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Nice. That early shot on the LL with the ship on the beach looks like the "Wet 1" LL off the Red Sea in SA.
 
funny how all the flathatting video's come out when something retires! Good video though!!!
 
What are the different tail letters for? "NL", "NH", etc?

Also, how does a squadron name come to be? "Satan's Kittens" is particularly charming.
 
dodge said:
What are the different tail letters for? "NL", "NH", etc?

Also, how does a squadron name come to be? "Satan's Kittens" is particularly charming.
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VF-191 "Satans Kittens" got their lineage from the original squadron with the same name and VF- number...
They were originally a Korean war Era squadron that was formed from the Blue Angels... so to switch things around for their wartime purpose, they took the name "Satan's Kittens"

and the tail letters are for each CVW...
NL is from the now diestablished CVW-15
and NH is from CVW-11
West-coast CVW tailcodes start with N
and East coast with A
:)
 
That video is Fighter Fling 2004, there are 8 or 9 Fighter Flings going back to mid -90's over at patricksaviation.com, if you guys like this one check out the others, they are all good, plus the site has tons of awesome flight videos
 
The F-14 will never be forgotten! It will live on forever in the movie TopGun. Its still the most beautifull Fighter ever made. I will always regret never flying it
 
yup Fighter Fling 2004. Got it at the Oceana airshow a couple of years ago, it's great stuff, no Tomcat fan should go without it! $20 bucks too! She'll be greatly missed
 
I really liked how the video start off with the fist tomcat ejection. Thought that was pretty funny. It was a great aircraft and will be surely missed.
 
To all the Tomcat crews past and present "Anywhere, Anytime Baby!", and thank you for your service with that magnificant bird. The plane and the community will be surely be missed. There will never exist another truely fighter squadron (VF) anymore in the Navy. History is passing us by this September, and its damn shame. Good luck to VF-31 with their transition period. Hopefully I will at least get to be part of one of the legacy tomcat squadrons, if I get TACAIR. Concentrating on IFS right now and its a long road ahead, but I'm out to do my best to get there.

-Taz24th
 
beau said:
funny how all the flathatting video's come out when something retires! Good video though!!!
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Aww man, I thought 15-20 feet off the desert floor, while passing a dirt road, was a common altitude to fly at.:D

-Taz24th
 
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