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The Tomcat Legacy; 35+ years from Fleet Air Defender to Recce to Precision Strike
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It's called the AGSM (Anti G Straining Maneuver).....you forcible close your glottis breathing that way, keeping pressure in the lungs which helps to keep blood up in your brain under g loads. You do this and tighten your legs, glutes and abs as well. And yeah, it sounds pretty goofy
Yeah...RIOs put the money shot on the back of the pilot's head. It lets the pilots know they are appreciated.....
It really was sad watching VF-31 Tomcatters fly off for the last time.. Knowing that I would never see them again.
Sweet, when do we get the P-3 Book?!
I wasn't, but I was on CORAL SEA which was on deployment at the same time. We came together once, operationally, for the evacuation of Saigon ops...Operation FREQUENT WIND, and we would fly profiles against ENTERPRISE once in a while while they played with the then just-emerging fleet defense tactics against mass raids. Cold War stuff don't you know. Saw them a lot at Cubi Point during mutual in-ports, and of course they were in the next hangar over at Miramar. The only "bad" thing I remember about these two first squadrons was their almost total lack of JO's for the stand-up and first deployment. Each squadron had about 9 LCDRs in it, and not all of them survived, as you can imagine. A telling memory is that I was coffee mess treasurer in VF-111, and got a call from my "opposite number" in VF-1 who wanted me to pick up all of their wooden models from Ben Martinez because they had to leave earlier than planned and couldn't pick them up themselves. So I, a LTJG, did this for my LCDR coffee mess brother. Musta sucked being him... At this time, as well, the thinking was that the Tomcat could not "spin", and therefore they didn't ever brief anti-spin/OOC procedures before tactics hops. They got smarter in this regard as the years passed and "thump-bang" became almost a household word.
Citation3
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VF-213 needs some love and respect...here it is.
My VF-213 masterpiece is done. Just a little love for the Lion. I was even able to pull off a sweet helmet bag embossed with some wings of gold and the static strips in the canopy.
Sorry..I still can't bring myself to add the puddles of hydraulic fluid on the ground.:icon_mi_1
My VF-213 masterpiece is done. Just a little love for the Lion. I was even able to pull off a sweet helmet bag embossed with some wings of gold and the static strips in the canopy.
Sorry..I still can't bring myself to add the puddles of hydraulic fluid on the ground.:icon_mi_1
Wow. Serious talent. do you have a website with all your models on it? pm me if you've got one.
Citation3
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Your crazy???
Feeling left out??? You guys get to fly these things whether they have rotors or pointy noses. Look at me...I'm holed up in my moms attic sitting in my VF-103 underoos building plastic models looking at Fighterfling videos on Youtube form 95' eating Cheetos. No..serously.:icon_lol:
Fantastic model! I'm feeling left out as a helo guy, though
Feeling left out??? You guys get to fly these things whether they have rotors or pointy noses. Look at me...I'm holed up in my moms attic sitting in my VF-103 underoos building plastic models looking at Fighterfling videos on Youtube form 95' eating Cheetos. No..serously.:icon_lol: