Special Guest, and Looking for some Parts

[@trespire]

Wow, I got a lump in my throat listening to Al. Respect to all those who served in Vietnam. Welcome home.

[@mdkzztop]

Wow! My Dad was at Phan Rang! Crew Chief on F-100's! He might have run into this gentleman!

[@corvettedoc1]

This was a great video! My dad was a F-100 Mechanic at Bien Hoa with the 510th Fighter SQ

[@danielcoburn8635]

Love listening to Old Toads share their experiences!

[@danielcoburn8635]

Always short manned, but still able to decertify for two weeks? Saw a crew get busted during an exercise, they ran them to Load Barn and recertification them and ran them back out!

[@SkyhawkSteve]

thanks to you and Al for taking the time out of your vacations to share his stories with us! Also.. glad that you caught the corrosion issue with the intake screen before anything had the chance to go down the intake! I know how one's heart kinda sinks when you find those unexpected problems, but it beats losing a J79. Thanks!

[@trespire]

FOD sure can ruin the day. Great catch. We had a saying, "When in doubt, there is no doudt". Meaning double and tripple check till your satisfied. Edit : Ex-rivet basher here, F4-E Kurnass. Replacing those soft solid aluminium rivets is not a big job. Might be worth considering replacing some of the rivets just as a precautionary measure. For the rivets to corrode all the way through that cover might have sat in water for some time. There could be other unpleasent suprises ! The covers are FOD critical part, the rivets need to be cut to spec. to the right length (depth/length gauge +2D), and mushromed over (with a dolly or horseshoe hand tool) to dia1.5D and 0.5D in hight, with no cracks. Although not flight hardware, this needs to be done right. Sorry for going on about FOD 🙂 Good luck with it.

[@RocketToTheMoose]

I've got a couple pictures taken by a family friend of an F-100 in a revetment in Vietnam. Never found out specifically where it was taken, though.

[@ces188charles6]

Al, thank you for your service and Welcome home sir!!!

[@stevea9604]

Hoping Al is getting his VA disability for Agent Orange…If you are in contact with him please have him check with Disabled American Veterans DAV or the Veterans of Foreign wars VFW for a Veteran Service Officer to explore what he has earned…As you should to