<font color="#c20000">Iranian Air Defense Radar: </font><font color="#0000a1"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,161); font-weight: bold">'Unknown aircraft you are in Iranian airspace. Identify yourself.'</span></font><span></span><font color="#c20000"><span style="color: rgb(194,0,0)">
Aircraft: </span></font><font color="#0000a1"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,161); font-weight: bold">'This is a United States aircraft. I am in Iraqi airspace.'</span></font><span></span><font color="#c20000"><span style="color: rgb(194,0,0)">
Air Defense Radar: </span></font><font color="#0000a1"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,161); font-weight: bold">'You are in Iranian airspace. If you do not depart our airspace</span></font><span></span><font color="#0000a1"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,161); font-weight: bold">
we will launch</span></font><span><font color="#004080"><span style="color: rgb(0,64,128)"></span></font></span><font color="#0000a1"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,161)">interceptor aircraft!'</span></font><span></span><font color="#c20000"><span style="color: rgb(194,0,0)">
Aircraft: </span></font><font color="#0000a1"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,161); font-weight: bold">'This is a United States Marine Corps FA-18 fighter. Send 'em up, I'll wait.'</span></font><span></span><font color="#c20000"><span style="color: rgb(194,0,0)">
Air Defense Radar: </span></font><font color="#0000a1"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,161)">(total silence</span></font>

man that was a great night!!!! I've actually got a no-kidding funny story from over there. something similar and just as hysterical

Tell the story Bra

all ears

Do eeet! tell the story!

haaaaa

seriously it's too long to type but suffice it to say a younger less wise but much better looking individual found himself on the other side of an imaginary line of death and had a little chat with the "giant voice" in my head set telling me to pull a taco bell and run to the border muuuuttthhaaaaaaaaaa fer LOL

what is that annoying sound??? Holy Cow it's my incoming missle warning receiver..........Yiiiiiiiiikessssss

American....American....you hear me..... I kill you next time....you hear me?....I keeelll you........(someone less than enthusiastic about me in his backyard)

trying to think of some pithy response........and in my best surfer dude voice........

nawww bra can't hear ya....

YES YOU CAN...... YES YOU CAN......I kill you next time.....YOU HEAR ME!!!!!
..

tooo bad we couldn't keep the audio.....it was pretty damn funny

great fun....I shoulda used that example during my interview for my "tell me about a time...you did something stupid" instead of the story I told about having to wear "the rose to the front" as a result of my aft flapper valve failure at 39k but that's for another time....

Flapper valved are *****s man! I feel your pain.

BTW, your boggie sounded just like Ahmmed the terrorist "I kill you"
Was Ahmmed a fighter pilot before becoming a professional jihadist?

Oh yeah, like knock knock jokes "knock knock...who´s there?...Me - I kill you!...

wellllll....you know know the deal........never let the truth get in the way of telling a good story

Yep, there is a lot of really funny stuff out there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekt8Nw_7Jeo&amp;NR=1

classic

We were one of the few jet fighters in Nam with an FM radio and we could talk directly to the ground guys (FM being the standard grunt radio in those days). Eventually the bad guys got hold of some FM radios and would frequently offer us "encouragement", similar to what Buck heard. We responded with "colorful" suggestions of our own, not fit to repeat here.

Craig,

They had radios back then?

I thought the Wright Flyer did not have any...

Beave

LOL

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1. Nice landing, Sir.
2. I'll buy the first round.
3. I'll take the fat one.

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a. One day you will walk out to the aircraft knowing that it is your</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">last flight.
b. One day you will walk out to the aircraft not knowing that it is</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">your last flight.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">There are Rules and there are Laws.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt"></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">The Rules are made by men who think that they know better how to fly your airplane than you.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">Laws (of Physics) were ordained by nature.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">You can, and sometimes should, suspend the Rules but you can never suspend the Laws.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">About Rules:
a. The rules are a good place to hide if you don't have a better idea</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">and the talent to execute it.
b. If you deviate from a rule, it must be a flawless performance..</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt"> (e.g.., If you fly under a bridge, don't hit the bridge.)</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">The ideal pilot is the perfect blend of discipline and aggressiveness.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">The medical profession is the natural enemy of the aviation profession..</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">Ever notice that the only experts who decree that the age of the pilot is over are people who have never flown anything? Also, in spite of the intensity of their feelings that the pilot's day is over I know of no expert who has volunteered to be a passenger in a non-piloted aircraft.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">Before each flight, make sure that your bladder is empty and your</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">fuel tanks are full!</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">He who demands everything that his aircraft can give him is a pilot;</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">he that demands one iota more is a fool.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">There are certain aircraft sounds that can only be heard at night.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">Flying is a great way of life for men who want to feel like boys, but not for those who still are.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">Flying is a hard way to earn an easy living.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">"If theWright brotherswere alive today, Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs." President,DELTA Airlines.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">Airlines have really changed, now a flight attendant can get a pilot pregnant.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">I've flown in both pilot seats, can someone tell me why the other one is always occupied by an idiot?</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
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true true, thankfully me, Craig and few others fall in category A

As a pilot only two bad things can happen to you and one of them will.
a. One day you will walk out to the aircraft knowing that it is your last flight.
b. One day you will walk out to the aircraft not knowing that it is your last flight.

Hey Buck!

Per our chat yesterday ,,,, get the bandit my friend. We don't need another grey bird with a red star![X(][X(]

Yes, we had radios but back then we called it a "wireless". We had to turn the volume up to hear it through our leather helmets.

There are old pilots, and there are old pilots. but there are very few Old Bold pilots.

Age and craftiness will most often overcome youth and exuberance.... Baron von Richtoven..

This was fun reading....

I had a similar situation in Korea..."here kitty kitty" nuff said...

Oh, you forgot one...

Whats the difference between a fighter pilot and a pig......... the pig would die before picking up a pilot in a bar....