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Christine’s for Mayhem By Capt. Christopher Larson, USMC
s a newly qualified EA-6B functional-check-flight (FCF) pilot, it only took two days before I was scheduled for my first FCF. We had the resident troublemaker of our squadron, aircraft 03, nicknamed, “Christine.” She had been down for a broken slat actuator, and maintenance control was champing at the bit to get her up and flying. My crew consisted of two very experienced aviators, which made me the new guy of the bunch. The planning and brief were uneventful. We walked to maintenance control to read the ADB and got our FCF brief from QA. The QAR assured us all was well, so we assumed this would be a standard
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