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Must have just missed you on the TR - I was on her first cruise.
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The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery...part DEUX
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Must have just missed you on the TR - I was on her first cruise.
I lived in the northeast for a number of years and used to drive I-95 through Baltimore. Just as you approached the tunnel under the ship channel there was a breakers yard with a carrier prominently in sight, the Coral Sea. It was heartbreaking to see her disappear before your very eyes as they took her apart bit by bit.
The Coral Sea was one of the 16 boats I referenced...heartbreaking indeed.
Thank the Lord MIDWAY lives on, and quite successfully. It is now the leading tourist attraction in San Diego County. Quite an achievement in an area with the world class SD Zoo, Sea World, and the Escondido Wild Animal Park!
*Loading out MIDWAY C-1A "Schoolboy 000" @ TanSonNhut, Saigon SVN June '72
BzB
paddybh1583
OCS 6 OCT 2013
Various (poor phone quality) photos I have taken at work over the past two weeks. B-17 Memphis Belle, Various Nasa T-38's and a NOAA King Air 350. It is always nice to see old and new on a ramp together
paddybh1583
OCS 6 OCT 2013
It simply means that Scooter designer Heinemann decided against a retractable refueling probe, 'cause he knew A-4 drivers would be horny studs!
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*The A-4s look like gnats 'porkin' elephants!
BzB
Seeing the KC-10 reminded me of picture I have from my grandfather before the first flight of the KC-10
It's a B-17F, but it's not the Belle.........she's under restoration at the USAF Museum at Wright-Pat.
Neat and historic photos, is Leo Hazell your GrandPop?
As a Navy retiree, I rode "Space A" in a KC-10 from George AFB in Victorville, CA to Dover AFB in MD, back in 1993. We refueled various AF fighters most of the way. Interesting flight, great box lunch, and the $10 processing fee was gratefully accepted & appreciated (one of the "perqs" of surviving a career with all those njght, sh**ty WX, NORDO, traps on a heaving/pitching 600' runway)!
*I always got a kick out of that photo of the KC-10 fueling the tiny lone A-4. Reminded me of a jolly green giant spoon feeding a tiny grasshopper!
BzB
paddybh1583
OCS 6 OCT 2013
That's what the flight crew was telling me. Apparently this one was used in the movie "Memphis Belle".
paddybh1583
OCS 6 OCT 2013
Yes, my Grandpop. He was working for McDonnell Douglas at the time. Prior crew chief with VMF-122 during Korea.Neat and historic photos, is Leo Hazell your GrandPop?
As a Navy retiree, I rode "Space A" in a KC-10 from George AFB in Victorville, CA to Dover AFB in MD, back in 1993. We refueled various AF fighters most of the way. Interesting flight, great box lunch, and the $10 processing fee was gratefully accepted & appreciated (one of the "perqs" of surviving a career with all those njght, sh**ty WX, NORDO, traps on a heaving/pitching 600' runway)!
*I always got a kick out of that photo of the KC-10 fueling the tiny lone A-4. Reminded me of a jolly green giant spoon feeding a tiny grasshopper!
BzB
$10 with a lunch!? Now that's a deal
I was down in Bremerton yesterday, and swung by the Inactive Ship's Office to take a look around. Sorry for the poor quality, I only had my phone on me.
In order: USS Constellation, Closeup of Connie, USS Independence and Kitty Hawk, Kitty Hawk Stern View, Kitty Hawk port side view, and Connie and Ranger.
In order: USS Constellation, Closeup of Connie, USS Independence and Kitty Hawk, Kitty Hawk Stern View, Kitty Hawk port side view, and Connie and Ranger.
Just breaks my heart seeing these grand old ladies, now stripped And dilapidated, sitting sadly on 'death row'.
Made '60 & '66 deployments on RANGER (VA-94/VA-146); and '62 & '67 on CONNIE (VA-55/VA-146), both fine warships.
*Satellite photo of the Bremerton 4 "death row" below:
BzB
I'd like to say "Stroke", but if someone said that today, they'd end up as the subject of an IG investigation...
Yep..tailcode, T/M/S and decal under the windscreen would indicate a North American FJ-1 Fury, assigned to VF-5A (so designated on 15 November 1946 and finally redesigned VF-51 on 16 August 1948, then retaining that designation until the squadron’s disestablishment in March 1995.) On October 1947, the Screaming Eagles became the first Navy squadron to enter the jet age with delivery of the North American FJ-1 Fury; the squadron used this fighter to conduct the USN's first operational all-jet aircraft carrier landings at sea on 10 March 1948 aboard USS Boxer.FJ-1 FURY, best caption
Proud group of"Screaming Eagle"pilots "sweeping the skies"…or perhaps rowing ashore…I dunno.
Anyone know what the 5 white stripes are by the NLG door are….some sort of "visual gouge" for the LSOs to assess approach attitude? Just my guess...
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