Re: What Is "Old?"

>Since the designation "A-4C" was the pre-McNamara designation of A4D-2N

Should be "post-McNamara."

I apologize for responding to my own post.

-- 
Mike Kanze

"I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back."

- Zsa Zsa Gabor


"Mike Kanze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> John,
>
> >For a pilot or an airplane?  ;-)
>
> Touché!
>
> >Well, when I was flying the A-4C in 1977 or so, the one in the
Smithsonian
> Air & Space Museum in DC was newer than the one I was flying!
>
> Since the designation "A-4C" was the pre-McNamara designation of A4D-2N,
you
> WERE in all likelihood flying an "oldie."  IIRC, the A4D-2N first hit the
> fleet in 1959 or 1960.
>
> Not that the Smithsonian's bird necessarily was any "newer" - we would
hope
> yours still had usable wing life.  <g>
>
> (Going rhetorical now)
> Which brings us - again - to the question, what is "old?"   BuNo
seniority?
> Airframe hours expended?  Declining utility / suitability for a particular
> purpose?  Increasing lack of spare parts / increasing cost of remaining
> spares?  Ad nauseum.
>
> -- 
> Mike Kanze
>
> "I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back."
>
> - Zsa Zsa Gabor
>
>
> "John R Weiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > "Mike Kanze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote...
> >
> > > What is "old?"
> >
> > For a pilot or an airplane?  ;-)
> >
> > > 1) You don't know what "old" is (or feels) until you see a bird whose
> BuNo
> > > adorns several of your logbook entries sitting in a museum somewhere.
> In my
> > > case:  KA-6D, BuNo 152910, now sitting forlornly in the back lot of
the
> > > Western Aerospace Museum at Oakland airport
> >
> > Well, when I was flying the A-4C in 1977 or so, the one in the
Smithsonian
> Air &
> > Space Museum in DC was newer than the one I was flying!
> >
>
>