Katsu did it again!

ContrailJJ, great profile! Do you have a site on profiles?

Thanks,

the website has just been put up – still being added to – more profiles being added every day or so. Right now strictly aerobatic teams, but soon to expand to include training, combat and UN service specials.

www3.sympatico.ca/animal112

James

gotta hand it to him, while he looked for the bag – there’s no eveidence he honked. I know 3 civies who got Hornet rides here in Canada, some hard yank and bank and supersonic, and 2 of the 3 honked – not during the flight but on final! Must be something about adrenalyn.

ooohhhh, truely priceless…. my turn, my turn!

Ok, so I’ve posted this before on my World Aerobatics thread… but here’s a splash of colour.

James

Ejection pod

I think one of the most wdiely seen images (at the time – 1986 I think) was the USAF F-111 pod in Libya… unfortunately it didn’t quite manage to save the occupants.

On another note.. the F-104 pilot was equipped with ‘spurs’ buckled to his boots which clipped into retractor reels to pull his feet in once the ejection sequence was initiated. And most ‘104 pilots I know of kept wearing their ‘spurs’ anywhere they went.

JJ

One way to look at it, the roundel has outlived its original purpose. The need for visual recognition has passed – anymore, roundels, cockades, flashes etc., are minor bits of ‘bling’ that excite us, the enthusiats. Technology has made the national marking redundant – IFF systems, radar, bvr missiles, etc. Even the tail code is an irrelevant tradition – with the a/c serial stenciled somewhere it can be read by the people who need to read it – the erks.

Don’t get me wrong – I love the markings and colours, unfortunately I think we may have to someday face the inevitable… national markings may simply disappear, replaced by a small stencil somewhere that simply states… owner, designation, serial… or even a bar code!

Just some thoughts.

JJ

Hmmm… Soviets passing in vicinty of a range??? Anyone with info on RAF off-shore ranges in the 80s??