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11/20/2003 8:10:04 AM EDT
www.mh-53pavelow.com/

If you have broad band, there are some cool videos
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11/20/2003 8:46:13 AM EDT
[#1]
sweet!

what (if anything) does the name pavelow mean?

chinook...cobra...apache...even huey, i can 'get'. but pavelow has always bugged me.
11/20/2003 8:53:15 AM EDT
[#2]
Great videos.....I like the 9-Ship formation.

KF
11/20/2003 2:42:44 PM EDT
[#3]

Quoted:
sweet!

what (if anything) does the name pavelow mean?

chinook...cobra...apache...even huey, i can 'get'. but pavelow has always bugged me.



It's a "military'ism" code phrase--- the AF particularly loves that stuff. I was once told that PAVE was "Precision Angle Vector Elecronics".....as such, as programs are named, (either black or white, that can ident a program for funding, R&D, etc), with a second name. PAVE is the catory if you will, Low is the specific identifier.

There are other "Paves"  : PavePaws, PavePenny, PaveNail, etc... all are high tech electronics integrated for a specific capabilty.

There is a "Have" catagory....sometimes things are placed in that catagory.....Have Blue was the name of the 117 program when it was living out of sight, for example. All Cleared up now?   Bwahahaha!
11/20/2003 3:08:26 PM EDT
[#4]
so it's named after a box full of transistors and diodes and pcb's???

crap!

and here i thought i was gonna hear som cool war story about "the battle of pavelow" or some heroic airman, named "pavelow" or maybe even that there was some esoteric refence to a rare earth element called "pavelow" that was used to build a stronger, lightter colective lever...

but NOOOOOOOO!

it's named after a box of...of...gizmo's!!!
11/20/2003 3:50:56 PM EDT
[#5]
...I was lucky enough to get the show and tell of Pave's "office" one fine day. There were electonic devices everywhere...but after much close examination I discovered that it was nothing more than a Zeinth crystal am radio kit! Cheeziecrackers for 43mil you figure they could atleast pick up fm!
11/21/2003 3:06:43 AM EDT
[#6]
Yup, a box of diodes.....glamorous, huh?

But it worked while the mission was black....just a fancy Rescue bird, don't cha know?   Bwahahaha!

I can get FM, you just have to kick it right; that's why the side of the lower console is always dented....

For the price, even I could have gotten AC/Power Windows and a CD player......oh well

11/21/2003 9:53:52 AM EDT
[#7]
The 9 ship 53 formation was pretty cool. It was supposed to be 10 but one had to bow out on the runway and taxied back to the 53 parking area.
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