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Re: Iran rescue Hercules
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 01:00:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mary Shafer
Subject: Re: Iran rescue Hercules
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999 JNiessen@aol.com wrote:
> Mary, et. al.,
>
> You're indeed wrong on the pilot. It was good friend Neil Anderson...who's
> still alive, well, and flying (in T-28s these days, rather than F-16s).
He deserves to be--that was an exquisite landing he did. I've got a
copy of the video clip around somewhere, which I shamelesly begged from
one of the GD guys, that's on a tape of my personal "Greatest Hits".
I've got a "Greatest Misses" tape, too, but it's mostly PIOs, with the
F-16 Flight Zero figuring right up there with the FA-19 near-ramp-strike
in the initial sea trials (body bending filters in the forward loop and
the FCS guys worked in the same building as John Hodgkinson, who was
giving papers at the time showing the terrible effects of time delay in
the FCS).
Mary Shafer DoD #0362 KotFR shafer@ursa-major.spdcc.com
"Some days it don't come easy/And some days it don't come hard
Some days it don't come at all/And these are the days that never end...."
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Created: Sat Sep 4 01:58:45 EDT 1999