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Message no. 1
From: shadowtk@********.demon.co.uk (Paul J. Adam)
Subject: CHECK THIS OUT EVERYONE!
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 23:54:27 GMT
>>>>>[WOW GUYS I DON'T BELIEVE IT! LISTEN TO WHAT I HEARD ON MY SCANNER!
CHECK
IT OUT! AM I COOL OR WHAT? THIS IS SO INCREDIBLE!!!!!

+++++begin radio intercept
F - Frisbee (E-14 AEW aircraft)
LL - Leopard Lady (Hawk Three designated lead)
C - Comet (Hawk Three wing)
M - Motel (USS Koontz)
B - Pilot of CF-KETFS

F> Hawk Flight Three, this is Frisbee, bogey. Call Bogey-381 at your one seven
three, your range ninety-four miles. His heading due north, angels twenty-five,
speed four twenty, squawking Mode III. Steer one seven zero at five hundred for
a VECINT and confirm Link-21 track, over.
LL> One-three, roger your bogey, now turning to one seven zero at five hundred,
altitude thirty.
M> Hawk Three, this is Motel. ROE Charlie, stand by for procedure four.
LL> Say again, Motel?
M> Hawk Three,.rules of engagement Charlie are in effect. Carry out Procedure
Four if required. I authenticate Zulu Kilo.
LL> Roger your last, Motel. Comet, go to combat spread and check fence, EMCON
Charlie.
C> <click click>
F> Hawk Three, Bogey-381 is on your nose at thirty miles.
C> Lady, trap one, Judy.
LL> Rog. Take lead and hook him, I'll eyeball.
<click click>
L> Tallyho one bogey, on my nose, white Lear Platinum. Opening GUARD.
L (on GUARD)> Learjet, this is the UCAS Navy, good morning. You are approaching
a restricted area.
B (on GUARD)> My chart shows no advisory, Navy. Please give new course.
LL (on GUARD)> Roger, Learjet. I will join on you and lead you clear.
LL> Going for a beam conversion and I'll- launch! Launch!
LL> Comet, break right!
C> <indecipherable>
<high pitched warble>
C> Mayday, Mayday, this is Comet declaring an in-flight emergency, I have been
fired on and damaged!
B (on GUARD)> Mayday, mayday, I am under attack by the UCAS Navy! I am under
attack! Anyone, please respond!
F> Hawk Three, I read search and fire control radar from Bogey-381, and an
emergency beacon. Sitrep?
LL> Motel, Bogey-381 just fired at Comet, Comet is hit! Reclassify Bogey-381 as
Bandit-1. Request permission to engage, over.
<pause 10 secconds>
M> Weapons free, Lady. Check Comet, then nail the sonofabitch.
B (on GUARD)> I am under attack by the UCAS Navy! I am under attack! Mayday,
mayday!
LL> Comet, you okay, man?
C> Starboard engine's out, no fire. Main hydraulics are out, controls are
fucked, and I'm pissing fuel. Belly check?
LL> <click click>
B (on GUARD)> Mayday! I am under attack by the UCAS Navy! I am under attack!
F > Doesn't that fucker know any other songs? Patch out GUARD unless he says
something useful.
LL> Comet, control check.
C> <click click>
LL> Starboard stabilator's locked solid, starboard rudder's mostly gone but
what's left still works. The fuel leak is from your seven-cell, the wing looks
okay.
C> Roger that. Motel, I'm gonna bring her in: rig the barrier and gimme a
vector to a Texaco.
M> Affirmative, Comet, steer zero four zero at thirty for Texaco Three. Leopard
Lady, you are cleared to engage. Splash the bandit, repeat splash the bandit.
LL> Bandit eight miles, twenty-three thousand. Closing at twenty-five and
buster.
<pause>
LL> Tallyho the bandit, four miles on the nose, diving and turning. I'm at his
two o'clock and slightly high, angels twenty, five-fifty knots. Master Arm on,
Mamba selected. Good tone. Fox two.
<pause>
LL> Clean miss. Countermeasures. Fucker's well equipped for a pleasure plane.
I'm closing for- Shit!
<heavy breathing>
F> Lady, you okay?
LL> Tail guns, radar aimed. The band's playing, they're shooting ghosts.
Converting for a beam attack. <rumbling noise> Guns. Guns. Good hits. He's
smoking.
M> Lady, any damage to you?
LL> Negative, Motel, not a scratch. He's levelling out and slowing. I'm high on
his ten, coming around.
B (on GUARD)> Navy, Navy, I surrender, please escort me to shore. I repeat, I
surrender. Cease fire, cease fire.
M> Procedure Four as ordered, Lady.
LL> Roger. <rumbling noise>
B (on GUARD)> NO! I-<scream>
LL> Guns. Guns. Procedure Four complete. Bandit-1 is on fire and breaking up,
Motel. No chutes.
M> Roger, Hawk Three. Joker state?
LL> Nine point two, Motel.
M> SAR bird en route, ETA forty minutes. Loiter over the wreckage until SAR
arrives, then hit Texaco Two and RTB.
LL> <click click>
+++++end intercept

THEY LIKE TOTALLY BLEW HIM AWAY! ARE THOSE GUYS HOT? IT WAS LIKE IN "FLYING
DEVILS" ONLY WAY COOLER! CAN ANYONE GET THE COCKPIT VIDEO? IT MUST HAVE BEEN
GREAT! GUNS KILLS REALLY ROCK! THEY STOMPED THAT GUY BUT GOOD!]<<<<<
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