Fanclub X-wing Series Fan Club: Home of the Dancing Gamorrean

More like which player.....

 

Well we don't talk about Knight Squadron led by Sir Robin...

 

I might.

 

Flying off the Camelot

 

Sorry everyone; I know I'm way behind on many threads. Had surgery last week and have been recovering on strong painkillers that are knocking me out. I see my doc for a follow-up tomorrow, so hope I can come back soon.

 

Painkillers? Yeah, those are killers. Ask Kayn. He'll agree with you. And he might say he loves you.


Here's another flock of RL black sheep flying and fighting their way into the history books: https://www.historynet.com/suicide-...PJ_WN6k00r6ZwZrqAqL2x5NK23SeHu6RiHEvSjuMW8woM

 

Cake has no calories on your birthday. Fact.

 

@Corellian_Outrider , here's a plan to rig Valkyria as a makeshift bomber/missile launcher: https://breakingdefense.com/2020/05...9oXbmQK6MG6MV9yl66ACGi7Ofgopyg8bTeb9BQulGV274

 

I’m less than 15 pages into The Krytos Trap and I’m already convinced I picked the absolute worst possible time to read this book.

 

To put it mildly...

Anyway thank you all for the wishes!

I hope I can come up with a post in the next few days!

 

On the one hand, yes, and on the other hand, it's always a good time to read an X-wing book! If only we had Wedge & co. here & now... (welcome, @afterlight, don't remember seeing you here before. )

 

Teenage girls flying cutting-edge fighter planes:

29 May 1963: Lockheed Test Pilot Anthony W. “Tony” LeVier and his 18-year-old daughter, Toniann LeVier, flew the company’s two-place TF-104G Starfighter demonstrator, FAA registration N104L, from Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale, California, to Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland. They made fuel stops at Kirkland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton Ohio.
The Oxnard Press Courier reported:
PALMDALE, Calif. — Toni Ann LeVier, 18, recently earned the title of World’s Fastest Teen-ager after a scorching Mach 2 (twice the speed of sound) flight in the front cockpit of a Talley Corporation equipped TF-104G Super Starfighter.
The back-seat driver of the Lockheed aircraft A.W. (Tony) LeVier, her father.
Director of flying operations for Lockheed-California Company, Tony took Toni for a double crack at the sound barrier in the supersonic corridor near Edwards Air Force Base…
The teen-age fledgling flier handled the TF-104G controls during the Mach 2 dash.
Flying the stub-wing fighter was a giant step for Toni, who holds a student pilot’s license.
She started flying lessons in January and has 35 hours in a Beechcraft Musketeer light plane, whose docile 140-m.p.h. speed is about one-tenth that of the TF-104G.
A student at John Muir High School in Pasadena, the pert Mach 2 Miss offered this reaction to the flight:
“I’m still tingling. That sudden surge of power made me feel like we were taking off for outer space, but it’s just as easy to fly as a light plane.”
The company-owned TF-104G they flew is being assigned to Andrews AFB near Washington for a series of demonstrations to U.S. Air Force officials.
Toni volunteered to help Pop ferry the airplane on the cross-country hop.
They plan to leave Friday morning. Stops are scheduled at USAF bases at Albuquerque, Oklahoma City (where they will remain overnight after a noon arrival), and at Dayton, Ohio.
Toni is no stranger to military bases.
She was named “Miss Starfighter” by F-104 pilots of the 479th Tactical Fighter Wing, George AFB, Calif., for Armed Forces Week.
At Andrews AFB Saturday the LeViers will turn the 1500-m.p.h Super Starfighter over to a Lockheed Demonstration team.
Then — for Toni — it’s back to flying a school desk.
— Oxnard Press Courier, Tuesday, 4 June 1963
Today, Mrs. LeVier-Almaz works as a massage therapist. She and her husband live in Aptos.
N104L is the same aircraft in which Jackie Cochran set a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) speed record of 1,273.12 miles per hour (2,048.88 kilometers per hour) over a 15/25 kilometer straight course, 12 April 1963. 1,203.94 miles per hour over a 100 kilometer closed circuit on 1 May 1963.
N104L, originally registered N90500, was retained by Lockheed for use as a customer demonstrator to various foreign governments. In 1965 Lockheed sold N104L to the Koninklijke Luchtmacht (the Royal Netherlands Air Force), where it served as D-5702 until 1980. It next went to the Türk Hava Kuvvetleri (Turkish Air Force), identified as 4-702. The record-setting Starfighter was retired in 1989 and after several years in storage, was scrapped.

 

Thank you! This is my first time reading the series and my first time popping into this thread.

 

The X-wing books are the best. I almost wish I could read them for the first time all over again. But then I've had almost 25 years of pleasure from them, and I wouldn't want to have missed out on the fun and the friendships I made.