Some of the comments by that T.W. Davidson character make me wonder if he's the real deal....
Some of the comments by that T.W. Davidson character make me wonder if he's the real deal....I'll defer to the older, wiser members around here.
One "Cobra" ... XO/CO of VF-114, early '70's ... mess w/ "Cobra" at your own peril ... and that's just one 'Cobra'.The only thing I don't believe is that someone actually has the callsign "Cobra."...As long as we're talking F-8s, will someone please explain "Hud' n" for me?
Some of the comments by that T.W. Davidson character make me wonder if he's the real deal....I'll defer to the older, wiser members around here.
T.W. Davidson sez:
"Once you acquire the ball, you make a call to the Boss and make a simple, brief report. Though for me its been about 20 years, the call goes something like this: "Ryno (sic) 31, meatball, on speed with the gear, hook down, harness locked, 3000 lbs."
I say: complete bullshit. There's many more 'glitches' in the narrative (i.e., flying the ball w/ 'trim', correcting for lineup w/ 'rudders' just for starters), but the above is enough for me. His nomenclature is all wrong.
Verdict: he's a faker ... or he's mental. Or he's Skeeterman, part deux.
By the way, if your angle of attack is too high, and you are low, say, 1000' above the water or less, you'll likely stall the airplane and may crash and burn on the ship, or simply fall into the sea.
The story is being related by someone who had not been there, done that and only heard it some time before from someone who had so I don't think you can debunk based on erroneous terms.
Roger that; I don't know who this particular "Cobra" is, but the guy I was referring to was their Skeeterman-esque "T.W. Davidson" who says, among other fantasies, that he 'grayed out on my very first catshot ...'Think they were talking about the "expert" below in the comments section.
Well, he says the story was told him by a pilot by name of "Cobra" who was from that Air Wing aboard USS Coral Sea in 1972. I can confirm there was such a person* flying F-4 Phantoms in VF-111....
T.W. Davidson sez:
"Once you acquire the ball, you make a call to the Boss and make a simple, brief report. Though for me its been about 20 years, the call goes something like this: "Ryno (sic) 31, meatball, on speed with the gear, hook down, harness locked, 3000 lbs."
I say: complete bullshit. There's many more 'glitches' in the narrative (i.e., flying the ball w/ 'trim', correcting for lineup w/ 'rudders' just for starters), but the above is enough for me. His nomenclature is all wrong.
Verdict: he's a faker ... or he's mental. Or he's Skeeterman, part deux.