While waiting for take off the veritech pilots are given flight assignments and flight leads are selected. As this is done veritechs are taking off from the other end of the runway two.
Claudia Grant:
"Knight Four, Reindeer Eighteen and Vermillion Seven after take off make your altitude one thousand two hundred and fifty feet and maintain a holding pattern. Use frequency 181.5 for flight communications. Use this frequency for squadron communications."
"Knight Four you have command of the flight."
After a few more minutes the veritechs on runway two begin to take off by two's.
Claudia Grant:
"Reindeer Eighteen and Knight Four your cleared for simultaneous take off."
When these two veritechs are about halfway down the runway, the controller gives a third veritech clearance to take off.
Claudia Grant:
"Vermillion Seven your cleared for take off, form up with Knight Four and Reindeer Eighteen who just passed you."
After reaching their assigned altitude the three veritech pilots maintain a formation of three. The three pilots are able to look into the cockpits of the other two veritechs....
Knight Four is a USMC VF-1A whose pilot is wearing a Woodland MARPAT cover on his/her helmet.
Reindeer Eighteen is a Finnish Air Force FRS.1 whose female pilot is wearing an aviation headset and sunglasses. Obviously the pilot should be wearing a standard issue flight helmet but probably was unable to get one during the confusion of take off.
Vermillion Seven is a JASDF VF-1J whose pilot is wearing a yellow helmet with markings on it with a white skull and cross bones. This is the same helmet as worn by VF-84 Jolly Rodgers, a US Navy Veritech squadron.
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