Letters

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I just read with special interest your August article titled "Momyer" [p. 64] and learned many things that I wish I had known back in 1970 about General Spike. As a major and a combat crew training instructor pilot for the new A-7D course at Luke, I had been given a very unique mission. General Momyer had personally called our wing commander to say that he wanted to fly TAC's newest fighter. He wanted to experience for himself its lauded head-up display (HUD) and other ahead-of-their-time avionics. In response to the colonel's query as to when the general would arrive at Luke for his quickie course, the general told him to have two birds at Langley the day after tomorrow. General Momyer also said he would be reading the A-7D flight manual in the meantime and to tell no one else about this. (There were neither two-seat A-7s nor a simulator until several years later.)