Kevin Purcell
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I was watching a BBC documentary recently "James May on the Moon"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May_on_the_Moon
For part of the show they go to Beale Air Force Base in California (because that's where the U2 fly from). There is a sequence that shows a U2 landing and in amongst that there are lot of shots in the control tower with carious controllers squinting through various porros at aircraft around the airfield.
Most of them use a conventional fingertip grip (the "usual porro" grip with a seagull stance) but one USAF controller uses the US Armed Forces approved Military (or "Thumbs Up") Grip. This is the first time I've seen someone (other than me) doing this.
I had to grab a screenshot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May_on_the_Moon
For part of the show they go to Beale Air Force Base in California (because that's where the U2 fly from). There is a sequence that shows a U2 landing and in amongst that there are lot of shots in the control tower with carious controllers squinting through various porros at aircraft around the airfield.
Most of them use a conventional fingertip grip (the "usual porro" grip with a seagull stance) but one USAF controller uses the US Armed Forces approved Military (or "Thumbs Up") Grip. This is the first time I've seen someone (other than me) doing this.
I had to grab a screenshot