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Posted: 11/18/2016 12:14:38 AM EDT
Don't know much about planes and thought someone here could id this.
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Posted: 11/18/2016 12:18:16 AM EDT
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F-5B it looks like.
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Posted: 11/18/2016 2:07:53 AM EDT
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Worf? That Michael Dorn?
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Posted: 11/18/2016 2:16:27 AM EDT
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My dream plane!
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Posted: 11/18/2016 2:20:48 AM EDT
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Posted: 11/18/2016 2:28:27 AM EDT
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Worf? That Michael Dorn? Yeah, he's a private pilot. Owns jets with that Star Trek money. Personal ride is currently a Sabreliner, according to the googles. |
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Posted: 11/18/2016 4:03:29 AM EDT
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MiG-28
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Posted: 11/18/2016 4:12:48 AM EDT
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Looks like a T-38.
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Posted: 11/18/2016 4:18:47 AM EDT
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MiG-28 No one's been this close before!!!!!!!! |
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Posted: 11/18/2016 4:27:39 AM EDT
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With the wing-tip fuel tanks it's an F-5 variant not a T-38.
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Posted: 11/18/2016 5:03:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: F-5B it looks like. Yep.  |
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Posted: 11/18/2016 6:09:58 AM EDT
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F-5
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Posted: 11/18/2016 7:03:24 AM EDT
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He was the best thing that happened to TNG and DS9
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Posted: 11/18/2016 7:04:34 AM EDT
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He was the best thing that happened to TNG and DS9 and CHiPs! |
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Posted: 11/18/2016 7:15:57 AM EDT
[#14]
Mr Dorn told me a funny story why he bought that plane.
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Posted: 11/18/2016 7:32:26 AM EDT
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Don't know much about planes and thought someone here could id this. http://imageshack.com/a/img921/9649/dpRgge.jpg T38 |
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Posted: 11/18/2016 8:29:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryDefinitely not a T-38. The wing is an easy giveaway to tell the difference, but there are several others as well. |
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Posted: 11/18/2016 11:52:34 AM EDT
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F-5B.
The leading edge flaps are a dead give-away that it's an F-5. It's actually a slightly larger airframe than the T-38 as well. When I was in pilot training, I had T-38 instructor from the Spanish AF that had flown the F-5 for over 2,000 hours. He always talked about how much better the F-5 was compared to the T-38. Before I became I pilot I was a crew chief and my first fight chief crewed F-5s on active duty. He would get angry if you called it a T-38... The T-38 was fast, sexy and an absolute blast to fly! Having said that, I would have much rather flown the F-5. The extra power, and slow speed handling (via the leading edge flaps) would have been mo better! There was something not quite right about flying the final turn at just the right amount of stall buffet! |
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Posted: 11/18/2016 12:30:00 PM EDT
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Identifying the plane was easier than identifying Michael Dorn. I've never heard of the guy.
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Posted: 11/18/2016 12:55:17 PM EDT
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Yeah, he's a private pilot. Owns jets with that Star Trek money. Personal ride is currently a Sabreliner, according to the googles. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Worf? That Michael Dorn? Yeah, he's a private pilot. Owns jets with that Star Trek money. Personal ride is currently a Sabreliner, according to the googles. That's pretty cool.
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Posted: 11/18/2016 4:43:46 PM EDT
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Mr Dorn told me a funny story why he bought that plane. Ok humblebrag, let's hear it! |
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Posted: 11/18/2016 10:27:36 PM EDT
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Yes that one. Wife was behind him in line at restaurant and took pictures of plane on tarmac. The refueling people were excited to have it and 5 F18's this week.
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Posted: 11/19/2016 12:15:54 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ok humblebrag, let's hear it! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Mr Dorn told me a funny story why he bought that plane. Ok humblebrag, let's hear it! |
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Posted: 11/19/2016 12:19:11 AM EDT
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Yeah, he's a private pilot. Owns jets with that Star Trek money. Personal ride is currently a Sabreliner, according to the googles. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Worf? That Michael Dorn? Yeah, he's a private pilot. Owns jets with that Star Trek money. Personal ride is currently a Sabreliner, according to the googles. |
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Posted: 11/19/2016 12:49:46 AM EDT
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I wonder if he still flys the sabreliner. Great plane, but some ooooold technology, has got to be a bear to maintain at this point. Fuel is probably a killer too I read another interview piece, presumably later, which mentioned he'd sold it, because it requires a two-man flight crew. He was having to either keep a full-time copilot on his personal dime, or hope he could find a flying buddy with the right credentials if he wanted to go fly somewhere. Plus parts were insanely expensive for an old plane that was nevertheless still in active commercial use. He could get surplus engines to rebuild for his T33 for $25k, but a new turbine for the Sabreliner was $300k. Article said he was still looking for another jet he could fall in love with, fly solo but more reasonably afford to maintain. |
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Posted: 11/19/2016 7:36:23 PM EDT
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Nice private jet
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Posted: 11/20/2016 10:45:11 PM EDT
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I think he owned or had part ownership in an F-86.
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Posted: 11/28/2016 7:57:35 AM EDT
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I think he owned or had part ownership in an F-86. Seem to remember a pic of him in front of an F-86 that was said to be his. |
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Posted: 11/29/2016 12:40:05 PM EDT
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He sold the Sabreliner several years ago. It was eating him out of house and home !
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Posted: 11/29/2016 12:43:37 PM EDT
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He came down to Houston to look at a TA-4 forward fuselage to build up an aircraft using the back of an A-4L. He was to big to fit in the cockpit of our flying TA-4. He scrapped that idea, so we went to dinner. Nice guy.
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Posted: 11/29/2016 12:59:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Yeah, he's a private pilot. Owns jets with that Star Trek money. Personal ride is currently a Sabreliner, according to the googles. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Worf? That Michael Dorn? Yeah, he's a private pilot. Owns jets with that Star Trek money. Personal ride is currently a Sabreliner, according to the googles. That is very bad ass. |
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Posted: 12/26/2016 7:23:44 PM EDT
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Seem to remember a pic of him in front of an F-86 that was said to be his. I saw something on the history channel years ago and he was talking about it but I think even then he said he had sold it. |
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Posted: 12/29/2016 10:07:58 AM EDT
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I saw something on the history channel years ago and he was talking about it but I think even then he said he had sold it. Yup. It was a money pit. |
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