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To: JoeGar
In 1968, I turned off my transponder and I flew my F4 down my hometown Main Street at 500 knots just above the only stoplight in town.

Do all fighter pilots do this at some point? One of my high school friends nearly got a court-martial for doing the same thing to our hometown in an F-16.

My old man was a Spitfire and P-51 pilot in WW2. He once caused an air-raid alert by dropping empty pop bottles over fields at the edge of town on a night training flight. They nicely simulated the whistling of falling bombs. For sure he would have been cashiered if he'd been caught.

Another guy I know, who is now an airline pilot, nearly lost his $200k+ part-time job by buzzing his hometown airport in an MD-11 on a dead-head ferry trip. (He had the permission of the tower, but definitely not his boss).

I guess I'm glad we have you crazy guys out there defending our country, but you sure are a bunch of damn fools.

-ccm

95 posted on 02/25/2007 8:40:10 AM PST by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: ccmay
My old man was a Spitfire and P-51 pilot in WW2.

In Chuck Yeager's autobiography, Yeager, he tells of a West Virginia friend who needed some trees topped; therefore, Yeager kindly obliged the man by roaring over the man's land and topping the trees with his prop. With every generation, it seems that the rules of correctness get more stringent.

96 posted on 02/25/2007 9:49:21 AM PST by JoeGar
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