I was on board the carrier as they were filming.I was in Nuke school when Top Gun came out.
It was almost required reading.
There were a few exceptions of course.
One guy I remember …
He was a good old guy. Drank …
That had to be more exciting than nuke schoolI was on board the carrier as they were filming.
Max speed for F-14D with the better engines was Mach 2.34 but that would be at much higher altitude. At sea level in denser air it was 1.2 Mach.… All without a sound at flight deck level. The plane was out of sight before we heard the boom. So mach 2? or 3?
Rolling, Pitching and moving away from you, in the rain and dark... If it was easy, the Air Force would do it.It's also not moving forward around 40 mph.
Exactly.Rolling, Pitching and moving away from you, in the rain and dark... If it was easy, the Air Force would do it.
2nd or 1st Lieutenant Alamo in the wild. Probably about 1983 or 1984.
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One of my friends, who is also in the photo, sent me this recently. It was a staged photo in the “tube room” used by us programmer/analysts to fiddle with the AWACS software. It was for the base newspaper or for use in a glory briefing for TAC/CC. Normally we would be buried in technical manuals and stacks of classified listings (hey, we were eggheads) on the tables and floor — and the monitors would be turned on. They were off because you couldn’t do photography in the room if there was a chance classified information was being processed. Another clue it is posed is the Staff Sergeant closest to camera. There was a representative from each division in our unit and the SSgt is from the operations division, meaning she normally was hanging tapes and had her own monitors in the mainframe computer room and would not use the tube room. But she was a sharp troop and sharp-looking so she made the photo. Up front! I’m way in the back.
I look at this and feel so old.