Talking about aircraft, one of my old friends was an instructor for Red Flag in the late 60's. After he retired, he decided to train to fly rotorcraft. As good as he was with F-105 and F-4 aircraft, he never could train out of the fixed wing muscle memory.
Mike; I don't know. The Checkered Demon was in an early issue of ZAP Comix back in the late 60s. It was drawn by S. Clay Wilson and was a bizarre story about a demon who interacts with an outlaw motorcycle club. If your thought processes were sufficiently altered, it made a lot of sense.
Wonder if alka-seltzer would work on deer. Too goddamned many of them around here...need to thin the herd quite a bit, and since the state won't institute a 12 month hunting season on them...
"My dad said he and his crew used to shoot down the seagulls with the targeting radar on the New Jersey.
Set phasers to "crispy"!"
I didn't have access to those tools, but during one particular WestPac Cruise there were a couple of chickens hanging in front of the the fire control radar one day. Turns out it was to prove to one particular "rock" that he should not be on the yard arm while the radar was active (yes, they had to haul the guy down a couple of days earlier for "playing" around the radar dome). Good thing he probably won't be able to have kids...
Once I had to climb the mast and go out on a yardarm to retrieve a SATNAV antenna dangling over a turning helo. You bet your ass I had a Man Aloft while I was up there.
Scary enough hanging from a harness over a turning CH-53, don't need to get microwaved too.....
When I went to ET(electronics tech) school in Great Lakes, the ET building had a first off air search radar array on its roof, aimed out over Lake Michigan. The stories I heard was when they first lit it off, it killed a flock of geese, set off every flashbulb in the PX and killed O'Hare's approach radar.