Thanks for that video. I've never seen that footage before. All my favorites when I was growing up.

Todd

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Originally posted by Tinyman:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by 104RFAST:
I was a Crew Chief on the 104 at Eglin AFB during that exercise and filming although the F-104s in the film were from Homestead AFB
Whats not in the film is we Lost a F-105 and F-100 when a delayed action mine dropped on a RR track exploded on impact, the two
Pilots and the enlisted camera operator all ejected safely

Do you remember the timeframe? I was at Homestead early 1968 till Nov 1969 (319th deactivated in Dec if my memory serves me right).

Tinyman[/QUOTE I'm thinking late 63 or 64. In those days the weapon testing at Eglin (Bombing range 52 ) was quite active. IIRC
the activities in the film took place over several months.I only remember being part of the crew that went out to range 52 to pick
up the pieces of the F-105.I'll try to find some pictures of the Homestead 104s park among ours.We had A & B models, the Homestead
aircraft were C models. Those were good times! I could never have anticipated 30 years later I would be flying a CF-104D. Only in America

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Originally posted by 911Boss:
So....

If you take out your own plane with your own ordinance, do you get credit for the kill?

I bet you have some explaining to do to the crew chief?