You are on a mission.....

For a single-seat, single engine guy there is no intercom. About as close
as it comes is "Bitchin Betty" -- the aircraft voice warning system --
saying, "ENGINE FIRE, ENGINE FIRE"

"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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You are on a mission. What is the most frightening thing you can hear over
the
intercom? Any opinions?



Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

(ArtKramr) wrote in message ...
You are on a mission. What is the most frightening thing you can hear over the
intercom? Any opinions?



Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

From a B-52D EW during an Arc Lite mission in 1969. "Hey, you guys
want to hear a SAM signal?"

Gene Myers
Old buff pilot

(ArtKramr) wrote in message
...
You are on a mission. What is the most frightening thing you can hear over
the
intercom? Any opinions?

From the pilot of our EC-130E: "The bailout signal will be me going out the
door."


Ed
"If an enemy power is bent on conquering you, and proposed to
turn all of his resources to that end, he is at war with you;
and you -- unless you contemplate surrender -- are at war with
him." --Barry Goldwater

On 9 Jul 2004 18:58:53 -0700, (buf3) wrote:

From a B-52D EW during an Arc Lite mission in 1969. "Hey, you guys
want to hear a SAM signal?"

Gene Myers
Old buff pilot

Was he going to play you a Weasel training tape?


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN #1-58834-103-8

Ed Rasimus wrote:
(buf3) wrote:

From a B-52D EW during an Arc Lite mission in 1969. "Hey, you guys
want to hear a SAM signal?"

Was he going to play you a Weasel training tape?

And....how does a SAM signal sound?

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 16:00:26 GMT, Mike Marron
wrote:

Ed Rasimus wrote:
(buf3) wrote:

From a B-52D EW during an Arc Lite mission in 1969. "Hey, you guys
want to hear a SAM signal?"

Was he going to play you a Weasel training tape?

And....how does a SAM signal sound?


Depends upon the SAM and the RWR. Depends upon whether it's search,
track, activity or launch. Depends on whether you've got the volume
high enough to hear it over your praying.


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN #1-58834-103-8

Ed Rasimus wrote:

Depends upon the SAM and the RWR. Depends upon whether it's search,
track, activity or launch. Depends on whether you've got the volume
high enough to hear it over your praying.

Tnx. The question has probably been asked countless times before
but I was just wondering if there was a quick answer along the lines
of the "growling" or "rattlesnake" sound that an AIM-9 made when it
was locked on a target.

Was he going to play you a Weasel training tape?

And....how does a SAM signal sound?

A Fan Song has a warbly growl. When two sites have you it sounds a lot worse.

v/r
Gordon
====(A+C====
USN SAR

Its always better to lose -an- engine, not -the- engine.

A Fan Song has a warbly growl. When two sites have you it sounds a lot
worse.


At Berbera Somalia (supposedly 'friendly') in 1983, we got lit up and tracked
by an SA-2 site, among other things. In response, the Connie (? I think), sent
a pair of TARPS F-14s near the sites within a day or so - big surprise, they
were fired upon.

Our Sensor 3 was pretty wound up after this event happened. Same crew was
involved in the Tashkent incident a month before, when that Soviet Kara-class
cruiser fired an SA-7 vertically, which then began to track the passing P-3...
According to the Soviets at the next INCSEA conference, the crew of the P-3 was
notified by a broadcast on Channel 16 by the Soviets that they were announcing
a closure of the airspace for a planned missile test. From the right rear
observer window, it looked like it came out of the SA-N-4 mount on Tashkent's
port side - the pilot in the right seat hollered a warning and rolled over,
diving away from the rising column of smoke, angling in our general direction.


Life with that VP-48 crew was always interesting.

v/r
Gordon
====(A+C====
USN SAR

Its always better to lose -an- engine, not -the- engine.

(ArtKramr) wrote in message ...
You are on a mission. What is the most frightening thing you can hear over the
intercom? Any opinions?

Not the most frightening thing, but one all of us pilots heard during
unusual attitude training when, with our eyes closed (sure!) the IP
put the aircraft through a few rolls and other things, then said "You
have it!"

Jim Thomas