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Most Exotic Places You've Landed?
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Nope, not crazy/brainwashed. You are merely a poor speller. Probably post-LSO shorthand traumatic syndrome ...
The Secretary would be rolling in his grave ... why, some even think he was "pushed" ....
We used to fly P-3s into Mog and Berbera all the time in the late 1980s. CFT-72 even had a leased house in downtown Mog complete with Filipino contract servents to house the P-3 crews.
If by "exotic" you mean Humphrey Bogart-style trench coat, snap brim hat, foggy, foreign, "traditional black & white movie" type of adventure ... then I would have to say old Kai Tak airport, Hong Kong, RCC, hands down.
Or old downtown Shanghai ... 25 years ago ... but then, that would tend to slide back into the "shit" exotic.
Or old downtown Shanghai ... 25 years ago ... but then, that would tend to slide back into the "shit" exotic.
Medan and Bande Ache in Indonesia. I can't spell it but an airfield in the small tip of Malaysia (Kodakenablue...something to that effect). Landed at the old Clark AFB in the PI. I also liked landing on Iwo Jima. Landed at an airfield in Oman where the nearest village was something like 700 miles away. I've been to a lot of fields as a COD guy and landed on 9-10 different carriers as well. Just can't remember all the fields.
Ah, Floyd Bennett Field …short sea-story follows:
4-plane X-country in T-2's, out of Meridian to Floyd Bennet for a fun weekend in the Big Apple. Instructors in front, instrument studs in the back.
Instructor Lead decides to do a fast, sierra hotel night VFR 4-plane break into Floyd Bennett. Lead becomes disoriented out of the break and commences approach to the Flatbush Ave. bridge/causeway instead of the runway.
Suddenlly, 4 T-2's are flying around in the dark in different directions like confused gnats looking for the real duty runway to land upon. After landing, we four innocent students got to listen to the loudest @$$-chewing I ever heard, coming from inside the Ops. Officer's office with our 4 instructors as the poor dead meat.
Other places, not too exotic but "interesting":
Da Nang
Khatami, Esfahan Iran
USS Wasp (Not the current LHD, but the old CV-18 with hydraulic cats and I swear had some wooden flight deck.)
Sounds familiar. As much as I like a good, hard, fast S.H. break with 1-4 planes up on the 450-500 KIAS step and then "BE SOMEBODY fanning it AT THE NUMBERS" ... but I always wondered about the thought patterns of guys who though a "night time" break was "S.H. time" ....
Well, the night time ain't no good time .... etc., etc., like the song says ..... I mean .... what's to see???
It's dark ....
... but I always wondered about the thought patterns of guys who though a "night time" break was "S.H. time" ....
Well, the night time ain't no good time .... etc., etc., like the song says ..... I mean .... what's to see???
It's dark ....
'Zackly!!!
Sounds familiar. As much as I like a good, hard, fast S.H. break with 1-4 planes up on the 450-500 KIAS step and then "BE SOMEBODY fanning it AT THE NUMBERS" ... but I always wondered about the thought patterns of guys who though a "night time" break was "S.H. time" ....
Well, the night time ain't no good time .... etc., etc., like the song says ..... I mean .... what's to see???
It's dark ....
Well, the more things change.........a VAQ squadron decided (I think the CO was the one who made the decision) to do the same after a X-Cntry from Whidbey to Norfolk just a few years ago and a Class A resulted.
Not exotic, per se, but interesting to a history buff. Landing an Osprey at First Flight airport in Kill Devil Hills about 100m from where Orville and Wilbur flew in 1903.