To all our supporters,

Below is a written account word for word by our HERO, former U.S NAVY TOP GUN & QANTAS Captain Kevin 'Sully' Sullivan (Ret.).

On behalf of all our supporters, We all love you and are always thinking of you and your men of COURAGE, Qantas First Officer Peter Lipsett, and Second Officer Ross Hales!

TRUE MEN OF VALOR!

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Kevin Sullivan: February 5 at 11:39 PM

At the completion of scheduled flight operations, an alert posture was set by the carrier's Air Wing to cover any real world threats. During our deployment on USS Enterprise in 1982-1983, there were many threats around as we were operating close to the eastern coastline of the USSR.

I'm on Alert 15, which means I had to be airborne within 15 minutes. The Ordnance crew are loading my special bullets into my gatling gun, and Chain and I are plugged into our Walkmans listening to AC/DC and getting psyched up to launch. We eventually did launch and found a Soviet Badger encroaching our airspace.

Flying through the Cold War developed the mental discipline and focus that I drew upon during the QF 72 accident.

Two of us and one of them? Good odds for the good guys. 

#KaptKev