Who remembers 2 TV's going on New Years Day to keep with the games? I had a small B/W portable Dad would have me bring it in and set it up on a chair next to the Big one (Color)...............Cotton Bowl was always on Big one (usually was Longhorns) and the B/W would be on the Sugar Bowl which came on at the same time, about noonish.
That was our house, 40+ years ago, except that my dad decreed that the big Magnavox color console TV would be reserved for watching the Rose Bowl (because he got his BA and MA at Illinois and his D.Ed at USC. Big fan of the Big 10 and Pac 10, obviously).
Remember when you had to walk over to the TV and actually touch the thing to change channels? Times were tough back then, kids these days don’t understand the struggle.
And TVs weighed 8000 lbs, had wood paneling and looked like furniture Miss the old Curtiss Mathis giant
Literal struggles, man. I had an older brother and oftentimes we wouldn't agree on what to watch on Friday nights. Our debates over the selection from three (3!) channels tended to become quite physical by the time a resolution was reached.
One of our 3 stations would play HIGH FLIGHT prior to the National Anthem. Love watching the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter.
Remember when you could do everything with just one remote control instead of needing 5 or 6 of them?
When I moved to Austin in the early sixties there was only one channel KTBC. They would play selections from all three TV networks. Some of my old friends actually helped build the transmitters for the newer TV stations. I think there were only 2 FM stations too and one of them was KHFI which was the classical station back then. The other was KTBC which mirrored the AM station.
Early models of the F-104 had an ejection seat that ejected down, out of the belly of the aircraft (because of the possibility of the pilot hitting the high T-tail of the aircraft if he ejected up). Of course this meant that if you had an emergency at low altitude (such as when taking off or landing) you would have to roll the plane inverted before ejecting. Later models had an ejection seat that went UP, with enough extra propellant that the pilot would clear the T-tail.
You too? I thought I was the only one who does the remote shuffle when I sit down to watch something. And who keeps leaving the stupid remote on the sofa where it falls between the cushions and I have to dig around and find the stupid thing? Come on people I thought we talked about this already. /rant
Years ago I read a biography of Erich Hartmann (the top scoring Luftwaffe ace in WWII, credited with 352 kills). He served in the West German Air Force 1956-1970, and was very much opposed to the acquisition of the F-104 by the Budeswehr; according to the book I read, he feared that it was too dangerous for the West German pilots to handle at that time.
Here's an oldie but goodie: the F-16 was introduced at the Paris Air Show in May 1975 (almost 45 years ago!) and it's still very much in use.
Thank you for these GJ. The Germans were masters in these compared to the Italians. At one point the leader of a 4 ship flew into a mountain only to be followed by the other 3.
I grew up in Lockhart and the only way to tune in the different Austin channels was to physically rotate the outside antenna. The antenna was located at the end of the house at the peak of the roof and had to be rotated from up on the roof. My two brothers and I got good at "walking" up the side of the house using the antenna pole, climbing on the roof, rotating the antenna then jumping off the roof.
W flew the Convair F-102 Delta Dagger in the Texas Air National Guard. By that time it was kind of long-in-tooth as fighter jets go. Aerospaceweb.org | Ask Us - F-102 in Vietnam
Ahh, memories of visiting my cousins in rural Iowa back in the 1960s. They too had those rotating antennas, but most people in those areas had a directional controller on top of the TV linked to a servo motor attached to the base of the antenna, so they could remotely tell it to point to Cedar Rapids or Quad Cities or wherever. (Because no one wants to climb out on the roof of a 2 story house + attic to turn an antenna, especially during winter.)
