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Some of those films (Hook Down, Wheels Down for one) can be found at: http://www.militaryvideo.com (A long-time advertiser in The Hook magazine...)

Can't remember if it was Convair, NARF North Island, or Sundstrand Turbomach, since I worked at all those places.

Reminds me of a quote I saw posted on the wall somewhere... "Sometimes you have to shoot the engineers and start production"

Latest on the JetMan http://www.news.com/2300-11397_3-6239730-1.html?tag=ne.gall.pg

And... if you're not a member of The Tailhook Association, take advantage of the "Nugget" rate (It says it costs $1, but I think its free for the first year...)_ https://www.tailhook.net/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=tailhook&Category_Code=TH0004 If you're already a member...

Just to clarify, the F4H (which became the F-4 in September 1962 after the designation change) was designed by McDonnell Aircraft, which became McDonnell Douglas (no hyphen) after the merger in 1967. The design was a follow-on to the F3H (later F-3) Demon, which had multiple problems... one...

Garçon! Popcorn for ALL of my friends!

According to a feature article on CVW-5 by Tony Holmes that will be in the Summer 08 issue of The Hook magazine: "VAW-115 has five aircraft, compared to ConUS E-2C fleet units that have only four. "

You mean like this? **** Used by permission of The Hook magazine *****

/disclaimer My experiences were in the dark ages of the '70s /end disclaimer When I went through, "They" could sense those who were on the edge of failure, and hasten the process. If the candidate "got it all in one sock," and started improving, that was good. If the candidate continued his...

Get used to it. Not much is "fair" in the world of OCS.

Actually, the BAMS program and the P-8 are supposed to complement each other... so those 108 P-8s are probably going to happen. Also, the Aussies are interested in the P-8 and have signed on to help in the development and do some cost sharing.

Just because you were dealt a bad hand, doesn't mean that it's all bad. I applied for the AVROC program in the late '60s. They lost my paperwork, and made me re-apply, which meant that I didn't go to Pensacola that summer. In the meantime, the program changed and went from two six-week...

Just like A4s says, "the more things change, the more things stay the same." It was like this when I was winged in 1972... and it's still the pilot vs. NFO thing. Y'all should know that there's two things that you just DO NOT DO... and both of them are to belittle an NFO's job.

The ones who wear their husband's rank are real PITA's.

Miramar in '10 ---> http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=80&sid=1367999

When I think of the evening roll-em’s in the ready room, a couple of stories come to mind. In WestPac in the early/mid ‘70s, movies were rotated around the various ready rooms and messes and the ship’s TV on a schedule. There were enough films aboard to make the circuit for each line period...

The C-2 reprocured line was opened a few years before the A-12 and A-6F were killed off (early '90s timeframe). They began doing the logistics background work on the aircraft in the early '80s, and I remember attending the first logistics meeting at Bethpage in '81 or '82 when I was a sand crab...

For all the PSA stuff, go here ---> http://www.jetpsa.com/index2.html

Here's another blog site with some interesting insights on a visit to North Korea. http://www.blogjam.com/2005/11/08/north-korea/

Okay... if you're going to disrespect someone, at least use proper English (You're... meaning "you are" instead of the possessive "Your") Especially when putting it on a fellow Arky.

Hey, it's Sunday, the basketball games are over, the RV is almost packed and rendered roadworthy for the trip north to snow country... what else is there to do? Besides, if you look carefully at the pic, the word "Doggles" is right there on them... I can't believe that no one else looked.

They're called "Doggles" go here -> http://doggles.com/

What percent of K-9s get duty in the sandbox?

Here's the obit from the Whidbey paper: http://www.whidbeynewstimes.com/portals-code/obits.cgi?paper=84&submit=&name=&skip=10

Back in the early '70s, Air Intelligence Officers went through AOCS (that, I know for a fact) and the first part of VT-10 (fuzzy on this part) before they were split off and sent to Lowery AFB for training... I could be wrong about the VT-10 part ... I'm getting CRS pretty bad lately

In 1972 I got to see both the Blue Angles and the Thunderbirds, both in F-4s. When I was at NAS Glynco getting my wings, the Blues performed at an airshow there. Watched one of the shows at the air station, and another from my steps in my off base place in Brunswick. Being in training to fly in...

Here's the Navy press release on the move to RI: http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=31594

Kinda depends on who you talk to. Some say it was ADM Kelso's way of getting back at the Fighter mafia at Miramar. The Tailhook '91 witch hunt and the Tomcat Follies debacle that happened around the same time didn't help the cause, and there were a lot of political vultures that used these...

Oh... one more story. On that very same flight, Brand-X launched with one of the IOIC 35mm Topcon cameras given to him by the squadron Spy. When they returned they were sure that they had great footage... until they opened the camera up and.... NO FILM!!! Fingers were pointed... much gnashing...

A couple of stories about Bear overflights in the mid-'70s. Coming home from the Philippines (Subic Bay), we didn't have enough natural wind over the deck to safely operate the F-4s (and the engineering plant on the ship was highly suspect... to the point of going dead in the water on the...

I was in preflight with a 2LT Ensign (Ensign was his real last name) and one of the troops that worked for me was Petty Officer Sergeant (his dad, career Air Force, was SGT Sergeant)

Mistaken, I think. I don't remember the Navy/Marine Corps ever giving an inch on giving up the property. I think it was offered back in the '40s or early '50s before it became a Master Jet Base, but was too far out in the boonies for the city to consider it... ( I could be wrong on this one...)

Most of the sides of the flight deck have "scuppers" which is like a 6" lip that keeps things on board. Once, in the SoCal OpArea off San Diego, the ship hit a rogue swell and rolled 10 or 20 degrees. One of the Phantoms on the flight deck broke three of the four tiedowns and swung around the...

The F-4 had a twist-valve in the back seat. The crew would decide where they wanted it. As a new guy, the pilot usually told you to put it in "Single" so that if the back seat went, then ONLY the back seat would go. As you got more experience, the valve was usually placed in the "Both" position...

My bad (fixed on edit). It should have said (and now does) "touch and goes." Section touch and go. Planes touch wingtips on runway. Dash-2 gets airborne. Dash-1 skids down runway at 180 kts sideways, pulls it into the air and stalls it out, then 100 feet above the runway and 135 degrees...

Well, that too... but it was in the afternoon and things were a little more cordial...

Cubi O'club. 1974. We're down on the lower level of the bar. Most of the squadron is there, including the XO. Brand-X is holding the "high-ground" in the upper bar (the one in the picture). "Friendly" verbal jabs began to be exchanged between "high-ground" and "lower bar." Suddenly, the cry from...

Here's info on the pistol: http://www.vincelewis.net/60magnum.html

WTF? Here I thought it was a Thread on MasterBates!:)

Well.... If you want a good book on Tailhook 91, read "The Mother of All Hooks: The Story of the U.S. Navy’s Tailhook Scandal" by William McMichael. Transaction Publishers, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, 1997, 377 pages, $32.95...

One of the Marine Hornet squadrons at Miramar... VMFA-323, the Snakes... has an old converted Trailways-style bus that I've seen over at the O'Club at Miramar on Friday nights. http://www.johnfry.com/pages/VMFA-323.html

^^ Same cruise. One of the A-7 squadrons, VA-25 was passed down a vehicle from one of the Oriskany squadron... an old 3/4 ton International pickup. It was a sinister black with an off-white triangle on each door. It had belonged to a mining company or something in a previous life. At that time...

We're in Cubi on the '74 Ranger cruise. The Marines have two vehicles, both the old, original Ford Econoline Vans... very light trucks with a lot of Ford Falcon parts. Econoboxes for the '60s. They had one enclosed van and one pickup.. one was "Fox 1" and the other was "Fox 2" ...with their...

<---- Son of English Teacher. Technical Writer for 12 years. Magazine Editor/graphic designer for 19 years... As I said, I couldn't help myself.:)

Sorry I couldn't help myself...:icon_smil

OK... I'll fix it somehow.... Thanks for the head's up \ Ok... I _think_ it's fixed now. If not, please let me know and I'll try Plan II

From Band of Brothers, Captain Sobel...... we salute the rank not the man.

Sounds like someone with WAY too much time on their hands redid the Marine Rifleman's creed, inserting RADAR where Rifle was. After spending 1,800 hours with one of these critters (the radar, I mean), I agree that it's kinda queer funny and not the other kind of funny. The more I read...

I think all of us in Naval Aviation feel your pain...:)