Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site hplabsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!hplabsc!dsmith From: dsmith@hplabsc.UUCP (David Smith) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Re: The Original Starfighter Yarn Message-ID: <2680@hplabsc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 15:30:10 EDT Article-I.D.: hplabsc.2680 Posted: Mon Aug 12 15:30:10 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 22:19:48 EDT References: <752@infopro.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA Lines: 22 > It seems Daryl was preparing to leave a busy airport -- maybe even the > very air show that David Smith saw the plane at. The tower says: > > "Report passing end of runway, then say altitude each two thousand feet > till ten thousand." > > Daryl gets a bit hot under the collar at this suggestion, piles on full > afterburners, and hauls the stick all the way back. He contacts the tower: > > "F-104 at 2,000...4,000...6,000...8,000...10,000...cleared end of runway!" > It couldn't have been the same air show, since the field elevation is 4700 feet. It is my recollection that Greenamyer was not the guy who scrounged to rebuild the plane, but was brought in to fly it after it was finished, and he wasn't the original pilot. I didn't hear any mention of his name at the time I saw it whole. David Smith ucbvax!hplabs!dsmith