Airienteering with 13MIKE

“When undergoing jet flight training in the Navy, the most intense, incredible, adrenaline bashing, and panic pumping stage of all stages for me was the Air Combat Maneuvers! From the initial head-on engagement, it was pull, buffet, swivel head, sweat, pull, roll, reverse roll, buffet, grunt the G 's out, unload, pull, buffet, snap my head the other way, grunt, curse because I lost sight of the target, there he is! Pull, grunt the G 's out, buffet, roll, roll the other way, pull, and on and on! The art of making an instantaneous decision and jumping on a given advantage due to my opponent's mistakes were fine tuned and became as natural as breathing, or in this case, grunting! Sometimes, when intensely pulling a 6 to 7 G maneuver to set myself up, or evade someone on my six (behind me), a black curtain would roll in before my eyes, because all the blood rushed towards my feet or something! Listening to myself on the intercom microphone system, I'd hear wheezing and whistling and huffing and groaning and achy moans! By the end of a one hour hop, my flight suit would be dripping wet with sweat as I hauled my bone numbed body out of the cockpit and prepared for the debrief as to how I did, and where I missed my opportunities to bring down or kill the enemy! My blood internally felt alive and exhilarated with the fever pitched pace of the past hour! Though wiped out physically, at the same time I was spring loaded and crying out to jump in the cockpit again and fly another Air Combat mission exercise! Gosh, it was a glorious phase of flight training, and one that I'll never forget!

I understand what made these Air Warriors that you '11 be reading about do what they did, time and time again. You 'd think Baron von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron, would have known when to quit and realize that his number sooner or later would come up. But it took 80 air kills before he finally got shot down to his death, and I believe there was not one single regret in his mind other than that one last mistake he made! So this is a section where your hand should be over your heart, and your head turned upwards towards the skies where these heroes poured their lives out, and lived until their last breath on the edge of combat readiness! The speed of thought is faster than the speed of light, and that's the mental pace and intensity internally in evidence of an Air Warrior. Be prepared to enjoy a historical flight of a lifetime which you will never forget, through this third and last scenario series!”

1) Which airplane saw service during World War II?

If your answer is “the P-51 Mustang”, go to AirLeg 104

If your answer is “the Focke-Wulf 190”, go to AirLeg 78

If your answer is “the P-61A Black Widow”, go to AirLeg 40

If your answer is “the Heinkel He. Ill”, go to AirLeg 13