No, that is a troop ship or slick, standing outside is on the weapon pylon that the rockets are attached to. There are only 4 3/8 bolts that hold that pylon onto the aircraft. Sure glad we weren't buying bolts and nuts from China, that came later in the 70s when we had Jet liners loosing their engines because mount bolts were breaking. They found the bolts were not stress tested and cheap knock offs of good bolts and nuts. I just hope when we have to fight china they use their own stuff they make, like bolts and nuts. Several years ago one of their Commercial airliners was red x ed at an International airport for being unsafe. They had left china with one engine dead and they actually tied a seat belt to the First fan in an engine to keep it from rotating and vibrating the wing. They checked all the Chinese aircraft world wide and found two more unsafe to fly. They made them make repairs before it was allowed to leave their airspace or take off.
LOL, "oh ok", that's not much to hold it 4 3/8 bolts. Back then stuff was made here, and was superior to theirs, for sure. But if we do have a war with them, we may have to beat them with their products, since we don't produce barely anything anymore. Nafta, one of Bill Clinton's bills, he got passed, was a mistake and the beginning of the end of this strong Nation, IMO. Our son is flying all the time everywhere, hope he never gets on their planes. He has more air miles than anyone I know.
Here is a photo of my ship, you can see the horizontal cross bar that is mounted on the weapons mount. The coned looking thing is the mini gun mount and it swings open on a couple small hindges to install it or remove it. It is electrical over hydraulic miniature motors inside that cone articulate the gun up down side to side etc You stand outside on the horizontal mount and just place your back against the ship.
With nothing to hold onto, "man", that must be a hell of a rush while flying. I never was keen on heights myself, though I have flown a few times, once with my supervisor who had a twin-engine plane and he flew me back home and I made the mistake of telling him if you don't speed up we will never get there because nothing up there to base your speed off of it felt like we weren't moving at all. He pointed at the speed which said 300 mph. Then he pulled back on the steering wheel and climbed as high as it would go then shoved forward and we were falling fast as hell, I came a foot above my seat and my heart was wide open beating so hard. Finally, he leveled off and said here you fly it and flip a switch, then it was on my steering wheel then and I had it going up and down I was so nervous after that, but he said just calm down and take a 45% turn to the left, so I did and that was the first time I ever flew anything.
Thomas, guess you have been busy too, haven't seen you on here for a while now, hope you doing ok and post us again soon.
Nice to see you too, Marie is sitting right here beside me, right now she is on FB chatting with her grandkids. She also said for me to tell everyone, hello for her. How are you doing? Yeah, Thomas is a good man and I hope he's ok.
That's great to hear and we just started some too. It's going on for about two weeks now. Will have to transfer soon, especially the giant sunflower ones, they are taking off fast.
Things are OK, thanks for asking. My MIL died a couple of months ago and we've been dealing with her estate which keeps us busy. Now I'm getting antsy for springtime and a new garden.
Sorry for your loss. And I do understand the getting ready thing in gardening. We still deal with loss of grandson, just lately not feeling guilty for any normal positive life experiences. Remember the dove landing on his brothers hand?It was like a sihn he was ok.