Rockets Red Glare, pt 4 - redeye_01.jpg (1/1)

[Mitchell Holman]

[Paul Elliot]

Good old Dead-eye Redeye! I qualified with those back in '73.
The Stinger came out shortly after that.
--
PC Paul
89 PC800
77 R100RS

Trip pics at: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/paul1cart/my_photos

"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to
society" - Theodore Roosevelt

[Phil Rhodes]

I got sent to Redeye from HAWK at MCAS Cherry Point in late '66. We only had
Redeye simulators; they looked like the real thing, but were used for
training. Anyway, we would test the thing by acquiring a cigarette across
the room.


"Paul Elliot" > wrote in message
om...
> Good old Dead-eye Redeye! I qualified with those back in '73.
> The Stinger came out shortly after that.
> --
> PC Paul
> 89 PC800
> 77 R100RS
>
> Trip pics at: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/paul1cart/my_photos
>
> "To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to
> society" - Theodore Roosevelt
>

[Paul Elliot]

Phil Rhodes wrote:

> I got sent to Redeye from HAWK at MCAS Cherry Point in late '66. We only had
> Redeye simulators; they looked like the real thing, but were used for
> training. Anyway, we would test the thing by acquiring a cigarette across
> the room.
>
>
> "Paul Elliot" > wrote in message
> om...
>
>>Good old Dead-eye Redeye! I qualified with those back in '73.
>>The Stinger came out shortly after that.
>>--
>>PC Paul
>>89 PC800
>>77 R100RS
>>
>>Trip pics at: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/paul1cart/my_photos
>>
>>"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to
>>society" - Theodore Roosevelt
>>
>
>
>

Ours must have been enhanced, we could track the cig at 100m.

There was an apocryphal story going around about the guy who forgot to
super-elevate before firing. The missile hit the ground and lost lock on
the target. It then reaquired lock, but the heat source was a latrine.
Luckily the commode uas unoccupied when it was obliterated.

--
PC Paul
89 PC800
77 R100RS

Trip pics at: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/paul1cart/my_photos

"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to
society" - Theodore Roosevelt

[CWO4 Dave Mann]

Paul Elliot wrote:
> Phil Rhodes wrote:
>
>> I got sent to Redeye from HAWK at MCAS Cherry Point in late '66. We
>> only had Redeye simulators; they looked like the real thing, but were
>> used for training. Anyway, we would test the thing by acquiring a
>> cigarette across the room.
>>
>>
>> "Paul Elliot" > wrote in message
>> om...
>>
>>> Good old Dead-eye Redeye! I qualified with those back in '73.
>>> The Stinger came out shortly after that.
>>> --
>>> PC Paul
>>> 89 PC800
>>> 77 R100RS
>>>
>>> Trip pics at: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/paul1cart/my_photos
>>>
>>> "To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to
>>> society" - Theodore Roosevelt
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> Ours must have been enhanced, we could track the cig at 100m.
>
> There was an apocryphal story going around about the guy who forgot to
> super-elevate before firing. The missile hit the ground and lost lock on
> the target. It then reaquired lock, but the heat source was a latrine.
> Luckily the commode uas unoccupied when it was obliterated.
>

That sounds like a couple of scenes in recent movies where the hero
points at the bad guys, acquires, and blasts away. One was with Clint
Eastwood and the other -- I can't remember. Also, one of Tom Clancy's
books had the Afghans fighting against the Soviets and using a red eye
to home in on an electric heater in the guard tower.

Cheers,

Dave