Time: 0+21
1000 Hz launch tone
Handley: “Launch.”
Smallwood: “Launch.”
Handley: “OK, we’ve got a launch light… Brenda, let’s turn into it…”
Time: 0+30
"Fletch, this is Bing. You have a possible bandit 058 Bull’s-eye 15.”
Time: 0+35
Handley: “Brenda, pods on.”
Handley: “I don’t see that fucker.”
Smallwood: “I don’t either.”
Downey: “Brenda, 3’s going to turn eastbound… I lost you in that break.”
Handley: “OK, Brenda, let’s reverse course back to east.”
Pod — ECM pod.
Time: 0+57
Tea Balclass="underline" “[garble]… Bull’s-eye… 060, 20 nautical.”
Red Crown: “Brenda, Worm… Bandit will be on your 167 at 8… possible 167 at 8.”
Handley: “Copy that.”
Handley: “OK, ten thousand pounds.”
Downey: “[garble]… Brenda 4… Roger… [garble]”
Time: 1+20
Red Crown: “Brenda, you’re in the dark, bandit 047 Bull’s-eye 14.”
Handley: “Roger.”
Downey: “Brenda 4, copy, blower.”
Blower — Pilot slang for afterburner.
Time: 1+38
Handley: “Red Crown, Brenda 1, where’s the bandit?”
Green: “Brenda 2’s bingo.”
Red Crown: “Stand by, you’re in the dark, estimate…”
Handley: “OK, give me egress heading.”
Unknown flight: “You’ve got friendlies up there to the left, boys.”
Time: 1+48
Red Crown: “Brenda, this is Worm. Estimating the bandit 039… [garble]”
Green: “Brenda 2 is bingo.”
Handley: “OK, 2, Bre… let’s bug out… bug out.”
Downey: [garble]
Time: 2+06
Handley: “Turn the pod off.”
AAA RHAW tone
Handley: “Pod off.”
Smallwood: “It’s off.”
Handley: “’Off I mean.”
Smallwood: “It’s off, we need about a zero nine zero… uh, one zero zero.”
Handley: “One zero zero, roger.”
Time: 2+21
Ellis: “Brenda 4’s bingo.”
Downey: “OK, Brenda and stay line abreast… [garble]”
Ellis: “Brenda 4.”
Unknown flight: “Take it around to the right.”
Time: 2+30
E-SAM high tone
Unknown flight: “Jay, check my 6 o’clock back there.”
Unknown flight member: “Rog, we’ve got two F-4s going back there.”
Unknown flight leader: “All right.”
Downey: “Brenda 4, move it up line abreast.”
Time: 2+40
Handley: “OK, Fletch, Brenda is coming out.”
Fletch leader: “Roger, we’re on station.”
AAA RHAW tone
Downey: “Move it out another thousand feet, Brenda 4.”
Ellis: “OK.”
Multiple AAA and SAM RHAW tones
Unknown flight: “Bingo.”
Time: 3+15
Smallwood: “E-SAM high at five.”
Handley: “Roger.”
Time: 3+19
Handley: “OK, I’ve got a MiG-21 at our 3 o’clock down there, Brenda 2… cross to the other wing; he may try to pop up on us.”
Green: “Roger.”
Faint golf-band one ring strobe at 4 o’clock, moving aft
Handley: “We’ve got 95 fuel.”
Smallwood: “Roger.”
Time: 3+40
Handley: “OK, I’m going to take one quick run at him. 2, you continue on out…”
Green: “I’ll stay with you.”
Unknown: “Brenda 1… [garble]”
Unknown: “Was that Brenda 1 exiting the area?”
Handley: “Negative, Brenda l’s on a MiG-19.”
Time: 4+02
Handley: “Give me 5 mile boresight.”
Garbled transmissions, RHAW tones, Smallwood straining against G forces
Smallwood: “You’ve got it.”
Milo flight: “Milo 2’s on.”
Handley: “Fucker won’t fire… there it goes.”
Garbled transmissions
Time: 4+21
Handley: “OK, I’m going heat.”
Smallwood: “OK.”
Green: “It went ballistic, lead.”
AIM-4E select tone
Unknown: “Say again.”
Unknown: “Say your position, 4.”
AIM-4E track tone
Time: 4+36
Handley: “Going guns.”
Smallwood: “OK.”
Sound of M-61 Gatling gun spooling up and down while firing under heavy G loading
Garbled transmissions
Time: 4+48
Handley: “He’s going down… you got him?”
Smallwood: “Yeah.”
Handley: “I got him… I got him… He hit the ground.”
Every fighter pilot on frequency: [lots of shouting at the same time]
Downey: “Way to go.”
Green: “Let’s get out of here.”
Time: 4+58
Handley: “I got him.”
Garbled transmissions… “Let’s get out of here.”
Handley: “That’s the gun, baby.”
Green: “Let’s get out of here, Brenda… he’s… uh, closing at six right now.”
Straining under Gs during pull down to the east from vertical quarter-roll and zoom maneuver.
GLOSSARY
1V1 — One-versus-one.
3/9 line — A line drawn on an aircraft from wing to wing. A fighter pilot uses this line to determine whether an aircraft is in front or behind him.