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The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery, Troisième partie: la vengeance!

CVN-70, January 2010. Dropping off what would be the first of many MEDEVACs.

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In Oct. of 1980, CVN-68 participated in a huge NATO exercise in the North Atlantic. I got to fly a VA-86 A-7E, along with an A-6 from VA-35 and another A-7 from VA-82, on a boondoggle low level all over Scotland. At that time, Scottish airspace below 3000' was designated military airspace, so we could go where ever we wanted - no designated low level routes to stay on. We flew the length of Loch Ness at 100' looking for "Nessie", then landed at RAF Lossiemouth. One of our assigned missions was to land there and ensure all of their support equipment was fully compatible with our aircraft. The Brits treated us to a great meal at their mess, and then we left, flew around Scotland for awhile longer, and then went "bock sheep" to make our recovery time. Somewhere I have slides of the other aircraft over Loch Ness. If I can find them and get them scanned, I'll post them.
 
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