"This mission was a total failure. What happened in the next two seconds would nullify everything we had done," pilot recalls. "I determined there were no good options for an ejection I'm afraid it's hanoi hilton. Here we come." 'We're gonna re-light the burner and use the remaining fuel for speed before it completely Gushed out hoping we could still make it to the safety of the gulf of Tonkin,' he says. "'If those patchwares couldn't do it we would However, we were we were the forward air controller not the fighter bomber' said one officer who saw his plane go from close fingertip to high forward spread so quickly