Ok so cool we are publishing! We decided to put a few pictures of the soviet Russian MIG
aircraft that were flying in the area near Laos and the south Vietnamese border in 1971 when little Tinker took off to fly
a three star general back from the action taking place in the area! Flying and searching the sky's for the tell tale shapes
of enemy aircraft in an older model Huey helicopter took your breath away as Phantom jets flew cover through mountain valleys
and hills!
Close inside there long range targets migs were thought to be more manu-verable at
medium and low altitudes armed with machine cannons
there rounds would explode on hitting their target! side winder
missile's many times were fired too early or mis-fired from time to time an the migs could turn inside of the big Phantom
jet fighter planes that were sent to provide cover for us back in 1971!
At the top
of the page is a picture of the type of little airplane Tinker owned and flew after he was back from Vietnam,( a 1947 Eur-coupe
415 C), with little or no support were given to Vietnam veterans and watching the TV news programs back in the day money
for support of the south Vietnamese dried up and the west in the SETO area (SETO South East Asian treaty association), were
in a malstrum of refugees and returning veterans! Some learning yoga and meditation and others lending their support for the
legalization of marijuana and taxing it, hopefully to pay for the billion's spent on the war!