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Old 04-22-2020, 12:26 PM   #21
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I was a CVW8 flight deck maintenance chief when the H-53s came aboard Nimitz from Diego Garcia, 1979.
Fair winds and following seas for those shipmates who gave the ultimate sacrifice on that mission.
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Old 04-22-2020, 02:26 PM   #22
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Castle AFB museum

Never had opportunity to serve, injured by a drunk driver as a teen, but love airplanes and such. Lived on Little Rock AFB for six years when married to my ex. She was a fuel system specialist on the C130 Hercules, later an instructor. This is one of my favorites from our Local closed Castle AFB open house.
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Old 04-22-2020, 06:40 PM   #23
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Nellis AFB

Saw this F4 Phantom II on the way to the golf course at Nellis AFB, Las Vegas, NV.


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Old 04-22-2020, 07:51 PM   #24
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This is the first or one of the first F14s to be aboard a carrier. Wwe craned the first one to get launched from a carrier onboard the USS Forrestal (Pier 12 NAVSTA Norfolk) in 1973, I believe.During that at sea period off of VA we did several launches and traps of the F14 for suitability trials.



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Old 04-22-2020, 08:06 PM   #25
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The Air Force still has a flying F4 (possibly, older picture), it is from the drone squadron at Holloman AFB. They keep this one around and use it for legacy flights on the air show circuit. Quite possibly the last one as the rest have been used as aerial targets.





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Old 04-22-2020, 11:59 PM   #26
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Convair XFY Pogo

This is the Pogo, an early experimental manned vertical takeoff aircraft of the 1950s.

In the late 1960s and on into the early 1970s, this bird was on display at Naval Air Station Norfolk, VA. The NAS was merged with Naval Station Norfolk in the 1990s and retains that name today.

You can read all about the Pogo at Wikipedia.

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Old 04-23-2020, 04:47 AM   #27
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Nimitz 1980 - one of the H-53 helicopters from HM-16 that was later "borrowed" and participated in Operation Eagle Claw, the Iranian Hostage Rescue mission.
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Old 04-23-2020, 05:09 AM   #28
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This is the Pogo, an early experimental manned vertical takeoff aircraft of the 1950s.

In the late 1960s and on into the early 1970s, this bird was on display at Naval Air Station Norfolk, VA. The NAS was merged with Naval Station Norfolk in the 1990s and retains that name today.

You can read all about the Pogo at Wikipedia.

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Take off wasn't too bad but landing it? No thanks.

I spent a lot of time in Norfolk, Hampton Roads, Chesapeake area. Loved the fighters constantly doing touch and goes at Oceana. I would drive down 301 and cross the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnels. One trip I stopped at the gift shop/restaurant at the south end. I ordered a flounder sandwich and it was amazing. They bought the fish from local fisherman so it was fresh and it was huge. That became a regular stop as I would set and eat while watching the hovercraft go past from the nearby base. I've seen one carrier deployment and it was quite impressive. The carrier, an attack sub, missile cruiser, and the gun boat escorts.
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Found a picture of the flounder sandwich. Now I'm hungry!
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Old 04-23-2020, 06:07 AM   #30
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USS Nimitz (CVN-68) - 1980

I was one of three Carrier Air Wing maintenance chiefs during the whole Iran operation.

Unless you’ve spent some time in an aviation environment on an aircraft carrier you probably cant’s even come close to imagining how difficult it was to deal with these aircraft people that had no flight deck experience and were given sort of carte blanche authority with just about everything they wanted to do. Count the yellow shirts in that picture, 10, and 3 in tan pants meaning CPO or Officer. Yellow shirts are responsible for all aircraft movements/positioning on the flight/hangar decks.

During daylight hours we had to move them to the hangar deck to hide them from satellite detections. Then the Nimitz CO would have to find cloud cover or a rain squall to hide in so they could come up and fly.

When aircraft are moved around the ship, each squadron maintenance chief or his flight deck coordinator has to make a request for aircraft movement with the air wing maintenance chief, who in turn will work with the aircraft handler to find a suitable place for the aircraft to be spotted for the maintenance function to be performed. If the ship is not in cyclic operations (round the clock) the individual squadron maintenance chiefs will provide an aircraft schedule by side number for the first launch of the coming day to the air wing maintenance chief who will work with the aircraft handler to get all aircraft spotted for that launch.

Now we have to work with those helos, which take nearly as much space as three A7 aircraft. Sometimes we would have to go out on the flight deck and work with their maintenance coordinator just to make one simple move.

The aircraft templates used on the huge Plexiglas flight & hangar deck mockups are cut to scale. On the mockup there is a scale model – by side number – for every aircraft onboard when the days launching starts. Someone in ships engineering made some for the H53s.

Sorry, that’s a lot of writing. I hope it gives some insight into just how difficult it was for us to bring those huge aircraft aboard with no place to send air wing aircraft to make room for them. We were operating so close to Oman we were out of range for our mail which came from Diego Garcia.

The Nimitz is a large nuke carrier with 4800 – 5200 people onboard and we had sand on the flight deck. Was we, the ones working the flight deck, the only ones to notice the sand?


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My favorite. Of course I may be a little prejudiced, it brought me home every time we went out, for more than 5000 hours worth of boring holes in the sky.



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Old 04-23-2020, 08:24 AM   #32
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Most people don't realize that a carrier only has one (in my day) aircraft, the rest are detached land based squadrons. Night ops are a sight to behold.
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Old 04-23-2020, 08:32 AM   #33
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Most people don't realize that a carrier only has one (in my day) aircraft, the rest are detached land based squadrons. Night ops are a sight to behold.
I don't even think they have the one anymore. All of the C2s are land based and will det with the boat.

I have to agree, night ops with planes launching with afterburner on and position lights all lit getting thrown into the blackness of the night ocean sky is quite a sight. During my ship's company tour I worked 7p to 7a when at sea, I spent a lot of time on vulture's row at night.

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Mail call! almost - this War Hoover didn't have the buddy store, but was the only aircraft with the legs to make the trip from Diego Garcia to GONZO Station.
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Old 04-23-2020, 09:23 AM   #35
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And then here's my Hawkeye just over the round down.

And a "then" and a "now" comparison ... the Hawkeye has aged better than the crew.
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Old 04-23-2020, 09:55 AM   #36
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^^^^

When I was onboard the USS Forrestal the shop I worked in (AIMD Power/Generating) shared a space with the E2 radar bench and AT's. We had a west coast squadron onboard for one of our deployments and IIRC some of them cross decked when we were relieved in the Med. We did the cross deck in the Atlantic. They are the reason I ended up in San Diego, they made it sound like paradise compared to Norfolk (it was!).

In preparation for my last tour where I went to VRC 30 (C2s) in San Diego I did the E2/C2 RAG at Miramar (VAW110).

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Old 04-23-2020, 01:01 PM   #37
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I took these pictures from "vultures row" on the USS Midway - 1972.



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CVA-42, Swanky Frankie checking in! Yep... another Airdale! ‘68 - ‘70, ATR in AIMD-IM3 just across from Vultures Row on the 03 level. That was after a tour at NAS JAX.

Don’t know if they’re still there, but NASWillow Grove, PA had a display of captured WWII German & Japanese planes, as well as some early Navy jets by the main gate. Base has been decom’d, but I believe still launches P-3s.
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Found this: https://wingsoffreedommuseum.org/wp/
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Fort Rucker, AL

The Army Aviation Museum at Fort Rucker is comprised of indoor and outdoor aircraft displaying areas. The indoor area is nearly as large as the outdoor. The indoor displays date back to very early aircraft.

Here are some from the WW1 era.


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