Maestro O'Malley

[Boac]

The USAF Colonel who has 'removed' the leader of the F-16 demo-team, Capt. Zoe Kotnik (for transgressions unknown) made an amusing but particularly stupid video in his time as a junior pilot serving in Korea. He was disciplined for it ('punishment' unknown) but did quite a bit better in his later career. A particularly silly way to make the video - in USAF uniform on USAF premises! IQ?

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/26 ... -years-ago

More about America's 'finest' here in the sacking of the Thunderbirds leader in 2017. https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your ... r-argument

Ah - the influence of a great Commander-in-chief, no doubt?

[Cacophonix]

The USAF Colonel who has 'removed' the leader of the F-16 demo-team, Capt. Zoe Kotnik (for transgressions unknown) made an amusing but particularly stupid video in his time as a junior pilot serving in Korea. He was disciplined for it ('punishment' unknown) but did quite a bit better in his later career. A particularly silly way to make the video - in USAF uniform on USAF premises! IQ?


More about America's 'finest' here in the sacking of the Thunderbirds leader in 2017. https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your ... r-argument

Ah - the influence of a great Commander-in-chief, no doubt?

Ah I am fingering my well thumbed copy of Tony Kern's Classic "Flight Discipline" that alludes to things like :

• Personal Flight Integrity

• Procedural and Regulatory Discipline

• Communications discipline

etc.

The Thunderbirds Commander noted above seems to have shown all the symptoms of a being a rogue operator or out of control commander, as was the commander in this case that Lt. Col. Kern used in his study.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Fair ... B-52_crash

The accident board stated that Colonel Holland's macho, daredevil personality significantly influenced the crash sequence. USAF personnel testified that Holland had developed a reputation as an aggressive pilot who often broke flight-safety and other rules. The rule-breaking included flying below minimum-clearance altitudes and exceeding bank-angle limitations and climb rates.

www.916-starfighter.de/darker_shades_of_blue-1.pdf


Caco

[Cacophonix]

Anecdotally I was talking to the lady proprietor at the guest house, I was staying in, in Simon Town about Dan Air's and South Africa's very own Yvonne Pope Sintes (as one does) and she told me that she had had a good looking 40 something American lady staying who indicated she was in the aviation game and that she, i.e. the owner of the guest house, had assumed she was an air hostess but was politely told by the US lady, that she was a senior officer and fast jet pilot in the USAF!

Looking at that crass video in the post above, the word Tailhook comes to mind. Maybe I am being unfair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailhook_scandal

Caco