In reference to the Cecil thread on keys to an F-16, is there even a code of some sort?
In a Holywood scenario, could a spy, in however unlikely a scenario, joy ride one?
If you can get close to one without getting shot you would not need a code to start it. The without getting shot part is the key.
Also on the subject of that column.
I know he’s got a word limit, but seriously, three sentences ?
(Is “No” a sentence?)
Sometime he packs a bunch of short answers into one column. When they post the classics, the short ones get a whole day, just like the long ones.
PART of the key? 
I thought it didn’t need a key.
Yes.
I don’t know about jets (didn’t James Bond steal one in that movie about Russian pipelines?)
but the Iraqis removed the batteries from their tanks and kept them in the bunkers they dug nearby. Perhaps to prevent draftees from going AWOL?
OK. So let me ask the obvious question. How would one start an F-16?
(I suppose I could always ask my father, who used to fly other jets in the Marines. I just never thought to ask!)
I was inspired rather morbidly by the thread on Kamikaze attacks and the raid on a USAAF base in Puerto Rico and also by an account of a raid by Australian pilots in WWI on some captured aircraft where they landed, stole one captured plane and destroyed another.
You don’t need keys for pretty much anything in the military. Even HMMWVs just have a lever that you turn like the cylinder in a car. Tanks and other tracked vehicles are the same way.
What’s this raid in Puerto Rico all about?
I couldn’t find the news story, but about 2-3 years ago two actual military hummers were stolen from a small military storage facility in Wakefield, MA. They were recovered early the next morning dumped in some backwoods in Dracut a few miles away. I can’t remeber if they ever caught the kids that took them.
I bet these guys know. fighter jock forum
link fixed
I googled more on the attack mentioned in this post in the Kamikaze thread and further googling found this.
Although to steal a jet I’d imagine you’d need to find one that wouldn’t take too much prepping before take off on top of all this.
That’s all well and good, but does anyone understand the accompanying image?
Seriously… there’s no keypad, or authorized-pilot cardswipe, for USAF aircraft? That surprises me.
See ** Rube E. Tewesday**'s post above. When this column originally appeared in print, it was probably accompanied by the last letter on this page.
Why didn’t they just push start the tanks? 