Some lovely old machines up in Seattle, once you get past that flying drumstick there at the top, swiftly followed by the Turkey below it.
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Hey watch it, Bub! That Intruder is a beaut. (OK. only if ugly turns ya on.)
There’s more bombs on that plane than an Alpha strike of Bugs.
@XBrad – You nailed that one. With a sledgehammer.
God, I wish NAVAIR had sh!tcanned the A-12 and expended the resources to finish the A-6F program. Very much a needed asset, IMO. Desert Storm would have benefited greatly from the F model.
Anyone who loves the Prowler loves the Intruder too. Concur, best naval bomber/attack aircraft ever.
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Fwiw, XBradTC’s Dad was an Intruder driver who did a couple of tours in RVN. We in the AF always called ‘em “Mini Arc-Lights.” An impressive bomb-load capacity indeed.
Only one tour. But On the very day of my birth, he was CQ’ing on the Big E for that deployment.
I so was headed to an NFO billet, and had savored a career in the A-6 community. My eyes went past the limit, Vietnam started winding down and thus I took the next best job: AW.
I would have loved to at least have gotten a ride in one, though. Sigh.
That and the Tomcat 21 program…
- SJS
bz to BZ for some beautiful shots (done apparently with a single 18-105mm lens, which ain’t always easy to pull off). I really do have to see about getting one of these D-something beauts.
Beautiful displays. I’ve always wanted to get up there. I’ve been to the Air and Space Museum and the Annex by Dulles. Best museums in the world, IMHO.
Every time I drive past there on I5 I tell myself that I’ve got to stop one of these days….
I attended a Microsoft hosted party after hours at the museum a few years ago. I had dinner sitting under that SR-71. The coolest part of the visit was talking to an actual WWII naval aviator (currently acting as a Docent) standing next to a model of the carrier he flew off of way back when. Just. Too. Cool.
Hey, I resemble that remark!! Hmmm, Attack bubbas: Make History Fighter Pukes: Make Movies. I’ll settle for the history books, thank you.
Oh, and Bug guys: Look for the tanker, IIRC. (G,D & R)
Thanks for the late afternoon PrOn,
Comjam
Yeah and you fighter guys don’t appreciate fine aircraft until it’s time to plug in after those three bolters out there on Gonzo! A fighter or fighter attack guys favorite thing is the hose and basket from a buddy store or K bird!!!!!
I would prefer that wonderful Intruder in the Colours of Attack Squadron One Four Five(79-82) or One Two Eight(82-85 & 89-92). But the Turtle Herders will do. Apologies to Gary Brattain and Forrest Lester for that one!
Anyone else find it interesting that the coolest aircraft at the “Boeing” museum of flight (ok, I know it’s “Boeing Field”) are built by Grumman?
@Nose: Not lost on me. Followed in a very close second place by North American. It’s difficult not crossing line to go in and touch the aircraft. The museum is a great trip down memory lane, and I always feel right at home.
Friends love hearing about times spent doing this and that with different types of aircraft, especially the part about climbing inside the tail of an F-4 to change the Tailhook damper; no mean feat when you’re 6’3″/245. That and changing the hydraulics control valve on the center front spar of the F-86 were my favorite jobs. Oh wait. Almost forgot about repacking and servicing the nose landing gear strut on the F-4. Everything, including your skivvies went into a garbage bag after that one.
Tell people the stories and most go into MEGO mode pretty quick.
Ah, the joys of aviation!
By a show of hands, how many have seen the Blues so many times that it’s almost a non-event? almost…
Methinks the host doth protest too much because there are no photos of his fabeled steed, nor any of his steed’s brothern. Perhaps it is just that the Fastidious and Andromidious 18 has not yet achieved the august stature to be included in a musueam of this quality. BTW, where is the Whale?
Boss:
“Where is the Whale?” Funny you should mention. Whidbey now has a group looking to place one up there. There’s an EA-3B at NAS Norfolk (just rescued out of NAS Rota) that looks like it’s going to wind up on Yorktown, while Whidbey is next in line, followed by the USS Alabama collection in Mobile. NAVAIR says, as of now, 2010 is the end of the trail for the last four flying Whales down at Van Nuys with Raytheon, so if someone at BFI has the juice, it could snag one literally flown right in for delivery. There are four more in preservation at Mojave that are going to be struck soon, so there’s another source. These guys: http://www.A3Skywarrior.com are kind of the locus for all of this activity, they’re trying to place as many remaining airframes as possible.
They do have a YF-17 cockpit mockup for the kids to play in at the museum. Or they did a few years ago.
delete the u please. I sure miss the edit feature.lol
Sure you dint mean to say Androgynous? ;*)
Yep, Mongo, that sounds much better. Befuddled by the rum I think.
No F6F? How Sad, they need an SBD and a TBM, too.
Kind of a secondary display to the Boeing Field exihibit, but located in McMinnville,OR (good grape juice in the area!) is the Evergreen Museum that has some interesting planes too. Evergreen did/does? work for the gubmint.
http://www.sprucegoose.org/aircraft_artifacts/planes.html
I have to admit an unbridled and irrational love for the P-40N Warhawk with the extra large cowling, awesome shark mouth paint job, and olive green top / gull gray underside. That thing (airplane sounds too civilized for it), along with the F-4 Phantom, are just flat out the most unmistakeable aircraft ever built as nothing but pure, nasty, *war machine.* They just look like they are aching to go into harm’s way, do their worst, and cruise dominantly over the defeated enemry. A child who’s never seen a plane before could glance upon those and immediately know exactly what they were all about without anyone having to tell them.
Living up here in the “Great Northwet”, I would have to say that the “Boeing Museum of Flight” is one of the wonders of the world. When I still had a medical, I would attend the FAA “Wings” presentations that are held there every month. They cover Northwest weather, mountain flying, etc… Great presenters, and valuable information for flying in this part of the country. When the show was over, we were allowed to wander throughout the facility with no admission fee, no escort, no restriction. What a wonderful place.
It is magical, to an airplane junky…
If you’re up here, it is well worth the visit.
Cheers!
ChrisP
Hey, that’s good timing, Lex; I was just at that museum last Friday, on my first visit to Seattle in about 15 years. His pictures certainly turned out better than mine. Also took the Boeing factory tour up the road in Everett, which is amazing, and saw the small but jaw-dropping “Flying Heritage Collection” owned by Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen, also at Paine Field. (flyingheritage.dot.com) The latter features some of the best-restored and valuable WW2 warbirds on Earth, and almost all fly regularly!
Just don’t forget Lex that fighter guys make movies but attack guys make history.
The Naval Aviation Museum at Pensacola is also truly awesome, if a little bit off the beaten path for most folks. Definitely worth the trip.