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Hokey carrier landing trials video

Xtndr50boom

Xtndr50boom

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The Demon, Cutlass, and even the A-4 on the Ticonderoga off Virginia. Back when everyone liked Ike.... Recommend breaking out your comb and hair gel and asking Sandy to be your 'steady girl' before watching this video

 
Can you say 'over-rotation' on that first Demon launch?

...and what a beautiful straight-decker
 
For the history buffs, here's a question:

When did the "A-4D" cease w/ its original naming convention and become the "A-4[model]"? Seems like that could get confusing, since they re-did the naming convention in the time-frame of the A-4.
 
gatordev said:
For the history buffs, here's a question:

When did the "A-4D" cease w/ its original naming convention and become the "A-4[model]"? Seems like that could get confusing, since they re-did the naming convention in the time-frame of the A-4.
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18 September 1962 was the official switch-over date.
A4D-1 - A-4A
A4D-2 - A-4B
A4D-2N - A-4C
A4D-5 - A-4E
 
Too bad they couldn't have stuck to the convention in re: F-35 or F-117. Bless the bureaucracy
 
corvettetimmy said:
So did they initially load those things on the ship with a crane?...
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Actually, it was not unheard of to crane aboard aircraft. For example, planes would fly into NAS Alameda (for you youngin's that's where Myth Busters does there tests) and tow it pierside to the carrier.
 
stalk said:
Actually, it was not unheard of to crane aboard aircraft. For example, planes would fly into NAS Alameda (for you youngin's that's where Myth Busters does there tests) and tow it pierside to the carrier.
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A very famous example:

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Loaded by crane at Alameda Naval Station -- where a different USS Hornet is docked today.
 
That is some serious Aviation History right there . . . two major Naval A/C types getting their first looks at Das Boot, along with the granddaddy of another and one . . . well . . . complete and utter disaster.
 
stalk said:
Actually, it was not unheard of to crane aboard aircraft. For example, planes would fly into NAS Alameda (for you youngin's that's where Myth Busters does there tests) and tow it pierside to the carrier.
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Unfortunately, I do not have any pictures of the "crane aboard". (I was sleeping-in :) that morning). But from my personal history:



[...] Then late that night I flew the last VF-151 F-4 from its hangar at NAS Miramar, to NAS Alameda. Maintenance personnel from another squadron had been working feverishly all day to repair it, but it still had some problems. Nevertheless, we desperately needed it for deployment."

"After a tentative (and very rare, night) test flight, we had to fly it to Alameda with its landing gear locked down (there was some serious concern this "hangar queen" aircraft could not lower its landing gear again, if they were raised - so we just left them down). The navigational instruments didn't work too well either, so we just visually followed the car lights on the Grapevine, and the I-5 freeway north beyond Los Angeles to the Bay area."

"We thankfully made it OK. In the morning, this last squadron aircraft was craned aboard the Midway."​
 
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