fighter pilots

67th Fighter Squadron Wins 2012 Raytheon Award

April 26, 2012

A big shout-out to the 67th Fighter Squadron ‘Fighting Cocks’ for winning this years’ Raytheon Award for best air superiority squadron in the Air Force! Makes me proud to be an alum of the 67th from the F-4 days of ’72-’73. By the way, the patch for the 67th was designed by Walt Disney during [...]

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To Seal Team 6 — “Sierra Foxtrot Hotel”

May 2, 2011

We all feel a great sense of pride in our entire military today…

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Top Gun 2

October 15, 2010

I’m really excited now! It was announced today that a sequel to Top Gun is in the works. Sounds like many of the original characters ( including Tom Cruise ) will be brought back in some limited roles. Top Gun is arguably one of the best fighter pilot movies made. Not so much for the [...]

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Bird v Plane, Lessons Learned

June 13, 2010

As a (former) fighter pilot I just see so many things wrong here: Never fly and fight alone. Where’s the wingman? Why is the gun camera mounted backwards? Isn’t that just a poor attitude from the get-go? Where’s the bag of BFM (basic fighter maneuvers) tricks? There was no attempt to either go offensive or [...]

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Eagles vs. Crows Air Combat

May 19, 2010

It’s been awhile since I’ve done a fighter pilot story and I saw one today at fighterpilotuniversity that was too good to pass up… Subject: Good fighter pilot story: Kill’em and Eat’em This came from a gent who runs a 2000 acre corn farm up around Barron, WI, not far from Oshkosh. He used to [...]

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Top 10 Low Pass Flyby’s of All Time

March 16, 2010

I saw the video this morning and thought I just needed to include it here on the blog. I’ve still got enough fighter pilot left in me to really appreciate this!

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Christmas Decorations and Fighter Pilots

December 11, 2009

This post is taken from FighterPilotUniversity.com. I did find it humorous and shows that fighter pilots don’t really do anything in a small way. It’s a shame they made him take this down. Well, there is good news and bad news about my Christmas decorations this year. Good news is that I truly out did [...]

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