The wife has gone to be with her family in Hilton Head SC, so it's just me & the cat. I did not go because I take the "emergency on call" duty every Thanksgiving, & my boss, the Chief Inspector, takes Christmas. That way, I can spend Christmas at the beach!
So to occupy my time I thought I would do a few random one's.
All photos are from the U.S.F.G. unless otherwise noted.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING everyone!
A-4F Blue Angel 6 over runway 1984.JPEG A Douglas A-4F Skyhawk fighter (BuNo 154172) of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration team over the runway. -
A U.S. Navy Grumman A-6E Intruder (BuNo 159899) from attack squadron VA-165 Boomers aboard the aircraft carrier USS Constellation (CV-64) on 15 February 1990. Note the non-standard camouflage paint. In the background is a Lockheed S-3A Viking (BuNo 160578) from anti-submarine squadron VS-33 Screwbirds. Both squadrons were assigned to Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9) for a voyage aboard Constellation from San Diego, California, to Norfolk, Virginia, around Cape Horn from February to April 1990 -
A Vought F4U-4B Corsair of U.S. Marine Corps fighter squadron VMF-214 Blacksheep being readied for takeoff between August and November 1950 on the escort carrier USS Sicily (CVE-118) for a strike in Korea. * Receives final checks to its armament of bombs and 5-inch rockets, just prior to being catapulted from USS Sicily (CVE-118) for a strike on enemy forces in Korea
A U.S. Navy Douglas A-1H Skyraider (BuNo 139768) from attack squadron VA-25 Fist Of the Fleet, Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2), on the port catapult of the aircraft carrier USS Midway (CVA-41). This plane was flown by Lt. Clint Johnson on 20 June 1965, when four A-1s from VA-25 were attacked by North Vietnamese Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17s. Johnson and his wingman Lt. Charlie Hartman shot down a MiG-17 which attempted a head-on pass -
A Grumman S-2A Tracker (BuNo 136658) of anti-submarine squadron VS-29 Tromboners. VS-29 was assigned to Anti-Submarine Carrier Air Group 53 (CVSG-53) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kearsarge (CVS-33) and flew the S-2A from 1960 to 1963. Note that both the MAD-boom and the radar are extended. This plane was later sold and converted to a fire-fighting plane -
A South Vietnamese Air Force Sikorsky CH-34C Choctaw (US Army s/n 63-13201) lifting a VNAF Cessna O-1 Bird Dog in 1968. -
An OA-37B Dragonfly prepares for a low-level strafing mission at dawn. The modified version of the T-37 flight trainer aircraft has been adapted for use by forward air controllers and as an observation and attack aircraft. -
A U.S. Army Grumman OV-1A Mohawk (s/n 59-2607) taking off. This aircraft crashed on 16 June 1965. -
U.S. Air Force forward air control instructor Maj. Scott Shinn explains the Cessna O-2A-CE Super Skymaster (s/n 68-10872) aircraft's rocket pod firing sequence to three other Missouri Air National Guard pilots of the 110th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida (USA), on 1 August 1980. -
An Attack Squadron 72 (VA-72) A-7E Corsair II aircraft is given a final check before being launched from the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69). Date 26 February 1988(1988-02-26) -
A U.S. Air Force North American F-86D-40-NA Sabre fighter (s/n 52-3787) used by the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), at Moffett Field, California (USA), for gunsight tracking and guidance and control displays from 17 March 1955 to 1 February 1960.
Helicopter picking up Captain Beach for transfer to the White House. Photo courtesy of the Triton's (SSRN-586) photographer, William Hadley via Garry Gray. Date 10 May 1960
North American XB-70A with Convair B-58A chase aircraft before landing. The white colour is pardly burned down through the high temperatures during a high-speed test Date not given.
A Martin AM-1 Mauler of attack squadron VA-174 taking off from the aircraft carrier USS Kearsarge (CV-33) during carrier qualifications in 1949. The tests took place in the Atlantic Ocean off Naval Air Station Quonset Point, Rhode Island (USA). -
C-124 at Hamilton AFB, California being prepared to load a Lockheed F-104 Starfigther being transported to Formosa, 1958 Date 1958(1958) Source USAF Photograph published in "MATS: The Story of the Military Air Transportation Service", -
U.S. Navy Martin PBM-3C Mariners of patrol squadron VP-201 at Naval Air Station Banana River, Florida (USA), some time between December 1942 and February 1943 -
A rocket assisted take-off (RATO) of a U.S. Navy Grumman TBF-1 Avenger torpedo bomber in 1943. The rockets delivered an additional 330 horsepower -
Just thought I would finish with a "Turkey In A Hurry"
Robbie
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