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Wow, now I’m homesick for VS21. I deployed on Enterprise with them in ’86, then with “SEAOPDET” North Island in ’88, as a “VASTard”.
Shipmates,
So, now that the P-3′s are being shelved, with the P-8 still not in the fleet, and with the S-3′s all going away… just what are we going to do about ASW? Mkay?
Let me guess…. sonobuoy dispensers for F/A-18′s? Superhornet ASW mod?
Sounds about right. The bloviating bassids in the 5-sided wind tunnel shell out billions for F-22′s that can’t cross the international date line, but the Navy has to sacrifice it’s best ASW assets?
Someone remind again, please. Just why is it that we have a seperate Air Force?
Respects,
Tim,
P-3′s were Navy planes? Hm. Learn something every day.
N
Holy crap, the N3 from when I was in Bahrain made an appearance.
Nose… funny. Very funny…
Lookit: SOMEONE had to show the Air Force what a cost-effective, fuel-efficient, all-weather operations capable aircraft looks like.
Respects,
Hmmm… maybe they ought to put sonobouy dispensers on the B-52 Stratofortress wing stations…
Otherwise, I suspect there are some submariners out there going, “Good, fewer people we’ve got to coordinate with to make sure we don’t get attacked by our own side.”
A good song for a Hornet pilot to sing while he is in the tanker pattern now……….”We all surely miss S-3′s….”.
That was funny!
Oh lord, I’ve been gone so long I don’t recognize anyone.
Probably a good thing…
Hmmm – Hornet MAD Traps, the mind boggles. From Super Hornet to Super LAMPS.
Hehehehe.
Really have to watch the target fixation, though.
Yak,
problem is, at the “loiter” speed of a Hornet, you’d have to punch out the weapon before you called out “madman!”… sort of a new-age zen ASW mantra, no? Heh…
“Envision the sub. Understand the sub. Become the sub.”
Just get me within a half a klick. We’ll do the rest with Jez and a slide rule.
“Find sub. Sink sub. Ice beer, put steak on hibachi.” Repeat.
Respects,
AW1 Tom
Seen this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxF7NemHSsA
Sharpen your plastic 10 points (no electrical shocks, now), and enjoy the smell of burning paper, DIFAR, DICASS, MADMAN, no Julie.
-SJBill
Single-seat pilot reaction: Get your G-d d-mned hands off my throttles.
Freak.
I think this is a plot to get AW’s out of the ready room.
My dad used to say that the only difference between a P-3 pilot and an S-3 pilot was the flight suit. The P-3 ones had extra-large pockets to hold all their per diem money.
Oh Dear Lord. The non-Orion types do so love to whine about per diem. Not that I’d EVER stir the pot… but you apparently don’t understand how hard it was for us to fly for 10 hours and only be able to sleep for 6 of it. You have no idea how awful it was to not be able to drink beers when we had the Ready Alert. Or how we had sleep in our private rooms at the Air Force constructed barracks on deployment. Oh yeah, that’s right – you WANTED to be in jets. Boo Hoo.
Yeah, yeah. Whine, whine.
I remember Husband leaving early dark thirty and coming home after the kids were in bed because their 15-hour pre-flight to debrief was delayed several hours. I also remember some brilliant yahoo deciding that only the pilots living on base should be called in for emergency flights, too.
Keep your whinging down — you gots what you chose!
Tim sez: Sounds about right. The bloviating bassids in the 5-sided wind tunnel shell out billions for F-22?
Tim sez: Sounds about right. The bloviating bassids in the 5-sided wind tunnel shell out billions for F-22’s that can’t cross the international date line, but the Navy has to sacrifice it’s best ASW assets?
Uh, forgive me, Tim, but I don’t think the AF had any part of setting aviation asset acquisition priorities for the Navy. You guys did it all your-own-selves. So…they may be bassids, but they’re your bassids.
I’m new to the fleet but I miss S-3′s. If it meant that I didn’t have to stand the TTLR or fly the STNK, I’m all for keeping them around.
P-3W,
You don’t always get what you choose-you get what the Navy chooses many times. However, we tend to like what we get. I’ve never understood that very much. But it is true.
Ask your husband about the quality spread some time.
Did any notice that in the montage of videos in the U-tube frame is one of aircraft mishaps? I took a look at it and its got the infamous C-2 stall off the cat-when a generator broke loose and shifted aft on the CAT shot. Scary stuff.
I flew both S-3s and P-3s. Both have their purposes but S-3s were better for me. I disliked the P-3 so much that I paid back my bonus money to transfer early. Decided that they could keep their per diem. It takes at least 11 people in a P-3 to do what 3 people could do an an S-3. There are still P-3s flying right now, their just a dwindling fleet. The Navy restricted how many flight hoursit can fly a month, so that it can make it to delivery of the P-8.