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Haze gray and underway

F-18 traps

Wave-off

F-14A+ VF-211 OK-3

F-14A+ VF-24 reasdy to ;aunch

Hummer traps

Blue Diamond A-7E traps

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Jack, When were these taken. It must have been during a reserve cruise as I see CAG 30 aircraft ( VFA-305 f-18's and VAW-88 E-2c ) we were on the Nimitz just prior to desert storm and the airwing disestablished in '93-'94. I don't think they went on the Nimitz again after '91. I was an airframer in VF-302.

Those were in 1990 I'm thinking when the res airwing was onboard.
I recall their CAG going apesh*t because the Hornets foded 4 engines in has many days.
24 hr fod walkdowns and watches on each a/c were
the order of the day. Fun 2 weeks for those guys
I have a pile of photos of the CVWR flight ops.

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Interesting that a #6 dyna-tube cap was found in the engine of an A-6 parked in the hangar, the PC found it while diving the duct during a daily inspection, seems that it was back about as far as it could be placed. Yes it was the cruise from HECK, landing A/C by type and then FOD walkdown before the next type came aboard. We had to crane off one of our 14's because there were no spare engines on board. I remember lots of steel shot and welding rod stubs on the flight deck and in the catwalks during FOD walks before we left Bremerton. I remember the CAG telling the airwing that one more FOD'ed engine and we would be pulling in and craning everything off, the FOD's stopped and nobody ever did find out who or what was the cause was. The feeling I got was the ships crew was unhappy, seems a few went to the news in seattle and said some things that caused a little problem. Long time ago.

I'm thinking that that was our first underway period after the SLEP.
The workload in AIMD was pretty light

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Yepper, and why would they cut the brackets off the hangar door and reweld them a couple of feet down just right to catch the top of a tomcats vertical fin, never knew you could bend the fin that far over without breaking it. although the blue shirt that was leaning agaist the stab found out how hard it will hit your ribs when it all springs back. No spare tip caps on board so 600 mph tape and send it home. I would have thought AIMD wouldn't want the work so why FOD stuff, you had no spares available anyways. oh by the way, were they mad at having to leave the Bremalo behind and go out to sea.