Navy pilot who shot down R MIGs

[Randy Sohn]

and #2 When i was first checked out in the T-33 I distinctly reall being strongly advised/told to - "keep your RPMs up on final so you'll have some response if you need the power!"

best, randy

Should "splain" this, we flew T-bird finals with the speed brakes out/deployed so's we could keep the RPMs up at 65%.

best, randy

[Terry Carraway]

Should "splain" this, we flew T-bird finals with the speed brakes out/deployed so's we could keep the RPMs up at 65%.

best, randy

Same with the T-37. Speed brakes in the pitch out (overhead pattern), or on extended final. Thrust attenuators were automatic with speed brake deployed, based on throttle position.

And yes, from 60 - 65% to Mil power was pretty quick. Idle to 60 - 65% could feel like an ETERNITY.

[Randy Sohn]

Idle to 60 - 65% could feel like an ETERNITY.

CONCUR, same with the old T-bird!

best, randy

[Bill Bridges]

This reminds me of the movie "Topgun". The CO is talking to Maverick about Maverick's dad and him being shot down in an air battle with some Migs on the wrong side of some line where no one was suppose to be.

[Ralph Jones]

on the wrong side of some line where no one was suppose to be.

39th Parallel?

[Ray Tackett]

39th Parallel?

38th is/was the North/South border. More likely it was the Yalu River, the other side of which is in China.

[Randy Sohn]

More likely it was the Yalu River,

Yup, concur, still well recall that our IPs in cadets (I was after the Korean fracas) were strongly advised - "don't go north of the Yalu".

Can still remember a photo poster on the wall of an F-86 pilot who'd went through cadets a couple of years before me, a Lt. James Lowe, F-86 Ace.

best, randy

[Dave Siciliano]

Yah, ya wouldn’t want us Snuffys doing what General MacArthur did in an unarmed plane :-)

[Terry Carraway]

Yah, ya wouldn’t want us Snuffys doing what General MacArthur did in an unarmed plane :-)

Come on, you know the rules do not apply to those who wear stars. Or 5 stripes.

[A. Niemyer]

This reminds me of the movie "Topgun". The CO is talking to Maverick about Maverick's dad and him being shot down in an air battle with some Migs on the wrong side of some line where no one was suppose to be.

Bill,
They were alluding to incidents such as this during the Vietnam War. There were several and at least one involved US Navy aircraft up North in Route Pack Six. https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the...s-521fb522369f

Best,
Andy

[B.Butler]

38th is/was the North/South border.

Not really. The post -1953 boundary is much more irregular.

Bill
(Who spent a year looking across it)

[B.Butler]

...and nearly all of it North of 38N.