OLD GUYS' WHITE (sic) T-Shirt FIGHT -- it just doesn't get any better than this ...

[skidz]

It's the ads...say you were distracted by the ads and didn't see the earlier answer.

He doesn't have that luxury. He's a contributer.

 

[Catmando]

Ditto ... witness: one "Rebel without a Cause" sporting boom/lip mic. The shiny thingy on the chest of sample Pilot resembles a "regular" O2 mask fitting, too ... I even heard some people took traps while wearing boom/lip mics ... and did NOT get reamed .... but I cannot comment further .....

Also note "new" 'stache which appears to be coming in nicely above upper lip.

And ... if I'm not mistaken ... I think I see a little flash of yellow flight deck jersey turtleneck peeking out under the LPA collar .... just maybe.

Well I'm actually impressed.

I thought only our squadron was special. (BTW, you didn't Photoshop that, did you A4's?) But if indeed that boom/lip mic was real, how long did you get to use them, huh? (Better not have been any longer than we did… which unfortunately wasn't very long. )

Re, the "coming in nicely, 'stache'": Ah, please don't flatter yourself. :sleep_125

And regarding the "alleged" yellow flight deck jersey supposedly peeking out (and that wasn't even your squadron color, was it?) – I'm betting it was not a jersey at all, but only a No2 pencil stuck there under the LPA. You needed the pencil so you could calculate your Texaco "give-away" and how much gas you needed to cheat the fighters out of, and how much to save for yourself in case of a bolter or two. Right? Whatdayathink?

And weren't we all wannabe "rebels without a cause" back then? Fortunately, we didn't 'mort' in a Porsche 550 Spyder… or elsewhere... and eventually became "productive".

 

[A4sForever]

Well I'm actually impressed.

I thought only our squadron was special. .....And regarding the "alleged" yellow flight deck jersey supposedly peeking out (and that wasn't even your squadron color, was it?) – I'm betting it was not a jersey at all, but only a No2 pencil stuck there under the LPA. You needed the pencil so you could calculate your Texaco "give-away" and how much gas you needed to cheat the fighters out of, and how much to save for yourself in case of a bolter or two. Right? Whatdayathink? ....

*Sigh* ..... So many things to respond to ... so little time ....

You should be impressed. And you weren't special. I wore a lip/boom mic for 2 1/2 cruises ... I was one of the few in the squadron ... probably not more than a dozen guys in the entire AirWing who did it that long and that strong .... what WERE they gonna' do to me, anyway??? Make me wave the last recovery ??? Send me on cruise ????

And then I continued wearing same in the Reserves ... until some desk-bound Ready Room Commando decreed that it was "unacceptable" for jet jocks .... .... so I wore it anyway when and if it was more desirable than the Mark 1 Mod 0 O2 mask .... usually the O2 mask won out in the yank & bank world of Adversary flying ....

Flight deck jerseys??? I wore blue, yellow, white, red .... pretty much everything 'cept Grape and Green ... .... but I reserved the "special" missions for my V-neck white T-shirt ....

"Cheat the fighters out of gas ... " ... NEVER. I never whined and could always get aboard ... and as such ... I always gave whatever my "sweet package" could hold ...

PLUS ... I never carried a "pencil" ... that was for the hired help. I had a B/N ... a.k.a. my "male secretary" D) for such mundane things ....