bunk22
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You're joking right? The problem is this, without establishing who you are, background or experience, you are pretty much an unknown. So you come on here out of the blue and spout of some info that can probably be had on the internet. Then you kind of start talking out of your a$$ about Top Gun, Miramar, etc. and that you have all this experience but can't tell us because it's a secret. Give me a break. We have active military pilots who will or have served overseas who divulge information.
This is kind of what this reminds me of, Allen Smith Henderson III. This comes from www.pownetwork.org , specifically http://www.pownetwork.org/phonies/phonies1268.htm and for those who don't know, Mr. Smith went around claiming to be something he is not. He liked to talk a big talk from what I read. I'm not saying Mr. X is a fake but when I hear I know this and that but I can't show you my credentials, that sounds an alarm. Sounds a lot like Skeeterman on airwarriors or the O-6 Intell officer pretending to have been a B-52 pilot, shot down but escaping. An little blurb about Mr. Smith:
Claims he was a Naval Aviator flying A-6s on two combat tours with VA-35 in the Vietnam War and was shot down once. He has allegedly forged documents and staged/altered photographs of himself to support these bogus claims. He was on a civilian contract to fly L-39s at the United States Naval Test Pilot School, NAS Pax River Md. when he made the mistake of making the bogus claims to some REAL intruder pilots. After they did some preliminary checking they notified NCIS and a full investigation was done. The result was that he never attended flight school with the Navy much less flew A-6 Intruders in any capacity. What they did find was that his fakery went beyond the norm in that he had forged DOD documents and altered pictures at his home in the Philadelphia, Pa area. He was thrown out of Pax River and his contract cancelled. His charade continues at civilian and military airshows on the east coast. He did modify his claims on his website, http://www.allens-airshows.com/ somewhat... . He has been asked (forcefully ) by real military pilots past and present to cease and desist but continues the charade ie the NAS Oceana Airshow this past Sept/2006.His claims were also put in print in the latst issue of World Airshow News ( Dec 2006).
According to the wife, it's more like 99% but what does she really know? So he's a jet pilot with all this time and experience but can't hang on the internet and answer some basic questions to prove his experience and/or knowledge? I've seen chicks with more balls. Maybe MikeD should check the IP address, might come back same as some others.
ok at the intermarriage between the European royal families and you'll see why relatiosn were close. Their primary early external aviation influences were English. To take it further, here's some trivia: the thread pitches used on the MiG's (thru MiG-15/17) are not metric thread pitches, they are inch pitches. The tools to turn the bolts are metric, but the threads are not. The reason? England provided all of the machine tools that were used to start their industrial processes, and those machine tools were inch calibrated. Only much later did Russia go metric "at the core" so to speak.