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On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 23:44:30 GMT, "Doug \"Woody\" and Erin Beal"
wrote: On 11/14/03 4:40 PM, in article , "Mary Shafer" wrote: Fast Eddie is in Texas, at JSC, where he's flying T-38s. He turns 55 this month and will retire on 3 Jan 04. They've bought a fifth-wheeler and are going to return to SoCal via Florida and Kentucky in January and February. They might stop by and see us in Palm Desert on their way to San Diego. If so, I'll make Ed say a few words in person. Thanks for the update, Mary. Only knew him by phonecon and watching him (in my rear-view mirror) trying to put the HARV's probe in my KA-6E's basket. Quite comical, but understandably difficult--especially when I watched him fly form too. That airplane was a handful--at least through the iteration that I saw. The deal with HARV was that it had all the thrust vane hardware hanging off the tail and a big weight in the nose to keep it statically stable and a flexible airplane in between. The mass model could, without much of a stretch, be characterized as resembling a dumbbell. Needless to say, the mass effects produced some very peculiar flight dynamics, including during refueling. Fast Eddie refueled the HARV first and it took him something like 31 minutes to get a good plug and actually transfer fuel. Then it was Smoke's turn and about twenty minutes into his attempt, Eddie told him that if he didn't hurry up and plug in, Mary (me) was going to make this an HQ task and put it on all the flight cards. Uncontained mirth all around, naturally. However, the threat worked, because Jim got plugged in two minutes quicker than Eddie had. Mary -- Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer |
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