Uncle Willy
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found in an abandoned park about a foot down. It was full of silver and I about wet my britches when I pulled it up, felt the weight, and shook it.
Bill
Bill
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More nostagia - a liitle cache..
- Thread starter Uncle Willy
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jackinaustin
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Way to go Bill. I robably would have done more than wet.
That is very cool, Bill. I can imagine your reaction. I have never found anything remotly like it, but I did find a coin purse once, without the coins 
But I know you were stoked. Something like that can be found anywhere, too, so there remains the remote chance of it happening to anyone if us.
Back when you started detecting, just after the dawn of civilized man I believe, the pickings were easier than they are now. Silver was plentiful and there few, if any, pull tabs. These things are lost on guys like me ... who came after guys like you.
But something like that still is a possibility for any of us. YOu are living proof that it can happen. You are still living, right?
But I know you were stoked. Something like that can be found anywhere, too, so there remains the remote chance of it happening to anyone if us.
Back when you started detecting, just after the dawn of civilized man I believe, the pickings were easier than they are now. Silver was plentiful and there few, if any, pull tabs. These things are lost on guys like me ... who came after guys like you.
But something like that still is a possibility for any of us. YOu are living proof that it can happen. You are still living, right?
Uncle Willy
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Yeah I don't get rid of anything. I'm a real hoarder. 
Aside from the few I have given for gifts I have every ring I've ever found - about 300.
Bill
Aside from the few I have given for gifts I have every ring I've ever found - about 300.Bill
Uncle Willy
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Yeah when I first started in 1963 you could practically scoop the coins up. Course we had lousy machines then but they worked. More nostalgia: When I started out my wife and me were staying at my parent's home in Yuba City, California and I was working at Beale Airforce Base building facilities for the SR-71 spy plane which was unknown to the public at that time.
I was always pestering the crew trying to find out all about it. I asked the pilot how fast it would go. He said that was classified but that it would fly faster than a 30-06 bullet. That pretty well answered my question. 3000 feet per second is moving right along. When they allegedly retired that plane they made a record run from New York to Los Angeles in 58 minutes. Only plane they couldn't shoot down. By the time a missle got up to 80,000-100,000 feet where it used to be it was over the next country.
Bill
I was always pestering the crew trying to find out all about it. I asked the pilot how fast it would go. He said that was classified but that it would fly faster than a 30-06 bullet. That pretty well answered my question. 3000 feet per second is moving right along. When they allegedly retired that plane they made a record run from New York to Los Angeles in 58 minutes. Only plane they couldn't shoot down. By the time a missle got up to 80,000-100,000 feet where it used to be it was over the next country.
Bill
Uncle Willy
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Yeah I found a cache years ago that had nine Morgan silver dollars in it. I reall done a dance and a half over that one. Got a pic of that somewhere. I'll dig it out and post it.
Bill
Bill
Most of the young detectorist won't know what I am talking about, but my 1st detector was a WWII mine detector. No bells and whistles, the coil alone weighed about 10 lbs, the main part, you worn in a pack on your back and it weighed around 25-30 lbs. I had to wait another 40 years to get my ACE 250 and my GTP 1350, now I am retired and having a blast. So much for the GOOD OL DAYS!!! But even then I had a lot of fun finding things that had been lost for years.
Your Friend.
John D.
Your Friend.
John D.
Uncle Willy
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That's what Charles Garrett started out with. That's why he built his own detector. Those mine detectors were a real bear but a lot of goodies were found. Course back in those days coinshooting was practically unheard of.
Bill
Bill
Hey Bill,
On the nostalgia part...
I was one of the lucky civilians that got to see the SR-71 up close and personal. I was working at Edwards AFB as a young civilian engineer on "other spy stuff" about a mile from the hanger where the SR-71 resided. Awesome aircraft and I learned a lot about it and actually got over to see it with the AF personnel in charge the site where I was working/stationed at the time.
Unfortunately, I never got to see it fly but they would occasionally rev the engines and the buildings would shake with the defining noise. I was told that this was #2 and that #1 crashed on its maiden flight from Palmdale. At the time they were allegedly trying to use #2 to figure out what went wrong with #1.
That base was amazing and although I never got to see the SR-71 fly, several times I was fortunate enough to see the X-15 take off (brought up by the carrier plane) and then land in on the salt lake after making it's trip up and down the entire west coast in under 15 minutes. A truly amazing place!
On the nostalgia part...
I was one of the lucky civilians that got to see the SR-71 up close and personal. I was working at Edwards AFB as a young civilian engineer on "other spy stuff" about a mile from the hanger where the SR-71 resided. Awesome aircraft and I learned a lot about it and actually got over to see it with the AF personnel in charge the site where I was working/stationed at the time.
Unfortunately, I never got to see it fly but they would occasionally rev the engines and the buildings would shake with the defining noise. I was told that this was #2 and that #1 crashed on its maiden flight from Palmdale. At the time they were allegedly trying to use #2 to figure out what went wrong with #1.
That base was amazing and although I never got to see the SR-71 fly, several times I was fortunate enough to see the X-15 take off (brought up by the carrier plane) and then land in on the salt lake after making it's trip up and down the entire west coast in under 15 minutes. A truly amazing place!
Mick in Dubbo
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Hey Bill
After reading a post here the other day about 2 fellas going East in search of fifty silver coins; I think that they might be a tad bit jealous.
Mick Evans.
After reading a post here the other day about 2 fellas going East in search of fifty silver coins; I think that they might be a tad bit jealous.
Mick Evans.
Uncle Willy
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Yeah I was following that saga. Never did find out if they met their quota. They hunted about 14 hours every day. That would have been a fun trip but the silver back there ain't as plentiful as it used to be. It's almost non-existent out here anymore.
Bill
Bill
Uncle Willy
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Yeah I've got some more pics soon as I dig them up.
Bill
Bill
Uncle Willy
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Yeah I done some work there. Did you ever see their rocket sled that accelerated from zero to 4500 MPH in 4.5 seconds? Among other uses they would strap pilots in that thing to see how many G's they could handle. They had two 71's at Beale, parked right outside the building we were working on.
The air conditioning unit in that plane just to keep two guys from frying would air condition a Target store. At near top speed the windshield would heat up to 800 degrees. Like the Concorde the 71 expanded and contracted at high speed. The cameras aboard could take a pic of a car in a parking lot from 80-100 thousand feet up and you could read the license plate number. Unknown to most Americans many of the pics taken of the missles in Cuba were shot by the 71 but was credited to the U-2.
Bill
The air conditioning unit in that plane just to keep two guys from frying would air condition a Target store. At near top speed the windshield would heat up to 800 degrees. Like the Concorde the 71 expanded and contracted at high speed. The cameras aboard could take a pic of a car in a parking lot from 80-100 thousand feet up and you could read the license plate number. Unknown to most Americans many of the pics taken of the missles in Cuba were shot by the 71 but was credited to the U-2.
Bill
Yea, those 71's would leak like a sieve when on the ground.
Once they got em moving along and up to altitude they would
seal up and quit leaking. I mess with flight simulators
a lot, and have had a SR-71 set up on the sim in the past.
It's fun to outrun the sun. You really get to moving.
You move so fast that it's not really unusual to begin the
descent to land, and still be a couple or three states from the
airbase. Where in a normal airliner, you might start maybe
90-110-130+ miles out depending on the altitude. I've got
some good shows recorded about the SR-71. Shows them flying
it, etc.. Once on the sim I flew the SR-71 around the world
from Paris to Paris moving west. As I remember, it took about
16? hours I think.. Sunrise, sunsets get kinda perverted on a
trip like that...
It's almost like being a psuedo astronaut.
I'm gearing up for the new FS 10 that's coming out Oct 17..
Should be pretty good. I've been a flight sim nut since the
early 90's. Have done sim software work from time to time.
On my sim, I kind of specialize in boeings. I use aftermarket
cockpits, etc.. I have a real nice 737-700 I've been running
that has a good virtual cockpit. Been running almost all VC's
for the last couple of years or so. The old 2d panels are
about dead for me. The VC's give a much more realistic perspective,
and you can turn and look in any direction. Also all instruments
work on both sides, you look down and see the trim wheels spin,
etc.. It's come a long way since the early 90's when we were
running FS4. FS4 is almost cartoonish looking compared to what we
run now.
MK
Once they got em moving along and up to altitude they would
seal up and quit leaking. I mess with flight simulators
a lot, and have had a SR-71 set up on the sim in the past.
It's fun to outrun the sun. You really get to moving.
You move so fast that it's not really unusual to begin the
descent to land, and still be a couple or three states from the
airbase. Where in a normal airliner, you might start maybe
90-110-130+ miles out depending on the altitude. I've got
some good shows recorded about the SR-71. Shows them flying
it, etc.. Once on the sim I flew the SR-71 around the world
from Paris to Paris moving west. As I remember, it took about
16? hours I think.. Sunrise, sunsets get kinda perverted on a
trip like that...
It's almost like being a psuedo astronaut.I'm gearing up for the new FS 10 that's coming out Oct 17..
Should be pretty good. I've been a flight sim nut since the
early 90's. Have done sim software work from time to time.
On my sim, I kind of specialize in boeings. I use aftermarket
cockpits, etc.. I have a real nice 737-700 I've been running
that has a good virtual cockpit. Been running almost all VC's
for the last couple of years or so. The old 2d panels are
about dead for me. The VC's give a much more realistic perspective,
and you can turn and look in any direction. Also all instruments
work on both sides, you look down and see the trim wheels spin,
etc.. It's come a long way since the early 90's when we were
running FS4. FS4 is almost cartoonish looking compared to what we
run now.
MK
rocket sled...
Although I passed the rocket sled track every day going to work on the base I never did get to see it operate. They had stopped the project several months before I arrived. If I'm not mistaken, they told me a lot of politicians were against the sled project and considered it very inhumane. The Air Force guys took me to a museum there at Edwards where they showed various films of the sled and occupants during tests. Even the (censored,I'm sure) museum film footage was physically brutal.
The 2 things that seemed to stick in my mind was the fact that if they happened to hit a bird at those velocities the pilot could be likely be killed and there were stories that eyeballs had popped out of sockets from the rapid deceleration when the sled hit the water trough used to stop it.
Sounds like it might make a good ride for 6 Flags. Even scarier is the thought that there are thrill riders that would probably want to go on such a ride.
Although I passed the rocket sled track every day going to work on the base I never did get to see it operate. They had stopped the project several months before I arrived. If I'm not mistaken, they told me a lot of politicians were against the sled project and considered it very inhumane. The Air Force guys took me to a museum there at Edwards where they showed various films of the sled and occupants during tests. Even the (censored,I'm sure) museum film footage was physically brutal.
The 2 things that seemed to stick in my mind was the fact that if they happened to hit a bird at those velocities the pilot could be likely be killed and there were stories that eyeballs had popped out of sockets from the rapid deceleration when the sled hit the water trough used to stop it.
Sounds like it might make a good ride for 6 Flags. Even scarier is the thought that there are thrill riders that would probably want to go on such a ride.
Uncle Willy
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Yeah Edwards is plagued with pigeons and doves. That sled is made of quarter-inch steel and when it was under way and a dove or pigeon flew in front of it they would tear a ten inch hole in that steel but the bird would be intact because at that speed it became a solid object. The wonders of velocity.
Bill
Bill
Uncle Willy
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Sounds like a ball bud. Yeah, like the Concorde, the 71's bulkheads at high speed would separate then close back up when speed and temp came down. They got a new one now they've been playing with for years but unknown to the public that skims along at around 7000 MPH.
Bill
Bill
Uncle Willy
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Sounds like a ball bud. Yeah the bulkheads on the 71, like the Concorde, separate at high speed then slide back together as speed and temps drop. They've got a new one that they have been playing with for years out of Area 51 and Edwards that is unknown to most everyone that skims along at 7000 MPH via pulse jet.
Bill
Bill