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My role model was always myself as seen through the eyes of superstars. I met Don Garlits and "Swamp Rat I" through Hot Rod (tm) magazine. This car had a narrowed rear axle, eight Stromberg carburetors with the air horns cut off and a Chrysler hemi of pre-1958 Imperial block era. It had a solid front axle with laced motorcycle wheels on spool hubs. I used some of Don's neoprene disk repalcements for the Stromberg needle valves in my first car. No more fires!! This car did not win the first Smokers meet it entered with the Kern County timing Association in Bakersfield. It was "over- carbureted" with 8 Strombergs. So next year it showed up with an 8-71 GMC blower (also "too big" and the same eight carbs and won putting Tampa Bay on the drag racing map.) That is me 15 years ago at the Ocala Museum Don Garlits built. Beside it is the plane that launched my computer career. This one is the Strike Eagle form of a little later with the FastPak (Is this trademarked? the government forbid advertising in this era) conformal tanks. It is for night blind bombing using radar or infrared. The common denominator of the two elements in this image is acceleration of over 1 g axial. The Swamp Rat has to do that through friction to the ground and the Eagle uses a nozzle. The Eagle picture was taken at the Selfridge ANGB Air Show in 1998. The reason they are appearing now 15 and nearly ten years later is I finally got to sit in an F-105 and a F-15 cockpit simulator with real instruments at Warner Robins on the way through Georgia this year. Thus Harold Altis and John Sinnet and Mike Matiyka beame more than just a Vice President of Engineering and two Operations Analysts running a computer exercise to prepare proposals for the F-15 and F-18. I wasn't sitting in one of the MACS-II spheres at MSSD-East with a speculative tape instrument cockpit or glass, I was in metal that inherited from a ECM simulator for an EA-3 I sat in in Orlando in 1981 to view a first, a color display on a projector screen. "Face Valid" that is the term Hal Bauer of Human Factors had used in 1967 to describe trainers with real instrument faces.

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RodolfoCiminelli

8:14AM | Mon, 21 May 2007

Excellent shot.......!!!!

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evielouise

9:06AM | Mon, 21 May 2007

Great shot indeed different to see you loading in photography and very nice !

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TwoPynts

9:55AM | Mon, 21 May 2007

Great info and collage design. Must have been a blast to be in a F-15 cockpit. When my father was stationed at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, we had a large squadron of them there and you'd hear them taking off at all times of the day. Of course the Habu was louder and more impressive to watch take flight with it's intense afterburners, but all the planes had their charms.

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moochagoo

1:07PM | Mon, 21 May 2007

Very interesting. I've in a bank for financing planes like that.

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Richardphotos

2:10PM | Mon, 21 May 2007

Don Garlits has been a staple of drag racing as long I remember as John Force. excellent memory Dale and I bet it was a thrill to be in the stimulator

Denys234

5:41PM | Mon, 21 May 2007

Back to the days of the mongoose and the snake....Well done!!

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danob

6:26PM | Mon, 21 May 2007

Nice one Dale good to see you here, and needless to say the subject matter of two of your passions on display

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jocko500

7:39PM | Mon, 21 May 2007

I remember the "swamp rat" and the cartoons that was drawn for raceing fans. cool shots

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kenmo

8:36AM | Mon, 28 May 2007

Nice collage....!!!

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Biffowitz

11:49AM | Tue, 29 May 2007

Cool collage of these "G" pullers. I gotta say, I always enjoy reading your blurbs. There is usually a lot of cool stuff in em, and oddly enough, I understand most of it. Guess that's what freaks me out!!


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