Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 27 June 2008
Carrier Air Wing Reserve 30 aircraft line up for tanking on the January 1986 two-week deployment on board USS Ranger (CV-61) in the SoCal OpArea.
The tanker is a VA-304 A-7E
Aircraft receiving fuel is a VF-301 F-14A
Two aircraft in the observer position are VFA-303 F/A-18A
CAG wanted to show that we were just as good as the RegNav folks, so we also did NIGHT OPS
To get the "select" crews night qualled took up a lot of extra flight time and hops, much to the consternation of the folks who weren't on the "night team." Especially when the fog rolled in and CNX'd flight ops for a couple of days.