Earl,

        It seems we all have something in common. I have spent a number of
hours in a T-6 and later on in a Convair T-29 (a flying classroom nav trainer)
teaching instrument flying and navigation. This was probably before your times,
although you may both have been exposed to the T-6.

        As far as the SMT effort, we begain our madien flight into this
technology in 1981. We were really on the ground floor of the CIC evaluations,
doing thermal shock tests on bonded dummies in Dry Ice/Acetone mixtures (perish
the thought) and IR reflow cycles. It's a wonder we did'nt die from CO
exposure.If I sometimes seem incoherent, maybe you will understand, he he!.  I
also worked on a "Black Program" for a sequential build effort.

Incedentally it's just Les; Keep it straight and level in those turns,
Les

>  From: [log in to unmask], on 12/11/98 4:39 PM:
>  Steve,
>
>  Somehow, I always felt close to you. Now I know why. How many airborne near
>  misses can we have?
>
>  P-3's is neat airplanes. I have many peelot and navaguesser friends having
>  flown them. It's just
>  that you all get too close to everything.
>
>  After I got done taking off, flying straight and level?, descending, and
>  landing (all at 150 kts.)
>  C-119's (Marine Corps designated R4-Q [for R4QU2]), I got to fly C-130's and
>  then, would you
>  believe, I ended up ferrying HU-16's to VietNam after the crotch - as an Air
>  Force reservist. Yes
>  sir, P-3's and HU-16's, that's living (you must have been stationed at
>  Moffit?). Damn small world.
>  Don't forget to keep your nose down in the turns.
>
>  As far as abuse from all these forums are concerned, you offer too much good
>  stuff to be attacked.
>  I just keep trying to keep the wings level while offering a viable target. I
>  can't get over the
>  rush of being shot at and missed.
>
>  It was so much easier keeping your tail feathers together then - than
>  wrangling with this bunch.
>  Boy, they are both fun, but I'd rather be airborne than buried. I never knew
>  there was so
>  much involved in PCB stuff. Back then, there wasn't - pretty much still the
>  same - just different
>  ways of approaching the same target.
>
>  I didn't know Leslie O. Connally was an original flight crew memember when
>  we took off in 1984, and
>  before, with TI's CIC at Sperry and Lockheed. Thanks for your contribution
>  Leslie. I always thought
>  of you as a much younger person while being so very knowledgeable. Now I
>  know you to be very
>  knowledgeable and young at heart.
>
>  See from you soon,
>
>  Earl
>
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