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What did you want to be / do when you grew up?
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RE: What did you want to be / do when you grew up?
(May 23, 2016 at 6:19 pm)c172 Wrote: I loved F-14s as a kid. My aforementioned BFF was into F-16s and we argued over it. We agreed that SR-71's were super cool, though.

Many years ago, the cover of the Australian "Wheels" magazine (car mag), had a photo of the latest lambo next to a jet fighter plane. They competed for the quafter mile drag race from a standstill.
(It might've been an F1-11 (it was a long time ago, I was still in schoo!)

Anyway, to reduce weight, the jet removed the long range fuel tanks and the lambo driver took his jacket off and had a piss.

The jet was allowed to build up thrust at the starting line.
The jet won by a whisker, but the bastard was airborne and had the afterburners on when crossing the finish line!
The cheating bastard!  Hehe....
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#22
RE: What did you want to be / do when you grew up?
I've always enjoyed cars as well. As far as exotics and other manmobiles, as a kid, I loved the Lamborghini Countach. Now? The Chevy Silverado. 

Back as a kid, I always wondered what it would be like to drive in the NASCAR top series (Winston Cup back then?). I was a real couch potato. Couldn't get enough motorsports on TV. NASCAR, Indy, rally...even showroom stock.
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#23
RE: What did you want to be / do when you grew up?
(May 23, 2016 at 6:13 pm)KUSA Wrote:
(May 23, 2016 at 6:00 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I wanted to fly F-14s off'n carriers.


I was in the Navy stationed on the Washington. It was amazing watching the F14s take off and land. Absolutely amazing.

I lived about a year right off NAS Memphis in Millington TN. Watching them shoot touch-and-gos for prelim carrier quals, wings wide open, afterburners open wider, was indeed amazing. Props to anyone strapping a plane to their ass and taking their chances.

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#24
RE: What did you want to be / do when you grew up?
(May 23, 2016 at 6:19 pm)c172 Wrote: I loved F-14s as a kid. My aforementioned BFF was into F-16s and we argued over it. We agreed that SR-71's were super cool, though.

In the USAF, I was stationed at Carswell AFB right across the runway from General Dynamics, the factory building the 'sixteen. every nine or ten days they'd finish one and put it through a test-flight, about five minutes of mind-boggling aerobatics. I think the '16 climbs faster and the turn rate is about the same, maybe an edge to the '16 there as well. But on load-out, the '14 with its Phoenix can kill a '16 well before the latter's targeting range, much less its kill zone.

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#25
RE: What did you want to be / do when you grew up?
On the coverage of one of the last Apollo missions, they gave a synopsis of the upcoming space shuttle project. Estimated date of completion was 1981, which would have put me at just about college age. So I decided I wanted to be a shuttle pilot. Never did much of anything to achieve that dream, but in the wake of the Apollo missions, it was a sexy ride.
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#26
RE: What did you want to be / do when you grew up?
Wow, you're quite older than I realized. 

And now, it looks like the Shuttle is to be replaced by something more resembling Apollo. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(spacecraft)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System

I wonder if they're going for being able to land it on the pad like some of these latest unmanned launches by SpaceX and/or United Launch Alliance.
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#27
RE: What did you want to be / do when you grew up?
When I was a young kid, I was fascinated with dinosaurs, and wanted to be a paleontologist, digging for fossils.
In my preteen years I suspected I might become a doctor, possibly a surgeon.
During my teens, and into the start of college, it was almost a forgone conclusion that I'd be a professor of mathematics.
Finally, I decided to become a lawyer.
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#28
RE: What did you want to be / do when you grew up?
Why are you still trying to punish yourself!

Hehe
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#29
RE: What did you want to be / do when you grew up?
Cop or infantry.

Oh well.
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RE: What did you want to be / do when you grew up?
(May 23, 2016 at 9:23 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Cop or infantry.

Oh well.

I still kinda do.

Not allowed.

Life's a bitch, right?  Tongue
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