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The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery

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Question: What's the deelio with the C-5's nose gear? Does it lower itself to the ground to facilitate easier offload/on-load, or am I missing something?

Yup. The whole plane "squats" for loading. Freaky to watch; they'd fly into Nawfik all the time.
 
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^^^A picture depicting Naval Air Power should probably show at least one aircraft.
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You need to get your eyes checked. I clearly see helos on the carrier on the left, and the carrier on the right looks to have a CVW embarked. Plus, what do you think took the picture?
 
Maintainers .... '60/'70's style .... only we didn't call 'em "maintainers" ... we called 'em "the troops". :)

Left to right .... the Dude, His Dudeness, the Duder, and last but not least, El Duderino .... :icon_rast

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photo by A4sForever
 
^^ We still call 'em the "Troops," maintainers being a subset thereof. ;)

Brett
 
Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 9 July 2008

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VF-302 F-4N over Eastern San Diego on approach to NAS Miramar, May 1978
 
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