Still, my beating heart: A T-2 Buckeye with a tactical paint scheme. And – at the link – actual bombs.
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Fifty years of Pregnant Guppies – who’d a thunk it?
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Thunder Buckeye!By lex, on May 20th, 2008
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The Guppy and the Viking finishing the same year. Who’d have thunk it?
My first flight in the Navy: April 1977 in a T-2C.
Last flight: May 1989 in a T-2B. Both at VT-10.
And 1500 hours in Hoovers in between.
Real bombs at that- Look like M-117s. I presume that’s the HAF?
Somehow the “barber pole” tip tanks don’t seem to fit the scheme. Plane’s had a great record though.
Imagine if they fit a minigun in her nose. It’d out ugly a ‘Hog.
Gotta chuckle. Only 40 years ago the Buckeyes were aboard Essex whilst we were subbing for the Lex. We needed no ear protection whatsoever.
VT-26 Airframes: February 1977 to December 1978.
We had 70 of them when I reported aboard as a rather new AMH2. Three shifts, six to seven days a week. We probably pulled five to seven phases on mid check,every night. I did 7/14/28 day inspections for awhile. Needless to say I was busy.
It was a fairly simple airplane for us. The ailerons and elevator had boost packs. The speed brakes were easy to take care of and the only problem with working on the flaps was the access to the fuselage. I used up alot of #30 bits and #2 easy outs.
If done right, one guy could jack the airplane. This was not recommended, however.
I had a low power turn qual and after a windscreen replacement that could be fun. It took two guys to alternate holding the brakes.
I even had a tailpipe fire one night. The student aviator forgot to secure the master switches. My plane captain and NC-8 operator beat feet right after the P/C gave me the fire signal. I took the throttles to about 30% real fast and it blew out. The fireball was interesting to say the least. But it didn’t last very long.
The most unique thing about this tour was when I shipped over to go back to sea in VA-145. I had the distinction of having Major L.W. Hutson do the honors. That was special.
I delivered 13 of the 40 aircraft HAF buy in 1977-78. I was lead pilot, and we went in flights of 3 or 4. Route was from the factory in Columbus, OH, to Griffiss or Plattsburg AFB, Goose Bay, then either Fort Chimo (now Kuujuak) or Frobisher Bay (now Iqaluit) on Baffin Island, then to Sondrestrom, Keflavik, Prestwick, Ramstein, Aviano and then finally Kalamata, Greece. Never any aircraft problems in somewhat daunting weather and climate conditions. The aircraft could cruise climb to 50.000 feet! (Never told the controllers…)
They are HAF and the folks on the board are Greek. Just looking at those posts gave me some rather uncomfortable flashbacks to my school days.
Wilko,
Except for combat , it is good to be seen by fellow aviators. Many with greater than 1000 hours have had a moment or two when other intrepid air comrades have neared using the same airspace simultaneously. The shadow of a P-3 completely darkens the cockpit of an F-4, from my view. I was in TF-9F’s.
I must have come into the break from the initial over Perdido Pass in a T-2/A-4 at least a hundred times…plus when I went feet wet over the beach I could see who was parked in the driveway at the Snake Ranch..Ah what a life so long ago…..A dream in the minds eye.
Seeing how you’re checking out the Hellenic AF , check out their SLUFs on L/L:
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/low-flying-hellenic-a7-corsair-low-level/3637405546
Maybe Vikings soon to come.
b2
Flightdeck Friday: T-2 Buckeye Memorial Day Ed…
Sometime this summer an orange and white jet that bears a passing resemblance to a guppy or bullfrog, will drop out of a white-hot Arizona sky to the scorching pavement at Davis-Monthan AFB – aka the Boneyard. It will be the final flight, at least in…..