Dancing in the Dark

Aerial combat’s two playing fields of activity, organized combat missions flown in large formations that we guided through the quagmires of the boundless sky and escape and evasion alone wandering without supervision from zone to zone on the ground, creates an idiom for what this language is: the only means we have to capture fragments of what happened at Castelluccio and Topusko; tell us one meaning for aerial combat and escape and evasion; explain the controversy of the Evader who, like reality itself remains in a mixed up predicament denied official status.