VF Question

What's the number of the VF squadron with the rising sun as a logo?
Are they the Sundowners? 4 of their F4s were on a loran drop with me
and my flight in 72 near Khe San in March of 72.
Walt BJ

From: (WaltBJ)
Date: 4/13/2004 12:00 Pacific Daylight Time

What's the number of the VF squadron with the rising sun as a logo?

That would be VF-111 - axed in 1995 when CVW-15 was disestablished.

Are they the Sundowners?

yes

4 of their F4s were on a loran drop with me
and my flight in 72 near Khe San in March of 72.

That was during the squadron's Nov. 71 - Jul. 72 deployment aboard Coral Sea.

MW

VF-111, Sundowners, you are correct, sir.
Stephen
http://www.stephenmudgett.com

WaltBJ wrote:

What's the number of the VF squadron with the rising sun as a logo?
Are they the Sundowners? 4 of their F4s were on a loran drop with me
and my flight in 72 near Khe San in March of 72.
Walt BJ

"WaltBJ" wrote in message
om...

What's the number of the VF squadron with the rising sun as a logo?
Are they the Sundowners?


That wouldn't make any sense at all.

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote...

What's the number of the VF squadron with the rising sun as a logo?
Are they the Sundowners?

That wouldn't make any sense at all.

Your point? They ARE fighter pilots...

"John R Weiss" wrote in message
news:OX0fc.136187$JO3.84364@attbi_s04...

Your point? They ARE fighter pilots...


So because they ARE fighter pilots they chose a rising sun to represent the
Sundowners? Are you saying fighter pilots are stupid?

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote...

Your point? They ARE fighter pilots...

So because they ARE fighter pilots they chose a rising sun to represent the
Sundowners? Are you saying fighter pilots are stupid?

Nope.

Just because they may not make sense at times, doesn't make them stupid.

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 02:55:42 GMT, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote:


"John R Weiss" wrote in message
news:OX0fc.136187$JO3.84364@attbi_s04...

Your point? They ARE fighter pilots...


So because they ARE fighter pilots they chose a rising sun to represent the
Sundowners? Are you saying fighter pilots are stupid?

Maybe "rising sun" was a poor descriptor for "sun on the horizon"? How
can one tell by looking at a logo if they are looking a a depiction of
East horizon or West?

Fighter pilots are not stupid, but, they occasionally may be
disoriented. At least AF pilots can always orient themselves by the
base runway--for the poor nasal radiators the runway keeps moving and
turning.


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN #1-58834-103-8

"Ed Rasimus" wrote...

Fighter pilots are not stupid, but, they occasionally may be
disoriented. At least AF pilots can always orient themselves by the
base runway--for the poor nasal radiators the runway keeps moving and
turning.

It's a test -- can we stay oriented while the runway's moving in circles?

"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message
...

Maybe "rising sun" was a poor descriptor for "sun on the horizon"?


I think a logo with a "sun on the horizon" for any group calling themselves
the Sun Downers would be best described as a setting sun.



How can one tell by looking at a logo if they are looking a a
depiction of East horizon or West?


If the logo is for the Sun Downers it's a west horizon.