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So I was poking around on www.af.mil and saw this article:
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123073126.

WTF!! That's my old bird. Look at how bad her nose is beat up!! Jeebus! Who taught those guys to boom?

Just ruffled my feathers a bit to see her all beat up (dirty is good though! means she been getting into it!).

I need to check up with some friends on her hours. See if she's still in the top 3 for hours.

Ahhh, memories. Sorry to vent.

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Yes it needs a nose-job
Look it from the good side, it is still flying and usefull

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looks like she rear ended someone, I would think even a rookie boomer wouldn't be that bad. Once I can see, but I hope the A-10 pilot would call it quits after the second

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If it Flys, shoot it

From a TDY to Nellis last year:

If it was by KC-135 boomers, I'd suspect Arizona ANG. they're not real well thought of. Since a I know a coule of the IL ANG boomers, I KNOW they'd NEVER ding a Hawg nose. As for 944, well, the bad-aid says it all.

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Jack, Love the bandaid but whats with chocking the nose gear? Only time I'd ever seen a steerable wheel chocked was when we once had a pilot that didn't stop when told to, so when he did finally stop, they chocked all his wheels and put a stop sign in front of the nose.

Other than that, we only chocked nose gears at EOR.

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Weasel, ROFL that nose is beat all to hell!!

Boomer must have been hungry! Look's like he was attempting to open her up like a can of sardines!

that band aid is awesome!

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They have taken a battering, there is an SP jet that has been flying round with a beat up nose for a while now, recall seeing it at Lakenheath........Dutchy, maybe you have seen it?

All jets at Nellis have to be either triple-chocked or tied down at night due to the winds.

Couple of things:

Nellis requires that fighters be triple-chalked or tied down at night (like Jacke said) WHEN you shut down your section of the line. Obviously, TDY units rarely have 24 hour coverage, so it is nightly. We just tie ours down when we shut down for the weekend, or when we anticipate or experience higher winds.

As far as SP jets with beat up noses, it could have been 951 or 650. They both got beat up pretty badly at Bagram in '03. The took boom strikes in teh same sortie form a KC-10. 951 took a pretty good gouge that NDI found as cracked, so it was \"beefed up\" and primered. 650, on the otherhand, took a good punch through the skin on the right side of the nose. As you looked down through the hole, you could see the lines coming off of the emergency bottles in the nose...much deeper and there would have been some major issues there. Sheet metal got them both up and flying again within 24 hours though....hell of a job on their part!

--Raven

Beaten up nose. Hawgsmoke 2004. No idea how it got back than but it could have been a boomer as well.
Luckily it takes more than one boomer to bring a Hog down. Not sure if a F-16 would have made it.....

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