Previously Held AFSC/MOS 27250A-Air Traffic Control Operator
27270-Air Traffic Control Technician
Service Years
1960 - 1980
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Additional Information
What are you doing now:
My wife and I are both retired and travel a lot- mainly throughout the Southwestern USA. We both enjoy photography and music.
Other Comments:
After retiring from American Airlines in 1995, I worked as office manager for friends who owned 3 Port of Subs sandwich shops. Then I helped out another friend as office manager of Casino Gaming School. When the Las Vegas Gladiators came to town, I worked for them as Operations Manager. Great people to work with and a fun job!!! I also worked several years at House of Blues as a production runner. It was a lot of fun until they, because of insurance requirements, required the performers to use taxi or limo transportation. When I could no longer transport them in my vehicle, I bailed.
England AFB, Louisiana. They replaced the F-100's we had there.
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A-7 Corsair II (Sluf) Details
Aircraft/Missile Information
Model Vought A-7E Corsair II Length 46.13 ft | 14.06 m Width 38.71 ft | 11.80 m Height 16.08 ft | 4.90 m Engine(s) 1 x Allison / Rolls-Royce TF41-A-1 turbofan engine generating 15,000lbs of thrust. Empty Weight 18,942 lbs | 8,592 kg MTOW 42,000 lbs | 19,051 kg Max Speed 659 mph | 1,060 km/h | 572 kts Max Range 564 miles | 908 km Ceiling 42,999 ft | 13,106 m | 8.1 miles Climb Rate Not Available Hardpoints 8 (two reserved strictly for Sidewinder AAM) Armament 2 x 20mm single-barrel cannons (early) 1 x 20mm 6-barrel rotary cannon (later models)
Mission-specific armament on 8 external hardpoints (two side-fuselage positions reserved exclusively for AIM-9 Sidewinder AAM) may include:
AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, iron free fall bombs, Laser-Guided Bombs, AGM-65 Maverick air-to-surface missiles, munition dispensing pods and rocket pods. Accommodations 1
