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THE DAY I SHOTMYSELF DOWN80 FLIGHT JOURNAL Hey, I d like you to meet the guy who shot himself down . Quite often, that s howmy friends have introduced me. This unique honor belongs to me and anotherGrumman test pilot, Tommy Attridge, who did it in an F-11F-1 fighter that he flewinto a hail of 20mm rounds he had just fired during a supersonic gunnery test. Several yearslater, as a test pilot for Grumman Aerospace flying out of Point Mugu, California, I found amore modern way to do this using a Sparrow missile and the no. 6 F-14A Tomcat at thattime, the Navy s fighter of the future. Nearly 30 years later, that day June 20, 1973 remains sharp in my Pete PurvisThis is how it s supposed to go: the missile drops downfar enough to clear the airplane and then travels on itsmerry way (photo by Ted Carlson).
THE DAY I SHOT MYSELF DOWN 80 FLIGHT JOURNAL “H ey, I’d like you to meet the guy who shot himself down.” Quite often, that’s how my friends have introduced me.
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