landing lights

After strafing the Vietcong and diverting them with his craft’s landing lights, he ignored an order to return to base and gambled on a maneuver that the military said had never been tried before with a two-person Cobra, which has seats only for the pilot and co-pilot.

He also electronically activated the pilot-controlled landing lights to medium intensity.

He directed his wingman to fire his remaining rounds along the patrol team’s eastern flank while he fired along its western flank using his Cobra’s landing lights to draw the enemy’s attention.

He used the landing lights to distract the enemy, buying time for the patrol team to head south and east toward a new extraction point he had identified.

He used the landing lights to distract the enemy, buying time for the patrol team to head south and east toward a new extraction point he had identified.