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The F-100 & me.

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Welcome to "HOT MIKE", the newest WINGS & AIRPOWER feature that brings you first-hand accounts of what it was like to fly some of the greatest airplanes of the 20th Century in the words of the pilots who were actually there. In our December 2005 issue, we featured a story on the development of the North American F-100, a revolutionary, ultra-modern, and highly-advanced aircraft when it first flew in 1954. To give us a slightly different perspective on this airplane and what it was like to fly during the very last years of its operational life, we asked former F-100 pilot and retired Delta Air Lines Captain John Harrison of Sacramento, California.

I was the top graduate in my pilot training class 67-C at Reese AFB, Lubbock, Texas in October 1966. I had more than 1200 hours of flight time plus my Commercial, Instrument, and Instructors ratings before I entered the Air Force, and coupled with the fact that your class standing determined your choice of assignment, I was motivated to do well. In pilot training we flew the Cessna T-37 and Northrop T-38 plus some initial training in the T-41, a slightly up-rated Cessna 172. Undergraduate...

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