SoCalSooner
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What was it used for and what happened to it?
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NAF Crows Landing
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I think NASA owns it now. They got it with Moffett Field.
P-3s out of Moffett used to bounce there. In fact, the FE on my first crew had a rather firey landing while a VP-31 IFE at Crows on 9/25/1990.
See what happens when you land with an excessive sink rate.....
P-3s out of Moffett used to bounce there. In fact, the FE on my first crew had a rather firey landing while a VP-31 IFE at Crows on 9/25/1990.
See what happens when you land with an excessive sink rate.....
Here's a link that might be a starting place for "what happened to it " questions regarding NAS/MCAS's .... it's incomplete and some entries are missing .... but the price is right.
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Naval Flying Fields in the USA ..... [/FONT]http://aerofiles.com/usn-bases.html
^ Inflight engagement .... gear up (?) .... very nice. 
Oh jesus... what was the outcome?
I don't think that's what he was aiming to do...
Speaking of NAFs... found out a few of the airports I used to fly into in Massachusetts used to be Outlying Fields, such as Plymouth Municipal and Mansfield. Trying to track down the history of them, and in doing so found some sites on the Nike missile sites around Boston in the 50s and 60s. Very interesting. Usually only think of Russian cities being ringed by SAMs... pretty wild.
Edited: Neat, Plymouth Airport used to be a site for Primary training for the Navy in WWII out of the now non-existent NAS Squantum.
Edited: Neat, Plymouth Airport used to be a site for Primary training for the Navy in WWII out of the now non-existent NAS Squantum.
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Speaking of AA around civilian airports ---- Seoul's Kimpo airport was/is ringed with AA missiles and AAA. Quite visible, too.
We don't fly to the "downtown" airport anymore ... but during all the years we did, it was kind of disconcerting to taxi past the gun pits only to have a 20mm Gatling training it's barrels on you and tracking --- 50 yards away --- checking their radar.
We'd usually give them the finger --- good thing they didn't have itchy fingers in return ...
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Generally, yes. You trap for most gear type manfunctions. The issue isn't the "impact," but not having to slide down the rwy on your belly for 8000 feet.
Brett
