Hi Dave,
Thanks for sharing that. What a personal burden it must be to contain a story like that. Got to be tons of stories like this. Thinking of countless Special Forces operations out on the end of a very long branch. Virtually all of our submarine operations. (Sub novel fan-boy)
Likely SeƱor Siciliano has a tale or three held in reserve. Although I loved the one bout printing money<g>.
Regards,
Tom Charlton (whose only classified missions involve one or two bars in a land far away and a time long ago<g>)
"The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
In this day of mass media attention and self aggrandizement, it's nice to hear of folks that did things like this without seeking attention.
Incredible story, through Korea and Viet Nam.
I did get a kick out of the number of different type airplanes in the video... F9F, F86, maybe a Skyray?... and the Mig 15s.
Incredible story, through Korea and Viet Nam.
I did get a kick out of the number of different type airplanes in the video... F9F, F86, maybe a Skyray?... and the Mig 15s.
Given that we're talking about a Navy pilot, might the F-86 actually be an FJ-2 or FJ-3? Similar looking, but quite different, including folding wings.
Deck crews remembered them for the difficult wing fold. The prototype wing folded to a vertical position, but then fuel consumption forced Grumman to add tip tanks that exceeded the hangar deck height limit -- so they had to limit the fold angle to an outward spread condition that increased the total width and made deck spotting difficult.
The F9F's put on a great show in The Bridges at Toko-Ri.
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