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A show on History Channel or Discovery produced, called "Full Throttle: Air Aces" just aired again. The episode about Robin Olds and the 8th T.A.C. Fighter Wing out of Ubon, Thailand. Operation Bolo. The scenes depicting meetings and cockpit shots are totally bogus with regard to the equipment, particularly O2 masks and helmets, some of the flight suits and gun camera footage of MiG 17's interchanged with narration of MiG21 shoot-downs.
You would think they would have tried to be more accurate with the details when attempting to convey history. Some of us who know better are still kickin'! On the up-side, the interviews with the guys actually involved with Operation Bolo is great.
I was late to the game but flew with 8th TFW as "backseat baggage" when then Colonel Francis Humphreys was the commander. I was one of the USAF photojournalists to document the last bombing mission in S.E.A. (15 AUG 73) and he flew lead. And he sported a "Robin Olds" moustache!
Wish I'd known he went on to serve here at MacDill, as I've an image of him in the cockpit, taking a photo of me taking a photo of him prior to the flight. And a few of the "culls" in the coverage done in prep for the mission. Would have laughed if we could have traded images of one another.
You would think they would have tried to be more accurate with the details when attempting to convey history. Some of us who know better are still kickin'! On the up-side, the interviews with the guys actually involved with Operation Bolo is great.
I was late to the game but flew with 8th TFW as "backseat baggage" when then Colonel Francis Humphreys was the commander. I was one of the USAF photojournalists to document the last bombing mission in S.E.A. (15 AUG 73) and he flew lead. And he sported a "Robin Olds" moustache!
Wish I'd known he went on to serve here at MacDill, as I've an image of him in the cockpit, taking a photo of me taking a photo of him prior to the flight. And a few of the "culls" in the coverage done in prep for the mission. Would have laughed if we could have traded images of one another.