<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7>
<DIV> </DIV><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>
<DIV>
<TABLE id=INCREDIMAINTABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="100%" border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD id=INCREDITEXTREGION
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; CURSOR: auto; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" width="100%">
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV id=receivestrings>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>Date:</B></I> 06/30/06
07:03:58</DIV></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>A simulated dogfight training took place between two F-15D's and four
A-4N</DIV>
<DIV>Skyhawks over the skies of the Negev,Israel... "At some point I
collided</DIV>
<DIV>with one of the Skyhawks, at first I didn't realize it. I felt a big
strike,</DIV>
<DIV>and I thought we passed through the jet stream of one of the other
aircraft.</DIV>
<DIV>Before I could react, I saw the big fireball created by the explosion
of the</DIV>
<DIV>Skyhawk. The radio started to deliver calls saying that the Skyhawk
pilot</DIV>
<DIV>has ejected, and I understood that the fireball was the Skyhawk
that</DIV>
<DIV>exploded, and the pilot was ejected automatically. There was a
tremendous</DIV>
<DIV>fuel stream going out of my wing, and I understood it was badly
damaged. The</DIV>
<DIV>aircraft flew without control in a strange spiral. I reconnected
the</DIV>
<DIV>electric control to the control surfaces, and slowly gained control
of the</DIV>
<DIV>aircraft until I was straight and level again. It was clear to me
that I had</DIV>
<DIV>to eject. When I gained control I said: "Hey, wait, don't eject yet!"
No</DIV>
<DIV>warning light was on and the navigation computer worked as usual; (I
just</DIV>
<DIV>needed a warning light in my panel to indicate that I missed a
wing...)," My</DIV>
<DIV>instructor pilot ordered me to eject. The wing is a fuel tank, and
the fuel</DIV>
<DIV>indicator showed 0.000 so I assumed that the jet stream sucked all
the fuel</DIV>
<DIV>out of the other tanks. However, I remembered that the valves operate
only</DIV>
<DIV>in one direction, so that I might have enough fuel to get to the
nearest</DIV>
<DIV>airfield and land. I worked like a machine, I wasn't scared and
didn't</DIV>
<DIV>worry. All I knew was as long as the sucker flies, I'm gonna stay
inside. I</DIV>
<DIV>started to decrease the airspeed, but at that point one wing was not
enough</DIV>
<DIV>So I went into a spin down and to the right. A second before I
decided to</DIV>
<DIV>eject, I pushed the throttle and lit the afterburner. I gained speed
and</DIV>
<DIV>thus got control of the aircraft again. Next thing I did was lower
the</DIV>
<DIV>arresting hook. A few seconds later I touched the runway at 260
knots, about</DIV>
<DIV>twice the recommended speed, and called the tower to erect the
emergency</DIV>
<DIV>recovery net. The hook was torn away from the fuselage because of the
high</DIV>
<DIV>speed, but I managed to stop 10 meters before the net. I turned back
to</DIV>
<DIV>shake the hand of my instructor, who had urged me to eject, and then
I saw</DIV>
<DIV>it for the first time - no wing!"</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>This is definitely a testament to modern combat aircraft design. I
figure</DIV>
<DIV>the fuselage acting as an airfoil, a high thrust to weight ratio and
two</DIV>
<DIV>engines (differential thrust) helped in this impressive feat.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV align=center> <IMG id=MA1.1152116395 height=374
src="cid:X.MA1.1152116395@aol.com" width=512 border=0
INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS="" INCREDIIMAGEEXTENSIONS="" DATASIZE="37830"></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><IMG id=MA2.1152116395 height=371
src="cid:X.MA2.1152116395@aol.com" width=512 border=0
INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS="" INCREDIIMAGEEXTENSIONS="" DATASIZE="20327"></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><IMG id=MA3.1152116395 height=376
src="cid:X.MA3.1152116395@aol.com" width=512 border=0
INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS="" INCREDIIMAGEEXTENSIONS="" DATASIZE="17306"></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><IMG id=MA4.1152116395 height=375
src="cid:X.MA4.1152116395@aol.com" width=512 border=0
INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS="" INCREDIIMAGEEXTENSIONS="" DATASIZE="22095"></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><IMG id=MA5.1152116395 height=379
src="cid:X.MA5.1152116395@aol.com" width=512 border=0
INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS="" INCREDIIMAGEEXTENSIONS="" DATASIZE="36769"></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><IMG id=MA6.1152116395 height=380
src="cid:X.MA6.1152116395@aol.com" width=512 border=0
INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS="" INCREDIIMAGEEXTENSIONS="" DATASIZE="41339"></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><IMG id=MA7.1152116395 height=383
src="cid:X.MA7.1152116395@aol.com" width=512 border=0
INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS="" INCREDIIMAGEEXTENSIONS="" DATASIZE="42071"></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><IMG id=MA8.1152116395 height=382
src="cid:X.MA8.1152116395@aol.com" width=512 border=0
INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS="" INCREDIIMAGEEXTENSIONS="" DATASIZE="53523"></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD id=INCREDIFOOTER width="100%">
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%">
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD width="100%"></TD>
<TD id=INCREDISOUND vAlign=bottom align=middle></TD>
<TD id=INCREDIANIM vAlign=bottom
align=middle></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR><BR><BR>
<DIV>
<P> </P>
<P>" IN GOD WE TRUST "</P>
<P>JOHN </P></DIV></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>