RA-5C story

[zerocinco]

I am the publisher of a simulation called Yankee Air Pirate. We recreate actual combat missions from the air war in Vietnam. The updated version 2 is almost ready for release. Yesterday we were offered an RA-5C (not the real thing; a 3D model) for use in the game. But we are limited by telling only stories we are told. Granted, all fighter pilots are BS'ers but good BS is good enough.

If there is someone on this forum who has a story, let me know. It's too pretty a plane to not include in the game. But we don't do Google stories.

Slamming it down on one of our carriers is a challenge.

 

[2ndGen]

Why would you name your game "yankee air pirate?" I'm not sure how some of the guys on this forum will take that.

 

[Mumbles]

^Hopefully it's a term of endearment.....YAP's that is!

 

[HueyCobra8151]

I think I am going to need a demo of this game.

 

[zerocinco]

Yankee Air Pirate is supposedly what Ho Chi Minh called us. I think the POW's were forced to admit to being Yankee Air Pirates also. It is certainly what we called ourselves in one particularly loud drinking song. Anyone who is one knows the significance of the phrase.

 

[2ndGen]

Yankee Air Pirate is supposedly what Ho Chi Minh called us. I think the POW's were forced to admit to being Yankee Air Pirates also. It is certainly what we called ourselves in one particularly loud drinking song. Anyone who is one knows the significance of the phrase.

That is what the NVA called downed pilots in Vietnam. I just couldn't tell if there was a negative implication.

 

[A4sForever]

Nothing at all wrong w/ the term "Yankee Air Pirate" ... I'm one; always have been, always will be ...

I wear this patch (left) on my flight jacket then and now, as did many of my contemporaries ...



The term was a Vietnam era follow-on to the 30's comic strip "Terry and the Pirates" --- to oversimplify the connection as I'm not going to give you a complete history of the Second Sino-Japanese War: we were "Yankees" ... they considered us "Pirates" ... and you know the rest of the story.

 

[Catmando]

A Yankee Air Pirate, and proud of it.

 

[BlkPny]

Yup. Here's another one.

 

[zerocinco]

Me too. So who knows an RA-5C story? We have some great ones from RF-8's and RF-4B's and RF-4C's and RF-101C's but we have none for the Vigilante.

 

[Cron]

I think I am going to need a demo of this game.

YAP is actually an add-on to Wings Over Vietnam. There's no demo of WOV, but you can buy it for $15 on Amazon.

 

[Catmando]

Obviously a different, non-digital type game, but an interesting (and accurate) website:

http://www.airbattle.co.uk/d_combatants.html

 

[zerocinco]

YAP v2 comes with Wings Over Vietnam as part of the set. It looks like this:

 

[Dirty]

Is is true that "Yankee Air Pirate" was a pun, or spin, on our Asian counterparts inability to pronounce "L's"?

 

[zerocinco]

I don't think that is Tlue.