Posted on 12/22/2009 9:05:01 PM PST by AtlasStalled
I am glad they are okay. Jamacia is a pit.
An American Airlines plane crashed and broke in two after landing (from the article).
I remember payiing $5.00 for a very tiny glass of coca cola at Pt. Dubois in Martinique. When you’re thirsty, you’re thirsty. There’s been a lot of unrest in many of the Caribbean nations (St. Kitts being one of them) and aside from the wild monkeys there, I have no interest in going back, but it is awesomely beautiful to see at least once in a lifetime.
The Little Rock crash was an American Airlines MD-80.
I remember United 232 that crashed in Sioux City Iowa, I got a call that I had to go to the airport bar. ( I worked for UAl at that time and was in Sioux falls SD for training) Once in the bar a guy was there drinking heavily. he said he was a passenger on 232 and needed something to settle his nerves. After checking the passenger manifest to verify it, I paid for the whole bottle and then had him taken to the hospital to be checked out.
That was a brutal crash...Surviving that was a miracle.
He probably meant a Fokker F100.
BTW, the last time I saw a Hun flying was in the mid 80's, flown by the Turkish AF.
Thanks for the clarification(s). I couldn’t find anything on the search engines using the F-100, but the MD-80 rings a bell. I don’t think you can even find an F-100 on a pillar in front of an air station anymore!
My neighbor in California (1978?) worked the DC-9 line in Long Beach, but I think Douglas moved the operation to Oklahoma and he went with them. But my favorite airplane of all time was built in Columbus, buccaneer81. The coolest name ever (Vigilante) came out of Columbus also, IIRC.
I won’t bore you with that old Fokker joke.
Merry Christmas to all.
On display
* F-100A 52-5761 is on display at the New England Air Museum.
* F-100C 53-1709 is displayed as F-100D 55-2789, Castle Air Museum (former Castle AFB), Atwater, California.
* F-100C 54-1823 is on display at the Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona in the markings of the 4510th Combat Crew Training Wing, Luke AFB, Arizona, 1968[25]
* F-100C 54-1851 is on display at the Museum of Aviation, Robins AFB, Georgia
* F-100C 54-1986 is on display at the Air Force Armament Museum, Eglin AFB, Florida - displayed as F-100C 54-1954 as flown by local northwest Florida resident and Medal of Honor recipient, Colonel George Bud Day, USAF Ret
* F-100D 56-2992 is on display at the Carolinas Aviation Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina.[26]
* F-100F 56-3837 is on dislay at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
* F-100D 54-2299 is on display at the Joe Davies Heritage Airpark, Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale, California
* A F-100D is on display at the Air Power Park, Hampton, Virginia.
* A F-100D or F is displayed at the Selfridge Air (National Guard Force Base) Museum, near Mount Clemens, Michigan, reports a two-seat trainer in their collection. [27]
* An F-100C is on static display at the Duncan Legion Park in Duncan, Arizona[28]
* F-100C-5-NA, 54-1785 is on display at the Prairie Aviation Museum in Bloomington, IL.
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