Fravor has never said he saw the Tic Tac drop like that. He says it climbed up from ocean level as it mirrored his movement down. And then it took off like a bullet. The drop you mention was allegedly from 28,000 feet down to sea level, and was tracked on the SPY-1 radar, according to Kevin Day. But Fravor never reported seeing that and neither did his WSO or the folks in the other F/A-18, @DietrichVFA41 and her WSO, Jim Slaight. [Quoted] During the 2004 Nimitz encounter, Commander David Frav...