Come to TW-5 sometime and you'll see what the results of a 14-day should look like. For whatever reason, TW-4 doesn't like to actually apply soap to their planes.
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Come to TW-5 sometime and you'll see what the results of a 14-day should look like. For whatever reason, TW-4 doesn't like to actually apply soap to their planes.
I remember noticing how dirty the TW-4 T-34s were down there... our -44s were generally clean (except for all the bugs after a low-level) and the -12s looked good too. The Corpus -34s looked used and abused... Don't remember ever having a dirty bird at Whiting.
One in the same.
He and I were also roommates our first AVROC summer in 1970 (Class 102-II) at Pensacola.
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I'd thought I post a few of mine during my MIDN Summer Cruise.
This is all from HSC-3:
About to get ready to perform XCAR proceedures
Some midshipman (who can it be?) about to load the helicopter
Its good to go!
Giving the AW crewmembers the "shocker"
Running like crazy.
This is all from HSC-3:
About to get ready to perform XCAR proceedures
Some midshipman (who can it be?) about to load the helicopter
Its good to go!
Giving the AW crewmembers the "shocker"
Running like crazy.
TOPGUN initially obtained several for use as supersonic adversaries in the early seventies. They were cast off early model T-38 Talons that the Air Force didn't want and were in need of TLC. CO of TOPGUN enlisted aid of a C-130 and took a few leather flight jackets to trade for needed parts to get them flightworthy.
When they got their first F-5E Tigers, they gave their T-38s to the NAS Oceana based Adversary squadron (VF-43).
Linked from the CNATRA web site....
Anyone know the backstory as to why it's wearing Army attire?
As stated seen over at Cairns AAF and used at Ft. Bragg as a paradrop chase plane/range control.
+1 to you for an eagle-eyed, perfect "ship-recognition" score on the now old and grey, but proud and still afloat museum ….
.... Of course your flattery 'may' have helped a little, too.
Here's another Midway/Vietnam photo - MK-82s positioned starboard side of the island for the next launch. Our unsung AOs humped a lot of 500-pounders and heavier by hand all day (or night) long (12-on, 12-off less duty) - and extremely fast if we were in cyclic ops,
back in the day..... [I should have thanked our AOs a lot more than I ever did at the time, for their extraordinary efforts. But I do remain in awe so many years later of their esprit and dedication, lifting massive and dangerous weights safely for most of a day - most every day - in such a harsh, demanding, and dangerous environment. BZ you red-shirt guys; you and all the other hard-working rates that made it all happen; you all know who you are.... and so do I!!! 
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Maybe this is destined for the "stupid questions about Naval Aviation" thread, but when you are out there on station for 12 hrs, what do you do to pass the time? Are you busy, or is there a lot of down time? Obviously I'm not looking for any OPSEC-violating info here, but it seems like a lot of time to be up there.
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