If so, post a photo of the type or types you flew.  T-41 and T-42 during my service.  Not as exciting as most, but it hooked me on aviation.

Edited November 11, 20214 yr by fppilot

Lucky you! I unfortunately was assigned a "Firebolt..."

I like the stirrups. How'd it feel?.....Doug 

I didn't, but my Dad was an Aviation Machinists Mate assigned to Fleet Air Wing THREE out of Coco Solo Canal Zone.  He worked on flying boats, mainly PBM-3 Mariners.  What he remembers is being amazed they let an 18 year old work on aircraft engines.  At one point he was part of a maintenance det that worked in Galapagos Islands.    In the later part of the war the main threat was Japanese subs so the flying boats would patrol out to Galapagos and back.

 

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20 hours ago, W2DR said:

I like the stirrups. How'd it feel?.....Doug 

They provided some stability, but really needed seat belts! 🤪

I never flew in the military. A close relative was in lots of air combat and never settled down in civilian life after discharge, combat fatigue.

I never flew as a pilot in the military but had a bit of back seat time in an F-100F and a B-57 when I was assigned to the airmunitions test squadron at Hill AFB Utah.  I would beg for rides when they were firing rockets at different types of aircraft bunkers at the range on the west side of Salt Lake.

At Selfridge AFB I worked as an armament technician on F-86Ds and on the F-105D and F-105 Wild Weasels in Thailand during the Vietnam War.

Noel

I rode in various Navy airplanes and helicopters, but the only thing I ever flew (if you can call it that) was an old trainer the recruiter let me play with a little when he flew into the local field when I was in law school. How could you resist that? The one box I never got to check was a COD trap. Caught up with Saratoga in Trieste.

I flew the T-38A Talon at Columbus AFB MS, C-141B Starlifter at Norton AFB CA, and the C-20/C-37 Gulfstream III-IV-V at Ramstein AB, Germany, Andrews AFB MD and Chievres AB, Belgium.