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Forum: General Photography
04-17-2019, 04:05 PM
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Back in the early '80s, we were offshore fishing near a naval practice range and we had forgotten to check the "Notice to Mariners". All of a sudden an A6 came zooming by and dropped a large elongated can flare about a mile from us and it exploded emitting red smoke . Almost immediately a 4 unit group of F14s appeared as dots way above, broke into two pairs and swept down like a rocket, flared their wings forward, and simulated strafing the can multiple times while looping and rolling. Then as quickly as they arrived they flared straight up, moved their wings back in the process and hit afterburners and rapidly became small dots again. We took our fingers out of our ears and to a man went "damn what a show!". My Dad was in the group and he was a Navy WWII vet (served 1939-1945) and a Gunners Mate first class. He served in the N Atlantic before the Pearl Harbor attack and then in the Pacific. He was at Saipan, Tinian, Gaum, Okinawa, and a bunch of atolls in between (Soloman & Marshall Islands). He commented that those sure weren't the old prop fighters from his time!! I would have hated to be the target of their efforts when prosecuted with extreme prejudice!
JB
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