Remember when

I watched in 80s

 

Not too bad…just can’t hear speech very well in a noisy environment.

 

I remember when my dad would watch me walk off into the woods behind the DePere Sportsman’s Club with my Winchester 69 and box of 50 .22s. I’d come back around dinner time for a Tombstone pizza and a glass bottle of Mountain Dew. I’d play darts until the bartender would call, “Hey Joe! Your wife is on the phone!”

 

When I started my job, personal computers were on workstation desks (not your desk), and we had to share. Eventually in the mid 90's, everyone got a computer, and eventually an email account.

The company ditched the POTS for VoIP when we moved offices in 2006. We finally ditched them for Teams. I still have the same phone number. We still have FAX machines.

While some people at work have my cell phone number, I prefer the separation of church and state. If my employer wants to reach me at all hours, they can pay for my cell phone. I sure as hell don't need telemarketers calling my cell phone.... That's what the office phone is for.

Using paper is good. It puts you on pause, and gives to time to read, re-read, and assess what you've written. I've seen lots of people push that "send" button way too fast, with too many people on copy... Sometimes technology is not your friend.

 

Hell, I remember going to the mall, buying toy hand guns that shot those yellow pellets at Kay-Bee, and me and my buddies shooting each other all throughout Gimbels...

 

I got my first taste of Benny Hill when they were shown on Channel 9 in New York. The uncensored ones on HBO were much funnier. He was on in England for what... 30 years?

 

Yup. My part time job provides me a phone. My day job wanted us to install software on our phones to log into the network. I refused. Told them I do possess a phone but it's not mine. When asked why not i said "for the same reason I don't use the laptop you give me to do that job"

 

Probably been posted before but Star Trek Disc Shooters were all the rage growing up. 3 story split level provided quite the setting for epic battles

 

Yakety Sax

 

Don't get me started on mailboxes

 

i know

 

AMEN BROTHER! Hell I never know who's mail will be in my mailbox today

 

This is a view I remember so well from working as an ECM tech at Ellsworth AFB in SD. This was before I started working as an AMT )(airborne Maintenance tech) on the RC-135s at Kadena in 1970-71. Our RC's had the newer (reverse thrust) engines , but we still had the "water-burner" KC's around to refuel us and other aircraft. Our original RC-m's have undergone another engine change and are still flying today more than 50 years later. Heres is a interesting recent link about them: Why the ‘Sun Never Sets’ for Airmen Aboard the RC-135 (airandspaceforces.com) Our 6 RC-135M's were reconfiged into the W and V mods. Still amazes me that the same airframes I flew missions on 50+ years ago are still flying today all over the world - based out of Offut AFB.

 

So what was the advantage of water injection? Was this something only used at certain altitude density?

I’ve never flown anything without pistons. Nowadays I’m just a boat pilot.

 

Those planes were combat capable!

I’m pretty sure that the B-52s my dad sent to Hanoi, when was the forward combat air controller, are still flying today.

Of course there was pre-production and testing flights, but the official introduction of the B-52 was February 1955, about a month before I was born.

My dad was training as a radar man in Mount Snow Kentucky. They moved him up the chain when they started to network radars.

I still remember those giant Dr. Strangelove radar consoles in the block house where he worked. They all had built-in ashtrays and cigarette lighters, which were missing because people had stolen them for their automobiles.

It never worked in a civilian car because they were made for 24 V.

 

Actually alot of the 52's that were working the Nam war were B-52 C and D models - none of which are still flying today -I think- I may be wrong please feel free to correct me. Most of what is still working today are the H models - again I think this is true may need a "error check"

 

As far as I know, it was used to make the inlet air charge more dense.

 

Basically what i remember...i wasnt on it but we had them close by on our ramp. More air/gas equals more thrust

 

Well you always get more horsepower in a piston engine when the air is dense, so altitude is never your friend in that respect. In every other respect altitude is something you are always conscious to maintain.

Regarding light planes, I have flown a Beechcraft Bonanza, a Bellanca super Decathlon, and a Piper Cherokee. None of them were anywhere close to new but they were all nice & serviceable.

I never became a very good pilot, never got in enough flight hours, and I never solo’d. Back when I was flying my eyesight was just terrible.

Since then I have had eye surgery, and it has improved a lot; but all my buddies in the flying club have gotten old and lost their ticket.

I suppose if I got rid of all my other hobbies, the guns, the motorcycles, the Tacoma, the kit car, the 4 wheel Drive, the fat fender car, the boat, The welders, and all my tools.… Then I could afford to buy a really inexpensive airplane of my very own.

I’d have to pay every month to put it in a hanger, and every year it would need to have inspections and repairs, all of which is very expensive nowadays. The cost of fuel & oil has doubled. Maintenance costs are double all the way around since I was a frequent flyer.

Pffft…..Forget everything I just said.
I would never sell the Tacoma.

 

Hmmmmm…..
Name that gizmo!