Kids these days eh? - Page 3

Jimbuna · 01-09-12, 04:27 PM

Any kid with a tape splicer was a god amongst their peer group

Oberon · 01-09-12, 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Osmium Steele

With real Lawn Darts and everything. 1 lb. pointy, brass darts thrown high into the sky to land just inches away from your cousin!

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Sailor Steve · 01-09-12, 06:18 PM

Back in the day we called that one the "Missile With a Man In It".

The pilots I knew locally called this one a "Lawn Dart".

Platapus · 01-09-12, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Back in the day we called that one the "Missile With a Man In It".

The pilots I knew locally called this one a "Lawn Dart".

We used to call that the Falling Falcon.

In FY 82 half of the US F-16 crashes in the world occurred at Hill AFB, UT. Lakeside Military Center to be exact.

We in EOD got a lot of practice scrapping them up off the desert.

Sailor Steve · 01-09-12, 10:38 PM

They were falling long before that. When they first came to Hill the controversy was over whether it was the fly-by-wire system that was putting them down. The Air Force denied it, but nobody could guess that it would be anything else. That was why we called them 'lawn darts'.

01-09-12, 04:27 PM	#31
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01-09-12, 06:18 PM	#33
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Back in the day we called that one the "Missile With a Man In It". The pilots I knew locally called this one a "Lawn Dart". __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

01-09-12, 10:38 PM	#35
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	They were falling long before that. When they first came to Hill the controversy was over whether it was the fly-by-wire system that was putting them down. The Air Force denied it, but nobody could guess that it would be anything else. That was why we called them 'lawn darts'. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

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