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PERSONNEL Come Fly with Me Stephen Coonts a Former U.S PERSONNEL Come Fly With Me Stephen Coonts A former U.S. naval aviator, Stephen Coonts accumu- by Stephen Coonts lated 1,600 hours in A-6 Intruders and made two combat cruises aboard the USS Enterprise during the Vietnam A modem jet warplane is a strange, challenging War. As well as providing the accurate technical detail in machine; its cockpit is much different than the the bestseller Right of the Intruder (Simon and Schuster, p/aces that most of us are familiar with. It's a 1986), Steve provided much more information in a very flying Grand Prix racer, world-class superbike and a long transatlantic phone call. Steve also wrote Final video game, a// in one. night and The Minotaur. This magnificent machine s/ices through the Pete Bonannl Major, U.S. Air National Guard-F-4, F-16 and A-7 pilot atmosphere with a freedom that cannot be who provided anecdotal information about the F-4. described, on/y experienced. A slave to your every whim, the aircraft responds to the slightest Norman Cosand Ex-U.S. Air Force Captain-Flew Wild Weasel F-4 mis- pressure on the controls, yet is ready to kill you sions as a “Guy In Back” over North Vietnam. Provided the instant you make a false move. There is the darkness and the weather-- useful information about F-4 missions and flight charac- nothing is as black as a night sky under a tropical overcast as you skim above teristics. the ground knowing the slightest caress from Mother Earth will be instant/y, Phil Handley Colonel, U.S. Air Force (ret.)-Invaluable source of totally. fatal. There is the enemy-in combat they are doing their damnedest to information about Phantom vs. MiG combat over destroy your machine, and you with it. If you survive all that, then you may Vietnam. Colonel Handley is credited with the only F-4 sample the piece de resistance, the night carrier landing, usually in foul gun kill of a MiG-19 over North Vietnam. weather, occasional/y in a shot-up airplane. You come out of the goo and there is the deck, pitching gently with the meatball and the centerline lights and a// Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Navy Reserve-Veteran A-6 you have to do is f/y your airplane through the need/e’s eye into an arresting pilot who is still flying and provided invaluable checks on gear wire. our A-6 accuracy and pictures. So come on! If you have questions regarding the use of or any of our Night of the Intruder”, Come f/y with me. ther products, contact Spectrum HoloByte Customer Support at: You awaken in the middle of the night, put on your stinky, green, one-piece Spectrum HoloByte flight suit and your steel-toed flying boots-you need the steel toes to keep your feet from being tom off by the instrument pane/ if you eject-and stumble through the passageways to the briefing room to learn your target and mission. You swig a cup of bitter coffee and don your flight gear in layers: G-suit, torso harness, survival vest, pistol, he/met, oxygen mask, gloves, flashlight, survival 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Pacific Time radios. You even wedge a candy bar and a plastic baby-bottle full of water into Monday through Friday one of your G-suit pockets. Out on the flight deck your aircraft is waiting. The night is hot and humid in the tropics-you quickly work up a sweat which soaks your underwear and flight suit and runs in salty rivulets into your eyes. HOLOBYTE SPECTRUMH You examine the plane and its weapons with your flashlight. There are a lot of weapons on this A-6 tonight, ten 500-pound bombs, a dozen Rockeye anti-tank weapons at 500 pounds each, and a 2,000-pound be//y tank on the center-line 1990 Sphere, Inc. All rights reserved. station, 16,000 pounds of internal fuel. The plane weighs 56,500 pounds for of the Intruder and Spectrum HoloByte are trademarks of Sphere, Inc. All the catapult shot---over 28 tons. Over ha/f that weight is fuel and ordnance. marks are owned by their respective holders. CONTRIBUTORS When you are satisfied that all is as it should be, or when you can put it off no longer, you climb the ladder into the cockpit, for this plane is big, with the Concept and Design Rod Hyde cockpit rail nine feet above the deck. The plane captain helps you strap yourself Chris Orton, Colin Bell, James Taylor, Programmlng Team to the ejection seat. Perhaps he says something he thinks is funny because Dave Whiteside, Steve Parys and Paul you look like you need it. Dunscombe Artwork and Anlmations Mark Shaw, Jody Sather and Matt On signal you bring the machine to life, start the engines, turn on the inertial Carlstrom navigation system, computer, radios, radar, the electronic countermeasures, and check the health of every system. A// go. Object Design and World Files Paul Dunscombe, Stephen Tickle and Mark Shaw You sit staring across the deck at the inky blackness, at the other aircraft with Sounds Colin Bell other men like you, equally competent, equally scared, waiting. AdLib and Digitized Sound Lars Norpchen Then the yellow-shirt taxi director gives the signal. You use throttle and brakes Flight Models Vera Piqueur, Colin Thorpe and Colin Bell carefully. attentive to every twitch of his hand and nod of his head. There is Manual Steve Perrin, Rod Hyde, Marisa Ong. Nick little room on the aircraft carrier flight deck and most of it is taken. You get Lavroff and Robert Giedt what is left over. You taxi slowly, obedient/y, alert for the exhausts of other aircraft or grease that will break your tires’ adhesion to the anti-skid surface. Manual Artwork Chuck Butler The sea is out there in that blackness. waiting. As you taxi, you lower and lock Stephen Coonts, Norman Cosand. Gilman Photo Reference the wings and drop the flaps and slats to takeoff position. Louie, Jack McGinn and Phil Handley Programmlng Team Manager Chris Orton Onto the catapult. You feel the clunk as the shuttle captures tne nose-tow link; you see the cat officer’s signal to advance the throttles to full power. You shove Product Manager Rod Hyde the levers forward to the stops and take your feet off the brakes. The engines Tom “Kansas City” Basham, Kurt “Goat Testing wind up with a howl audible even through the padding of your he/met. Killer” Boutin, Kasey “Lone Wolf” Chang, Anthony “Eraserhead” Chiang, Steve Your breathing IS rapid, the salt of your sweat stings your eyes as you waggle “Auger” Edwards, Mark "Endo" Estepha- the controls and check the engine instruments. The machine trembles from the nian, Bob “Extractor” Gong-Guy, Eric fury of the roiling air being sucked into the intakes and blown furious/y out the “Hairball” Grotke, Bradd "Bluto" Huddle, exhausts. Paul “Eagle-Eye” Jepson, Peter "Death- You flip on the plane’s exterior lights, you signal to the catapult officer that you wish” Koning, Cheryl “Dr. Mabuse“ are ready to f/y, then put your head back into the headrest and wait for the Mathison, Karl “Crooked Cat” Maurer, shot. Mike “Mad Mongoose” Nebeker, Marisa “No. 19” Ong, Steve “White Knight” Perrin, Ahead of you is a hundred yards of dimly-/it deck, then nothing! The night is Steve “Kingfish” Shirvanian, Peter “Bandit” waiting to swallow you. Inside this machine full of fuel and laden with weapons, Ward, Mike “Moondawg” Weksler and Bob you will soon be thrown from this deck into that hot, humid, black air, 60 feet “Phoenix” Wentzel above the night sea, 15 knots above a stall. The enemy is also waiting, also Special Thanks to Phil Adam, Andy “Fretless” Edlen, Gilman ready-even now they are loading belts of ammo into the anti-aircraft guns and Louie, Guymond Louie, Karen Sherman, testing their missiles. Jim “RAM DOS” Sullivan and Jim Your life will depend on your skill, your know/edge, your courage, your Mackonochie determination. You b/ink the sweat from your eyes and take one more ragged breath. The catapult fires and the G slams you back into your seat as the blackness hurls toward you. 6 7 COMMS Menu ..................................................................... 26 Table of Contents The Comms Connectlon Details Screen ....................................... .27 CONTROLLING YOUR AIRCRAFT ................................. 28 PERSONNEL . 2 “FLYING WITH THE STICK” .............................................. 28 CONTRIBUTORS ...................................................... 3 Turns .................................................................................. 28 Come Fly With Me ............................................................ 4 Using the Mouse ................................................................. 29 TABLE OF CONTENTS .............................................. 6 The Rudder Turn .................................................................. 29 PAUSE ....................................................................... 29 PART I: INTRODUCTION .......................................... 12 PART Ill: FIRST FLIGHT IN THE A-6 INTRUDER.........3 o BACKGROUND ........................................................... 13 THE DUTY ROSTER ......................................................... 31 ABOUT THIS MANUAL ................................................ 14 Cockpit Orientation ............................................................. 33 MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS .............................. .14 What You Need to Know for Your First Flight-................................ 33 THE DISKS PROVIDED ................................................ 15 Other Views From Your Cockpit .................................................. .34 INSTALLATION TO HARD DRIVE ....................................... 15 First Strike Mission ............................................................
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