Fighter Pilots

[+Typhoid 231]

As a follow on to the "It pays to be a pilot" thread,

 

There is a sub-set called fighter pilot.

 

this link is hilarious -

 

CAUTION - not for the weak or sensitive. After all, it is about fighter pilots.....

 

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Fighter_pilot

 

 

another good site, a little gentler, is

 

http://www.river-rats.org/index.php

 

where they define a fighter pilot as;

 

http://www.river-rats.org/what_is_a_fighter_pilot.php

 

the last underscores that being a fighter pilot is more than anything, a state of mind.

 

[FastCargo 412]

Giddy up!

 

FC

[Gr.Viper 131]

Check out the badge at Wikipeda F-8 Crusader page It has a weeping fighter pilot on it.

[+Typhoid 231]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Outof_f8.gif

 

awesome!

 

 

I enjoyed controlling F-8's a lot more than most other fighters. Since their radar was not, ahem, quite up to par with some of the later ones - they had a tendency to rely a lot more on the controller (me).

 

I also got a lot of my initial SAR experience from controlling them................