Had a friend (same guy who punched out of the EA-6B in my recent post) who had our F-4 metal-smiths build a glare shield camera mount for him. It was rock solid, withstanding many cats and traps.
He flew a lot of Alpha Strikes over North Vietnam, and always had the camera mounted. He had a lot of fantastic and spectacular footage, around the boat and on his many air strikes. He edited and spliced, and finally had one long, awesome movie! Only got to see it a couple of times, though. Tragically, it was all later lost in a PCS move.
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Same squadron – we had a CO who thought it would be fun to put our wives/girlfriends in the back seat of an F-4, and do high-speed taxi runs down the NKX 12,000 ft. runway, one Sunday afternoon.
My girlfriend-of-the-weekend and I never got passed the hold short line. The first two F-4's returned with hot brakes, one having actually gotten airborne. And the third had to take the long field gear. The skipper wisely shut it all down before I could give my girl her high-speed thrill.
Ah, the good ol' days.
It's a wonder any of us ever survived.
