titanium-rain: Looking suitably pleased with themselves after completing a harrowing cross-country f
titanium-rain: Looking suitably pleased with themselves after completing a harrowing cross-country from NAS Pensacola, Lt Anne Kruger (pilot) and Lt Jackie Maher (Naval Flight Officer) pose for the camera. Described by them as the worst flight of their lives, the crew had flown into a thunderstorm in their ‘unmanned’ EA-7L Corsair II, the aircraft’s generator failing after it received a lightning strike. Flying without instruments or radio communications, the crew somehow managed to link up with an A-3 from Key West and recover to base ‘stuck’ to the Skywarrior’ wing tip. (Picture from the book Superbase 24 KEY WEST ‘Top Guns’ of the East Coast, 1991 Osprey Publishing, George Hall) -- source link
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