EZVictor

[quote]Didn’t they create a “Super Tomcat” that was updated to digital but it was too late since they had already poured resources into the Hornet?[/quote]Correct, they were developing a Super Tomcat on paper, but didn’t have the funding due to the Hornet costs. They brought a F-15E (two seat F-15)...

[quote]After leaving port and headed to Hawaaii VF-11 was doing a SS flyby and starboard engine had a catastrophic failure. Discovery got footage of it (I think a panel got ingested). Both pilot and RIO were picked up and investigators got Discovery footage to do investigation it was that good compa...

[quote]The F/A 18 hornet was my favorite. The first all-weather fighter/attack jet. The tomcat got much pub because of Top Gun, but the hornet was an arse kicker[/quote] The Tomcat was a Fighter-Attack aircraft, we just never dropped bombs until the early ‘90s but we had the capability - we just o...

Seemed like pretty much every tv show was a detective series back then: (Kojak, Rockford, Charlie’s Angels, Magnum PI, McCloud, Barnaby Jones, Matlock, Mannix, Columbo, Starsky & Hutch, Hart to Hart, McMillan and Wife, etc.); our station wagon had the hi-low beams switch on the floorboard - and the ...

[quote]what squadrons was hubby with, I have experience with VFA 83 and 81... VF 103, 84 and 74 sluggers, bones and devils then sluggers became bones.[/quote] I did work ups with Rammies and Sunliners back in 89-90 when I was a RIO with the VF- 143 Pukin’ Dogs on the Ike. Then became a RAG instruc...

Passing this one over to my husband to respond since it happens to be right in his wheelhouse… “There are two main wings in the Navy, Pilot Wings and Naval Flight Officer (NFO) Wings, (they also have similar designations in the Air Force, but I know more about the Naval service having been both a ...

Husband spent 20+ years flying these - so….. [img]https://i.postimg.cc/bvzzT4CN/E8-A26-F08-9-B39-4777-A27-D-A133-DBBABB76.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.postimg.cc/Vk9fXzFV/A340-D910-EFA8-44-FD-8-E94-7-ED475-B40-AD2.jpg[/img] [[img]https://i.postimg.cc/LXpjN4dg/26-DF7-EC7-71-F7-4-EB8-8-BAB-542-E904-AC7...

Here’s a link to a virtual tour of the house that will give you a more accurate idea of where rooms where located. Also - the story going around that I’ve read about him supposedly hanging their entrails from the ceiling fan can’t be true - unless ceiling fans were installed after this virtual video...

Ah….reading many of these jogged my ancient memory more than I realized. Here are just some of the favorites I remember regularly hearing my dear old south Alabama-bred Dad saying when I growing up….and yes, the man supposedly loved me????!?! -“You’re so stupid if you had a brain you take it out an...

“Rio”, our late schnoodle was named that for 2 reasons. 1) The animal shelter where we adopted him from said he was found lost wandering along a dry riverbed in Texas. 2) Flew Tomcats at the time - and every f14 pilot needed a faithful “RIO” (Radar Intercept Officer”). Rio was a great dog - lasted ...