On Mon, 24 May 2004 15:42:26 -0400, "R Haskin"
wrote:


"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message
.. .

I'd love to see the Talon with the new layout. Video alone, instead of
16mm film in 50 foot cans, would be a great teaching aid.

You're welcome any time you make it to southern Georgia or north Florida.
I'm sure that something could be arranged that would make it worth your
while. Unfortunately besides the jets and the bar (and the occasional co-ed
from Valdsota State University), there's not a whole hell of a lot else to
do down here!

I believe that there will be another 479th reunion this October, though.

Well, if you guys at Moody did as good of a job of recruiting
operational types to be River Rats as they do at See-My-Johnson, you
could get a whole flock of Rats. SJAFB does a mini-reunion and air
show every year that's pretty whiz-bang. They've got almost 30 of the
Mud Hen drivers signed up, and as those folks get reassigned, we begin
to get active duty Rats at a lot of places.

If you page through the Doofer book (I don't recall if the call-sign
legend page was still intact), I'm "OFP"--which could mean "Old
Fighter Pilot" or "Old Fat Pilot".

This particular entry I'm thinking of is funny because it recalls that
famous list of "stupid pilot" maintenance writeups. I believe that in this
particular writeup an IP notes that you wrote up in the 781s an IFF that
was, as they say, "O-F-F."

You'll have to show me that one. You can back-channel me a photo of
the page and I'll confess if it's true.




Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN #1-58834-103-8