Is when the world turns upside down. Is when the fastest moving fall to the slowest moving, and the guys in the middle get skunked entirely.
It is, in other word, when the Army beats you to a post about the Navy pulling a fast one on the Air Force.
It’s just, all so very… WRONG!
More pics here, courtesy of the USAF folks, who are taking this all very well in stride, considering.
Here is a link to the story:
http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2005/10_06-46/TOP
Man I can’t wait till I get to do stuff like this. GO NAVY BEAT AIR FORCE!
But not having to worry about being first let you get the better pic!
Very impressive! And very funny!!
That was a great prank – good work, Navy!!! That pic with the Chapel in the background is totally priceless
I heartily recommend giving those Midshipmen a ‘Bravo Zulu’.
Of course winning the game would be icing on the cake.
Being an AOC (still rubbed about having to start out as a USNR…) I’m nuetral when it comes to this form of er, competition.
Aye-Killjoy.
This “Blue Angel Phantom” has something the Navy version never had and could of used- a cannon. To make it realistic they should have pilfered that too…
PS- I actually can remember seeing an airshow w/Blues F-4′s when I was a kid…noisy and smoky…ahhh.
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This is a fine prank in the finest tradition! Very well planned, flawlessly executed, cleaned up and squared away afterwards, and well received by all concerned. I wish all of them could be this superb!
Kudos all around!
Go Navy!
Navy wins! Navy wins! Say hello to Commander in Chief Trophy?
A most excellent prank, fo sho! I’m amazed they pulled it off- and impressed with their usage of a water-based paint to speed clean up.
*Ahhhhh.. I love the smell of a good snark in the morning!*
Icing on the cake!
And Army loses as well!
Any chance someone in the soon-to-be-Commander and Chief-trophy-world have an extra ticket the The Game?
Actually, that is a “Delta” model Phantom…….no internal gun…had to wait till the “Echo” to get an M-61 Vulcan in the nose.fwiw