The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery...part DEUX

[Alpha_Echo_606]

 

[highside7r]

Did VP-30 get this 1st LRIP model?

 

[Brett327]

I would imagine those would go to the VX folks.

 

[VmiMMXI]

Did VP-30 get this 1st LRIP model?

A couple of websites with the story of its delivery say:
"According to Boeing, following delivery in Seattle, Navy pilots flew the first production P-8A, LRIP1-1, to Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Fla., where it will be used for aircrew training."
http://www.shephardmedia.com/news/digital-battlespace/first-usn-p-8a-poseidon-delivered/

and
"The first production P-8A, based on the workhorse 737 passenger aircraft, will be flown to a Navy base in Jacksonville, Fla., where it will be used for training."
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2012/03/06/boeing-delivers-first-production-p-8a.html

But the (much) more informed than I would know if this really means VP-30.

 

[scoolbubba]

VX-20 and VX-1 have had T-1, 2, and 3 for testing. I'm not sure where they fall in the production numbers, or what will happen to them once they are done testing the birds, but they've been there for a while now. I think when they say production models, they mean "actually going to a VP squadron," in laymens terms...

VP-16 transitions in 3 months.

 

[Pags]

VX-20 and VX-1 have had T-1, 2, and 3 for testing. I'm not sure where they fall in the production numbers, or what will happen to them once they are done testing the birds, but they've been there for a while now. I think when they say production models, they mean "actually going to a VP squadron," in laymens terms...

VP-16 transitions in 3 months.

Production representative aircraft are required for IOT&E. T1 through 3 are more the realm of the DT folks at VX-20, but VX-1 guys have flown the, for DT assist and IT.

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

03/12/2012
COMMANDO AID
A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter lands to medically evacuate an Afghan commando injured by insurgent small arms fire in the Sar Kani district of Afghanistan's Kunar province, March 7, 2012. U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Clayton Weis

 

[flaps]

 

[jmcquate]

LSOs on advice from thier attorneys

 

[AllAmerican75]

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BzB

As an aside: I always thought that the submarine combat patrol pin looked badass. Hopefully the next war we find ourselves in allows for its return.

 

[Homer J]

Nice new paint on an old Phrog.

http://1.usa.gov/FOeMRO

 

[highside7r]

Reminds me of Phrog that landed at our FOB last month, I walked out to see what squadron it was from only to see it had no markings, and was flown by contract pilots.

 

[flaps]

 

[Brett327]

^ She looks like she had Downs Syndrome.

 

[HAL Pilot]

She was with us on TR during Desert Storm.