Re: What Is "Old?"

> Owl,
>
> What a hoot!  (No pun intended.)  And no question...  You'll always be older
> than me.  |:-)  But I have some old airplanes too...
>
> 149484, a KA-6D, January 1990.  The airframe was estimated to be 28 years
> old back then.  It was still older than me.  I think it's a reef now.  Got
> lots of hops in the one on the stick in Grand Junction too.  It used to be a
> China Lake bird.  Got time in several 149 BUNO A-6E's when I was a FRP in
> VA-128.  I'm sure we've got time in the same jets.  Scary, huh.

Spent quite a bit of time keeping that bird in the sky with VA-176 
(never flew in one - just spent a good chunk of my life working on 
them). Was one of my favorite birds - flew it's first check flight for 
the Navy (per the log book) about two months before I was born.