it was later determined to be a Golf I or a possible converted Zulu class ... we were never really sure 'cause both were supposed to be in the area ....
The A/C in question is in fact a orion variant called "Blue Dome" or just P-3AEW&C.
One big difference is the terlit. It has real blue flushing water rather than just the honey bucket!
In 1994, we had a "CDU" bird, (counter drug ops). Our Skipper had just come from the program at PAX, and he scored the first west coast CDU bird in VP-40. 161130 if I remember correctly. It had APG-63 and none of us Avionics types had a clue how to maintain it. We had to get some Air Force techs at Kadena to help us out on one occassion when it wasn't cooperating.
Thats about all anyone is cleared in here to hear about what else it had on it. In fact the regular VP crew wasn't even cleared to fly the missions it was supposed to fly? Go figure. The workaround was to close the curtains at the operators stations.
I believe there were other "CDU" birds at the time, not sure whatever happened to them. Maybe they are the "slicks" mentioned or they got reconfigured as normal Orions, or maybe they are all at the boneyard by now, anybody know?
So for the drug-unsavvy, what do they do with all this coke? Put it on a boat, drive a few miles offshore and push it overboard, or....?
Hopefully give it all to the guys from Motley Crew and let them finally F'ing kill themselves.
To answer your question though yes water is about the only way to effectively and easily destroy cocain.
The A/C in question is in fact a orion variant called "Blue Dome" or just P-3AEW&C.
One big difference is the terlit. It has real blue flushing water rather than just the honey bucket!
In 1994, we had a "CDU" bird, (counter drug ops). Our Skipper had just come from the program at PAX, and he scored the first west coast CDU bird in VP-40. 161130 if I remember correctly. It had APG-63 and none of us Avionics types had a clue how to maintain it. We had to get some Air Force techs at Kadena to help us out on one occassion when it wasn't cooperating.
Thats about all anyone is cleared in here to hear about what else it had on it. In fact the regular VP crew wasn't even cleared to fly the missions it was supposed to fly? Go figure. The workaround was to close the curtains at the operators stations.
I believe there were other "CDU" birds at the time, not sure whatever happened to them. Maybe they are the "slicks" mentioned or they got reconfigured as normal Orions, or maybe they are all at the boneyard by now, anybody know?
After reading the above link ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Why is Customs buying or rather getting perhaps from the Navy the "A" version? Doesn't the Navy fly a newer version than that? Is there some advantage to them getting the older style rather than the newer or is it a matter of cost.
Anyone know?
Surplus birds are a lot cheaper than new ones, and the P-3A's were just sitting in the desert. Customs has done plenty to update them in the meantime.