Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!apple!sun-barr!rutgers!att!cbnews!military Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: F-18 Pilot Training Pt. 3 Message-ID: <1990Jul18.040736.13978@cbnews.att.com> Date: 18 Jul 90 04:07:36 GMT References: <1990Jul11.025320.23246@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc, Seattle, Wa Lines: 25 Approved: military@att.att.com From: uw-beaver!mcgp1!flak (Dan Flak) In article <1990Jul11.025320.23246@cbnews.att.com> shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) writes: > > >From: Mary Shafer > >Oops. I talked about the Ducks, I made snide remarks about the Ducks, >but I didn't tell you what a Duck is. It's an observation plane, a >pusher-puller. I think it's an O-2, made by Cessna, and that there's >a civil version. The FACs fly in these, since they can fly low and >slow and loiter over the area. Ahem, that's Oscar Duece to you ma'm! :-). Used to fly those things in Southeast US. It is, indeed, a pushme-pullyou made by Cessna. "Forty five hundred foot takeoff roll - too much weight and not enough coal" (from a FAC 'drinking song' c. 1970). The civilian version flown by little old ladies from Passadena is called a Skymaster. -- Dan Flak - McCaw Cellular Communications Inc., 201 Elliot Ave W., Suite 105, Seattle, Wa 98119, 206-286-4355, (usenet: thebes!mcgp1!flak)