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December 22nd, 2004, 21:16
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Inside your OODA loop
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|  Photo of the Week
Can anyone guess the airframe?  From http://dosgringosrocks.com -- a couple of fighter boys who think they're musicians. |
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December 22nd, 2004, 21:21
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Park City, UT
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I'm gonna say it has to be a U-2 based largly on the suit that the dude is wearing. I thought a Tornado back seater from the big thing on the instrument panel to look into, but the suit screams U-2 to me. Ok, so does the water bottle...and the yoke.
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December 22nd, 2004, 23:05
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Is that really a water bottle or a bottle for him to pee in?
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December 22nd, 2004, 23:10
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| Old Skool Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Park City, UT
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Water bottle, see the big (but thin) hose coming up from the top of it? He can stick that into his helmet. I think they would become dehydrated before they had to pee super bad (thouhg I'm sure there is a provision to pee in the suit too).
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December 23rd, 2004, 18:53
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Hockey Town, MI,USA
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they piss in the suit very often, at least back when they flew missions over russia.....My buddy says he would have to have the MX personnel pull him out of the cockpit he was so tstiff
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December 23rd, 2004, 19:22
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HA! Have to go check out some of the songs by those Dos Gringos guys. My fav is "I'm a pilot". Pretty funny #####!!  Go the the catalog section and scroll to the bottom of the page. |
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December 23rd, 2004, 22:43
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: San Diego
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They have a place to pee if they need to.All the U-2 pilots I talk to love flying it.But some people don't like flying straight and level.
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December 25th, 2004, 01:29
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So what is that big round thing on the panel?
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January 6th, 2005, 21:12
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Bossier City, Louisiana
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[ QUOTE ] So what is that big round thing on the panel? [/ QUOTE ] Optical navigation system. In WWII it was called a Norden bombsight. |
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