Ray Swindle wrote: Danpbphoto wrote: Ray Swindle wrote: Danpbphoto wrote: Douglas L wrote:
Very interesting read on how thy filmed the aerial actions in Top Gun: Maverick: https://ascmag.com/articles/top-gun-maverick
Thanks for posting this Douglas. It always amazed me how producers made the actor-pilot connection.
I have not seen this movie yet. My wife is not a TC fan.....I keep telling her that my personal experience with aviators is that most are brash, arrogant, extroverts that fear nothing and salivate at flying towards the action.
They saved my "six" many, many times and those of the men who were in combat that I served with for 2 years.
I can tell you for a fact that the sound alone of an F4, F105,F111's had the enemy scurrying for cover! That alone gave us a few seconds to change defensive tactics to offensive or escape altogether!
Thanks again!
Dan
When you returned to CONUS after SEA duty, did you land at a USAF base or did you come back commercial from an island base? If you landed at a USAF base, which one?
Hi Ray! We flew( from Vietnam) into Ft Lewis, WA...McCord AFB(?) via commercial airlines.
Dan
Thanks Dan. I knew deployed SEA (and Pacific deployed) personnel returned to McCord and Norton AFB in CA. I was at Norton and saw many returning and leaving on commercial airlines when I worked on the flight line. Just wondering if we might have crossed paths. Have a great day!
Well we may have Ray. I flew out of CONUS via Norton(commercial airline) to RVN December 27, 1967. I only spent any time less than 1 day-24hrs at McCord on my way home. As soon as the flight landed and we received new orders, clothing and a steak and potato b'fast, my "six" was on a flight home! 2 years from home and "the world", I was tired Ray!
Thanks!
Below is my hometown friend, Ron, who was USAF out of Thailand flying F4's" call sign "Wildcat". A wish I could never fill! And the Army wouldn't give me a license, or an MOS/Warrant Ofc promo, for my "unauthorized flying" of a UH1!! !! Damn them!!
Dan
Ray Swindle wrote: Danpbphoto wrote: Ray Swindle wrote: Danpbphoto wrote: Douglas L wrote:
Very interesting read on how thy filmed the aerial actions in Top Gun: Maverick: https://ascmag.com/articles/top-gun-maverick
Thanks for posting this Douglas. It always amazed me how producers made the actor-pilot connection.
I have not seen this movie yet. My wife is not a TC fan.....I keep telling her that my personal experience with aviators is that most are brash, arrogant, extroverts that fear nothing and salivate at flying towards the action.
They saved my "six" many, many times and those of the men who were in combat that I served with for 2 years.
I can tell you for a fact that the sound alone of an F4, F105,F111's had the enemy scurrying for cover! That alone gave us a few seconds to change defensive tactics to offensive or escape altogether!
Thanks again!
Dan
When you returned to CONUS after SEA duty, did you land at a USAF base or did you come back commercial from an island base? If you landed at a USAF base, which one?
Hi Ray! We flew( from Vietnam) into Ft Lewis, WA...McCord AFB(?) via commercial airlines.
Dan
Thanks Dan. I knew deployed SEA (and Pacific deployed) personnel returned to McCord and Norton AFB in CA. I was at Norton and saw many returning and leaving on commercial airlines when I worked on the flight line. Just wondering if we might have crossed paths. Have a great day!
Well we may have Ray. I flew out of CONUS via Norton(commercial airline) to RVN December 27, 1967. I only spent any time less than 1 day-24hrs at McCord on my way home. As soon as the flight landed and we received new orders, clothing and a steak and potato b'fast, my "six" was on a flight home! 2 years from home and "the world", I was tired Ray!
Thanks!
Below is my hometown friend, Ron, who was USAF out of Thailand flying F4's" call sign "Wildcat". A wish I could never fill! And the Army wouldn't give me a license, or an MOS/Warrant Ofc promo, for my "unauthorized flying" of a UH1!! !! Damn them!!
Dan
Ray Swindle wrote: Danpbphoto wrote: Ray Swindle wrote: Danpbphoto wrote: Douglas L wrote:
Very interesting read on how thy filmed the aerial actions in Top Gun: Maverick: https://ascmag.com/articles/top-gun-maverick
Thanks for posting this Douglas. It always amazed me how producers made the actor-pilot connection.
I have not seen this movie yet. My wife is not a TC fan.....I keep telling her that my personal experience with aviators is that most are brash, arrogant, extroverts that fear nothing and salivate at flying towards the action.
They saved my "six" many, many times and those of the men who were in combat that I served with for 2 years.
I can tell you for a fact that the sound alone of an F4, F105,F111's had the enemy scurrying for cover! That alone gave us a few seconds to change defensive tactics to offensive or escape altogether!
Thanks again!
Dan
When you returned to CONUS after SEA duty, did you land at a USAF base or did you come back commercial from an island base? If you landed at a USAF base, which one?
Hi Ray! We flew( from Vietnam) into Ft Lewis, WA...McCord AFB(?) via commercial airlines.
Dan
Thanks Dan. I knew deployed SEA (and Pacific deployed) personnel returned to McCord and Norton AFB in CA. I was at Norton and saw many returning and leaving on commercial airlines when I worked on the flight line. Just wondering if we might have crossed paths. Have a great day!
Well we may have Ray. I flew out of CONUS via Norton(commercial airline) to RVN December 27, 1967. I only spent any time less than 1 day-24hrs at McCord on my way home. As soon as the flight landed and we received new orders, clothing and a steak and potato b'fast, my "six" was on a flight home! 2 years from home and "the world", I was tired Ray!
Thanks!
Below is my hometown friend, Ron, who was USAF out of Thailand flying F4's" call sign "Wildcat". A wish I could never fill! And the Army wouldn't give me a license, or an MOS/Warrant Ofc promo, for my "unauthorized flighing" of A UH1!! !! Damn them!!
Dan
Jun 21, 2022 at 01:38 PM
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And the Army wouldn't give me a license, or an MOS/Warrant Ofc promo, for my "unauthorized flying" of a UH1!! 
!! Damn them!!