VT-86 Buckeye over Mobile Bay, AL.

Approaching Point X-ray, Pensacola, FL.

VT-86 T-2C Buckeye

At the Merge.

Buckeye BFM

T-2 Sunset

I got you... No you didn't

Zero Airspeed

T-2 Flightline at Night, NAS Pensacola, FL

"Upright, inverted, high yaw rate and oscillatory spins, zero airspeed recoveries, adverse yaw departures, three axis departures (and one, not to be repeated but not for the lack of trying, Lomcevak.) That was the fleet spin syllabus in T-2's at VF-43, Oceana, aimed at the F-14, A-4 and A-7 squadrons. The T-2 provided OCF training flexibility by placing fighter pilots and aggressor pilots at the outside edge of the edge they flew at everyday. It was no threat, but eye opening training. Everyone of the guys in my backseat wanted one turn against their buddy on the way back from an OCF hop. For one turn there still isn't anything that can match a T-2. I am spin qualled for the next millennium and enjoyed "my own little aerodynamic class room" as one pilot observed. The biggest variable was not the classroom, thanks to the venerable T-2. Love that jet. VF-43 had the camouflaged paint job on their T-2's in the late 1980's. Regards, Jill Nelson LCDR USN, 757 CAPT UPS