• Please take a moment and update your account profile. If you have an updated account profile with basic information on why you are on Air Warriors it will help other people respond to your posts. How do you update your profile you ask?

    Go here:

    Edit Account Details and Profile

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

CommodoreMid said:
Would have loved to do a river run in a P-3 or P-8. Did it in 2007 in a 60 on my 1/c cruise and it was awesome.
Click to expand...
I got a suprise river run as a "no P" while still a cat 1 at VP-30. The IP was probably the coolest guy ive flown with, who came to the Q as a super JO later. It was my pre check and things went quick and well. Had time to run the Saint John's back to NAS Jax from some working area on the Atlantic side.

The skipper was riding along that morning on the radar cabinet. I gave him 4 rings of the command bell when he came down the tube and used the PA to announce "VP-30.... arriving". He thought that was hilarious.

As we packed up and left he gave me a shoulder pat and said something to the effect of "good job son, you didnt even scare me once".

Said IP and I later tooled around SF bay a few years later. 1000010254.jpg
 
....and thank you for recognizing the F4F was a different aircraft from the FM-2. At sun n fun a few years ago they had a big placard talking about the F4F in front of a FM-2, similar, yes, maybe very similar, but my dad flew both, and they were absolutely different aircraft., Rant over.....
 
VMO4 said:
Love the second one up, in the Atlantic theatre anti sub paint scheme!
Click to expand...
VC-13. Interesting story about them, on August 27, 1944, VC-13 lost ten aircraft (five FM-2 Wildcats and five TBM-1C Avengers) near the Azores Islands when they launched into the fog and couldn’t find their carrier! All the crews were recovered because the TBM’s had their sonar gear on when they ditched so the carrier could find them. Lucky day for VC-13.
 
Last edited:
VMO4 said:
....and thank you for recognizing the F4F was a different aircraft from the FM-2. At sun n fun a few years ago they had a big placard talking about the F4F in front of a FM-2, similar, yes, maybe very similar, but my dad flew both, and they were absolutely different aircraft., Rant over.....
Click to expand...
The FM-1 was not much different than the F4F-4; four .50s instead of six. But the FM-2 was a whole 'nother thing; more power from a Wright R-1820 as compared with the F4F's P&W R-1830. The FM-2 was pretty capable in the late war years at low altitude. I note that in GroundPounder's Wildcat photo, only the closest Wildcat is an F4F-4. The others are all FM-2s with the taller tail.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top