cool successful military fuckups

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Anon10/23/26, 08:41No.65605285

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden%27s_Lightning_flight

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Anon10/23/26, 10:41No.65605371

https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Aircraft/Stories/sr-71-blackbird-the-slowest-flyby

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Anon10/23/26, 11:32No.65605411

An F16 pilot got the nickname Mover because while flying a F16 he accidentally strafed a herd of cows instead of a (practice target) convoy. Mover is a USAF term for "moving object not associated with the objective", and obviously cow goes moo. I'm a sucker for nickname stories so that's a cool military fuckup to me, and a successful one because he made beef and beef is delish. Please rate this story.

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Anon10/23/26, 17:35No.65606019

I remember that one time anon posted a story of a fighter pilot in training trying to break the sound barrier in a dive from relatively low altitude earning him the call sign 'Airshow'.

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Anon10/23/26, 17:53No.65606043

>be p51 in Pacific keeping an eye on a downed airman in the water >waiting for seaplane to show up to rescue him >another plane comes into view >US transport plane >it's flying towards a Japanese island, pilot is lost >know that if it lands Japs will murderrape everyone on board >try to signal to transport to turn back, it doesn't >desperate times, desperate measures >shoot its engines out >transport puts down in the water >everyone gets into survival raft >drop them a message telling them not to go to shore >everyone rescued next day >find out one of the passengers was a nurse you stood up on a date the night prior >get medals

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