I was watching NipTV news the other evening (they're readers are quite
cute) and they had this story on about a CH-53 making a crash landing,
and it later burned, 300m from the nearest dwelling, out in the middle
of a field. The gummint was all up about it and wanting various changes
in US military behavior. Whatever. Then the next story was about an F-4
that caught fire on the ramp as the pilots were lighting it off, or
doing a run-up or something, the pilots managed to get out before the
thing went up in flames. 2 things about these reports intrigued me --
the first was the irony in that no one in gummint was up in arms about
the F-4 burning up, and second that the Nip Air Force was still flying
F-4s. How cool is that? Those things must be at least 40-50 years
old. I guess they are still newer than the Brirriant Reader's fighter
force so they could prevail in dogfights against the NORKs.
--FT
On 10/19/17 11:57 PM, Craig via Mercedes wrote:
On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 20:24:25 -0500 Curley McLain via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Makes sense. In the 40s, a pilot buzzing the tower got a severe
consequence too.
One afternoon when I was stationed at Peterson Field (now AFB) east of
Colorado Springs (1972), an F-4 pilot flew by the tower to have a visual
check on his landing gear. Those of us in the buildings adjacent to the
flight line, who had not been informed of this activity, were rather
surprised by the roar of a jet so close. We ran out of the hanger to see
what was going on just as made a second pass, very close to right over
where we were. He was about 150' off the deck and his cockpit was about
200' away from me -- I could see him very clearly -- and it was LOUD!
Apparently things were OK because he circled around and landed without
incident.
Since Peterson is a shared field with Colorado Springs Municipal, I'm
sure commercial traffic was suspended while the landing gear check was
going on!
Craig
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