[Don Corleone]

Old news. I was doing this sort of thing 50 years ago in what was then called the Air Defense Command. F-94’s F-89’s, F-86D’s. ‘Twas a hoot!

[Nowhere Man]

Old news. I was doing this sort of thing 50 years ago in what was then called the Air Defense Command. F-94’s F-89’s, F-86D’s. ‘Twas a hoot!

Yeah, where I lived in the Pittsburgh area, we had a Penna Air Nat'l Guard base at Greater Pitt Airport. We had the 112th Fighter squadron there and there was a time we had F-86's based there and then the F-102's. the chief mechanic for the fighters lived two houses down from me and he told me a story where they had to scramble to intercept a plane over Canada. They found out it was a piston engined cargo plane and it was not responding to radio calls. Through hand signals and so on, it was determined the cargo plane's radio was not working but they were directed to follow the fighters to the nearest Canadian Forces base and when the plane landed, they found out the electrical system went out.