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Post by Mark O on Feb 9, 2013 11:07:21 GMT 9
Speaking of William Tell 65, I am pretty sure I posted this video some years ago. (I thought it was linked, but can't find it.) There are small clips from this film on the videos page, but not the entire thing. archive.org/details/gov.dod.dimoc.26471It's VERY good, and has plenty of clips of the 71st FIS. It also has a short portion that shows a Captain sticking his head in Lt Col Dunnaway's office, and I noticed the HUGE 26th Air Division patch sewn onto the back of his flight jacket. (You also see the 26th AD patch on the back of the guy briefing -- may be the same guy -- just a bit later after this photo, and he definitely has a 71st FIS patch on his chest.) This is interesting because the references I've seen do not exactly match. I've never seen anything under the 26th AD that they had the 71st, but if you go to the Detroit Air Defense Sector page it shows they belonged to the 26th, and controlled the 1st FW (AD) that included the 71st FIS. 71st FIS guys? What say you? I do not think we covered this one when we had our Air Division discussion going, but I'm sure the 71st belonged to the 26th Air Division after seeing this. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Air_Defense_SectorConfused yet? In any event, take about 28 minutes, and watch the William Tell 1965 video!
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Post by MOW on Feb 9, 2013 12:16:53 GMT 9
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Post by oswald on Feb 11, 2013 0:18:55 GMT 9
If Bill Halpin is still a Pats World member,he may recognize some of these pilots, and I think he was at William Tell that year.
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Post by Mark O on Mar 8, 2013 12:58:36 GMT 9
Kind of a neat video from William Tell 1986. Lot's of air-to-air stuff, and if you don't blink there are the 159th, and 119th Sixes that show up now and then. Official USAF video, about 8 minutes and change... Watch it full screen! Oh yea, a short one from WT 80 as well. At least that's what they are calling it, but you can't miss the Bicentennial badge on the nose of several aircraft, so I think they clipped some footage together. I've seen some of the footage elsewhere anyway.
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Post by MOW on Mar 8, 2013 18:11:37 GMT 9
Kind of a neat video from William Tell 1986. Lot's of air-to-air stuff, and if you don't blink there are the 159th, and 119th Sixes that show up now and then. Official USAF video, about 8 minutes and change... Watch it full screen! Oh yea, a short one from WT 80 as well. At least that's what they are calling it, but you can't miss the Bicentennial badge on the nose of several aircraft, so I think they clipped some footage together. I've seen some of the footage elsewhere anyway. I've gt those 2 vids on the William Tell 1980 and William Tell 1965 pages. Great history even if the 65' vid is a lot propaganda According to an email from Keith Snyder on 23 May 2005 regarding the 1980 WT, these are all of the Darts that attended in 1986. None competed. They were used as visual ID targets during some of the profiles. The birds with the solid color temporary markings were all 159th FIS "Fang" jets. I do not know why the NJ birds, or the one FANG bird were not done in this manner. The markings were some kind of press on material that was just pulled off after the meet. 70 TFS F-4E's and 388 TFW F-16As also served as targets. The F-4s carried normal Euro 1 camo, but the HL 16s had the same style temporary markings applied as the Darts. Keith Snyder, Dallas, TX.
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Post by Mark O on Mar 8, 2013 22:28:24 GMT 9
Maybe I'm not looking in the right spots for the videos on those pages, but I looked on WT80, and WT86 before I posted them, and just saw the photos only. (I knew about the WT65 movie on the WT home page.) Oh well! Anyway, it's a good reminder to folks - especially the new members - that there is A LOT more to F-106DeltaDart.com than the forums!! Go poke around the main site for some not-so hidden treasure while I make an eye appointment!
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Post by MOW on Mar 8, 2013 22:37:26 GMT 9
Maybe I'm not looking in the right spots for the videos on those pages, but I looked on WT80, and WT86 before I posted them, and just saw the photos only. (I knew about the WT65 movie on the WT home page.) Oh well! Anyway, it's a good reminder to folks - especially the new members - that there is A LOT more to F-106DeltaDart.com than the forums!! Go poke around the main site for some not-so hidden treasure while I make an eye appointment! Nope you're not loosing your eyesight just yet. I didn't find them either when I looked. I never uploaded those or about 10 other edit pages I did during xmas break. That's my problem, I do so many edits on too many pages at once and forget to upload them. I just finished uploading a bunch of Display pages tonight I did months ago as well. And for the rest of you guys, when you find a lot of time has passed and you don't see your donated photo's posted somewhere, ping me.
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Post by LBer1568 on Mar 9, 2013 0:55:25 GMT 9
I remember the 1965 William Tell Video. The 539th didn't get to go, but Col Guy Hurst Jr (Hondo) made us sit through it at Commander's call. He then told us why we didn't make it and what we were going to do to be in the next one. Well, they didn't have a next one for 539thFIS. It disbanded in 1967. The shots of drone being destroyed were the result of malfunctions, or pilot "error". When pilot had lock and prior to launch he was required to call "Judy" which was signal for drone controller to launch chaff or flares depending on weapon used. Pilots sometimes called Judy late which allowed missile to hit drone before ECM launched by drone. But the drone also malfunctioned sometimes. During my tour at Tyndall I worked with Test Sq sometime when deployed squadrons were doing live fires. I mostly worked with MSgt Jim Neece and I evaluated WSEM/MSR firm/tape. Sometimes they used B models and let VIP's fly front seat with Instructor in rear seat. Most VIP's got a chance to hit drone. Yup, no chaff/flares. The sites displayed from Tyndall brought back fond memories. I watched many Firebee launches, got to go into the Ground Intercept facilities and watch live fire missions. And of course, the flightline was normal work area. They didn't mention the Tyndall Navy and its recovery boats. The helo's got many of drones, but the chute system wasn't perfect and many drones also went into water and were recovered by Navy troops. After I retired I made dozens of TDY trips to Montgomery and worked in SAGE building. The Air Force Portal is hosted in the SAGE building, along with hundreds of AF Web Sites/information systems.
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Post by pat perry on Mar 9, 2013 2:10:13 GMT 9
Here's another Willie Tell 65 video 27 min 43 sec. Like a documentary.
Pat P.
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Post by Mark O on Mar 9, 2013 2:40:19 GMT 9
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Post by Mark O on Mar 9, 2013 5:37:02 GMT 9
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Post by pat perry on Mar 9, 2013 8:26:34 GMT 9
No wonder we had a Revolutionary War. Can you imagine spelling "Defense" as "Defence"? I guess one good thing about our sweet Sixes paying the ultimate sacrifice is that they made GOOD fighter pilots into GREAT fighter pilots! Pat P.
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Post by Mark O on Mar 9, 2013 10:11:03 GMT 9
Can you imagine spelling "Defense" as "Defence"? That's "Defenfe" for the really old school Brits! Or, the Old Sarge! I think we still used f for s in the middle of a word when he enlisted!
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Mar 9, 2013 10:24:59 GMT 9
Can you imagine spelling "Defense" as "Defence"? That's "Defenfe" for the really old school Brits! Or, the Old Sarge! I think we still used f for s in the middle of a word when he enlisted! Sure, Mark, pick on the Old Sarge when he doesn't have his computer, and will probably never see your post. nono
Yeah, I think "f" was used for "s" when he enlisted, which was a long, long time ago.
Hey, wait just a minute.
I enlisted several months before he did.
Maybe I better not say anything more.
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Post by Mark O on Mar 9, 2013 10:42:30 GMT 9
Too late! You could check your "eliftment" papers to make sure. That is unless the ink has faded after all these years!!
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Post by MOW on Mar 9, 2013 12:46:08 GMT 9
Yea, so did I... I just added it back on.
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Post by Jim on Mar 11, 2013 7:01:28 GMT 9
HE IS BACK............
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