I remember this stuff happened all the time. Ivan would fly all sorts of planes including Bear and Backfire bombers right through a carrier task force.
30 feet off the deck is NOT “this stuff happened all the time”!
LOL! Yup. Saw it a LOT back in late ‘60’s. Got into a discussion yesterday with a fellow freeper and it turns out we served on different ships during the same deployment/task force in ‘68 out of Newport RI. What are the odds? Same ports of call except for 2.
“I remember this stuff happened all the time. Ivan would fly all sorts of planes including Bear and Backfire bombers right through a carrier task force.”
That’s a fact. What made this different is the the repeated passes.
. . .and we did the same right back. I flew many a “BUSY OBSERVER” mission in the 1980s. . .