Recent content by Budman

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Its true about the C-123K, We were heading back to Westover AFB and decided to see how fast the old "Thunder Pig" could go. The best we got was 220 knots I.A.S. We were burning about 1,000 lbs of fuel ever 10 minutes!! The weird thing was when you trimmed the aircraft out for level flight, it...

C-123K was known as the Thunder Pig or Polish Whisper Jet. I've also heard of the F-4 being called the Lizard.

You have my deepest sympathy for your loss.

When I was TDY to Columbia, South America,back in 1993, during the evenings the good Colonel and I would get together to enjoy some scotch. Lt. Colonel Philip Tennant was a self proclaimed expert on scotch and would launch into lengthy dissertation on various brands and malts. He also said that...

$2.60 per gallon in Wake Forest

Aye, and fetch me that sultry looking blonde haired wench with the fire in her eyes. HAR, HAR, HAR,

My 2 Cents, During WWII my Dad who was working at Chandler Evans as a Experamental Carburetor Specialist got to examine a captured Zero carburetor. He always said it was a machinists version of a work of art. He noted that very close tolerances were followed in its construction and additional...

Ditto, couldn't open it

No offense was meant, I just gave my opinion.

I've been following some of the posts in regard to the movie "Zero". I watched the film many years ago and in my opinion it was the worst movie I had ever seen. It was so bad that they should have made it a comedy. If you pay close attention to the mock-ups of the zero you will notice that some...