F86, how many here knew about this?

[exhaustgases]

http://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArch ... valor.aspx

[Snake45]

I did. If I'm not mistaken, somebody did it in Vietnam, too.

[JohnB]

The similar occurrence in Vietnam was with a ...'105 or was it a Phantom?

Also, don't forget that a couple of crews were "dragged" to safety by KC-135s.

I can highly recommend Col Rinsner's book, Passing of the Night.
Very moving as well as being a great autobiography and now, history.

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[Snake45]

The similar occurrence in Vietnam was with a ...'105 or was it a Phantom?

The story's starting to come back to me...pretty sure it was Phantoms (the tailhook might have been involved) and they might have been USN...wish I could remember what book I read it in....

[John Dupre]

For Vietnam search for Pardo's Push.

[CAPFlyer]

Yep, Pardo's Push has been featured quite extensively over the years on various shows, including an homage to it on J.A.G. back in the late 1990's.

AvWeb's video on the push sums both events up quite nicely in just 4 minutes of video -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRNbcPS3A9c

[eze240]

I recall a story my Dad told me....
It was during Vietnam...was an F-105, damaged by flak... He (the pilot) was able to meet up with a tanker, which kept feeding him fuel to keep flying, allowing him to make it back to base...
I don't recall any names of other info.. But it sounded quite interesting...presumably, this was one of the saves by tanker mentioned earlier...

There was a book I remember reading the F-86 story in...can't remember the name of it....if I'm remembering right, the book was a fiction paperback, this was late eighties or early nineties...it followed several air force pilots lives from the Korea period to retirement....

[Hobbes]

There was a book I remember reading the F-86 story in...can't remember the name of it....if I'm remembering right, the book was a fiction paperback, this was late eighties or early nineties...it followed several air force pilots lives from the Korea period to retirement....

I think you are talking about ‘The Wild Blue’ by Walter Boyne and Steven Thompson. Great book, owned a couple of copies now, and it comes out every 3 or 4 years.