I didn't think he was good looking enough to be a pilot!

Zaun was a B/N, not a pilot. He and his pilot became Iraqi POWs during Desert Storm after their A-6E was bagged by a Roland SAM during the night of 1/18/91.

Since a B/N's face was stuck in the scope hood most of the time, it didn't matter what you looked like. As long as the pilot followed steering and cleared the banana from below the annunciator panel after each good hit, all was fine in B/N-land .

And, generally speaking, good looks are not necessary for night operations of any sort, both official and recreational.

"As in the dark all cats are grey...," Ben Franklin once said. g

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Mike Kanze

"The real accomplishment of 'The Da Vinci Code' is that Dan Brown has proven that the theory of conspiracy theories is totally elastic, it has no limits."

- Daniel Henninger, WALL STREET JOURNAL - 5/19/06

"Schlomo Lipchitz" wrote in message ...
I didn't think he was good looking enough to be a pilot!