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jackq said:
I was stationed at Griffiss AFB in Rome NY...had just come back from back to back overseas tours, Danang and Misawa Japan. Was stationed with the 49FIS as a mechanic, and we had F-106 Delta Darts. Out of the blue one day, the Commander called and asked if I'd like a ride in a T-33 trainer. Sure...why not. Big suprise,,,got there and there stood this rather old looking Major saying "hop in the back of my 106...its my last ride before retirement" What the heck...the last thing he did before take-off was spit his teeth out and put them in the leg pocket of his flight suit. That was the closet I came to losing my breakfast....we chased a target T-33, I got to try to twist the wings off the thing....don't think it can be done....buzzed my house about 30 miles away and watched my wife and every neighbor for blocks run out pointing...Went inverted low level over the Mohawk River/Barge Canal, never saw a look like that before or after. Flew till we were Bingo fuel and when we returned he shook my hand, complimented that I was the first not to decorate his rear cockpit. Later that nite when I got home my wife related the story of the maniac buzzing the house...thats when I asked her why she had changed clothes since the flyby....thats when she relized I had been in the back of the plane.....never dared tell the neighbors.
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GREAT!!!


My first honest-to-real performance jet aircraft ride was in a B-model 106. Talk about a SLED!!! But it was unforgettable. To go flittin' over the Mohawk inverted woulda had me gigglin' like a schoolgirl. All I got was a tour of the east coast and the Atlantic in a "poopie-suit". But I got "unofficial" stick time. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
Any of you guys ever heard of an "Oh-me-ass-card?".
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Not trying to be funny, but that's what we called them in the Navy.
 
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