Comments on: Archive Video A Day – 25 November 2009 – Gear Down at Mach 3.2

By: mach 3.2

mach 3.2 — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:11:25 +0000

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By: Parrothead Jeff

Parrothead Jeff — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:19:43 +0000

Thanks for the correction there, Buck I just figured you’d had some time due to some of Glenn’s comments

And a Happy Belated Thanksgiving to you, too

By: Buck

Buck — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:06:17 +0000

And I bet Glenn and Buck thought they’d seen bad landing gear over speeds !

Actually: not. I had very little to do with aircraft during my career. I was only stationed at one base with an active runway in my 22 years, and that was Yokota… so all I saw were trash-haulers.

True story: The very last thing my Ol’ Man (a retired AF Lt Col with over 20 missions in B-17s over Germany) said to me as I was getting on the plane to go down to Lackland back in ’63: “Stay away from airplanes.” It was probably more serendipity than anything else, but I did just that.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, Jeff! Glenn and Kath, too!