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Random Griz Aviation Musings

hscs said:
In process of regaining currency after some time away. I might be off but I don’t think what we have in the 60S with helmet mounted cueing and other gear is too much different. Feel like vest and gloves are good. Only area where this video is ahead of us is e-pubs. Doesn‘t help that NAVAIR marked the latest release CUI, complicating loading onto a personal device.
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NATOPS has always been controlled distribution (DIST C or D under old FOUO rules), and has never been authorized on personal devices. We were all just breaking the rules. But you're welcome for the new CUI banners :D

❤️, your local NAVAIR rep (and whipping boy, as required)
 
IKE said:
NATOPS has always been controlled distribution (DIST C or D under old FOUO rules), and has never been authorized on personal devices. We were all just breaking the rules. But you're welcome for the new CUI banners :D

❤️, your local NAVAIR rep (and whipping boy, as required)
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IKE said:
NATOPS has always been controlled distribution (DIST C or D under old FOUO rules), and has never been authorized on personal devices. We were all just breaking the rules. But you're welcome for the new CUI banners :D

❤️, your local NAVAIR rep (and whipping boy, as required)
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thank you - at least Dist C/D had definitions. I am not even sure what CUI means.
 
OK all you VPenis guys…here’s your chance to bring back the good ol’ days!

SCRAP, P-3 ORION LOCKHEED MARTIN, SN: 160770

Scrap, P-3 Orion Lockheed Martin Fixed Wing, SN: 160770 includes: T-56 Engine serial numbers: 0TH7302, 0TH8309, and 0TH8757. All major components have been removed and extensively
gsaauctions.gov
 
Griz882 said:
OK all you VPenis guys…here’s your chance to bring back the good ol’ days!
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I'm assuming this must have been on a stick somewhere on the Barber's property? Interesting it still has the engines. It's also not that old (early '80's).
 
Gatordev said:
I'm assuming this must have been on a stick somewhere on the Barber's property? Interesting it still has the engines. It's also not that old (early '80's).
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Someone could turn it into a fancy man cave!
 
Gatordev said:
I'm assuming this must have been on a stick somewhere on the Barber's property? Interesting it still has the engines. It's also not that old (early '80's).
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I thought the dark lower and vertical stab was pre 80's livery. In 1978 I flew on a P-3 on a recruiting tour that was grey and white.
 
wink said:
I thought the dark lower and vertical stab was pre 80's livery. In 1978 I flew on a P-3 on a recruiting tour that was grey and white.
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I cheated and looked it up…

“770 currently wears a special “retro” paint scheme, the white-and-engine-grey seen on patrol aircraft in the 1950s and 60s, as part of her duties touring the country to celebrate the Centennial of Naval Aviation in 2011. Despite the fact that she was with VP-9 at the time, she carries the markings of the Blue Sharks of VP-6, the squadron which served the longest at NAS Barbers Point and which was disestablished in 1993. As she was flown in to Kalaeloa Airport for the retirement, she is still largely intact and in the condition in which she landed. Former P-3 crew are met at the door with a familiar smell that never fails to bring smiles to faces.

770 was accepted on 28 February 1979 and first assigned to VP-23, who were at Keflavik, Iceland at the time. She spent much of her early years rotating through foreign deployments in Iceland, Spain, Italy, and Bermuda. After over a decade with VP-23, she went through a series of short-lived assignments: to VP-30 in 1991, VQ-2 in 1993, back to VP-30 in 1995, to VPU-1 later that year, VP-8 in 1997, VP-26 in 1999, VP-10 in 2000, VP-45 in 2002, VP-16 in 2004, back to VP-45 late that year, and back to VP-16 again in 2005. She finally found another long-term home with VP-5 from 2006 until 2011, when she came to MCBH Kaneohe for service with VP-9.”

Never on a stick…but at the museum.
 
Griz882 said:
OK all you VPenis guys…here’s your chance to bring back the good ol’ days!

SCRAP, P-3 ORION LOCKHEED MARTIN, SN: 160770

Scrap, P-3 Orion Lockheed Martin Fixed Wing, SN: 160770 includes: T-56 Engine serial numbers: 0TH7302, 0TH8309, and 0TH8757. All major components have been removed and extensively
gsaauctions.gov
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If "someone" was to cut the wings off just outside of the mains how wide would that make this potential rv?
 
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