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Originally Posted by VaRobot
Much of Delonge and TTSA's credibility comes from their release of video from the "Nimitz Incident". F-18's encountered a 40 foot long tic tax shaped object. Delonge and TTSA also interviewed the former F-18 Pilot and CO of VFA-41, (Dave Fravor).
A nice animation and some of the Pilot's interview is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgZH3i-e3uA |
I wasn’t there, I don’t know what it was/was not, but as a former F-18 pilot that conducted dozens of real world intercepts I CAN tell you the terminology and calls between aircraft and surface vessels is mostly wrong. That part of the recreation is definitely not transcribed word for word. If they had the tapes (which the Navy definitely had) I would be more inclined to believe the particulars of this incident as portrayed.