Re: What Is "Old?"

John R Weiss wrote:
> "Mike Kanze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote...
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> > What is "old?"
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> For a pilot or an airplane?  ;-)
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> > 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
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> 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!

Shoot, you guys are babies. the transport aircraft I crewed on in 
1958-1959 are goat carriers in Cattlegap, Third World. And both ships I 
served on were scrapped in the mid-seventies. Now that's old. <BSEG>

George