The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery

[nittany03]

This:

All hail the greatest defensive shortstop ever . . .

 

[badger16]

All hail the greatest defensive shortstop ever . . .

I'd rather hail his wife!

 

[Mumbles]

As long as we're discussing squadron names, what was the deal with these guys?? I remember hearing some pretty dirty epithets/monikers of them as a kid.....

 

[LazersGoPEWPEW]

As long as we're discussing squadron names, what was the deal with these guys?? I remember hearing some pretty dirty epithets/monikers of them as a kid.....

One of my LORs was in that squadron flying A-7s. :-D

The Flying Ubangis.

Which I think is some tribe in Africa. The Ubangi which to my knowledge live near the Ubangi River.

These people.

Thus the lips.

 

[Mumbles]

saw this pic of a Greek SLUF tonight, and I couldn't resist. Pretty cool "Corsair" pirate motiff going....

 

[Mayday]

Humble contributions from Mayday

Wow. This is what I get for only logging into AW once a quarter. This thread took me at least FIVE (very enjoyable) HOURS to slog through! Geez.
Nice pics all around!

These are a few of the Blues taken under contract at K-Bay 2007. All photos courtesy of Henry Cho Photography (but all are released).

If you're interested in any for your desktop, PM me. I've got them all in super-ridiculously-high resolution, these are scaled down to less than 30% their original size.

Some others will follow...

-Mayday

 

[whitesoxnation]

i dont have a source

 

[cfam]

Found the description. Neat way to do a change of command, IMHO.

PACIFIC OCEAN (March 1, 2007) – Flying F/A-18C Hornets above USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), Capt. Craig Williams, foreground, and Capt. Richard Butler look up for a photo during their airborne change of command ceremony. Butler, a University of Kentucky graduate with more than 21 years of experience as a naval aviator, relieved Williams as the commander of Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 14 during an aerial change of command ceremony in the skies above Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group is currently underway in support of operations in the western Pacific. U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Cmdr. Tam Pham (RELEASED)

Here's another shot from the same ceremony.

 

[raptor10]

I wonder if they (both pilots have f'ed up koch fittings) are doing that just to show off the birds on their shoulder.

 

[raptor10]

I wonder if they (both pilots have f'ed up koch fittings) are doing that just to show off the birds on their shoulder.

Not that there's anything wrong with that

 

[HeloBubba]

It is too bad that VFA-25 didn't have their CAG bird available, so they both could have been flying a double-nuts.

 

[Old R.O.]

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 15 Sep 2008

Back again after a week at Tailhook '08 and a week of "other stuff."

VF-154's CAG bird F-4J on board USS Ranger in mid-Pacific, October 1974. CAG Massey had just made his 1,000th trap, and the aircraft was painted as ModEx 1000 for the CVW-2 fly-in to NAS Miramar. Of note, Ranger was going into the yards for repairs, and the ship wanted the wing tanks off the boat -- they had been stored in the overhead of the hangar deck, since we never used them. Both squadrons (VF-154 and VF-21) flew off with empty wing tanks. This was the only time I ever saw Miramar-based Phantoms with them (1972-1985).

 

[Uncle Fester]

...CAG Massey had just made his 1,000th trap, and the aircraft was painted as ModEx 1000 for the CVW-2 fly-in to NAS Miramar...

Any relation to "Skid" Massey, what was recently CAG-17? He was DCAG during the '04 JFK cruise, almost went over the side in a sliding Tomcat during the "dhow incident". Great guy.

 

[jt71582]

Old R.O. you've got some beautiful pics from the '70s. They had cameras back then?

 

[Old R.O.]

Any relation to "Skid" Massey, what was recently CAG-17? He was DCAG during the '04 JFK cruise, almost went over the side in a sliding Tomcat during the "dhow incident". Great guy.

No clue...