Johnny Bravo wrote:
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 02:34:32 GMT, mrtravel wrote:


Can you identify the following aircraft by nickname?

Intruder
Tomcat
Firefox
Zero
Foxbat
Phantom


One of these things is not like the others. grin

One of them is as imaginary as truth's wacky conspiracy theories.


Yeah, even Clint Eastwood would know the fake.

Intruder A-6
Tomcat F-14
Phantom F-4
Foxbat MIG-25
Firefox MIG-31 (Fake, not to be confused with the real MIG-31 Foxhound,
they are not alike)
Zero Mitsubushi A6M

Fox Corpen - Flight Course - Course needed to give required headwind (30
knots, as I recall) to launch aircraft. If they had trained for deck
landings before Nov 1991, they would have used USS Lexington - CV 16. I
don't know about '91, but in 1981 it was computed by hand using a
manuevering board. I only spent 2 weeks onboard while my own ship was
stuck in port all summer as the reservists gone to South America. My
ship, DD-827 was a reserve destroyer (also ported in P'Cola) that was
sold to Turkey and sailed up to Newport RI for the transfer early in
1982. By March 1982 I was on a new FFG headed for Gilbraltar. We then
left on a missle exercise with the British. Due to the events of that
time, the exercise was cut short as the Brits had somewhere else to go.