Any kid with a tape splicer was a god amongst their peer group :DL

http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/tapec...ette-block.jpg

http://forums.watchuseek.com/attachm...plane-f104.gif

? :hmmm:

Back in the day we called that one the "Missile With a Man In It".

The pilots I knew locally called this one a "Lawn Dart".

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...Steve/F-16.jpg

We used to call that the Falling Falcon.

In FY 82 half of the US F-16 crashes in the world occurred at Hill AFB, UT. Lakeside Military Center to be exact.

We in EOD got a lot of practice scrapping them up off the desert.

They were falling long before that. When they first came to Hill the controversy was over whether it was the fly-by-wire system that was putting them down. The Air Force denied it, but nobody could guess that it would be anything else. That was why we called them 'lawn darts'.