[R-390] RE: [R-390]_F104_can't _remember

[Brian Bjerkelund]

Ed:

Sorry to butt in here.......don't know much about fighters as anything with
less than six engines isn't a *real* aircraft.......but wasn't the "Thud"
the F-105??

You're right tho, we all had more hair back then.

Brian, K7AIS
USAF '62-'70, B-47/B-52 Gunnery Systems Tech
USANG '88-'89, Small Arms Repair
USAFR '89-'??, Firearms Instructor/Security Forces

>
> During the '60s I was a Navy type who used/fixed R390/390A receivers and
> allied TX/RX comm. gear. ( We called them ALL '390s' with no regard to
> suffix.) We did have comms with the Air Force, usually from Thailand,
> because of the on-going SE Asian festivities. It seems I heard the F104
> called the 'thud' because of crashes...or was that a different airframe???
> Damn...been a while since 1967 =:^0 Geeze! 'Had hair and hair color back
> then...