the future…
Mark
Ah yes…Breckenridge. Without a doubt, the greatest warbird airshow ever. I believe that the mid to late 80’s were the glory days of warbirds. I made it to all but the first and last ones. I sure did hate to see it come to an end.
mexicanbobI’ve always loved TBM’s. My very first plane ride was in the turret of the one Howard Pardue owned. It was a long circle around the patch, but just about 20 years later I was photographed running the engine on one after doing some hydraulic work. This is N337GA up in Arlington Washington about two years back. I think they are the most practical warbirds to own, outside of the trainers. I don’t personally find it as nice as the Skyraider, but I do love it so!
mexicanbobIf we could work around the Bearcat topic once more….
Around the mid to late 1980s, I remember reading in a “Texas Monthly” magazine about the 20th anniversery of Charles Whitman climbing the tower at the University of Texas in Austin. He shot and killed at least a dozen people before he was killed by the Austin police. I specifically remember reading where somebody from the Confederate Air Force offered to fly a WWII fighter with a machine gun up to Austin to “get that fella out of the tower”. The only reason I remember it is because I wondered if they only had one gun since it said machine gun versus machine guns.
No I don’t think the early CAF guys were a bunch of survivalists, I just thought it was an interesting story.
mexicanbobIn the mid-80’s Connie Edwards told me his theory on dealing with criminals:
“When somebody gets caught commiting a crime, cut off the first joint of their little finger. Before too long, they’ll either stop their life of crime, or be picking their nose with their big toe”.
My Dad’s theory: “Shoot the criminal in the head and send their family the bill for the bullet”.
The first time I went to Saudi Arabia (1992?) I flew over there in a KC-135. We landed in Riyadh early on a Friday morning. A Chaplin came on board to welcome us to the country and let us know that the Saudi’s would behead eight people downtown, shortly after the noon time prayer. Apparantly because of Ramadan, there was a backlog of work for the executioner. It was public and we could go if we wanted, but he had to warn us that there were no physchological services available at the base if we couldn’t handle what we saw. I didn’t go that day because I had to work. But I did go see two beheadings about a month later. If I had been a criminal, what I saw that day would have changed my ways.
mexicanbobAndy,
Somehow I knew you had to be talking about my good friend Gary Austin. He’s without question one of the best warbird mechanics I’ve ever known or worked with. I helped him change an engine on FiFi a few months ago in North Carolina and I’m going home to Texas in February to help him work on her for a week or so.
mexicanbob[QUOTE=srpatterson]
Maybe he’s still ticked off about me marrying his daughter? QUOTE]
This story has nothing to do with anything, I just thought about it when I read about your father-in-law.
Early one morning, a few years ago, my dad and I stopped by my sister’s house to pick my brother-in-law up for a hunting trip. This is the conversation that happened within thirty seconds of leaving the house:
Brother-in-law: “Guess what I did last night?”
Dad: “What?”
Brother-in-law: “I had sex with your daughter!”
We pulled over on the side of the road to clean up the coffee that Dad and I both spit on the windshield and realized that since my sister had been married for several years, this probably wasn’t the first time such a thing had happened. I thought it was hilarious, but Dad still gets mad when I mention it.
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