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There’s no place like home

By lex, on August 21st, 2008

Office space, for the g-suit set.

Also, a loverly set of pix from the working space of an F-4 Phantom. Red lights inside, from back before we realized that red lights are teh suXxor.

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August 21st, 2008 | Tags: | Category: Flying

12 comments to There’s no place like home

  • virgil xenophon
    August 21, 2008 at 10:58 pm

    God, it all brings the memories flooding back…….noticed WRCS selector set/stuck at bombs, ripple..heh

  • Bill C
    August 22, 2008 at 2:48 am

    Lex,
    Re the interior red lights, what does “teh suXxor” mean in english. I’ve been out of the loop too long. Thanks..

  • lex
    August 22, 2008 at 6:37 am

    Sorry, Bill – right. One of these days I’ll learn to act my age ;-)

    The way I heard it, right about the time I started pre-flight, the Navy’s flight surgeons discovered that all of that red lighting – which we’d adopted from surface force and submarine guys getting ready for darken ship – was actually at a wavelength that caused eye strain and headaches. Soon afterwards, the lights got shifted to green or yellow. Much more soothing.

  • jug bernhardt
    August 22, 2008 at 7:38 am

    For several years DRMO has been locally run, the best of the gear sometimes going to the recycle side of the street. NASWI has an award winning recycle program, the Manager, a retired Boatswain (AV) Master chief, comshaw artist extraordinaire, snags the best artifacts. Every Tuesday is buyback day. Prowler hooks. Go for five bucks. Better half wants to know what I am going to do with eleven of em. Missed out on an A6-E cockpit from the sim in the previous century, complete with canopy. That won’t happen again, …….there are a couple of pee three’s that would make great forts for the kids.
    v/r jug

  • Chris Parkes
    August 22, 2008 at 9:01 am

    I must have missed the memo on red lighting.

  • lex
    August 22, 2008 at 10:00 am

    Red doesn’t go at all well with NVDs either, for what that’s worth.

  • RetRsvMike
    August 22, 2008 at 11:18 am

    blue lights aboard panzers now. more better.

  • Byron Audler
    August 22, 2008 at 12:02 pm

    Where’s the ashtray? :)

  • Bill C
    August 22, 2008 at 2:15 pm

    Lex,
    No wonder coming aboard at night, leaving too, was such a strain. It was the damn red lights.

  • lex
    August 22, 2008 at 3:32 pm

    You know, maybe it was that Bill. But on a bet, I myself would put it down to the fact that you guys did it without HUDs in single-engine airplanes that had slow spool up times on 27C ships that bobbed around the ocean like corks. After having been shot at on low altitude dive recoveries under flares by AAA you could walk on.

    But it might have been the red lights.

  • Bill C
    August 22, 2008 at 8:06 pm

    Thanks Lex,
    I think your right. Keep up your great writing.
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