Retired

AVGWarhawk · 03-11-08, 08:57 AM

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=4427005

Dowly · 03-11-08, 09:02 AM

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=132804

AVGWarhawk · 03-11-08, 09:06 AM

Yep, look at our post times :rotfl:

Platapus · 03-11-08, 11:24 AM

wow hard to believe that it has been 27 years <wheeze>

I remember about 20 years ago, the Air Force was going to retire my beloved F4 because its airframe was over 35 years old. I was thinking "hey MY airframe is over 35 years old I wonder if they are going to retire ME?"

At least my BUFFs are still a flyin. All is right with the airspace.

27 years? Sheesh, to me the F117 was one of them "new" aircraft in our inventory <reaching for the geritol>

God I am old

Sailor Steve · 03-11-08, 12:14 PM

I can remember when the F-104 was the hot new thing. And yeah, you're right: the Big Ugly Fat *&#^@( is only two years younger than me, and it's still in the air.

03-11-08, 08:57 AM	#1
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,277 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Retired http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=4427005 __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

03-11-08, 09:06 AM	#3
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,277 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Yep, look at our post times :rotfl: __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

03-11-08, 11:24 AM	#4
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,381 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	27 Years???? wow hard to believe that it has been 27 years <wheeze> I remember about 20 years ago, the Air Force was going to retire my beloved F4 because its airframe was over 35 years old. I was thinking "hey MY airframe is over 35 years old I wonder if they are going to retire ME?" At least my BUFFs are still a flyin. All is right with the airspace. 27 years? Sheesh, to me the F117 was one of them "new" aircraft in our inventory <reaching for the geritol> God I am old __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

03-11-08, 12:14 PM	#5
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I can remember when the F-104 was the hot new thing. And yeah, you're right: the Big Ugly Fat *&#^@( is only two years younger than me, and it's still in the air. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

03-11-08, 09:02 AM	#2
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,054 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=132804