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Jud! You are on fire

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Source : Chapter 7 in author Ron Knott's new book : ' SUPERSONIC COWBOYS ' (sharing forty-five Crusader stories) " I Fell 15,000 Feet And Lived " by Cliff Judkins [abridged] CHAPTER SEVEN I FELL 15,000 FEET AND LIVED CLIFF JUDKINS “Jud, you’re on fire, get out of there!” Needless to say that startling command got my attention. As you will read in this report, this was just the beginning of my problems! It had all started in the brilliant sunlight 20,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean as I nudged my F-8 Crusader jet into position behind the lumbering, deep-bellied refueling plane. After a moment of jockeying for position, I made the connection and matched my speed to that of the slowpoke tanker. I made the graceful task of plugging into the trailing fuel conduit so they could pump fuel into my tanks. This in-flight refueling process was necessary, and routine, because the F-8 could not hold enough fuel to fly from California to Hawaii. This routine mission was labe

Jud! You are on fire Source : Chapter 7 in author Ron Knott's new book : ' SUPERSONIC COWBOYS ' (sharing forty-five Crusader stories) " I Fell 15,000 Feet And Lived " by Cliff Judkins [abridged] CHAPTER SEVEN I FELL 15,000 FEET AND LIVED CLIFF JUDKINS “Jud, you’re on fire, get out of there!” Needless to say that startling command got my attention. As you will read in this report, this was just the beginning of my problems! It had all started in the brilliant sunlight 20,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean as I nudged my F-8 Crusader jet into position behind the lumbering, deep-b

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