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#4503932 - 01/16/20 02:08 PM PROPS AND JETS  
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#4512269 - 03/22/20 09:20 PM Re: PROPS AND JETS [Re: Sgt_Fresh]  
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Ever since I first saw The Bridges at Toko-Ri with William Holden and Grace Kelly the Panther has been one of my favorite planes.

Here is a real life mission for the Panther you might try to simulate.
Royce Williams: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/t...jets-secretly-battled-russian-jets-24627
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The Panther flight was flying a patrol pattern at 16,000 feet when they received a report—bogeys detected just eighty-three miles north of their position, heading from the direction of Vladivostok.

The four aircraft from Navy squadron VF-781 assumed an intercept course. Sure enough, they spotted the vapor trails of seven Soviet jets flying high above them at 40,000 feet and the silvery glint of their bare metal fuselages. These were not Il-28 bombers, but MiG-15 fighter jets that could outrun even the late model F9F-5 Panther by seventy miles per hour.

At the same moment, the fuel pump of flight leader Lt. Claire Elwood aircraft began to malfunction. He was called back to the carrier, and his wingman assigned to cover for him. The Panthers of Lt. Royce Williams and Lt. Jg. David Rowland were left to face off against seven superior Soviet fighters.

What happened next remained a secret for the next forty years, and would only be fully detailed in 2013 when Royce was interviewed by Thomas McKelvey for Flight Journal magazine.



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