Originally Posted by
bjjoondo
I beleive, it was a D/E model, one of the last ones made. Mostly we had F4-C models as the bases main mission was to "train other nations pilots" and it was only a "C" priority base. LOL, I WISH, I was a lowly Security Specialist/Police, it's hard to see the "M-16" I'm carrying and the big old style box type radio. We also had the "last" active squardon of F-105 Thuds which to replaced by the "brand new F-15 Eagle", (yes, I'm wayyyyyy old)!
"Old"??
As an intern at a high school honors program in 1956, I was testing refraction in F102 and F106 radomes at Convair in San Diego. We plotted the refraction by hand using graph paper, and I did square roots on a Marchand square root electric calculator where you waited about 30 seconds for each calcualtion as the wheels in the machine whirled and ground away!!