Betty
ALTITUDE ALTITUDE
/Betty


::::shudder::::

That, or an aircraft commander humming "Ride of the Valkyries" during an
extended dive...

That particular P-3 crew featured bald-headed, guitar-playing FE Gabe, seated
between the pilots and usually strumming "Radar Love" in such situations. But
on that encounter with the Soviet carrier Minsk, he lined up the nose of the
P-3 from 28,000' and dove like hell, humming that classic song from "Apocolypse
Now". Everyone crowded into the cockpit had their attention glued to the
Minsk, an old as dirt US tin can, an Indian IL-38 May, and *us* all arriving at
the same geographic point at the same moment.

Betty would have had kittens.

v/r
Gordon
====(A+C====
USN SAR

Its always better to lose -an- engine, not -the- engine.