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The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery...part DEUX
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Vandy-01 was repainted (bunnies are a no-no) and is on static display at Oceana. I think that she was the last Tomcat builtWhere did this beauty end up, boneyard, museum or scrape heap,
None other than what Nguyen (my favorite NVN 85mm AAA gunner) told me on the radio one day..... "BusyBee, you Yankee Air Pirate, we love it when you come with the Pfantums, then we see the smoke trails coming at 30km out, SILLY YANKEES!'Phantoms Habu and Tomcats, oh my! pic taken over China Lake prior to airshow, date ???
any info on this BzB?
The old cigarette pack disclaimer applied to (in our CVW-14), A-4Es & F-4Js
>SMOKING MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH!!!<
BzB
He's probably in burnerHa! Another cool pic posted by Malo83!
Probably an ignorant question on my part...but why is it that one of the F-4's (second in from the left) is not leaving a smoke trail?
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Max (BzB Jr.), may have 'some' info on the J-79??? But came into the Navy about the time the Hornet was being entered into the fleet. His expertise as a Navy AEDO/NavAir Aero Engineer , is in the F/A-18 & F-404 P/Ps. Max was only 4 y/o when I returned from my last combat tour and Phantoms were still "king of the Fighters"!
Of interest, in 2008?, Max spent his secomd tour in Iraq with the Marines at Al Asad Airbase west of Baghdad, which the Iraqis abandoned, and is now defended by ~300 Marines surrounded by thousands of ISIS savages.
Sure glad Max is home & safely retired USNR!
Sure hope we get off our ass soon and cover/support, or extract our surrounded Marines before we have another "Little BigHorn"!
BzB
My grandfather in the 3 slot of a formation of F4U's circa 1943 (Cherry Point? not sure).
Cool pic, but your date might be a bit off as those look like F4U-4 or -5s (four bladed prop, deeper cowl).
It looked like a -1D or a -4 to me (I'll defer to your expert opinion though) ...Now looking into it, this might have been post-war in 46 when VMF-212 changed their tail code to LD and jumped to the -4. My bad. Unfortunately, I don't have much information on his service between WWII and Korea. All I know was at some point he was in the Pacific Theatre towards the end of the war, and at some point he was flying the HRS in Korea...I think. All my information is interpreted from the few old photo's I have.
I'm by no means an expert and not trying to be an internet jerk, just trying to provide some info. The -1D had a three bladed prop and the -4 had a four bladed prop. The -4 started coming online later than 43...wikipedia says 44. I'm not enough of a markings expert to know dates of different marking styles; but I think you're right with the change to a 2 digit modex (tail code) happened after the war.
Either way, cool pic and family history.
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