The car show was canceled

[kendelrio]

I drove about 90 miles for a car show that the organizers failed to update the info for, so Jak and I were heading home and I took a random road that I knew goes through a national forest.

The day wasn't *completely* wasted. We found a great spring fed swimming hole!

Took some great pics of Cowbell...

And swung by an old Air Force base to visit the Flying Tigers memorial.

 

[Mullaney]

I drove about 90 miles for a car show that the organizers failed to update the info for, so Jak and I were heading home and I took a random road that I knew goes through a national forest.

The day wasn't *completely* wasted. We found a great spring fed swimming hole!


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Took some great pics of Cowbell...

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And swung by an old Air Force base to visit the Flying Tigers memorial.

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Well, I hate that the sponsor of the car show failed miserably...
The Air Force base though - was a hit for sure!

 

[Barrman]

That F-105 in Wild Weasel colors just makes me stop what I am doing and sit in awe for a few minutes of what those guys did.

There is a 2 seat F-105 at the cavenaugh airplane museum in Addison. They had it sitting out on the ramp over by a fence looking all neglected and forgotten. I walked over to it and when I ducked my head into the front wheel well there was a “Red River Valley Fighter Pilots Association “ sticker. WOW! I may be wrong, but I can only think of 1 reason a 2 seat F-105 would have one of those stickers on it.

Reads like you had a great day.

 

[M813rc]

To me, the best takeaway from this is that you had your youngling with you. There is no better thing for you or the kid than spending quality time together.

The F-105 is an F-105G Wild Weasel, their job was to tease the SAM sites (surface to air missiles) into revealing themselves, then dodging the missiles while attempting to destroy the site. It was a very dangerous game, losses were high.

Cheers

 

[canadacountry]

@kendelrio if you're going to mention that name again I only have one answer for you;
moooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!
(haha?)

@M813rc well I can see why they did it, coping to a known hit then afterward try take that hit directly down versus losing a normal sortie to unknown hit from unknown location .. but still hmm

 

[kendelrio]

mooooo!!!

 

[juanprado]

Was that in Alex at England?

 

[juanprado]

That looks like red dexcool for gm.

Dexcool and ole plain green don't mix well.

 

[kendelrio]

Was that in Alex at England?

Yeah.

 

[kendelrio]

That looks like red dexcool for gm.

Dexcool and ole plain green don't mix well.

Gotcha!

 

[juanprado]

Gotcha!

Crazy, I was replying to a different post.
My internet skills are like magic...