Sounds like Whale knew what he was doing and Troll should have kept his mouth shut.FRUNKenstein wrote: ↑Thu Dec 20, 2018 9:48 am That video reminds me of a carrier landing one night. I was in the right front seat (4 seater aircraft - 2 pilots in front, a weapons system operator and mission commander in back). Guy in the front left seat (callsign "Whale") is on the controls for landing. We're on short final, having already "called the ball" at 3/4 mile, so literally a few seconds from landing (controlled crash?) on the carrier. Mission commander (callsign "Troll") in the back calls over the intercom "Concentrate, Whale." Whale turns around about 135 degrees in his seat, points straight at the mission commander and coolly says "Troll, you shut up." Turns around and lands the plane maybe 3 seconds later. Maybe one of the funniest, yet at the same time, most terrifying, moments of my life.
In my business life I knew an ex-Navy pilot named Tex Houston, who btw lives/lived in the KC area. From listening to him these types of stories are way too typical to not be accurate! He used the "controlled crash" term frequently. Before he became a pilot his job was to move the planes around on the deck. He damaged two planes and his commanding officer told him: "If you damage one more plane North Korea is going to declare you an Ace!" He had soooo many stories...