You had one job, just one…
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Since I found this one somewhere else: Does someone know the story behind this pic?
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Seems like somebody just pulled the canopy jettisson handle.
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yes, here it is. Someone made a boo-boo back in 2004, F-16D Blk25.
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Yeah I was stationed at Luke at the time but not in the 62nd. Either the 21st or 63rd at that time but yeah I remember this one. From what I heard it was a student pilot who freaked out about the fog coming out of the ECS system thinking it was smoke and activated the canopy jettison handle. Normally the weather at Luke doesn’t produce much but it can at times.
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I think the old Block 25s were all transferred to either the 311th or 314th at Holloman AFB I believe? I still remember seeing the 62nd jets when I was at Luke in 2012, I couldn’t believe they still had FY83/FY84 Block 25s flying about.
(The 62nd has now transitioned onto the F-35).On a somewhat related note, and this really makes me happy……the Black Sheep are BACK baby! The 8th FS (which flew F-117s and then F-22s before being disbanded in 2011) is now back as a F-16 squadron under the 54th OG at Holloman AFB.
Link: http://www.nellis.af.mil/News/Article/1270048/8th-fighter-squadron-reactivated-after-six-years/In case you missed it, the 56th FW has been some of its F-16 training operations from Luke AFB to Holloman AFB, under the geographically separated 54th OG. With Hill AFB switching to the F-35, over 40 F-16s are now being relocated to Holloman AFB equipping the 8th FS and one additional squadron, so I think we should end up with at least 4 F-16 squadrons at Holloman AFB, not counting the QF-16 drones of Detachment One.
Very happy to see the F-16 going strong and that “HO” tail code is looking mighty sweet on the old Viper.
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Yeah I was stationed at Luke at the time but not in the 62nd. Either the 21st or 63rd at that time but yeah I remember this one. From what I heard it was a student pilot who freaked out about the fog coming out of the ECS system thinking it was smoke and activated the canopy jettison handle. Normally the weather at Luke doesn’t produce much but it can at times.
I believe they must have changed his callsign to CJet. [emoji38]
Poor guy… He must have gone through hell after this.
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I took a quick look at the pic and thought it was a BMS texture screw-up made to look real!