Callsign for one of my squadronmates was "FAT". While going through the A-7E RAG, he was asking a question one day in class and couldn't remember the terminology for the Flight Path Marker on the HUD, so he called it that"F#&%ing Airplane There". FAT stayed with him after that.Good thing I didn't call it the "gun aiming thingy", Otherwise I would have caught some abuse.
Uhhh... gee Daddy, what's a HUD? I'm afraid in my era (late middle ages), bogie targeting/tracking was accomplished with a MK-53 Mod II grease pencil mark on the "gun glass". Hmmpf, spoiled young "WhupperSnippers"!
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You should consider submitting that pic to Soaring Magazine. It's a great photo. It's a good bet that it would be published!Sharp eye! A friend and I got that photo out the window of a C-150M last week in the frigid air, good times..
You should consider submitting that pic to Soaring Magazine. It's a great photo. It's a good bet that it would be published!
Hard to tell for sure from the pictures (and without another one next to it), but if the wing has one sweep angle (the same from root to tip) and anhedral, then it's probably a MiG 15. If the wing has two sweep angles (more sweepback from the root to about half span, then less sweep for the rest) and no dihedral, then it's probably a MiG 17. The MiG 15 had a thicker wing too, but that difference can be subtle.
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Ahh yes, LINEBACKER II, our resident Phantum Dude Catmando, was there at the same time, with VF-151 off USS Midway, Coral Sea's sister ship, and has interesting TINs to spin!An F-4 Phantom II of Fighter Squadron (VF) 111 off the carrier Coral Sea (CVA 43) drops bombs over Vietnam on November 25, 1972, forty-one years ago today.
Yo Rocketman, love those Grandpa/GrandSon/G'Daughter Naval Aviator stories! I have 9 G'Kids... maybe someday..... ?My old man. Whiting Field 1952. His grandson soloed soloed off the same runway 50 some years later.
Nice post and photo. Did grandson attempt to "re-do" the original photo?My old man. Whiting Field 1952. His grandson soloed soloed off the same runway 50 some years later.
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