The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery

[Xtndr50boom]

Ah, the 80s. Beautiful GUCCI color scheme. Brand new tanker with the new jet smell.... I was born 20 years too late!

Never had the pleasure of refueling probe/drogue F-4s, but ze German vuns were cool enough

 

[Mumbles]

boom...this is for you buddy!!

 

[Mumbles]

A4s....I'll bet all those little Phillipine chirruns are saying "Hey Joe!!"

 

[Harrier Dude]

Since some of you are into "family" pix of late, here's some of my boys and girls in Calamba City, P.I. @ 1973:

Photo by A4sForever

Sounds like somebody didn't listen during the Docs portion of the liberty brief.

Could be worse........you could of had a "foot problem".

 

[Zissou]

The kids in PI havent changed.

 

[HooverPilot]

I went on a great flight today. VFR up the Hudson @ 500' is pretty cool. The controller asked if I wanted to take a few turns around Lady Liberty before proceeding. Happy 4th of July!

 

[Xtndr50boom]

boom...this is for you buddy!!

Beeeautiful! Muchos gracias

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

I went on a great flight today. VFR up the Hudson @ 500' is pretty cool. The controller asked if I wanted to take a few turns around Lady Liberty before proceeding. Happy 4th of July!

Sweet picture of Lady Liberty HooverPilot, a Happy Fourth to the AW Community.

 

[OUSOONER]

Very nice picture Hoover ...happy 4th to you all too! Err, just don't pull a Cory Lidle That airspace is crazy from what I hear.

 

[Old R.O.]

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 4 July 2008

VF-301 F-14A returning to NAS Miramar from the Yuma ACMR Range circa 1985, near the Bard VORTAC. The Colorado River and Imperial Dam are visible at the top of the picture.
Crew: Gary Stutzman/Willy Driscoll

 

[Orion4life]

Usually each squadron only gets to paint up one plane and even then its not much.

333 was the last P3 my dad flew back in June 2005, when it was a VP-94 bird. It's nice to see that it's still around.

 

[Old R.O.]

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 5 July 2008

VF-301 F-14A in low holding over USS Ranger (CV-61), SoCal OpArea, January 1986

 

[MIDNJAC]

VF-301 F-14A returning to NAS Miramar from the Yuma ACMR Range circa 1985, near the Bard VORTAC. The Colorado River and Imperial Dam are visible at the top of the picture.
Crew: Gary Stutzman/Willy Driscoll

Was "Willy Driscoll" not "Duke Cunningham's" RIO during his infamous 5th MIG kill over N Vietnam?

 

[HeyJoe]

Was "Willy Driscoll" not "Duke Cunningham's" RIO during his infamous 5th MIG kill over N Vietnam?

"Duke" and "Willie" were crewed together in VF-96 and flew three missions in which they downed MiGs. The third one involved their 3rd, 4th and 5th kills and them ejecting over the water after losing hydraulic pressure due to damage from an SA-2.

 

[Old R.O.]

Was "Willy Driscoll" not "Duke Cunningham's" RIO during his infamous 5th MIG kill over N Vietnam?

Don't know about "infamous," but Willie Driscoll was the RIO for all five of the Cunningham MiG kills. He was later a Topgun instructor and then in VF-2 before getting out of the Regular Navy. He was in VF-301 for a while and remained in the Reserves after he stopped flying. Topgun (now a part of NSAWC at Fallon) used him as a guest lecturer for many years, where he would speak to the classes on preparation for combat.