Talk:Douglas F4D Skyray/@comment-24.198.136.94-20180502204658

I taught the APQ-50 radar at FAETUPAC, NAS North Island, in 1959 and 1960. My first encounter with the F4D was at NAAS El Centro in the summer of 1958. I had the mid line watch, and some F4Ds began doing touch and goes around 0100. I became intrigued because the runway lights were not symmetrical compared to their landings. One row of white lights, the landing A/C and then three rows of lights. One of the pilots mirrored my thoughts and made a symmetrical landing; two rows of lights on each side. He touched down between the runways, realized his error, hit afterburner and climbed like the proverbial bat. He related his story, and thinking which mirrored mine in the Anonymouse column several months later. No damage to the A/C.