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It's an antenna for the ALQ-126 active-jammer ECM system. The system replaced the ALQ-100 in the mid-'70s, and was an add-on (did not come from the factory with it). The mod to the intake area consisted of a waveguide cover and the antenna (the black thingy) at the forward end of it. The F-4N's...

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 19 December 2008 A VF-301 F-4S leads an RAF F-4J(UK) in 74 Squadron markings back to NAS Miramar after a flight to test the radar on the F-4J(UK), circa 1983. The F-4S crew was LCDRs Mike Doerr and Jim Nice. Piloting the F-4J(UK) was CDR Steve Queen, who...

The A-4 in the picture is an old A-4 hulk that was refurbed at NAS Lemoore and used as a parade float. http://www.fencecheck.com/forums/index.php?topic=1787.105

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 18 December 2008 For those lovers of really heavy iron... Flint River 603, an RA-5C from RVAH-13, traps on board USS Ranger (CVA-61), summer '74. (It isn't a 1-wire inflight arrestment... the hookpoint and the wire just happen to occupy the same sightline)

Initially I thought that it's going to be another sensational piece of yellow journalism, i.e., let's go back to 1959 and drag things through the dirt... but they handled it pretty well... http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2008/dec/18/1m17stetz235435-last-weeks-crash-has-echoes-59-tra/

The BBC article talks about bringing them to justice instead of dealing with pirates on the spot. Sounds to me like the keelhauling and the plank walking thingy would bring a certain amount of justice... and cheaper in the long run, too.

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 17 December 2008 Canopy roll over a VF-301 F-4S, circa 1981

A couple of pics I already posted over in the picture thread: and and All were taken in May or early June 1972, probably just before NATTC Glynco became VT-86. I stood in ranks at the establishment ceremony on 5 Jun 72.

Keeping the neighbors happy around Miramar has always been a problem. Back in the late '70s, there was a Dr. Moss who lived somewhere near the departure end of RWY 24 and raised holy hell about the noise. The admiral (the legendary RADM Fellows) had enough, so he then decreed a "bird watch"...

Just some more TacAir trash

What ea6bfly meant to say... You can become a REGULAR member of Tailhook. Anyone with money can become a member... an ASSOCIATE member, but only those who have made a trap can become a REGULAR member. The Difference..? As a regular member you can vote for the board of directors... that's the...

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 14 December 2008 NAS North Island, late October 1977. Carrier Air Wing 11 was craned aboard USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) before the ship deployed on cruise. At this time the West Coast was sending a couple of E-2B squadrons to the East Coast to deploy and the East...

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 13 December 2008 NAS Fallon line in November 1973 during CVW-2 work-ups for the 1974 cruise. VA-25 Fist of the Fleet and VA-113 Stingers A-7E Corsair IIs.

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 12 December 2008 Taken at the 1975 El Centro air show. The National Parachute Range was headquartered there at the time, and one of their aircraft was one of the three YF-4J Phantoms. This particular machine had been modified for ejection seat testing. During...

Fallon Tanking, circa 1983

Just received this from Rick Burgess over at the Navy League's pub Sea Power. Because they need to keep KH in mothballs until USS Gerald R. Ford is commissioned, the effort to get Kitty Hawk for a museum is on hold for two years: *********** Wilmington Group Suspends Efforts to Obtain...

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 10 December 2008 VA-303 Golden Hawks A-7B Corsair II touches down at NAS Fallon, circa summer 1982.

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 9 December 2008 USS Ranger (CVA-61) North Pacific transit, June 1973. We had a bird from each fighter squadron standing Alert 5 for a while, until someone with half a brain figured out that the weather was dog-squeeze and that if the Bears wanted to find...

The bottom one is from the East Coast A-7 RAG, the VA-174 HellRazors

For those of you who want some "old school" color... F8F-2 Bearcat of VF-192, part of Carrier Air Group 19 stationed at NAS Alameda in the late 1940s/early 1950s. Picture was taken by RADM(Ret) Gene Tissot when he was a JO in VF-192 (which became VF-114 in 1950 and was disestablished in...

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 8 December 2008 CVWR-30 early '80s two-week ACDUTRA deployment to NAS Fallon. VFP-306 RF-8G taxies by VA-303 Golden Hawks A-7Bs. Photo shot from one of the air wing hangar's second floor ready rooms.

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 7 December 2008 VF-21 F-4J and VA-145 KA-6D in the NAS Cubi Point hot fuel pits, summer 1974.

Unless I say differently in my posts, I took all of the photos that I put up.

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 6 Dec 2008 How's about both in one pic? VF-126 A-4E, VF-301 F-4S

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 5 Dec 2008 VF-126 TA-4J in W-291 off San Diego, circa early '80s

This one is priceless... http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/23/somalia.pirates/index.html The Somalia Islamic fighters want to help out. Sounds like a SNL skit in the making: Two A-Holes on a tanker.

For those wishing to see the LSO panel video online, here's the link to the Tailhook Association's website

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 25 Oct 2008 More Phantoms... late 1974 Pacific Ocean near San Diego

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 24 Oct 2008 VF-154 F-4Js fly form on a VA-113 Stingers A-7E as it tanks a VF-21 F-4J (the black radome....) Tonkin Gulf, March 1973

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 23 Oct 2008 VF-21 F-4J launches from NAS Cubi Point, summer 1974.

That's Dave McConkey. Was prior enlisted NESEP and went to E-2s in VAW-115 in Japan.

Never saw him again after I left VF-121 in February of '73

Nope....

-1 (both counts) Not Old R.O. (but close...) That's Bob Keck... he went West Coast P-3s. The guy middle row far right is Bill Karr... went F-4s, then F-14s. He passed away a year or so ago.

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 21 Oct 2008 Back before it was VT-86 (5 June 1972), most NFOs were trained at what was known as NATTC Glynco (P-3 and C-130 guys went to Corpus to VT-29). RIOs were trained in the T-39D and ran intercepts against A-4C Skyhawks. Photo was taken with a Kodak...

Today's assignment, gents, is to find both Old RO and Renegade One in this photo from 1971 (VT-10 class 385).

I did my initial CQ on board Coral Sea in 1972. Below is a photo of some of the VF-121 (the F-4 RAG at the time) instructors and studs on the LSO platform as we pulled out of NAS Alameda and steamed south. We were the "unlucky" ones who rode the boat our while the more fortunate ones stayed...

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 19 Oct 2008 Touch-and-go

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 17 Oct 2008 USS Ranger (CV-61), CVWR-30 AcDuTra, January 1986. The F-14 to the right was a VF-124 a/c borrowed by VF-302 for the mini-cruise.

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 12 Oct 2008 Sign of the times. S-3Bs and an E-2C in storage at Davis-Monthan AFB last week.

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 8 Oct 2008 VF-301 F-4S Fallon 1983

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 6 Oct 2008

Can you say "arrogant?" I thought you could.

A few did wear the polo shirts, but most wore flight deck jerseys of the squadron's color under their flight suits. Red for the 100 Modex squadron, yellow for the 200-series squadron.

old R.O. Picture of the Day for 4 Oct 2008 USS Ranger (CV-61)

Puttin' on the foil!

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 26 Sep 2008 VF-301 F-4N, VAK-308 KA-3B. W-291 Pacific Ocean

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 25 Sep 2008 In the break at NAS Miramar

Chaff/flare switch. You grab the handle ("towel rack"_) next to it to help you move around the cockpit. If you're looking over your shoulder and see a missile fired, you can just thumb the switch and it'll put out a burst of chaff/flares.

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 24 Sep 2008