WHALE of a tale ... the A-3 Skywarrior returns to Whidbey !!!

[Owen]

Here's a link to a video....

http://www.pnj.com/VideoNetwork/103...Skywarrior?odyssey=mod|video</td><td>umbrella

Check out how close the bird came to scrapping...

 

[Fog]

I think the NavAirMuseum guy had a Freudian misspeak: he said the plane made a fuel stop at NAS Dallas before continuing on to NAS Pensacola. Is that possible - did he re-fuel at the LTV facility? Is the airfield itself still operating, 'cause NAS Dallas closed 20+ years ago? I assume he meant to say NAS Fort Worth.

 

[blackbart22]

That's really a TA-3B. The TA-3B that VQ-1 maintained for 7th fleet was BuNo 144860. Flew it a few times and no, I'm not the one that ran it off the end of the runway at Da Nang with Adm Hyland on board. (The Air Force erected a very fancy sign designating that area "Hyland's Overun"

 

[AndréJ.]

Here's some more about the Whale which recently showed at Whidbey Island.

http://www.fencecheck.com/content/index.php?title=Whidbey%60s_Whale_Comes_Home

 

[Son of a Legend]

That's really a TA-3B. The TA-3B that VQ-1 maintained for 7th fleet was BuNo 144860. Flew it a few times and no, I'm not the one that ran it off the end of the runway at Da Nang with Adm Hyland on board. (The Air Force erected a very fancy sign designating that area "Hyland's Overun"

Saw this old thread and looked in my Dad's flight logs. He flew BuNo 144860 on 03-16-1960 and a couple other times. What's odd is he flew an F9F the day before.

 

[Hozer]

10 years, 7 months, 7 days.

impressive.

 

[Son of a Legend]

Hey now cut me some slack...

 

[wink]

10 years, 7 months, 7 days.

impressive.

Old airplanes. Old threads.

 

[taxi1]

I got to wave them during night CQ.

A3 whale dancing at an F18 CQ party. Ugly, but manages to taxi out of the LA.

 

[Griz882]

I remember the old A3 ditty sung to the tune of the Texaco commercial song…

“You can trust your tail to the guys who fly the whale!”

 

[sevenhelmet]

I got to wave them during night CQ.

A3 whale dancing at an F18 CQ party. Ugly, but manages to taxi out of the LA.

I had to watch it 3 times before I saw it. All I kept thinking was "She's not ugly at all..."

 

[taxi1]

I had to watch it 3 times before I saw it. All I kept thinking was "She's not ugly at all..."

At first I thought the guy in the background tripped the old dude, which would have been a magnificent dick move.