fighter pilots

To Seal Team 6 — “Sierra Foxtrot Hotel”

May 2, 2011

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

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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