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The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery
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Conducting SEAL/SDV training at periscope depth.. Those SEALs though we were crazy for living on a sub... lol...
Wow, thats awesome. I'm disoriented though - are pics 2 & 3 looking down on the opening in the tower?
I think one is a Corsair (says Corsair II on 2 seater's tail) and one is a Crusader (orange white). 
Here are some pics of an airplane you don't see everyday, a TF-8 Crusader at NAS Dallas in 1973.
dive bubbles are moving vertically
The photo's were all taken aft of the SDV dry dock shelter, looking forward, towards the opening of the dry dock shelter.
Pics 2 and 3 are of SEAL SDV team members in the opening of the dry dock shelter. I'll try to scan more of the pics next week.
What a great thread!
I think one is a Corsair (says Corsair II on 2 seater's tail) and one is a Crusader (orange white).
Roger that, sir. These are supposedly the only pics of the two taken together.
So who does the P2V in the background belong to?
Pix #2 is looking SSE across the runway/lake @ NAS DALLAS from the LTV side of the field.
A 1973 picture ??? Most likely a Reserve outfit ... the P-2's disappeared from NUW @ 1971-72.
I'm pretty sure NAS Willow Grove was still flyin' P-2's in 1973 while transitioning to P-3's ...
Probably one of the few pictures of a two seat A-7 and two seat F-8 sitting next to each other. Note the A-7 has a TER with blue death!
That is correct and MER= multiple ejector rack for 6 rounds of "blue death"
Thank God I didn't call it a LAU like I was originally going to.
I went through VA-174, the east coast A-7 RAG in '77-'78 and the TA-7C wasn't on the scene yet. I think Lemoore got the first ones in late '78 and Cecil got theirs sometime after that. If this date is correct, it was obviously an early prototype. And since, as A4s pointed out this picture being from the LTV side of the field, it obviously must be.
I've had the same affect happen to me when taking pictures of the props, due to the low shutter speed ( or at least relatively low shutter speed) of the camera. Makes for a really cool affect, and that is a really clean shot of it.
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