Happy New Year to you as well!

No, the DCS videos will be right here too! Really the only thing that changed was the channel name, everything else will stay the same.

Would love to have her fly again with her teeth! The Air Force saw too it that the radar and weapons systems were permanently disabled though.

@ That never stopped those Texas boys before! Lol

As long as I can!

I don't think we get any support from them at all. Not sure if we would either now since they merged with Boeing some years ago.

There is no McDonnell Douglas since the middle 80's!!

​@@DieselThunderAviation Believe it or not I saw a Haynes Manual on the Phantom somewhere I just can't remember

Thankfully that is all normal sized electronical stuff, and bad components can be sourced and repaired as needed. It's almost entirely analog circuits, hardly any microcontrollers or processors to deal with. This is where a good working knowledge and troubleshooting skills come into play 😀

@@DieselThunderAviation some of the boards on the right looked like the kind that are partially buried in potting. Not easy to remove, usually. Analog circuits should be manageable, and honestly, kinda fun. Documentation would be nice, of course.

I noticed that everyone seems to like that, so I try to include more of it!

It's quite tasty! I think this is the second bottle of it I've had here at the house. Happy New Year to you as well!

@DieselThunderAviation you should try the Crown Royal Blackberry. It's awesome.

I know the apple is good

@@JackHammer-vk6jv Peach also.

Hey bob!! Hope you're having a great Christmas/New Year!! Thank you I could not remember the name of Aero Turbine to save my life but I did remember it was in CA so I'll claim partial points. I did remember we had to have a bit of a dance with them to get everything right. We are using the boom mic heasets for testing. When we started a few weeks ago we had a real mess with problems with cables, the "Y's" and headsets. The only headset we had fully functioning was one of the boom mic ones. We started with that as a known working quantitiy so we could then figure out the test box, and then go from there. These guys really know their stuff, and have quickly sorted through the cable and "Y" problems, and the next step will be getting the crew chief headsets working right now that we have everything else sorted out. This has been a process but now we have a much more thorough understanding of all this so future issues can be sorted out much faster!

@@flyboy126 There's a CC headset with a chrome frame and jel pads around the ear phones. The last time I used it it worked fine.

Nice! Haven't had to help with one of those jobs yet, hopefully we don't have to for quite some time!

​@@DieselThunderAviationOne tip I recall from doing eng. changes in the 80's was coating the "milk bottle" mount with milk of magnesia which would withstand the heat and keep it from fusing to the airframe. Unsure if that is in the maintenance manual.

Yes, we did the same thing on gas turbines at power plant. Used MOM on bolt threads. It works. GE LM6000 and Pratt Whitney FT8

Disagree..... Phantom Works!!

@ Work is part but his educational instruction is the best part 👍🏻🤩

Don’t remember ever jacking the airplane to remove the engine.

@@stevehelms3192 I was IAF structural airframe, sometimes we did things a bit different to our US friends. I might be mixed up with F-16C procedures. It's been a long time.

Thank you, Happy New Year to you as well!

As far as I know, they are still flying them to this day. There's three countries still flying them; Greece, Turkey, and Iran.