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Where else would you find people who love a souped-up motor like a P-408 on an A-4??
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Where else would you find people who love a souped-up motor like a P-408 on an A-4??
^^^ Now that's cool.
Someone once told me we're still using those same MER's on the Hornet.
Someone once told me we're still using those same MER's on the Hornet.
VA-304 A-7E traps on board USS Ranger (CV-61) during the January 1986 CVWR-30 AcDuTra det.
Looks like an A-7B to me -- check the gun ports. The squadron switched to -E's later in the year, so I suspect a "January 1986" CQ Det was still flyin' the -B model which appear to be the case here ...
PLUS .... after flyin' the A-7E, the squadron switched to A-6's (-E's and KA's) in JUL/AUG '88 time frame ...
... quite a feat for jet 'RONS in the '70's-'80's Navy as she became the 1st NAVAIRRES 'RON to do so .... 
I knew and flew w/ 3-4 of the squadron's COs.
Since a couple people asked for some more inflight/cockpit shots, here you go.
The cockpit itself...
Cloud surfing one fine WestPac day
A buddy marshalling below me
More Iraq silly circles up north
-2 at the tanker
Leaving the tanker
Back to the tanker
Sunset over Iraq
Posing for a photo
...and a more earth-based one. For all of you wondering exactly what the bullseye of Shadetree looks like, wonder no more.
The cockpit itself...
Cloud surfing one fine WestPac day
A buddy marshalling below me
More Iraq silly circles up north
-2 at the tanker
Leaving the tanker
Back to the tanker
Sunset over Iraq
Posing for a photo
...and a more earth-based one. For all of you wondering exactly what the bullseye of Shadetree looks like, wonder no more.
Looks like an A-7B to me -- check the gun ports. The squadron switched to -E's later in the year, so I suspect a "January 1986" CQ Det was still flyin' the -B model which appear to be the case here ...
PLUS .... after flyin' the A-7E, the squadron switched to A-6's (-E's and KA's) in JUL/AUG '88 time frame ...
I knew and flew w/ 3-4 of the squadron's COs.
Absolutely correct... the squadron didn't get A-7Es until September of that year.
+1 for eagle eyes... however, it wasn't a CQ det... it was AcDuTra (Active Duty for Training), and the air wing spent two weeks floating in the fog on board Ranger underway in W-291. Came in earlier that expected on Sunday so that the crew could watch the Super Bowl (Bears killed the Patriots that year 46-10...)
I did get one hop in one of their KA-6Ds in 1990 at Fallon.
^ That was a good year for football. Steve Grogan and Irving Fryar never had a chance in that Super Bowl.
No such thing as a good year when the Bears are in the talk for a super bowl
Damn, all your display symbology and even the UFC look like strikingly similar to the Hornet.
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