Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
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“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
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Gas prices are going down, so he’s in no big hurry to shut off the blowers…
Lex, is that full burner? Is that how you normally are upon touchdown? It’s been too long for me to remember how you guys did it.
heard a story about a t-45 stud that throttled back before they told him… Apparently they almost sent him home on the spot.
BolterBoy:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Tail_hook_missed.jpg
Tuna, pretty much full blower. It was never our intent to go to max on touchdown (apart from the occasional sudden lack of guts at the ramp), but sometimes the throttles slipped past the A/B detent during the run-out.
FRS paddles actually recommended leaving them staged for a moment if they got away from you, since a reduction from full A/B to mil might 1) overshoot, and 2) lead paddles to think you’d taken a cut in the wires, max being ever so much noisier then mere mil.
Taking a cut in the wires was of course one of the best ways to get a doubleplusungood ugly on the greenie board for a fleet pilot, not to mention getting sent home as a student.
Do it twice and you can start polishing up that resume.
Funniest thing is to hear my then 3 year old daughter tell her mommy to “throttle back”. Well, at least I thought it was funny…. the Missus, not so much
So, this isn’t a prelim for “the Admiral wishes to go waterskiing”?
Cheers
Practice for ‘Operation Pinwheel’? “The operation was officially named OPERATION PINWHEEL. The pilots called it OPERATION PINHEAD.”
http://www.uss-bennington.org/non-benn-bridges_at_toko_ri.html
& graphic at:
http://www.midwaysailor.com/midway1940/midway-1019b.jpg
Chris –
Military (full, non-afterburner) power is required from touchdown until you come to a stop. Pulling power back early is called “taking a cut in the wires.” Pulling power to idle before touchdown is called “Ease Gun to land.” Both are bad and will cause much consternation on the LSO platform, Pri-Fly, and the Bridge.
The offending pilot will prolly get a “Cut” grade on his pass (0 points out of 4) and a serious talking to by CAG Paddles, if not the Boss, Captain, or CAG.
Someone remind me to tell the story about the Marine who crossed the ramp at idle, and then cracked open his speed brake to fix his overpowered condition.
Ouch.
Yeah – power to mil is a good thing on touchdown if the trusty TF-34 revolving fan thingies which made JP-5 for you while you were out double-cycling at taxpayers’ expense take 14 seconds to go from idle to military power.
It ain’t just embarassing when you dribble off the angle on a bolter when the Wires Brothers were looking the other way. Instead of doing their job of reaching up and grabbing Mister Hook as he meandered by, trawling for attention…
Oh, come on, Yak, nonebody much trusted P&W’s rusty TF-34, but, at the very least, it would blow smoke (somebody’s definition of BS) and go off the pointy end most days of the week.
Forgot what else I wuz gonna say…
Oh, that was it…dribbling off the pointy end. Didn’t they call that ” givin’ away the jet?” Splash…pee in the bottle…why’d ya do it? what were ya thinkin’?
Mongo,
I always thought they were rather trusty myself – I think we only had to shut one of ‘em down once in two tours.
Reliable. Fuel efficient. Only real negatives were spool-up time and that rather distinctive sound around 64%…
The TF34 spool time is actually a lot less- 4-6 seconds depending on environment (temp/etc.) You should have payed attention on FCF’s.
BTW, imo 5 seconds is a long time too..but then again any pilot back at idle and flying into wires deserves what could happen!
Mongo,
re- P&W. No, it is a GE product (Lynn, MA?). On the S-3 it has T-O-W reliability twice that of the Hornet series, is also flown on the A-10 and the commercial Regional jet. It’ll be out there the rest of our lives.
One of the most reliable, efficient and successful turbofan engines ever devised.
I think you have the TF34 confused with the J52 or 404…LOL.
b2
B2 – Had a cerebral disconnect there. Wuz thinkin’ TF-30…a mech’s curse so much of the time.