On Aug 6, 11:34 am, "Danny Deger" wrote:
I would like thank everybody for all of the information. I have made
changes to my book to reflect Centers in general have skin paint capability.
There must be something unique about Washington Center's radar out over the
Atlantic Ocean Warning Areas that prevented them from getting a skin paint
on my friend's F-4.

The short summary of my friend's fatal flight is: he lost all electrical
power and decided to rejoin on another F-4 in the warning area. The lights
he picked out were not an F-4, but an airliner out over the ocean headed to
Miami (we were off the coast of North Carolina). By the time they realized
their mistake, they didn't have enough fuel to get back to land and ended up
bailing out in the ocean. 6 days later a fishing trawler picked up the back
seater and the front seater was never found. Without a skin paint, the
search and rescue forces looked in the wrong place.

More details in my book you can get for free from my web site. Feel free to
download and email to your friends.

--
Danny Deger

NASA offered me $15,000 to take down my web site. Take a look and see why.www.dannydeger.net

Danny

I would add this "thing" ...it might not be all that unique. it just
might be "how it is"...for all centers.

The SSR range for a "radar" is (because of the active particpant) must
longer then skin paint. I dont know what year it was, but the
"computer" system probably rejected the target in part because of some
"angle" issues (ie two systems were painting it and it fell out of a
"cell" ie both radars present information to the computer and the
computer gets confused because it cannot corelate teh target(s) and
just drops the target).

On 9/11 when the airlines went "primary" it was only some really
quick thinking by the folks at NY center that held them as targets.

The sad thing (different topic) is that more or less the FAA worked
"as advertised" on 9/11. They were about the only one.

Robert