Air-Minded: Additional Shades of Gray
The average F-15 Eagle pilot (and me for sure) sees the two-seat pilot/WSO Eagle II as a step backward to F-4 Phantom/F-111 Aardvark days. Still a fighter, no doubt more capable than the single-seat Eagle, but …
"No matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up.” — Lily Tomlin
There I was at 30,000 feet
The average F-15 Eagle pilot (and me for sure) sees the two-seat pilot/WSO Eagle II as a step backward to F-4 Phantom/F-111 Aardvark days. Still a fighter, no doubt more capable than the single-seat Eagle, but …
I feel the need to blog.
Along with an anxious nation, I’ve been following news of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s secret hospitalization.
One of several USAF mishap investigations I oversaw as chief of flight safety for Pacific Air Forces in the early 1990s was a runway collision between two F-16 fighters at an air base in Korea.
Get a grip, goody two-shoes reporters! If a round of drinks after work on Friday doesn’t define responsible drinking I don’t know what does.
Oh, how I wish now we’d taken more photos back in those glorious days! Why couldn’t they have invented camera phones sooner?
How weird is it that two of the three college friends I’m still close to today also have October birthdays?
Photoblog of a visit to Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona