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Random Griz Aviation Musings
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Saw The Great Santini first time in 1981 - it was the Saturday night movie in the high school auditorium of the boarding school I attended in Connecticut. I missed the first 1/3 of the film due to serving detention for skipping a study hall earlier that week (I got caught off the school grounds).
But loved the film and promptly checked the Pat Conroy novel out from the school library.
The film and novel was one of a series of films and books that ignited my interest in Naval Aviation - that and the fact that my father's 2nd wife was the widow of a TA-4J SERGRAD instructor pilot who was killed in a mishap during a sortie out of Meridian.
Bob Duvall was one the greatest character actors ever. My favorite characters were indeed Bull Meechum and Gus McCrae of Lonesome Dove.
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GroundPounder
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That new paint scheme is so...BORING.
I believe that livery is destined for *all* CNATRA aircraft.
Somebody complained about orange and white, so here we are... can't please everyone.
Ha. Not that kind of boarding school. I attended your classic New England prep school. Think blue blazers, Harris tweed, repp ties, khakis, and penny loafers.
We went to class 6 days per week (1/2 days on Wednesday and Saturday). Mandatory athletics, etc.
The new T-6 paint is all blue which looks much better than the orange and white plus it stands out in flight really well. Personally I like the orange on the TH-73 vice light gray.
Up at KPTK near Detroit this weekend for work and am the guest presenter at a CAP Instructor Pilot Clinic.
Met a fellow Navy Helo dude in his 70's who retired as an O-5 in the reserves with an interesting career path. This gentleman retired as a P-3B PPC with VP-93 at NAF Selfridge.
Primary training in the T-34C, first class in VT-3 to fly the T-34C.
HT-8 in TH-57A followed by HT-18 in TH-1L
UH-46A, HC-3 first as a Replacement Pilot then with this so couple of deployed operationally because it's when HC-3 DET 103 was an operational unit separated from the FRS.
Back to HT-18 as an IP in the TH-57C when the type was first introduced.
Transferred to the Reserves. Rushed VP-93 and was accepted as a SELRES. NATOPS trained/qualed as PQM the P-3B locally bypassing FRS. (this was common at the time)
Pretty cool.
Met a fellow Navy Helo dude in his 70's who retired as an O-5 in the reserves with an interesting career path. This gentleman retired as a P-3B PPC with VP-93 at NAF Selfridge.
Primary training in the T-34C, first class in VT-3 to fly the T-34C.
HT-8 in TH-57A followed by HT-18 in TH-1L
UH-46A, HC-3 first as a Replacement Pilot then with this so couple of deployed operationally because it's when HC-3 DET 103 was an operational unit separated from the FRS.
Back to HT-18 as an IP in the TH-57C when the type was first introduced.
Transferred to the Reserves. Rushed VP-93 and was accepted as a SELRES. NATOPS trained/qualed as PQM the P-3B locally bypassing FRS. (this was common at the time)
Pretty cool.