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- (WARNING: SOME IS OUT OF FOCUS. 1985 and video cameras just came out. The Air Force firemen had never use one and it goes out of focus at the end. If this bothers you, "Move along, this is not the video you were looking for.") After takeoff, I could not get the landing gear to indicate "UP" and it felt like the gear or a gear door was sticking out. The gear lowered normally and looked good on a check from the ground with binoculars. On touchdown, the jet started leaning hard right and it felt like the right gear was collapsing. I had slammed the throttles up into afterburner at the first hint of the right tilt and as the burners lit, the jet fell out from under me. I sucked the stick back all the way and kept it in the air, barely missing the ground. It turns out the right gear was compressing normally and when the aircraft tilted right, the left gear, with a broken strut that was jammed at full extension, broke out of the cylinder and collapsed. Now the wheel and strut assembly was swinging in the breeze horizontally. While I circled and burned down fuel, the squadron confered with McDonnell Douglas by telephone. The first solution was to take an arresting cable with the tail hook. I turned that idea down since the left gear could catch the cable first and spin me around or flip me over. Then, they considered a controlled ejection--I wasn't interested in that at all. So, I landed on the right wheel and lowered it on the external tanks and, as they say now, it was all good. This is the video of the one-wheel landing. Dave
Wow, I remember that well. I was working at POL when the IFE came in over our radio net. I had time to run back to the dorm and get my camera before you came in. With the runway foamed, I pretty much expected a normal landing. But when the tank blew, I felt the concussion in my chest while standing on D ramp. I remember saying to myself over and over, "Oh my God...Oh my God". Seemed like an eternity until you raised the canopy and everyone knew you were ok. Great job!
+luvofcountry Well thanks for your concern. By the way, the runway was not foamed, at my insistence. I was not a foam fan. Knowing where to put a limited amount of foam in this scenario was pretty difficult. I couldn't say precisely where I would lower the tank to the runway. Plus it's slippery stuff and I needed braking and nose gear steering to be effective to keep it on the runway. The other issue is foam can come up over the windshield, and then you can't see where you're going! Plus, it's cow pee and stinks like crazy! We know the tanks are going to pop, they always do, and the fire guys can quickly drive to where I stop and foam it. Way better than slipping and sliding through cow pee! They didn't get any on me, either! Yeah, I was slow to raise the canopy. Every one said that. No hurry. I wanted to be completely unstrapped and unhooked from the jet so I wouldn't end up hanging upside down by my G-suit hose, plus the canopy down was fire protection while the fireman were arriving. I did take abuse for a slow egress, though!
Nice save of yourself and the jet. That was a hairy situation but you kept your cool and saved everything. I think you did an AMAZING job! A slow egress is better than an UH OH anyday.🇺🇸💪😃🇺🇸
That's actually some amazing footage, strange that people give dislikes because of a few out of focus seconds (which the camera man sure couldn't help, it's just the way these things work)
I was there when that happened at McChord. First day of our ORI. Just had transitioned from F106's to F-15's.
It's a shame that people younger than I have no clue that these pics were Acapella because the Smart Phone DIDN'T EXIST! Someone, luckily, had a camera available.
I'm so old, I'd have to retire in a few months if Congress had not raised the airline retirement age! I worked with you guys often and always enjoyed it. Fun times...
Thanks. The video was shot by one of the firemen out of the firehouse. Unfortunately the autofocus snagged a pillar in the window and went out of focus as the external tanks popped and spit flames, but you get the idea.
Great landing ... inspirational ... Thank You.
I'm one of those people who watching things like this wants to be a pilot (as if I didn't already) which I guess says something about how nutty I am. I would say I'm hoping to be one if my myopic vision didn't disqualify me from any pilot roles. Hoping to enlist someday soon anyway.
The F-15C is just beautiful.
Thank you. We did a wing change locally and the airplane flew two weeks later. A bulkhead where the flap attached had a crack in it. Maintenance thought when the fuel tank blew up, the force on the flap cracked the bulkhead. A no-flap landing might have prevented that, but who knows. I'll take it like it happened. I can't remember what I squawked or put in the 781, now that you mention it! That's funny.
Good flying, good team.
We use rudder, but not in normal flight. The F-15 has aileron-rudder interconnect, ARI; the flight control system adds rudder for coordinated turns. You don't need to use the rudder in the traffic pattern. When you use the rudder, it is to deliberately get uncoordinated flight. The F-15 is normally landed in a crab in crosswinds. I used rudder to land wing low on the one wheel I had. We use rudder when fighting to get higher roll rates at high angles of attack, bring the nose around, etc.
Wow! Sure do miss the 15's when they were still here at McChord. My dad was a maintainer on the F-106's here in the 60's and I finished my career in the AF (1992-2012) here as well. C-17's just aren't as fun to watch.
Nice job on the landing, glad everything came out alright. I use to watch you guys fly out of PDX all the time. I've always loved the Eagle, sad to see the Raptor replace it but I know it's for the best. I know alot about aircraft but I'm a civi and was curious as to whether the tail hook on an F15 is capable of carrier landings in case of emergency? My friend was a Senior Airman in the USAF and said they could but he was in intel, not flight operations. Thanks for your service.
Ah, Triple Sticks. I forgot that was Triple Sticks. Probably in the bone yard in Tucson or already turned into beer cans, like all those great jets. They deserve a place in a museum!
Hey, I remember that day. I was in the
123rd FIS at PANG Base Portland, Or.
Since the runway of course was closed for a couple hours, all airborne "Green Dragons" diverted to PANG Base. Nice job wildmanl......Dang, are we that old?
If you fail to lock the focus on your video camera, you get crap videos at the worst time - such as this.
and hold the camera in the direction!!
We took approach end cables with the hook, just a few hundred feet after touchdown, so I'm sure it's capable of a carrier landing. But, the landing gear is not designed for it. Takes a lot more than a strong tail hook is my guess. I don't know of any F-15 carrier landing.
Your welcome!
Outstanding landing, sir. Look at those fatigues! old school and, if memory serves, that is a McCord bird.
Yes, it was McChord and the commander's airplane, 111. Old school for sure. 1987!
Scrapped in 2010 unfortunately.
I heard it was outside at the McChord museum. Not true?
The one at the McChord museum is 76-0048, a former 5th FIS bird, but painted up as a 318th bird. 76-0111 retired out of the 142nd at Portland in March '95, and shows as scrapped in June 2010.
Super! Well done, anyone walks away from such a landing event, will receive a new ribbon, saving AF body and AF machine. To you bed-wetting 'F'ers that dis-like this recording, take your wet thumb and watch cartoons on your mother's TV, you'll understand the action better. Is that all you saw, the un-focused portion?
That day I was giving a base windshield tour to World War II Luftwaffe ace Franz Stigler, who had been our museum banquet speaker the night before. Franz and I had a front row seat to the unexpected landing from the McChord runway overlook -- sorry no camera! Glad all turned out well.
Wow! I wish I'd known that!
@marinenut68 I do remember you and talking about the museum. I lost track of Craig Bernhardt. I know he made O-6 and retired. Jim Boehm retired at Eglin AFB, as I recall, and went to United Airlines. That was probably 19 years ago, when I retired and went to Souhtwest. Is the museum at McChord still open?
@wildmandl The museum is indeed still open, however access is almost impossible since you're now required to either have a DOD decal and military ID, or a sponsor to get on the base. I'm still living in the local area and my place of work is luckily in the approach pattern for southbound landing aircraft. Glad to hear that you're flying with Southwest now. Are you still living in Washington State?
John
Nice, well done!
Thanks. Lots of the 318th and the base got to shine that day.
bravo hats off to the pilot
"Hello, this is McDonnell Douglas customer support, how may we help you?"
Nice job in getting her down, rather than ejecting (possible body injury) and loosing an entire aircraft, or even worse killing someone with the unmanned out-of-control aircraft. As a pilot you have complete and utter control of what the machine does, regardless of it's size and role, so in a emergency situation it is your choice on what happens, and you clearly made the right one here. I'm planning to join the Air Force, while I likely wont be flying F-15s (either the Eagle or Mud Hen) because I'm thinking more of flying bombers, though if I were to go fighters I will more likely be put on the F-35 instead, which I think is an amazing aircraft also. I gotta work on my flying, since I only got 6 hours and it's been a long time since my last flight, so I'm horrifically rusty. Thank you for your service for our country!
Good luck to you in your flying career. It's a good time to start since there is a pilot shortage! For emergencies like mine, there are established controlled bailout areas and procedures so we can eject without putting anyone on the ground at risk.
Six hours flight time on the books and expecting to fly the most sophisticated bombers or fighter aircraft, eh?
Well, no sense in setting your sights low but don't discount the possibility you might be commanding a Trash Hauler carrying Rubber Dog Shit out of Hong Kong, either.
Good luck, Pardner.
LOL
I remember when this happened! I used to be a volunteer at the air museum on MAFB from 1986 to about 1991. I used to run all over that base shooting photos and video. Believe it or not, we've actually met several times. I was up in the control tower shooting some photos for the museum and you were the SOF while a few 318FIS birds were airborne. I also spoke to you several times at the squadron during some of my many photo shoots! Whatever happened to LTC Bernhard, and MAJ Jim Boehm?? I
"The first solution was to take an arresting cable with the tail hook. I turned that idea down since the left gear could catch the cable first and spin me around or flip me over." That's a simple deduction (especially easy sitting in a chair in my office) and a dang intelligent one, too. :)
Pays to have input from guy at the forefront of this situation.
P-2, King of the crash scene...
We never shut both engines off, and idle thrust improves the glide ratiio, but at idle I think we used 210 KIAS for best glide, L/D max, and we probably got about 2 NM per 1000 feet, maybe a little better. That's a 5 degree descent angle. So, 12000 FT for 1000 FT of altitude= 12. With both engines out, we would still use 210, but the glide ratio would be worse. That's in the ballpark, anyway. In 737s, a 250 KIAS idle descent is 3NM per 1000 FT.
wow, great landing!!!
Was this taken in the control tower?
Great work guys
Thanks, Jerry. The squadron and all the involved units at McChord really did well. It was in the middle of our ORI and they had the runway cleared and McChord operational in short order. We went right back to the ORI. I was in another jet in just a few hours.
I Remember The ORI's at Kadena, Long hours but, Worth it . Aim high 18TFW
I always heard good things from my friends about the Kadena wing. I would have liked an assignment there. Doing well on an ORI is a good thing.
Any landing you can, well we all know the rest. Great Job.
I never realised F-15, F-16, F-22 and F117 USAF aircraft have emergency arresting hooks... every day a school day.
F 117 arresting hook??? No!!!!
@Johnston Steiner The problem with USAF aircraft, landing carriers. Is that with exception of the F-4, & A-7, the airframe & landing gear aren't strengthened, to withstand carrier landing.
If one did land on a carrier, the landing gear would collapse, & there would be major airframe damage.
It would be safer to eject, near a carrier, and be picked up, by a rescue helicopter.
@wildmandl: Speaking of LTC Bernhard, I just wathced the video again and noticed that you were flying 76-111, the Commander's bird!!
This is fairly old. The crash truck seen early in the video with the two on top has been out of service at least 12 years.
+Torpedomtb I'm fairly old, too, and also out of service!
There's still a few P-15s around. Albeit not many, definitely not as many as there once was.
Camera man had one job not helped by technology.
why don't they have an dirt strip that they can make an emergency landing on instead of the main run way?
0:23 - ARFF guys riding up like the bosses they are...
@marinenut68 No, I live in Phoenix. Quite different but it's good!
Dave
Awesome auto focus on that camera!
Repairable, hope the jet had a long service life after.
You can say whatever about thr F15. But keep in mind this plane KICKS ass
wow that was cool. u got pretty lucky. would ejecting end ur career?
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Being that the light grey Eagle was all air-air, did the F-15 FIS squadrons do much differently from the F-15 Tactical Fighter Squadrons? I imagine other than deployments? Or was training and ops similar enough that one could PCS between the two unit types?
A FIS and a TFS were very different, however pilots did go back and forth on assignments all the time. The US-based Fighter Interceptor Squadron mission did not involve fighting enemy fighters. Its adversary was a bomber/cruise missile threat. A Tactical Fighter Squadron's missions are obvious. So in the FIS, it was a lot of night intercepts and less fighting other fighters. You can imagine how well that went over with TAC F-15 pilots sent to a FIS! For a little while, it sucked. Over time, the influx of TAC fighter pilots replacing old ADC interceptor pilots got the FIS out of the rut. Fortunately, even at the command level, as Air Defense Command morphed into ADTAC and 1st Air Force and whatever the hell else it was called, the leadership realized it was smart to let the FIS pilots fly some air-to-air missions just like the TFS guys. It kept proficiency up and the moral up. We could go to Red Flag, for example, but only as Red Air. We could not do escort or force protection because technically we didn't have that mission. But it wasn't a heart breaker that we were restricted to Red Air! That made the Red Flag briefings more bearable and was a lot of fun. I was the ADO at McChord and thankfully my two squadron commanders pushed to keep us flying standard TFS training missions, including DACT and dart. Our Air Division commander was also a TAC guy and as long as we kept up with our primary mission, he was also fine with us keeping up with normal TFS air-to-air missions. We just had to stay away from offensive CAP or force protection scenarios, but we could fly DACT pretty much all we wanted and get to turn and burn. Semantics. Our standard squadron training cycle started with BFM and progressed right up through 4 vs 4 and large force employment...yeah, and plenty of night intercepts. I was the Operations Officer at Keflavik, Iceland after that. My commander and I were both TAC to start with (F-4 air-to-air in Thailand, German F-104 Fighter Weapons School, and Holloman F-15 for me). We deployed to Bentwaters to support the Aggressors when they went from F-5s to F-16s and we went to Decimomannu (non-stop, unrefueled from Icleand! ) to fight whoever else was there on the ACMI range. So what the FIS pilot got to do was a little dependent on who was running the local show, but we made it pretty challenging. It's all history now and a very different USAF.
Thank you for the great info. I'd wondered what the specific differences were. By the time I started in the AF the only FIS units around were in the ANG, with I think the 57th at Kef being maybe the only active one, although designated an FS by then. My time at Holloman was after the F-15 era, when we'd swapped to the 117. Was a pilot in the 7th and 8th FSs, the 7th being our FTU, with the 8th/9th as ops units. The few light-grey Eagle folks we had in the community (everyone comes from somewhere else, in the 117) were all too young remember the FIS units, so they had no info. The info you write may all be history now, but what a great and rich history it is, seeing as how the AF seems to have a hard time remembering its own history these days.
We just missed each other. I came back to Holloman from Kef in 89 and was in AT-38s and had the academic squadron, then the 435th and 433rd TFTS. We changed to the Ops Group structure, a huge project, as we handled the arrival of the F-117. Those two things at once were nuts. I played Deputy Ops Group commander during that time while they were waiting for a colonel. Bob Huff, F-117s and great guy, came in as my boss and handled the F-117 transition. I stayed with the AT-38/F-15 side until they finally got a colonel in. Back to water boy, but then suddenly back in the game (no one else left to play!) and got to be acting DO of the 49th TFW across the base. Just me and the wing cc--he had no vice or DO! We were busy with a MISP and a squadron in the desert. Really busy. Checked back out locally in the F-15 in 3 days and had a blast with that until we went from 3 squadrons down to two jets. Ugh. They left me in charge of the base one day, so I checked myself back out in the AT-38 in one ride, signed my own Form-8, and started instructing immediately. Too late to stop me when they got back. I left summer of 1992. Fig was the general and Guariino was his vice. Huff was the Ops Group Commander. Crazy 3 years. It was fun to meet a lot of the early F-117 guys.
The building where the 4 LIFT squadrons were, eventually became home to the 20th FS and their F-4Fs out of George after that place closed and LIFT left Holloman. The 20th lasted another 12 years until shuttering in 2004. Their F-4Fs I believe were some of the only AIM-120 capable F-4s. You probably remember when the resident drones on the north ramp were QF-100s and QF-106s. My UPT class didn't have any Eagles, light or dark grey. Never really dealt with them in my time, as the Hog and the Eagle have such polar opposite missions, but would've been nice to. Only time I was ever around them was at Elmendorf when dad was up there in mid 80s. Same time when that Lt from the 43rd mis-set his OWS and tore his Eagle apart during that high speed/low pass flyby at Galena.
While I was still in the Ops Group, the 20th squadron commander came out for a site visit and was very demanding. Told me what he was going to "take" in that building. Quite rude, actually. He clubbed me over the head with the fact that it was "the German program" and they would get what they wanted. I had not mentioned it to him, but I had flown in the German F-104 program at Luke for 4-years and taught in their FWS and knew as much about the German contract as he did. He was a knucklehead, but they had some great guys in that squadron I got to know later on. Good squadron. I knew several of the drone guys. One was an old F-104 IP from before my time. Alaska lost too many F-15s to really stupid stuff. Very sad. I had a lot of interface with Hog guys at Red Flag and other exercises. There were a lot of Hog guys in the AT-38 squadrons, too. They were pretty loose and I imagine they think I was too tough on them--I made them stop eating in flight briefings and close the door, so they couldn't bullshit with guys walking down the hall. Pretty funny! The F-15 community was known for the huge ego, and I found that was true! When I got to Holloman in 1981, their craniums were in danger of exploding. That finally changed into the 90s, but the reputation could not be shaken easily. All seemed silly to me at the time, and still does. The F-16 vs F-15 war was advanced by the generals, Gen Ryan as TAC DO in particular, and I hated that and wouldn't participate in it. We should have been doing mixed force instead of sniping at each other. Ryan hated F-15 guys and told us at a TAC squadron commanders' conference to tell our F-15 guys they would never be squadron commanders while he was in TAC. Unbelievable. The F-16/F-15 feud was one of the dumbest things I saw out of our generals. I hope that stuff doesn't still go on. The force is too small to not use it the best way.
I was assigned to the 318FIS Green Dragons, this was around 1986? If I remember this right;. I think most of the 318 personnel were in the bomb shelter. We were doing an ORI exercise which required non essential people to be in the bomb shelter. We kept getting updates in the shelter about this pilot and aircraft. The MAC people were most of the people watching.
That's probably true since we were in an ORI, although it seemed like quite a few 318th folks told me they watched from the hill--probably the maintenance guys who were outside anyway. My nine year-old and his buddies happened to be riding their bikes and saw the whole thing. They got a kick out of it when they heard it was me.
wildmandl. You did an awesome job landing it. To bad that camera guy didn't have a better camera? I worked down in the Hush House I guess we were non-essentials? Good ol days!
Thanks. It would have turned out the same with any one of the guys flying it, but I didn't screw it up. 1985: RCA just released their first consumer camcorders. I know because I got the first VHS-C from RCA around that time. The fireman was not a cameraman, he was a fireman and they had just gotten the camera--first time he use it. No one knew anything about "autofocus" back then. Now we're all video wizards with our phones and cameras and can't imagine such a mistake. People forget--we didn't even have cell phones in 1985! So, autofocus snagged the window frame. Completely understandable. Thanks for your work in the hush house, Larry! Pretty essential to keep those Pratt & Whitneys running!
Cool. Good landing. Your actions prevented the lost of another F-15. just needs a little depot repair. I guess you squaked "Code 2' for landing gear huh? lol. Just joking. Good job sir.
That'll buff right out!!
Watched all that and the best part was blurred due to operator error!🤦🏻♂️
just a few dents and dings.....Only cost 100k to fix it...
great landing, awful autofocus or even manual focus. disgusting
No, ejecting doesn't end a career, but it can be pretty tough on your back if you're not sitting in the perfect position. Ejecting is statically more risky than landing, although it's a great option to have in a military jet!
wildmandl HELLO MY NAME IS JOSHUA LEE BUTTON I LOVE MCDONNELL DOUGLAS F-15 STRIKE EAGLE HOW MANY MILES FOR THE F-15 TO DO SUPERSONIC BOOM WILDMANDL
We certainly no the cameraman sucks
right near the end I was able to get the Vaseline off my eyes and see the video.
Great camera work, next time use a potato!
He totally missed the money shot.
Huh? Someone say porno?
no hd camera in that time
Don't be snarky and read the explanation above.
Is it just me, or was that tower crew totally blasé? At least one, possibly two very expensive fast packs destroyed, "the flames were right underneath that AIM 9," (sidewinder), and nothing about the pilot before or after. I mean, surely any halfway normal person would say something like, "Gee, I sure hope he makes it," or "That was a good job," but no. "You should have been here earlier, that's when the real action was…". Morons...
Tom Foyle The guys talking in the video were firemen in the fire station. Your observation is correct, but I think they are pretty nonchalant by nature (you have to know them to know this) and their buddies did a good job for me out on the runway. They told me, at least, they were glad I made it when they gave me the video. Too bad the auto focus snagged the window frame. The AIM-9 was inert. I knew a lot of the fire guys over my 21 years and was often their "training dummy" for practice on pulling a pilot out of a burning jet. (Some say I'm a dummy by nature.) They were good guys.
wildmandl Ok, fair enough. They just SOUNDED like they weren't bothered!
Good thing it wasn't one of the alert birds, with lives onboard, at least.
It was a good thing, but it would have likely turned out the same. When I was pulling SOF at Holloman AFB, we landed an alert bird, F-15 loaded 4 x 4 x gun, gear up (or partial gear--I can't remember) on the three tanks with no damage to the missiles. It causes more heartburn, though.
So step back and take a good look at the Scene ...Count how many "NON" essential clowns Or spectator's are taking advantage of the moment to Pitch in and "Help" Is the recovery crane even on scene yet ?
肝心なところ見えない！
When stuff like this happens why do they waste time going all around the runway? Drive through the fucking grass the plane &a pilot are more important than the gradd
Grass*
Many runway dividers collect water and are very muddy. A fire truck that size would bog down immediately and never reach the scene.
Nick it's not grass per se... it's full of huge trenches that keep the runway dry and animals off the runways.... there is also the risk of damaging equipment.
FOD
fuck..what is the firedepartment slow..they arrive almost a day to late...
I infer from your question that after watching the video, you have a sounder assessment of the situation and the best course of action than did the professionals on the scene. Even though they had complete familiarity with the runway, taxiways, intersections, and surrounding turf, you clearly imply that their judgment was inferior to yours. Accordingly, I am sure we're all eager to read your assessment.
How would you have sped things up? Park them on the runway where they would obviously be a landing hazard? Park them somewhere on the taxiways other than the location chosen by trained and experienced firefighters? Have them skip the taxiways and just run across turf that is actually too uneven and soft for large vehicles to traverse without getting bogged down and never reaching the plane?
I'm sure we all wait with bated breath for your answer.
....Sukhoi for the win
+Cheeki Breeki
I agree. Those things make awesome videos, crashing left and right without even having any failures.
Wow, great job filming this. You should let My 2 year old film next time...that way there is an excuse how awful it is.
Speaking of two yr-old, you probably weren't even born yet when this video was shot. We didn't have cell phones back then, let alone cell phone cameras, so not everyone was a video camera genius back then like they are now. In fact, very few people had ever handled a video camera. This was shot with one of the first available handheld VHS cameras and the fireman who used it probably picked it up for the first time and had no idea about "auto focus." He was a good fireman, though.
This guy has no clue what a camera is !
You are correct. It was the first consumer video camera on the market and the first time the fireman had ever picked one up. 1985. We didn't even have cell phones, let alone video cameras.
& the 'Cameraman of the year' award goes to..... Not this guy
The "Cameraman of the Year (Who Is Actually a Fireman Making Impromptu Use of an Early Model VHS Camera Without Any Prior Experience With It Category) Award" goes to ... This Guy!
The "Snide Remark by a Person Who Has No Understanding of the Situation Award" goes to ... nissanmark!
The "Pedantic and Not Especially Useful Reply of the Year Award" goes to ... Me!
Gotta Love how nobody will drive on the grass to reach the site the fastest. LMAO
#STAYOFFTHEGRASS
#NODRIVINGCROSSCOUNTRY
#HOPETHEPILOTCANWAITFORUS
#KARLGOTOTHENEXTINTERSECTIONANDTURNAROUND
#IDONTCAREHOWLONGITTAKESDONTDRIVEONTHEGRASS
What are you on about?
What good would it do it the firetruck drives into the grass and either loses control and tips over or gets stuck? Is this your first day on this planet? Or have you never driven a car?
If I had shot that I would NOT have put it on TH-cam. That really sucked.
Thank you for your comment, Steve. It was 1985. The Fire Department bought the first RCA consumer video camera on the market. The young fireman who shot the video had never used a video camera. No one had video cameras--we didn't even have cell phones in 1985. Auto focus? No one knew how to use it. Now, if you had shot the video, two good things would have occurred: it would have been perfect and you would be at least 52 yrs-old by now and have better manners. This video is posted as a good memory for the many Air Force people who helped me that day, especially the firemen who would have pulled me out of a burning jet if they had to. Not much about that sucked for those of us that were there.
What a gomer, try using a brownie camera next time. Jeeeeeesus!
You're the gomer. Can't read? From directly above: (WARNING: SOME IS OUT OF FOCUS. 1985 and video cameras just came out. The Air Force firemen had never use one and it goes out of focus at the end. If this bothers you, "Move along, this is not the video you were looking for.") We didn't even have cell phones in 1985, let alone video cameras. Try using your brain and some manners next time.
OK! ROFLMAO! Have a sense of humor or gods sake. And get those guys spun up on some better brownie cams!!!!!
I have a good sense of humor until somebody calls the fire guys who would risk their ass to pull me out of a burning wreck a "gomer." The truth is I laughed at that, but had to fire a shot back anyway. You weren't nasty like a lot of the comments. I should just block comments on this video. The fireman, and he was a good fireman, has caught grief on about 200 comments--many of them nasty. I even posted a warning! The only reason I allow comments is to catch up with people who helped me out that day and it's fun to hear from them. Today's cellphone video wizards think we were all born with auto focus. This guy literally took the camera out of the box for the first time and gave it a shot. It was the first video camera the department had. A few weeks before, I bought the first commercially available VHS-C RCA camera and the auto focus was really poor. No one knew how to use that stuff. "Those guys" you want me to get spun up on better brownie cams are all in their 50s or older, retired from the USAF, and are probably cell phone video wizard like everyone else. Glad you replied nicely.
YAWN, typical Air Force quality....