Remembering my 15 minutes of fame. Oh, and today's watch (or at least the one I'm wearing while the accursed smartwatch is charging). #sierrahotel #f15eagle #bigseiko

Stumbled on this earlier today (creator unknown) and got a laugh. Back in the days when gun cameras didn't record sound and we carried tape recorders, I had one get loose during a BFM engagement. I could see it in the mirrors, all the way back on the turtleneck (the flat surface the photoshopped raccoon is on). Negative Gs and fanning the speedbrake summoned it back, no harm done. #EagleBot #F15Eagle #SierraHotel

Kadena Memories: https://pwoodford.net/blog/?p=35501 #EagleBot #F15Eagle #SierraHotel

I'm certain that empty back seat is hotly contested at Air Staff level. Oh to be a fly on the wall in the Pentagon!
#F15Eagle #EagleBot #SierraHotel

In 1981 my squadron sent me to the Raytheon plant in Lowell MA for a 2-week course in radar missile theory and employment. Graduates got these nifty presentation Sparrows, and in return taught what we'd learned to our squadron mates. The Sparrow, a "thinking man's missile," was a very complex gadget, and a thousand things had to work perfectly to get a kill. #EagleBot #F15Eagle #SierraHotel #BigSeikoLittleDick

I wrote about this incident shortly after it happened in May 2023. Now the accident report's been released and I've published an update. You can read both at https://pwoodford.net/blog/?p=33347
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Eglin AFB-based Eagles in the break overhead Lahr AB, Germany, 1987 (photo: SSgt Fernando Serna). #MilAir #F15Eagle #SierraHotel #EagleBot

Have Callsign, Will Travel. https://pwoodford.net/blog/?p=44 #F15Eagle #MilAir #TacticalCallsigns #SierraHotel

New Air-Minded post on my blog: Speed Is Life ... But How Much Speed? https://pwoodford.net/blog/?p=34673 #F15Eagle #F15EX #EagleBot #SierraHotel

Old rivalries never die. New #AirMinded post: Additional Shades of Gray (https://pwoodford.net/blog/?p=34655). #F15Eagle #MilAir #SierraHotel