Fleet Week NY 2011

[81montedriver]

way too many field grade photos

 

[RotorHead04]

I'll be at Randall Park at 0900 for a MH-60S Fast Rope demo with EODTEU 2. Come check it out!

 

[Fog]

Why the different tail codes on the 312 hornets?

nevermind I figured it out

Well, I still haven't. So why different tail codes on a/c from same squadron? Also, VMFA-312 was the old USMCR fighter squadron at NAS Dallas back in the day. Is it active or reserve today? Thanks for helping the old and CRS afflicted.

 

[helolumpy]

VMFA-312 is an 'embarked squadron', it's part of CAG -3.
All CAG-3 aircraft have AC as tail codes.

I can't explain the DR though...

http://www.public.navy.mil/airfor/cvw3/Pages/default.aspx

http://www.marines.mil/unit/2ndMAW/mag31/vmfa312/Pages/default.aspx

 

[Schnugg]

Gotta love NYC.


"We've been going about this all wrong. This Mr. Stay Puft's okay! He's a sailor, he's in New York; we get this guy laid, we won't have any trouble! "
- Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters

 

[nittany03]

VMFA-312 is an 'embarked squadron', it's part of CAG -3.
All CAG-3 aircraft have AC as tail codes.

I can't explain the DR though...

Maybe corrosion control hasn't gotten to all the jets yet.

 

[Cron]

MAGTF display at Rye, NY

 

[phrogpilot73]

Where were you at PSW? Chances are we ran into each other; it's possible I even have pics with you in them.

We landed at the Wall St. Heliport, then held in the vicinity of Governer's Island for 45 minutes. When the weather didn't break - back to Wall St, then to Teterboro.

We did hit up McSorley's that night though.

 

[RotorHead04]

Cool pics from Erik Hildebrandt: http://www.vulturesrow.com/EMPIRE/
Fox News interview with Erik about Fleet Week: http://video.foxnews.com/v/4702364/fleet-week-arrives-in-nyc

 

[Praying4OCS]

Damn.....who's the Doc w/the Marines? Oh yea, great pics btw! :icon_smil

 

[Fog]

VMFA-312/differing tail-codes, et al.,

VMFA-312 is an 'embarked squadron', it's part of CAG -3.
All CAG-3 aircraft have AC as tail codes.

I can't explain the DR though...

http://www.public.navy.mil/airfor/cvw3/Pages/default.aspx


http://www.marines.mil/unit/2ndMAW/mag31/vmfa312/Pages/default.aspx

Thanks, Helolumpy. My memory is whacked. Did some Google work. VMFA-112 was the Marine F-4 squadron at NAS Dallas. CRS sux.

 

[MIDNJAC]

Cute flight doc with those Phrogs

I dig chicks with scissors in their "I don't fly jets" pocket

 

[jmcquate]

Cute flight doc with those Phrogs

I dig chicks with scissors in their "I don't fly jets" pocket

COTS shroud cutter.

 

[Cron]

I'll be at Randall Park at 0900 for a MH-60S Fast Rope demo with EODTEU 2. Come check it out!

Would have loved to, but getting to anywhere in LI is always a nightmare - unless you're flying.

way too many field grade photos

I knew someone's gonna give me shit for that There was full of them in my designated area...since the air display was cancelled, I shot what I saw. The PAO I was working with was happy.

Cool pics from Erik Hildebrandt: http://www.vulturesrow.com/EMPIRE/
Fox News interview with Erik about Fleet Week: http://video.foxnews.com/v/4702364/fleet-week-arrives-in-nyc

Those shots were taken from a NYPD helo - I actually know the cop you can see in one of the pictures (former Army Apache/Blackhawk pilot). Erik's apparently a pretty good guy.

We landed at the Wall St. Heliport, then held in the vicinity of Governer's Island for 45 minutes. When the weather didn't break - back to Wall St, then to Teterboro.

We did hit up McSorley's that night though.

The beer they brew at Sorley's is great and I know most of the people that work there (one of my buds lives right above it), but I just can't stand the smell of those 160 year old floorboards - especially in the summer.

 

[81montedriver]

I was hoping to be the first to comment on the flight doc but everybody beat me to it! I wouldn't mind running into her at the beach.


Without the flight suit of course