10 thoughts on “Igor’s first electronic class in the Air Force”
That was when diodes were brand new. Which means nothing, one of my working radios is a 1934 RCA with aircraft bands.
chuckling
I understand they used electrons the size of BB’s in those days, not the micro-miniature ones we’ve got today.
How many wings did aeroplanes have then, Igor?
At least 6.
Well, that is practical for a biplane: 4 mainplanes and 2 tailplanes. Triplanes, both heavy jobs and nippy fighters, like the Fokker or Sopwith Tripe, were common enough during the Great War. I wonder what pilots idly conjectured about the numbers of lifting surfaces we’d have on aircraft of the future?
I graduated from Kessler 21 week electronics class in 1964. I notice the sign in the picture says “Air Traffic Control Operator”.
I had to blow up the picture to see that. My eyes ain’t what they use to be… I just saw that Air Force Electronics Class and had to raze Igor, he was a Electronic weinie in the Force and is now a retired engineer…
My brother went to Keesler for Autotrack Radar school. I went to Chanute for Missile Systems.
Either way, the Tech Schools were… kinda pathetic. NOT like Navy Electronics schools, for sure!
I was supposed to go to Keesler after OTS at Lackland in 64. But one morning I woke up with a discharge on the back of my skivvies, went to the Flight Surgeon and he told me I had a pilonidal cyst and was therefore unfit to be an officer in the United States Air force since I wasn’t a perfect asshole. And they threw me out.
That was when diodes were brand new. Which means nothing, one of my working radios is a 1934 RCA with aircraft bands.
chuckling
I understand they used electrons the size of BB’s in those days, not the micro-miniature ones we’ve got today.
How many wings did aeroplanes have then, Igor?
At least 6.
Well, that is practical for a biplane: 4 mainplanes and 2 tailplanes. Triplanes, both heavy jobs and nippy fighters, like the Fokker or Sopwith Tripe, were common enough during the Great War. I wonder what pilots idly conjectured about the numbers of lifting surfaces we’d have on aircraft of the future?
I graduated from Kessler 21 week electronics class in 1964. I notice the sign in the picture says “Air Traffic Control Operator”.
I had to blow up the picture to see that. My eyes ain’t what they use to be… I just saw that Air Force Electronics Class and had to raze Igor, he was a Electronic weinie in the Force and is now a retired engineer…
My brother went to Keesler for Autotrack Radar school. I went to Chanute for Missile Systems.
Either way, the Tech Schools were… kinda pathetic. NOT like Navy Electronics schools, for sure!
I was supposed to go to Keesler after OTS at Lackland in 64. But one morning I woke up with a discharge on the back of my skivvies, went to the Flight Surgeon and he told me I had a pilonidal cyst and was therefore unfit to be an officer in the United States Air force since I wasn’t a perfect asshole. And they threw me out.
1505’s what a pain in the ass to upkeep.