Shouldn’t that be F Ewe? I know that’s a sheep, but goats aren’t picky.

All that desert and they put the ammo dump that close to town... Guess nobody showed up at the zoning board public hearing.

That’s what you call “Danger Close”.

I had a Coast Guard buddy who worked on a buoy tender. In winter the buoys would get so covered with ice that they would lay over where the lights couldn't be easily seen. Their solution was a 12 gauge shotgun with #9 bird shot. They hauled the buoys aboard and had a shooting party. As long as you didn't stand too…

I heard this was a design feature to break the lock of heat seeking missiles. Light the cloud, then turn hard. When the missile emerges from the cloud it can't see your engines to get a lock again. Those night shots give an example of what it would look like to a heat seeker.

Hi flyers will always be vulnerable to SAMs. That's why the B-70 and Rich's F-12 were cancelled. The problem with look-down-shoot-down is that you have to have a platform in the area looking down at the right place at the right time. The F-111 was never the be all end all McNamara wanted it to be. No plane can be.…