Posted on 08/06/2015 2:40:06 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
I see I flew my joke at too high an altitude.
The norks plywood kite .....
” During the 1960s an An-2 attempting to engage South Vietnamese naval units was shot down by an F-4 Phantom II under the control of an Air Intercept Controller (AIC) on the USS Long Beach.[1]
“On 12 January 1968, a clandestine TACAN site (call sign: Lima Site 85/Phou Pha Ti) installed by the United States Air Force in Northern Laos for directing USAF warplanes flying from Thailand to Vietnam was attacked by two North Vietnamese An-2s using machine guns fired from the cabin, rockets and hand thrown grenades. A third An-2 orbited overhead.
“An Air America Bell UH-1B, XW-PHF, resupplying the site chased the two attacking aircraft. By using an AK-47 the American crew (Ted Moore Captain, Glen Wood kicker) succeeded in shooting down one of the An-2s while the second aircraft was forced down by combined ground and air fire and crashed into a mountain. The surviving Antonov returned to its home base, Gia Lam, near Hanoi”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-2#Operational_history
Awesome video. Thanks
Allegedly they are hard to detect on radar ..... at Osan / Kunsan and Taegu it was briefed more than a few times.
This was back when both men were alive and their aircraft companies were in their infancy. Clyde won the bet by keeping his Cessna's airspeed so low that the perennial Kansas south wind more than cancelled it out. His ground speed was negative, he literally flew backwards all the way across town and collected the bet.
Whether the tale is really true, and what prize was won, I don't know.
Not really, I knew you were joking, I just wanted to clarify a misleading headline that was bugging me.
Russians love big projects. That said I won’t ride in their aircraft
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