K=D8HB wrote:
wrote

With apologies beforehand for doing a Foghorn
Lenhorn level nit pick here but F4s are Phantoms
and F-14s are the Tomcats.

Yer abserluterly correct, OT! But I have an excuse --- I'm a blackshoe, =
not a
brownshoe.

Don't sweat it, fact is that brownshoes would as useful as tits on a
bull any farther than 500 miles east of Atlantic City if their wasn't
for the blackshoes.

In any case, "Guinea One" was an F4 driver.

Your skippper flew the best of the best by my measure. Hookup/thumbs
up. First ready. Standby. Second Ready. Salute. Launch. Duck! WHOOSH!
60 seconds later he's seven miles up and looking for a MIG to gnaw on.
In 1958. Any number of sons have flown their father's F4s. If the
Pentagon hadn't finally retired the last operational F4G "Wild Weasels"
in 1996 some hotshot kids would prolly be kicking their grandpappy's
fine rides around in the skies over Afghanistan and Iraq right now.


A half century from now, even a century from now the F4, the B-52 and
the DC-3/C-47/R4D will be the enduring legends they earned. Guinea One
has untouchable bragging rights. The rest are wannabes.

73, de Hans, K0HB

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