Correction: McCain was an attack pilot not a fighter pilot and he was sitting in the cockpit of an A-1H while embarked aboard Enterprise off the coast of Cuba with VA-65 in October of 1962.
Correction: McCain was an attack pilot not a fighter pilot and he was sitting in the cockpit of an A-1H while embarked aboard Enterprise off the coast of Cuba with VA-65 in October of 1962.
Thanks for the enhancement and correction to the story. Either way, it took chrome-plated brass ones to do what he did. I think I got the “pucker factor of 10” correct!
The A-1H Sky Raider was the A-10 Warhog of its day.