As I said when I joined, I am a retired AF Pilot. Flew F-4s, OV-10s and B-52s.Three tours in Nam, from 1970-72.

Retired in '89 and started my second career as a Computer Systems Analyst and Professor. Retired really about five years ago and started a Consulting Firm which has given me a little more time to pursue my passions, Fly Fishing, Woodworking and refurbishing old Woodworking Tools. I came here from OWWM because of the censorship on that forum.

 

Glad to be hear and look forward to reading your ideas.

 

Welcome to TPW John!
Thank you for your service. It is great appreciated,

 

Welcome from an old BUFF crew chief. '59-'65

Welcome!

My uncle retired about that time.Where were you stationed? 65, must have been D models?

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Yea, It was a real kick in the behind. My first assignment was with the 68th out of Miami (Homestead). One day we had to do a flight test on a clean bird. Only had 20,000 lbs of fuel. Took off, pointed it almost straight up, accelerated to Mach 2 at about 45000 feet, topped out at around 60000 feet. Coasted over the coast of Cuba, watched some Migs scramble at us, Turned back north and landed back home before the Migs were out of Cuban Air Space. Whole flight lasted about 20 minutes and we landed just about dry tanks. Talk about a trip!!! Its been over 50 years ago and its still as fresh in my mind as the day we did it.

 

 

Davis Monthan first (B47s) then Ramey (B52s)

TDYs to Torrejon, Eielson, Elmendorf, Lakenheath and Udom, Thailand. The RTAF were some crazy b*&^%$#s.

 

What was your uncle's job when he retired?

 

Censorship on OWWM?? What'? They didn't tolerate talk about new stuff?

 

 

 

He was a Crew Chief as well. Yea, if you think the RTAF were crazy, you should have seen the ROK.  I was stationed in Kunson Korea in 1969. I was on the flight line one day and saw a ROK F-86 abort takeoff because of some kind of mechanical problem. He taxied back to the parking area, the crew chief put up the ladder and ran up. The pilot cold cocked him and knocked him completely off the plane. Guess he wasn't too happy that his plane was broken.

Been to most of those bases. Spent some good days at Utpao back in the 70s, some of the best Fly Fishing I've ever had was at Eileson back in about 86.  Yep the AF was a great life.  Id go back tomorrow if they called.
 

 

Yea, life is way too short to worry about small minded people who crave the power trip that being a moderator gives them. Too bad to because all the guys over there are really very helpful and really enjoy the art of restoration.

 

Welcome once again John. We are glad you found us and thanks for the introduction here.

We sure seem to have an abundance of AF folks on this site, don't ask me how that happened! I guess woodworking attracts more AF then any other service. Sure we have all branches represented here, but AF keeps popping up more and more!

 

No moderation here, virtually none. We are an open forum where sharing is encouraged, linking to and from outside sources and other communities is encouraged and if you want to tell the world about a great deal on Craigs List or Ebay feel free too, all subjects are welcome!

 

We do have basic human rules which dictate basic human respect for each other, and I may add, we don't have those issues, we have been blessed with a great group of folks here, we have rarely had to enforce the rules at all, I can literally count on one hand the folks we had to contact for basically just being nasty, and it involved foul language. For a gander at our guidelines, click on TERMS OF SERVICE. The first paragraph Items 1 thru 4 are the most important, the rest of it, is just legal jargon that most of us could care less about because we just don't ever have a need to even go there.

 

As you can see our main focus is woodworking but we are also in the works to make our machinery forum more robust. We have some grand plans for our entire site this year that involve a total makeover that folks will find easier to use, and our message of who we are, and what we do will be clear. Our Machinery Forum will have a new look as well, as Larry Buskirk and the gang here work on creating a dedicated Machinery Forum for all the metal heads here. So John, hang tight and enjoy the ride, because it's only going to get better! Thanks again for joining sir.

 

Edited August 30, 201510 yr by Administrator

John,

Thank you for the warm welcome. I have noticed a lot of AF types. Probably because of our duty stations. Pretty much always near a large Base. So we have the kinds of facilities to encourage woodworking.

Again thanks for the welcome