Flying F-102s

[ThoughtCriminal]

Maybe it's a just a "Guy" thing. The demographic that keeps the Discovery Wings Channel on. But I just can't imagine giving up a job flying F-102s to work on a doomed Senate race in Alabama.

Winton Blount was not that exciting.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. Yeah, that has always amazed me too... he could not even

stay in one of the cushiest jobs in the entire Military?
Give me a fucken break.

[ComerPerro]

2. Great point

He couldn't even decide to do that...

But, then again, its hard to fly a plane when you are on cocaine and drunk off your ass.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

5. Never stopped all the other jet jocks in the Navy and USMC

Maybe the USAF and TANG guys just don't measure up?

[TheMightyFavog]

3. But then again,

At that time, the F-102 was a real chunk of shit.

It had bar running right up forward bit of the canopy, IIRC.

[EXE619K]

4. I can certainly understand why....

F-102 "Delta Dart" is an interceptor and not just any interceptor; an interceptor designed to shoot down strategic bombers.

F-102 wings hardly got off the ground unless for seldom training missions and real time threat from strategic bombers.

Now, the North Vietnamese had no strategic bombers nor did they have any aircraft that could possibly get out of the Indo-China penninsula without re-fueling.

The RWingers love to say that "Bush was a fighter Jock".

That's just bullshit! F-102 pilots faced less danger than a commercial airline pilot flying across the continental US.

It's a sham job and a safe job...no wonder his da-da put him there.

[madrchsod]

6. drug test

fly boy wouldn`t take the test..102`s are cool planes. travolta has a small fighter in his collection of aircraft

[JasonDeter]

7. From what I understand he was trained in that plane

because it would make him useless if he was sent to Vietnam. True? I don't know, does anyone else?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

8. Yes, F-102's were already obsolete by then

There was zero chance of them being sent overseas for anything.