« Reply #11 on: August 25, 2010, 10:05:22 PM »
1978 sitting on the Run way at Kunsan AB Korea, I'd watch the ROK Pilots flying the F-86's(Big dive braked between the pilot & elevator on the sides) off the same runway we flew the F-4D's from. They were still in service, and the ROK's took it very seriously. When we gave them the F-4D's and brought 16's to Kunsan, they kept running the 4's off the end, or between the the runways into the wet rice patties to keep the Magnesium brakes from burning up the whole aircraft. Forget to Pop the drag chute, or Pop & release it at the same time...? ooops! We had this huge crane that could reach quite a ways and lift the whole "Lead Sled" out of the muck and onto a service truck.
Back in the day.
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WildWzl
Ft Bragg Jump School-USAF Kunsan AB, Korea- Clark AB P.I.- Korat, Thailand-Tinker AFB Ok.- Mtn Home AFB Idaho
F-86's, F-4D, F-4G, F-5E Tiger II, C-130, UH-1N (Twin Engine Hueys) O-2's. E3A awacs, F-111, FB-111, EF-111,
