Code One, Volume 13, Number 1, January 1998 Page: 37
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173rd Fighter
Wing Engages
Four-Ship Record
"We don't know who holds the record,
but we would like to see anyone beat
17,686.6 total Viper hours in a single four-
ship from a single squadron," challenges
Maj. John Morawiec of the 173rd Fighter
Wing at Kingsley Field in Oregon.
Morawiec is one of eight senior F-16 pilots
who took to the air on 16 November to
trounce the standing four-ship (single-
seat) record of 10,729 hours set by four
pilots at the 944th FW at Luke AFB in
March 1996.
The unique formation took part in a
four-vs-four dissimilar air combat training
mission against F-15Es. All of the F-16
pilots are instructors at the 173rd. Two of
the pilots have over 3,000 hours in the F-16. Here's the roster:
Lt. Col. John Adkisson (3257.2 hours); Majs. Doug Dean
(3320.7), Tom Schiess (2205.1), Kirk Bartlow (2139.0), Jeff
Lupinski (1906.9), John Morawiec (1709.0), Al Weggemann
(1698.1), and Ken Muller (1450.8). The B model F-16s
themselves have accumulated a total of 14,552 flight hours.63rd FS Dedicates Combat-Proven F-16
The Fighting Panthers of the 63rd FS at Luke
AFB in Arizona linked their heritage of fighter
aces of the past with MiG-killing aircraft of the
present in September by dedicating their F-16D
No. 90-0778 to Col. Walker M. "Bud" Mahurin,
a fellow-Panther and World War II ace.
Mahurin's aerial victories total twenty-five and
one-half. Twenty-two of these were in World
War II in Europe and in the Pacific, including a
double-kill on one of his first missions. His
remaining victories were in Korea against the
MiG-15.
In December 1992, forty years after Mahurin's last
aerial victory, F-16D No. 90-0778 (then assigned to the
33rd FS) was conducting combat air patrol operationsin support of Operation Southern
Watch. Piloted by Col. Gary North,
No. 778 was vectored by AWACS to
intercept a pair of Iraqi MiG-25 air-
craft that penetrated the United
Nations no-fly zone. In a rapid series
of events, North downed one of the
MiGs with the first use of the
AMRAAM missile. The shootdown
was also the first US F-16 air-to-air
combat victory.
Mahurin attended the dedication
ceremony at Luke where No. 778 was unveiled with his
name appearing on the canopy rail above a green Iraqi
star signifying the aircraft's aerial victory.CODE ONE 37
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