Hong Kong and mil aviation
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Hong Kong and mil aviation
Interesting developments now with the demos out there...I have not been back there to see ones family since 96.
Though if anyone has read the former A-6 pilot Stephen Coonts novel - Hong Kong - its eerily similar in a few chapters in the book. It involves Jake Grafton's old B/N Tiger Cole from the his first book - Flight of the Intruder (character killed in the Paramount movie, played by Willem Dafoe) who in his post service job as a CEO of a computing firm orchestrates a revolution within HK to kick out the communsits.
Had a nice visit to 28 Sqns hub at Sek Kong back in 94....
Because of its special status - I see that the USN Carrier battle groups pull in for visits there quite often and USAF C-17 and USN a/c visited post handover into Chep Lap Kok. The USCG send its HC-130 regularly for the mass SAR exercises with the Government Flying Service and even the HC-130 of the USAF Rescue Wings have partaken in recent years
Cheers
Though if anyone has read the former A-6 pilot Stephen Coonts novel - Hong Kong - its eerily similar in a few chapters in the book. It involves Jake Grafton's old B/N Tiger Cole from the his first book - Flight of the Intruder (character killed in the Paramount movie, played by Willem Dafoe) who in his post service job as a CEO of a computing firm orchestrates a revolution within HK to kick out the communsits.
Had a nice visit to 28 Sqns hub at Sek Kong back in 94....
Because of its special status - I see that the USN Carrier battle groups pull in for visits there quite often and USAF C-17 and USN a/c visited post handover into Chep Lap Kok. The USCG send its HC-130 regularly for the mass SAR exercises with the Government Flying Service and even the HC-130 of the USAF Rescue Wings have partaken in recent years
Cheers
