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viperdoc(at)mindspring.co
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 5:08 am Post subject: LoPresti Fury Top Gun at AirVenture Booth 333

Interesting…read the final sentence of this paragraph. It takes almost 2 years to mint a wingman in the AF/ANG. One week from new owner to “Top Gun”.   

Interesting…How does it go?....Balls out, Hair on Fire,  and Ears Laid Back…I’m about to be famous!  

Doc  

       

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                                                                                                                                        <![endif]--><![if !vml]><![endif]>Corkey     Fornof, the world famous Aviation stunt coordinator and pilot for Hollywood     is speaking Thursday and Friday at 1PM in the LoPresti Booth 333 (Directly     across from Theater in the Woods.)      

      

      

      

      

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mark.bitterlich(at)navy.m
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:18 am Post subject: LoPresti Fury Top Gun at AirVenture Booth 333

It should draw a lot of Red Star guys to it!  Now, if they issued a full

blown FAST card with that one week deal, I might go to it myself.  



I want a FAST card, but am NOT willing to get it from RedStar!  



Mark

 



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viperdoc(at)mindspring.co
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:53 am Post subject: LoPresti Fury Top Gun at AirVenture Booth 333

Hell maybe we should send our FNG's to LoPresti for their fighter lead in

training and B-course after UPT. A week vs 9 months what a deal. Well

atleast the Predator drivers could go (R/C from the Cab what a thrill). They

could even get their tail wheel endorsement while they are there too.

 In this time of budget constraints a week ought to be one hell  of a deal. 

Doc



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keithmckinley

Joined: 11 Aug 2008
Posts: 434

Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 3:39 pm Post subject: Re: LoPresti Fury Top Gun at AirVenture Booth 333

Getting recommended to attend to Top Gun, Fighter Weapons School or WTI (Marines) takes a helluva lot more time than two years.



I wish I had known (before I spent 6 years getting the nod) that I could have done it in under a week.



Probably gives out a set of AF wings when you're done. (Naval Aviator wings would take an additional week.)

viperdoc(at)mindspring.co
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 6:43 pm Post subject: LoPresti Fury Top Gun at AirVenture Booth 333

Keith, 

We can debate the value of AF vs Navy over a few beers! But when it comes to

ANG..AD AF, Marines, and Navy all come calling. We get the best of the best!

Are you good enough?

Doc



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keithmckinley

Joined: 11 Aug 2008
Posts: 434

Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:03 pm Post subject: Re: LoPresti Fury Top Gun at AirVenture Booth 333

AT one time  YES, according to the USMC. Hell, I even fooled the ANG into taking me on for a few years too!



Kinda reminds me of that old story: As new hires at Delta we were going through training in the same building as the Flight Attendants. On particular day when we actually got to fraternize, a young (probably blonde) F/A inquired about our training. "10 weeks" she was told. Her reply "you mean I could have been a pilot if I just stayed 6 more weeks"



Sheeesh!



S/F



Keith



ps, don't forget the Eagle driver who got 3 (or was it 2) Mig kills during desert sheild in 92 was a Marine on an A/F exchange tour! Ohh rah.

viperdoc(at)mindspring.co
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:22 pm Post subject: LoPresti Fury Top Gun at AirVenture Booth 333

Sierra Hotel! Another Guard Bum!

Doc



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mark.bitterlich(at)navy.m
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 7:56 am Post subject: LoPresti Fury Top Gun at AirVenture Booth 333

Oh boy... Here we go.  



Mark

 



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mark.bitterlich(at)navy.m
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:22 am Post subject: LoPresti Fury Top Gun at AirVenture Booth 333

The "Best of the Best" go to the Air National Guard?  Shoot, I didn't

know it was made up mostly of Marines Doc.  Thanks for telling me!  



"We can debate the value of AF vs Navy over a few beers anytime", but a

comment: 



Keith was a Marine.  Do not equate that to being "in the  Navy".  The

Marines are to the Navy as a flush chain is to an old toilet; Part of

it, but not IN it.  



That point aside, also be aware that Sailors and Marines fight at every

opportunity, until someone from the Air Force walks by, then they beat

the crap out of those poor guys as a team. 



Finally, tell me something on a professional note:  Since we both would

agree that the Air Force has tactical missions in the real world....

Just who is providing EW support for your aircraft?  Including the F-117

models back before they retired?  Hmmm?  Did you know that the Air Force

CONTRACTED the Department of the Navy to do that for them?  Yep.  Right

after they retired the EF-111.  An "embarrassing fact" if you ask me.  



End of debate.  



Mark

   



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viperdoc(at)mindspring.co
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:23 am Post subject: LoPresti Fury Top Gun at AirVenture Booth 333

Nah, everybody is at OSH. I'll blow over. Besides, Keith has already been in

the Guard after his AD tour...see what I meant? 

Doc



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viperdoc(at)mindspring.co
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 4:54 pm Post subject: LoPresti Fury Top Gun at AirVenture Booth 333

Yes as I remember it was a cost cutting measure to incorporate the AF

Ardvark Drivers with the A-6 guys to get all in one airframe at one cost.

Doc



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keithmckinley

Joined: 11 Aug 2008
Posts: 434

Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 6:46 pm Post subject: Re: LoPresti Fury Top Gun at AirVenture Booth 333

I got hired into the ANG guard unit to "square it away"  



  



Hey Mark...I'll fly on your wing any day! Who needs a stinkin FAST card!



S/F



Wizard

MarkWDavis

Joined: 03 Jan 2007
Posts: 104
Location: Syracuse, KS

Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 7:59 pm Post subject: LoPresti Fury Top Gun at AirVenture Booth 333

Yeah, but you take the Navy guys off of the boat and deploy them to your 

typical country club AFB and you ruin them forever!  All those shipboard 

skills deteriorate rapidly.  They lose their ability to walk on bulkheads 

(walls) on a rolling ship, no longer can they sleep under a jet blast 

deflector during flight ops that's making shit fall off of the walls in 

their stateroom,  they get overly sensitive because they're not used to 

getting pounded on by LSO's after every trap, their skills dull for their 

night joinups on a tanker with a low fuel state because the deck's foul, 

they forget how to read stuff like " -   HX S.CHLUIM LoBIC EGAR  PNUTL  T1" 

(Interpreted to mean, "No grade pass (shitty grade)  high start, settle on 

chase lineup in the middle, low flat in close, ease gun at the ramp, pull 

nose up to land.  Taxi one wire."), but mostly they forget what it's like to 

get shot up a dead cow's ass (night cat) and they learn to land at night 

without their knees shaking afterward.  Yup, ruins 'em forever!  : )



Mark Davis

N44YK

(former wing and training qualified LSO)



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viperdoc(at)mindspring.co
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 7:17 am Post subject: LoPresti Fury Top Gun at AirVenture Booth 333

Yep, that's why I did not join the Navy, Army, or Marines. I like the

personal  amenities of life. Clean sheets, cool bed, warm women, and a cold

beer after the last jet lands not when the boat decides to float into a port

of call after six weeks at sea. Saying nothing of well appointed long and

wide runways that do not move up or down without your personal control

inputs. Where every landing is a landing not a controlled crash where you

wonder if you bit your tongue off or was it your lip that is bleeding and

can they sew that hole in my forehead back together after forgetting to lock

the inertia reel for landing. Yep, only have to worry about the inertia reel

when the crew chief left it locked and you are trying to hook up to your

harness (coke fittings). We engage the cable only when we have a real

emergency whereas for your guys all engagements are emergencies. Consider

how many heartbeats you guys are wasting. You know you are only issued X

amount. Using them all up in one night trap, you guys are destined to live

shorter lives!

Doc 



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MarkWDavis

Joined: 03 Jan 2007
Posts: 104
Location: Syracuse, KS

Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 8:35 am Post subject: LoPresti Fury Top Gun at AirVenture Booth 333

Doc,

     I thought you flight surgeons wanted us to get our heart rates up for 

cardiovascular excercise.  And forgetting to lock your harness on a trap 

resulting in gunsight imprints on foreheads just adds character.  But, the 

rush on a heavy launch weight cat shot on the Lexington or the other 27 

Charlie class carriers with C-7 catapults that made end speed in the first 

50' of the stroke were the best face lift anyone ever received.



Mark Davis

N44YK

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mark.bitterlich(at)navy.m
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 9:23 am Post subject: LoPresti Fury Top Gun at AirVenture Booth 333

Obviously it was not Doc's unit!    



Look forward to it, and vice versa.  



Mark

 



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