https://youtu.be/L9U9EmNwXu8
Back in the early 90's I had the opportunity to participate in the Nato Exercise Red Flag as a F-16 Crew Chief. This video brought back lots of memories. If you have the time I think most would enjoy this.
https://youtu.be/L9U9EmNwXu8
Back in the early 90's I had the opportunity to participate in the Nato Exercise Red Flag as a F-16 Crew Chief. This video brought back lots of memories. If you have the time I think most would enjoy this.
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My son's leaving the AF this month after 8 yrs, two deployments, and going into the Air Guard.
Interesting video, thank you for posting. Was there '76 - '78, Refueling maintenance, Transportation Squadron. Base activity was very hectic even when I was there at times. Red Flag exercises, back to back, even back then.
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I was there May of 78 until April of 83, as a photographer at the base photo lab. Went out on my first accident in June, by August I was teaching my co-workers how to do aircraft accident photography. I'd been an F-111D crew chief at Cannon until I retrained into still photography, but had gotten some training on all the older jets, F-4's, T-38's, F-105's, Tweets, and such, and remembered enough to be useful in accident investigations. By the time I left in 83, I'd been involved in about 100 aircraft accidents. It was quite a busy place. I learned a lot about the F-16's, and F-15's, and the Navy F-14's, as well. Lt. Cmdr. "Heater" Heatley, who filmed the air-to-air scenes for Top Gun, was there much of the time I was there, too. I met him for business far too often for either of our comforts.
Bill
Very Inspiring. I was touched by seeing the awesome power of the ordinance and the abilities of the mechanics as well as those who piloted the aircraft. It was definitely worth watching. I would love to see it at the IMAX rather than on this small computer screen!
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What a great video! Thank you for sharing.
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