No, Beans, it's not Monday. Sarge had a bit of bad news and decided to take a break in posting. I had a post in the works, so I'm going to post it today instead of Monday.
Here's hoping the Blogger Guardian Angel has another posting idea he'll send me.
Anyhow, here we go.
I was thumbing through the side bar on the blog a day or so ago. I was looking at all the postings and what categories there were. Good Gravy, there are a lot of them. Most are Sarge's, but a few are mine. Monday being my main category and is #1 on the list. (Just in case you want to look at old posts I wrote. Hey, I think I got better as time went by.)
In any case, while trying to come up with ideas back then, I ran across a video that had been taken in the mid-80's. One of the pilots in my squadron was a photography buff and this was about the time that movie cameras became affordable and didn't weigh 5 tons. Still a bit heavy though when pulling G's and you may notice that in the video.
So, I came across this video and decided to watch it again. "Why" you may ask?
I was the pilot in the jet. We had a couple of D models (2 seaters) assigned to the squadron. One of them (78-564) had my name painted on the canopy rail. Having come from a 2 seater background (T-37, T-38, F-4C, F-4D, F-4E, and AT-38), the squadron commander asked if I'd mind being assigned a 2 seater. The jet could be set up to fly solo, the back seat just had to be secured. So, I said "Sure".
I flew that jet every time I saw it on the schedule. I was a squadron scheduler at the time. My crew chief and I got along quite well. I actually got a chance to take him up in "our" jet, but that's a story for another time.
My jet, with me in it was the camera jet for the film. And the ground shot of the preflight was my jet and I'm in one of the scenes. All inside the cockpit shots are in my jet with me doing the flying thing.
Yes, I got a little sentimental when I looked at this film again.
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But, she is still flying, if no longer in the fighter business. She's assigned to NASA. Good for her.
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So, for your education and entertainment....
Enjoy!
