Calling All Hornet Drivers...

[stonewall]

500 years from now, as guys are cranking up their X-wings for another lousy Death Star sortie, someone will STILL be talking about "The Kadena Incident". Hopefully they'll also mention "The Vegas Incident", where a Lawn Dart driver put on women's clothing for a night out on the town "with the boys".

All in good fun. I'm just an old fart worried more about the crew meal than AIM-7 kinetics and MiG-29 EM diagrams.

Man, I've been in the Viper 10 years and have never heard of "The Vegas Incident." Maybe this is some "aunt-in-the-basement" secret my elders never told me. I should probably be shot by my fellow F-16 bros for even asking, but....what happened in Vegas??

 

[Gunfighter]

Maybe he's referring to the little incident involving a crew chief and an Eagle driver. "Brokeback Alert Facility" or something along those lines....

I don't care who you are, that's funny.

 

[Huggyu2]

What was that dude flying a Q-5 or something?

It was an F-8 (whatever that is), piloted by Wang Wei. Post-humously renamed "Wrong" Wei, I'm sure.

 

[AdlerDriver]

Man, I've been in the Viper 10 years and have never heard of "The Vegas Incident." Maybe this is some "aunt-in-the-basement" secret my elders never told me. I should probably be shot by my fellow F-16 bros for even asking, but....what happened in Vegas??

Cross-dressing lawn-dart driver - caught in the act.

 

[stonewall]

Cross-dressing lawn-dart driver - caught in the act.

Let us never speak of such things again....

 

[AdlerDriver]

Let us never speak of such things again....

I'm pretty sure more than a few guys said that after Kadena.

It didn't work.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

LegacyDrive if you want to swtich to the F-14 I'll scan the proper pages of my NATOPS manual and email.................

 

[Andy]

It is a solid record like this that makes the Eagle one of my favorite support aircraft along with with the Stratotanker, AWACS and RivetJoint.

Thanks, those of us flying (or in my case flew) Mig bait appreciate the compliment.
I think that I preferred the flying gas tank over the Rivet Joint; at least when I was flying the tanker, I was 2/3ds of the way to fat, drunk and stupid (Dean Wormer was wrong, it's a great way to go through life). In the Rivet Joint, I was just fat ... those damned backenders called out every threat to us in the front. Well, except for the 2 (unnamed neutral/unfriendly country) fighters who pulled up alongside us during one of our sightseeing tours in international waters. Nothing like having fully armed fighters from a country that you're 'monitoring' flying wintip with ya.

 

[2Step]

For Air to Air guys, can anyone provide details of the exercise with India or South Korea or one of thoes guys that didn't go too well for us? Remember seeing something in an Av week that was left in a cockpit about a year ago.

 

[stonewall]

For Air to Air guys, can anyone provide details of the exercise with India or South Korea or one of thoes guys that didn't go too well for us? Remember seeing something in an Av week that was left in a cockpit about a year ago.

Are you serious? Do a google search for AV week if you want to know about it. Further, anyone who has comment on this particular exercise, keep it to yourself.