And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Considering that's an F-15, undefeated in the skies for 45 years and counting, exactly who's locked up who remains an open question.
A single-frame momentary glimpse in the reticle does not a kill make, as about 104 pilots for Team Bandit have found out over the years, at last count.
That looks like an early F-4 gun sight reticle. The fat bar running from 5 to 6 o’clock is a range indicator. Center dot is the gun’s boresight,the other marks are lead indications if I’m not mistaken. I don’t know why just those two marks would be red; I’m fairly certain they were either all red for night or all white. Later HUD’s had airspeed & altitude readouts on either side of the reticle. Current HUDs have a whole mess of info on them.
Showed this to a guy I work with who flew F-4’s in the 60’s & 70’s (I just wrenched on them for a while). He thinking that’s probably a tracking sight on an F-4E type (internal gun) and the red marks are lead computing markngs. The USAF C & D models used a centerline mounted gun pod. Center dot is where the gun’s pointed, red bar is where it’ll hit. Either way, that’s a good gun kill on that Eagle.
Anyone know what the red marks are?
ReplyDeleteConsidering that's an F-15, undefeated in the skies for 45 years and counting, exactly who's locked up who remains an open question.
ReplyDeleteA single-frame momentary glimpse in the reticle does not a kill make, as about 104 pilots for Team Bandit have found out over the years, at last count.
That looks like an early F-4 gun sight reticle. The fat bar running from 5 to 6 o’clock is a range indicator. Center dot is the gun’s boresight,the other marks are lead indications if I’m not mistaken. I don’t know why just those two marks would be red; I’m fairly certain they were either all red for night or all white. Later HUD’s had airspeed & altitude readouts on either side of the reticle. Current HUDs have a whole mess of info on them.
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DeleteShowed this to a guy I work with who flew F-4’s in the 60’s & 70’s (I just wrenched on them for a while). He thinking that’s probably a tracking sight on an F-4E type (internal gun) and the red marks are lead computing markngs. The USAF C & D models used a centerline mounted gun pod. Center dot is where the gun’s pointed, red bar is where it’ll hit. Either way, that’s a good gun kill on that Eagle.
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