The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery

[jollygreen07]

For those lovers of really heavy iron... Flint River 603, an RA-5C from RVAH-13, traps on board USS Ranger (CVA-61), summer '74.
(It isn't a 1-wire inflight arrestment... the hookpoint and the wire just happen to occupy the same sightline)

Every time I see a picture of that thing i'm astounded that they actually designed it for a carrier. Amazing.

 

[Flash]

That pic looks fake. I have NEVER seen a P3 that clean.

You have never seen a US Navy P-3 that clean. Some of the foreign operators keep them in pretty good shape, the Japanese ones I saw were particularly clean inside and out.

 

[Flugelman]

You have never seen a US Navy P-3 that clean. Some of the foreign operators keep them in pretty good shape, the Japanese ones I saw were particularly clean inside and out.

The P-2 crews kept the aircraft pretty clean, a wipedown on every postflight with rags and 115/145.

The P-3s, not so much... A trip to the washrack on the monthlys and a trip thru the birdbath after a low level overwater was about all they got in the way of washjobs.

 

[Mumbles]

Yeah....except as soon as the JMSDF P-3 rotates....the smoking lamp is lit...and the whole crew fucking smokes according to my buddy Cro-mag that flew along with them. Evidently the ashtrays are zulu coded if they are less than 4.0. I heard that the other funny thing they do is that the flight station just starts punching expendables, (sonobuoys for you whore-nutt guys) up front without the Tacco's consent. I can't imagine that going over very well in any USN squadron....but then the bus drivers up front do control search power....right???

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

I've only seen them clean when we roll them out of the paint hanger. I've cleaned enough sand out of the insides to fill several sand boxes.

 

[Flash]

Yeah....except as soon as the JMSDF P-3 rotates....

Who cares though? It is not how you do the job, it is how good you look doing it!

 

[Flugelman]

Folding wing Scooter

I ran across this picture of an A4 with folding wings. Never saw or heard of one before...

 

[Mumbles]

I think the point of that pic was to juxtapose the late model Mike or Lima next to the Bravo on the right.....Flug I didn't realize there were any variants with folding wings either. Brownshoe...were are ya Bubba??

 

[Flugelman]

I think the point of that pic was to juxtapose the late model Mike or Lima next to the Bravo on the right.....Flug I didn't realize there were any variants with folding wings either. Brownshoe...were are ya Bubba??

He's old... He's in bed already...:icon_smil

 

[A4sForever]

I ran across this picture of an A4 with folding wings. Never saw or heard of one before...

They never had folding wings ... I think this one is a "toy boat"; a mock-up, a model, something conjured up for static display only.

The bird had only a 27 foot wingspan ... that was one of the bennies of the A-4 by Heineman's design: no folding wings.

The link DID provide a couple of the only internet pix I've seen of T-2 'GUN BIRDS', however ... too bad it's copyright.

http://picasaweb.google.com/TailspinTommy/Aircraft2#5138816921605328258

 

[Old R.O.]

The A-4 in the picture is an old A-4 hulk that was refurbed at NAS Lemoore and used as a parade float.

http://www.fencecheck.com/forums/index.php?topic=1787.105

 

[Old R.O.]

Old R.O. Picture of the Day for 19 December 2008

A VF-301 F-4S leads an RAF F-4J(UK) in 74 Squadron markings back to NAS Miramar after a flight to test the radar on the F-4J(UK), circa 1983.

The F-4S crew was LCDRs Mike Doerr and Jim Nice. Piloting the F-4J(UK) was CDR Steve Queen, who was the F-4 project lead at NARF North Island. In the backseat was an RAF observer whose name I can't remember.

The Brits bought 15 of the aircraft from the US, and they were brought up to almost F-4S standards at NARF NorIs, except they lacked wing slats and liquid cooling for the AWG-10B. They also had certain UK-specific mods, such as the capability to launch Skyflash missiles and they also had an "Eagle-eye" telescope mounted in the left-side "doghouse" window so the backseater could perform a visual ID when the pilot put the target at boresight.

 

[Single Seat]

Figured we needed some newer pictures as well.

 

[llnick2001]

Here's a few from the media guys on the boat from Lincoln's latest deployment.

 

[llnick2001]

Here's some HS-2 love. (also from the boat photogs)