You took your life in your hands putting this airplane down the other end of it was a cliff

I had this technique slow the airplane almost to a stall go into reverse just before touchdown full reverse stand on top of the brakes

It seemed to work

Well there are showhorses and there are workhorses and as the name implies and we all know the workhorses are the ones

unceremoniously getting the job done day in and day out but in society and admittedly here on the

Fighter Pilot podcast we tend to focus on the showhorses well that changes today thanks to two

gentlemen joining me in the Circle Air Group Studios here at Glezby Field in San Diego, California

the first is on my side of the table because he's no stranger to the Fighter Pilot podcast in fact you met Rick Hartnack back in

November 2022 talking about the F4U Corsair when the movie Devotion debuted and we had a special on it

Nack welcome back to the Fighter Pilot Podcast. Hey thanks Jealous a pleasure to be here with you and Bob and the whole Fighter Pilot

podcast audience fantastic well I see you got the memo on the polo very good and just as a reminder you were a Marine

whizzo in Vietnam flying in the back of the F4 fandom which I might argue was a bit of a showhors. We always looked good we

always looked fast but we didn't work as hard as Bob we did an hour hour and a half in a day and that was it.

All right well maybe there are hybrids because I know the fandom did a lot in Vietnam as well but at any rate since you

have some history with our guest today why don't you do the honors of introducing him. Yeah thanks our guest today is Bob

Strang and Bob flew the C7 in Vietnam for a year out of Phucat Air Base just in terms of the spur of full disclosure to your

audience Bob and I have been in family related since 1955 so we spent a lot of time together over the years. We actually got

together in Vietnam twice just arranged meetings at the Chula airport when he was in there to fill up his plane with fuel and

supplies to deliver and our families actually sent us thanks giving audio tapes so we could share in the

family events while we were gone so it's great to have you here Bob and we'll talk a little bit more about your aviation

background as we go along. Good to be here thank you for sure welcome so give us if you would please a quick overview of your

existence since your hometown and then we're going to drill down on some of your experiences in Vietnam but I know you've

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