My API aero instructor (prowler ECMO) showed a video today of a viper pilot with a big red star on the side of his helmet fighting a Navy hornet, I became the butt of her jokes when I asked if it was a Navy F-16... She said the Navy doesn't fly F-16's... She refused to believe that we had them at Fallon...
Well, invite politely to check out this thread or take a cross-country to Fallon. Maybe she missed the F-16N that was especially built for the Navy and was operated by TOPGUN, VF-126, VF-45 and VF-43 in late eighties until mid nineties, but retired prematurely over issues of airframe stress. Or maybe she missed the return of the F-16 in Navy markings when the current F-16A/Bs arrived.
Show her this one....Prowler returning after 1 v 1 against NAVY Viper..in fact, that just might be a Prowler ECMO in back of Viper. Better yet, tell her to contact Brett. He and I were talking prior to this event. He could clue her in ECMO to ECMO.
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