Bro, I was born male and by age of like 5 I came out as a lesbian. Do you have a position for me? I need a side gig as Jeeping is getting expensive.I work in IT but my side job is male escort.
keeping your lites brighter
I worked with the FAA people daily for almost 30 years. Mostly Aircraft Certification engineers at the LA ACO. I consider many of them good friends and many showed up for my retirement. It was a shame my company didn't have that same relationship up in Seattle with SACO.I look down on people.
37 years Air Force Reserve. I was in the Air Force, but got caught in the RIF. F-4G Wild Weasel driver, F-16, then Stand/Eval giving check rides in C-40s and MC-12s. Seemed more like active duty since I had three combat deployments and three CAP deployments. My day job was with American Airlines on the 727 then the FAA as a flight test engineer. Now I'm an instructor at the FAA Academy.
About 20ish years ago I was at Tyndall AFB for training and I saw a Blue Angel pilot near housing talking to a Thunderbird pilot. They were both leaning against their Jeeps, both lifted CJs. I remember thinking that I sucked compared to these guys. And so did my Jeep.
But bro, just remember one thing, I'm into those cute feminine kind of lesbians, don't send me to those crazy man like ones 🫣
It's funny how field offices differ so much. But there were a lot of outside pressures on SACO and sometimes they sent ladder climbers there. Company engineers could spot those guys a mile away. I did the eyebrow window deletion tests. When they sent me I said "why"? When I got there the FTEs said "why"? We had a good laugh and spent .7h with them showing us how they prepped for flutter tests. That was a blast.
We had 2 Blue Angel pilots in flight test when I worked there; "Bear" Smith and Tim Dineen. I recall they were both on a stab and control test where the rudder of a MD95 was supposed to be deflected full while countering with aileron to sim a hardover rudder. The engineer for the test spec'd the rudder stops wrong. We all watched the cockpit video when it rolled 270 then back. The only words spoken were "Whoops".I look down on people.
37 years Air Force Reserve. I was in the Air Force, but got caught in the RIF. F-4G Wild Weasel driver, F-16, then Stand/Eval giving check rides in C-40s and MC-12s. Seemed more like active duty since I had three combat deployments and three CAP deployments. My day job was with American Airlines on the 727 then the FAA as a flight test engineer. Now I'm an instructor at the FAA Academy.
About 20ish years ago I was at Tyndall AFB for training and I saw a Blue Angel pilot near housing talking to a Thunderbird pilot. They were both leaning against their Jeeps, both lifted CJs. I remember thinking that I sucked compared to these guys. And so did my Jeep.
Being a Pitts owner, I figured those guys would be pretty calm.
I met two of your coworkers in Detroit in the 80s at a diner. Really cool girls.
That's cool! I knew Gary. That was one tough dude. I was with the team that did the rudder bump tests on the seven three after the accidents. We brought in the MacDac guys because they had more experience with rudder stability/instability and had done some very good tests on uncommanded control inputs. We were looking at the 141 too.We had 2 Blue Angel pilots in flight test when I worked there; "Bear" Smith and Tim Dineen. I recall they were both on a stab and control test where the rudder of a MD95 was supposed to be deflected full while countering with aileron to sim a hardover rudder. The engineer for the test spec'd the rudder stops wrong. We all watched the cockpit video when it rolled 270 then back. The only words spoken were "Whoops".
