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It was a Tomcat in Corpus Christi, but close enough.
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It was a Tomcat in Corpus Christi, but close enough.
Thanks Jac, happened a while ago, but I've been away from AW for a while and to clear things up, I was only referring to dissimilar form flying with the T-34 b/c of what helolumpy said. Now that it's cleared up, someone better get cracking on that heritage flyby this summer.
Yeah figured so, as I remember you were in like RI's or something before I even moved to Merids......though I guess it takes TX studs a little longer on average...
bucks87
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Some great shots of the field on Iwo Jima:
http://picasaweb.google.com/7thfighter/IwoJima#
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http://picasaweb.google.com/7thfighter/IwoJima#
Mods: These are not my pictures, I just found them on a public site. Please remove the link if it is not OK to post here.
GreenLantern330
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Awesome pictures!
Caves of Vietnam. Some pretty cool pictures of *huge* caves.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/01/largest-cave/peter-photography
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/01/largest-cave/peter-photography
Watched part of the rescue-turned-recovery efforts. I was on duty the day it happened.
was this in the early 90s?
Yes, if my notes had not burned up in a barn fire, I could tell you the exact day and hour.
1991 or 1992.
On edit, it was 14 January 1992. http://www.anft.net/f-14/f14-serial-09.htm BUNO 160664
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CWJones411
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^^^Now THAT is fucking cool. I've been waiting to see the WW2-style.
Because I answered some technical questions on an earlier work of his, UK Aviation Artist Pete Wenman featured my old aircraft, NF-213 in his latest work, By the Dawn's Early Light.
This 36"x24" oil on canvas original should be on display at the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola next summer...
The middle aircraft in the painting – NF- 210 - is "in a zillion pieces on a karst ridge" in North Vietnam, as described by its RIO. He was shot down, severely wounded and captured along with his pilot. Both became POWs, and both thankfully returned.
His recent words regarding the painting and his POW experience:
I saw Ted a few times after he was repatriated. But I hadn't seen Dave since the day he was shot down, until this past summer. It was a very good and heartfelt reunion.
Other aviation art by Pete.
[Sorry for the shameless plug, but these guys help keep our history alive, long after we are gone.]
This 36"x24" oil on canvas original should be on display at the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola next summer...
The middle aircraft in the painting – NF- 210 - is "in a zillion pieces on a karst ridge" in North Vietnam, as described by its RIO. He was shot down, severely wounded and captured along with his pilot. Both became POWs, and both thankfully returned.
His recent words regarding the painting and his POW experience:
”Aside from the very occasional MiGCAP, the best hops a j.o. could draw were the armed recces in route pack 5/6 at first light -- targets of opportunity as mostly we defined them, hoping to catch those night trucks trying to squeeze in a few extra kilometers before parking under the trees for the day.
(Don't think that scenario didn't occur to Ted and I when we were being trucked to Hanoi).
RIP NF210 in a zillion pieces on a karst ridge in Thanh Hoa Province. Lost on one of those low altitude, go fast, flak magnet, Baby Giant photo escort missions, that we all came to enjoy, on 27 Aug over Phu Ly Bridge when all hell broke loose and luck petered out."
(Don't think that scenario didn't occur to Ted and I when we were being trucked to Hanoi).
RIP NF210 in a zillion pieces on a karst ridge in Thanh Hoa Province. Lost on one of those low altitude, go fast, flak magnet, Baby Giant photo escort missions, that we all came to enjoy, on 27 Aug over Phu Ly Bridge when all hell broke loose and luck petered out."
I saw Ted a few times after he was repatriated. But I hadn't seen Dave since the day he was shot down, until this past summer. It was a very good and heartfelt reunion.
Other aviation art by Pete.
[Sorry for the shameless plug, but these guys help keep our history alive, long after we are gone.]
Don't know about the current staus of NATOPs re: dissimilar .... BUT:
I do remember one A-7 and one Boeing 727 that flew 'dissimilar form' through the WX/clag in the upper MidWest (can't remember the airport ... Detroit?? Chicago ??? Milwaukee ??)
If you can believe it -- the B727 was tits-up on the radios, but the A-7 was asked and accepted a radar vector over to her 'on top' and led the 3-holer down through the WX to a successful landing.
The B727 pilot was a former USN Aviator ...
The A-7 pilot subsequently got a job @ the airline.
As it should be ...
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