In article <8nleldllsqs1i92jdrrm9luhoihr0cv97d@4ax.com>, Stormin' Norman says...
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>On 24 Jul 2018 08:56:55 -0700, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
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>>In article <72celd9ob1buqgmcda0chmnskbsr678jg0@4ax.com>, Stormin' Norman says...
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>>>On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 08:23:29 -0500, Mitchell Holman
>>><noemail@verizont.net> wrote:
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>>>Hey Mac, you lose something?
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>>>I don't think anyone took pictures of my incident on the USS Antietam
>>>(CV-36)........ good times......sigh.
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>>I attended UC at Davis CA...Davis airport at the time...1960s...had a small
>>asphalt runway, no tower (Unicom only) and could handle Cessna 150 type
>>aircraft. I was out there one Sunday and a Navy reservist tried landing in a
>>12,000 pound A-1 SkyRaider to visit a friend at the school.
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>>After landing, he struggled to taxi it but the tires sank into the 3/4 inch
>>thick asphalt as he tried to brake and turn. To get out of the rut/hole he was
>>digging, he applied full power to the engine but the huge amount of prop wash
>>latterly was ripping off sheets of asphalt 12 inches long, slamming them into
>>the parked small planes!!
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>>After shutting down, he climbed out and apologized saying "I didn't mean to
>>break your airport"...not sure what happened afterwards but I'm sure it wasn't
>>pleasant for him or the damaged aircraft and their owners.
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>>True story...actually jaw dropping to watch...I was an ROTC student enrolled in
>>their aviation training program and flying a 150.
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>The Skyraider was a beast of an aircraft with tremendous payload and
>loiter capabilities however, landing of those on a runway built for
>small aircraft is kind of like letting teenage Godzilla play in a
>kindergarten playground.
The A-10 is the modern day version...stunning that the AForce wants to shut it
down to save money for the failure that is the F-35
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>The asphalt must have been very warm for the kind of damage you are
>describing.
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