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Old 04-21-2020, 05:40 AM   #1
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Military Aviation

I worked in Naval Aviation for 40+ years. I’ve seen a lot of military aircraft come and go. Would you like to see where I’ve found a lot of them? My pictures will include aircraft from all USA services.

These are just introduction pictures. The first is me (18) just after reporting to my first duty station right out of boot camp . The place; Naval Air Station, Oahu, TH; the Squadron AIRBARSRON2, (1957); the aircraft Super Connie, Navy designation, WV-2, referred to as, Willy Victor.

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Old 04-21-2020, 06:01 AM   #2
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Speaking personally I would. I love all things that fly. I had an ex Naval Aviator as my flight instructor (private ticket, not military) and I can remember some of things he taught me that I think went well beyond the "required" training.
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Old 04-21-2020, 06:01 AM   #3
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Corsair II

An USN A7 Corsair II aircraft getting ready to launch from a bow cat off the USS Midway (CVA-41). The picture was taken by me. It was 1971 and we were in the South China Sea providing support for our forces in Vietnam.

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Old 04-21-2020, 06:16 AM   #4
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Devils Lake, ND

Just driving around the countryside looking for flea markets/yard sales and behold. At a smallish local airport we found this bird on display.

Cities & town all around the country really like to build monuments with some sort of aircraft as the primary element. This one did not have a placard.

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Old 04-21-2020, 06:39 AM   #5
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I grew up just off the approach path to the Glenn L. Martin Company (now Martin State Airport KMTN) in Middle River, MD. That's also where I learned to fly. I watched a lot of aircraft fly over between Martin and the 2 Air Force Reserve wings. Martins had a ramp into the water for testing their air boats. Later they shifted to aerospace and I watched as the "Pregnant Guppies" would fly in and load up. They have a small museum there but I like Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Dulls VA, can't get enough of that place.
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Old 04-21-2020, 07:59 AM   #6
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Just driving around the countryside looking for flea markets/yard sales and behold. At a smallish local airport we found this bird on display.

Cities & town all around the country really like to build monuments with some sort of aircraft as the primary element. This one did not have a placard.

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The bird you have pictured is a McDonnell F-101B VooDoo, but I'll bet you already knew that. I was a crew chief on the RF-101C model at Ton Son Nhut AFB. The other pic you have of the Super Connie brings back memories of my time in Taiwan pulling alerts for them flying along the coast of China. I was crewing an F-102A back then and we would scramble our alert jets when they were being harassed by the Red Chinese Air Force.
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Old 04-21-2020, 08:03 AM   #7
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I started in the Navy in 1971,became an Aviation Electricians Mate, a ships company tour onboard the USS Forrestal where I was in the shop and also did some Aircrew duty on the C1A, then shore duty to San Diego, then P3 Flight Engineer for 12 years and finished up back in San Diego as a C2A crewman as my last tour before retiring. I know a little bit about Naval Aviation.

CW, was that Willy Victor squadron the precursor to VQ1? I know the Norks shot down a Navy EC-121 in 1969 with 31 people on board.

There were only a few countries I was concerned when flying close aboard and the number 1 was North Korea, you never knew what they would do.

Russian not so worrisome, they were professionals just as we were. They would intercept but just hang out with us for a while.

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Just driving around the countryside looking for flea markets/yard sales and behold. At a smallish local airport we found this bird on display.

Cities & town all around the country really like to build monuments with some sort of aircraft as the primary element. This one did not have a placard.

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We have a F101 on display at Fairchild AFB, along with the only B52 that shot down a MIG in air combat. There are some others there also. The F101 is special because it has a Genie missile mounted underneath it. The Genie was a 1.5 Kilo ton unguided air to air nuke used for air intercepts. That was back when it was assumed the Russians would send in waves of bombers to do the job so a air to air nuke would ruin their day. Ours too but people didn't think of that much back then.

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btw: I could talk airplanes and aviation all day!!
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Old 04-21-2020, 10:16 AM   #9
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CW, was that Willy Victor squadron the precursor to VQ1? I know the Norks shot down a Navy EC-121 in 1969 with 31 people on board.

ercept but just hang out with us for a while.
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Yes, 1971.

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Old 04-21-2020, 10:29 AM   #10
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That's kind of neat, you were around at the inception of the DEW line, which is why the WV were out there, probably filling in gaps in the line.

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Old 04-21-2020, 02:39 PM   #11
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I started in the Navy in 1971,became an Aviation Electricians Mate, a ships company tour onboard the USS Forrestal where I was in the shop and also did some Aircrew duty on the C1A, then shore duty to San Diego, then P3 Flight Engineer for 12 years and finished up back in San Diego as a C2A crewman as my last tour before retiring. I know a little bit about Naval Aviation.

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Sounds like you left NASNI just before I got there? I worked on S-3's for 5 years there. 94-99. I finished up my career in Army Aviation.
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I started in the Navy in 1971,became an Aviation Electricians Mate, a ships company tour onboard the USS Forrestal where I was in the shop and also did some Aircrew duty on the C1A, then shore duty to San Diego, then P3 Flight Engineer for 12 years and finished up back in San Diego as a C2A crewman as my last tour before retiring. I know a little bit about Naval Aviation.

CW, was that Willy Victor squadron the precursor to VQ1? I know the Norks shot down a Navy EC-121 in 1969 with 31 people on board.

There were only a few countries I was concerned when flying close aboard and the number 1 was North Korea, you never knew what they would do.

Russian not so worrisome, they were professionals just as we were. They would intercept but just hang out with us for a while.

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Do you remember we were heading to Crete from Athens ⁶with a Russian destroyer tried to keep up and blew its boiler? Captain Linder offered assistance to throw salt in the wound.
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Sounds like you left NASNI just before I got there? I worked on S-3's for 5 years there. 94-99. I finished up my career in Army Aviation.
I was in AIMD at NASNI from 75 to 78. I was assigned to the VAST shop running boxes off of the S3 and occasionally F14 boxes brought down from Miramar. I was one of the few AEs that got that job because shortly after they said we didn't have the digital background needed. SO they said, a monkey could have done that job.

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Do you remember we were heading to Crete from Athens ⁶with a Russian destroyer tried to keep up and blew its boiler? Captain Linder offered assistance to throw salt in the wound.
A shipmate!!!! Nice.

I don't recall that incident but I do recall Capt. Linder. We spent so much time in the Med those 3 years I was aboard I could probably still find my way around Athens and Palma.

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I was on the C1A crew during the 72-73 med cruise. An AMS. The best duty on the ship.
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I was on the C1A crew during the 72-73 med cruise. An AMS. The best duty on the ship.
I got to ride the C1 on occasion, it seems I was one of the only AEs on the ship that knew how to rebuild a carbon pile voltage regulator and then parallel the generators. I was onboard from 72 to 75. That 72-73 deployment was a long one and as I was young and dumb I loved every second of it. How else could a poor boy from Oklahoma get to spend 10 months cruising around the Med?

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Army Aviation

Army Aviation?

Yup, I've got them.

One of our major routes out of FL is US-231. Nice highway and relaxing traveling.

Our normal stopover is Der Run near Troy, AL.

Fort Rucker does not have a military RV park so we had never been there. I was somewhat curious about their aviation museum. So, one time we stopped in Ozark, AL for a side trip out to the museum. We were just going to spend a couple of nights that ended up being four nights because after seeing the golf courses at Fort Rucker I just had to play all three courses (Red, White & Blue).

I've got at least a hundred pictures taken at the museum and I'll post more in the weeks to come.

I hardly ever take a camera or cell phone with me when golfing, so not many pictures there. I have a bad habit of forgetting them in the golf carts.

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1976 - 1985 USN AT Aircrew in the E-2 Hawkeye at NAS Miramar, deployed on Nimitz on the MED turned I/O extended cruise where we flew the Iranian Hostage Rescue mission, then WESTPAC cruises on Constellation and Ranger.
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CW.....I have a friend that flew the A7s on and off the carriers. As a reference, he is 66-67 years old now and is also fast as crap on a motorcycle racetrack. We worked together as Instructors for the largest motorcycle trackday organization in the country.
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1976 - 1985 USN AT Aircrew in the E-2 Hawkeye at NAS Miramar, deployed on Nimitz on the MED turned I/O extended cruise where we flew the Iranian Hostage Rescue mission, then WESTPAC cruises on Constellation and Ranger.
I was a CVW8 flight deck maintenance chief when the H-53s came aboard Nimitz from Diego Garcia, 1979.
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This picture has had some rough handling. I don’t know how it survived.

My second duty station in the Navy was at Naval Air Station Alameda, CA. The squadron was VP-9 and the aircraft was a P2V-7.

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This picture was taken by me. It's a P2V-7 on display at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, FL. Behind it is a F-14 from VF-84, with the paint scheme used in the movie, "The Final Countdown"; filmed - in part - aboard the USS Nimitz.

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