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100th Anniversary of US Naval Aviation - 2011 #4877147 01/29/11
Joined: May 2005 Posts: 17,133 Freedom Pugs OP Campfire Ranger
OP Pugs Campfire Ranger Joined: May 2005 Posts: 17,133 Freedom	2011 is the 100th anniversary of Naval Aviation, and by default USMC and Coast Guard Aviation since we all wear the same Wings of Gold. It started with Eugene Ely launching from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham (CL-2) off Virginia in Nov 2010 and then in Jan 2011 recreated the feet including landing this time on the USS Pennsylvania (ACR-4) in San Francisco Bay. As part of this celebration each community has painted one of their planes in a historic scheme from that rich history and I thought folks here might like to see some of them. I�m proud to have worn those Wings for 20 years. Mine were Naval Flight Officer wings, specifically an Electronic Countermeasures Officer in the E-6B, the smarter and better looking half of the Naval Air team, but make no mistake, we are a team as committed to the mission and each other as we have always been. MH-60S (BuNo 166323) "Knighthawk" - HSC-3 "Merlins" - Paint as reminiscent of aircraft of the 1950s TH-57C (BuNo 162064) "Sea Ranger" - Training Wing FIVE (TRAWING5) - NAS Whiting Field - Paint as US Navy aircraft prior to 1917 T-45C (BuNo 163656) "Goshawk" - Training Wing TWO (CTW2) - NAS Kingsville - Paint as Reminiscent of the 1930s �Yellow Wings� T-45C (BuNo 167100) "Goshawk" - Training Wing TWO (CTW2) - NAS Kingsville - Centennial scheme TC-12B (BuNo 161197) "Huron" - Paint as 1942 Coral Sea Markings with red and white rudder T-6B "Texan II" (BuNo 166064) - VT-3 "Red Knights" - NAS Whiting Field - Paint as reminiscent of trainer aircraft of the 1940s & 1950s [img]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b52/gaepps/Aviation/1291958118-1.jpg[/img] S-3B (BuNo 160581) "Viking" - VX-30 "Bloodhounds" - NAS Point Mugu - Paint as TBF Avengers during the Battle of Midway [img]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b...018732_62148248732_5541266_2905156_n.jpg[/img] T-44A "Pegasus" - NAS Corpus Cristi - Paint as a Navy-Curtiss NC-4 Flying Boat 1919 [img]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b52/gaepps/Aviation/xT-44A160984-10.jpg[/img] T-39N "Sabreliner" - VT-86 "Sabrehawks" - Paint as ENT air wing markings circa 1938 (yellow wing & tail blue) [img]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b52/gaepps/Aviation/xT-39N165523-11.jpg[/img] If something on the internet makes you angry the odds are you're being manipulated

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Re: 100th Anniversary of US Naval Aviation - 2011 Pugs #4877148 01/29/11
Joined: May 2005 Posts: 17,133 Freedom Pugs OP Campfire Ranger
OP Pugs Campfire Ranger Joined: May 2005 Posts: 17,133 Freedom	T-34C "Mentor" (BuNo 161841) - Training Wing FOUR (TRAWING4) - NAS Corpus Christi - Paint as 4th Section leader USS Ranger EA-6B "Prowler" VAQ-129 - Paint as USS Coral Sea airgroup markings (one of my old squadrons) EA-18G "Growler" - Paint as three-tone WWII (same scheme as a late war F4U Corsair) P-3C "Orion" - VP-44 - Paint as Battle of Midway VT T-34C with a Coast Guard Scheme 1935/36 I'm sure more will be coming out this year and there will be some better shots of the finished birds - I'm sure they will be hitting the air show circuit this summer. If something on the internet makes you angry the odds are you're being manipulated

Re: 100th Anniversary of US Naval Aviation - 2011 Pugs #4877169 01/29/11
Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 12,895 North Wales, UK Pete E Campfire Outfitter
Pete E Campfire Outfitter Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 12,895 North Wales, UK	Cheers Pugs, those are great pictures! Men of Harlech

Re: 100th Anniversary of US Naval Aviation - 2011 Pugs #4877203 01/29/11
Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,896 Nebraska FlyboyFlem Campfire Outfitter
FlyboyFlem Campfire Outfitter Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,896 Nebraska	Congrats Pugs and to all Campfire Squids and the rest for a long history of keeping America safe!!! You better be afraid of a ghost!! "Woody you were baptized in prop wash"..crossfireoops Woody

Re: 100th Anniversary of US Naval Aviation - 2011 FlyboyFlem #4877218 01/29/11
Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 15,289 Wyoming and Arizona jnyork Campfire Ranger
jnyork Campfire Ranger Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 15,289 Wyoming and Arizona	Originally Posted by FlyboyFlem Congrats Pugs and to all Campfire Squids and the rest for a long history of keeping America safe!!! Yup. Great pix.

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Re: 100th Anniversary of US Naval Aviation - 2011 jnyork #4877294 01/29/11
Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 73,096 Punta Gorda, FL T LEE Campfire Kahuna
T LEE Campfire Kahuna Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 73,096 Punta Gorda, FL	OUTSTANDING Pugs, a BIG thanks Sir. George Orwell was a Prophet, not a novelist. Read 1984 and then look around you! Old cat turd! "Some men just need killing." ~ Clay Allison. I am too old to fight but I can still pull a trigger. ~ Me

Re: 100th Anniversary of US Naval Aviation - 2011 T LEE #4877320 01/29/11
Joined: May 2005 Posts: 17,133 Freedom Pugs OP Campfire Ranger
OP Pugs Campfire Ranger Joined: May 2005 Posts: 17,133 Freedom	Originally Posted by T LEE OUTSTANDING Pugs, a BIG thanks Sir. The service was my pleasure. I am a mere less than shadow of the giants of Naval Air history. If something on the internet makes you angry the odds are you're being manipulated

Re: 100th Anniversary of US Naval Aviation - 2011 Pugs #4877366 01/29/11
Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 62,043 Northern Virginia I isaac Campfire Kahuna
isaac Campfire Kahuna I Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 62,043 Northern Virginia	Superb thread!! The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. William Arthur Ward

Re: 100th Anniversary of US Naval Aviation - 2011 isaac #4877452 01/29/11
Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 6,001 L levrluvr Campfire Tracker
levrluvr Campfire Tracker L Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 6,001	Thanks for the cool pics Pugs- my father was a Naval Aviator

Re: 100th Anniversary of US Naval Aviation - 2011 isaac #4877455 01/29/11
Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 42,615 Orange Park, Florida jorgeI Campfire 'Bwana
jorgeI Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 42,615 Orange Park, Florida	Pugs: I checked the BUNO on that Viking in my log books and guess what? Logged 4.2 hrs in her in 1996 when I was going through the VS RAG at North Island in 96 as PXO. :::SIGH::: A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”

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Re: 100th Anniversary of US Naval Aviation - 2011 jorgeI #4877475 01/29/11
Joined: May 2005 Posts: 17,133 Freedom Pugs OP Campfire Ranger
OP Pugs Campfire Ranger Joined: May 2005 Posts: 17,133 Freedom	Cool - I need to find the buno of that Prowler - better than even odds I flew it at some point in one of my 5 squadrons. Levrluvr - What did your Dad fly? If something on the internet makes you angry the odds are you're being manipulated

Re: 100th Anniversary of US Naval Aviation - 2011 Pugs #4877480 01/29/11
Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 2,715 west Pa. RAS2 Campfire Regular
RAS2 Campfire Regular Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 2,715 west Pa.	Cool pics Pugs. Didn't realize it's been that long already. "That's what happens when your leaders stop being an American and start being a politician." George S. Patton What would Yoda do...your ass kick it he would.

Re: 100th Anniversary of US Naval Aviation - 2011 jorgeI #4877524 01/29/11
Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 12,895 North Wales, UK Pete E Campfire Outfitter
Pete E Campfire Outfitter Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 12,895 North Wales, UK	Originally Posted by jorgeI Pugs: I checked the BUNO on that Viking in my log books and guess what? Logged 4.2 hrs in her in 1996 when I was going through the VS RAG at North Island in 96 as PXO. :::SIGH::: For a minute I though your were going to say you were Eugene Ely's wing man! Men of Harlech

Re: 100th Anniversary of US Naval Aviation - 2011 Pete E #4877580 01/29/11
Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 42,615 Orange Park, Florida jorgeI Campfire 'Bwana
jorgeI Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 42,615 Orange Park, Florida	Jeez, I ain't that old! A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”

Re: 100th Anniversary of US Naval Aviation - 2011 jorgeI #4877639 01/29/11
Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 12,895 North Wales, UK Pete E Campfire Outfitter
Pete E Campfire Outfitter Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 12,895 North Wales, UK	More seriously, my google fu found this: Perhaps the true start of Naval aviation is even further back? Below depicts a recce balloon which I gather dates to the Civil War.. Last edited by Pete E; 01/29/11. Men of Harlech

Re: 100th Anniversary of US Naval Aviation - 2011 Pugs #4877764 01/29/11
Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 6,001 L levrluvr Campfire Tracker
levrluvr Campfire Tracker L Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 6,001	Originally Posted by Pugs Levrluvr - What did your Dad fly? P2V's- sub chasing. From what my aunt tells me, he was pretty stressed by it. He developed a duodenal ulcer during his duty in the Korean War, had to leave on a medical discharge. He passed away when I was four, one week after Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

Re: 100th Anniversary of US Naval Aviation - 2011 Pete E #4877771 01/29/11
Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 23,319 Oklahoma OrangeOkie Campfire Ranger
OrangeOkie Campfire Ranger Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 23,319 Oklahoma	Dang, I remember when we were makin' a big deal out of the 75th year of Naval Aviation. Time sure passes when your havin' fun. "All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth." – Robert E. Lee

Re: 100th Anniversary of US Naval Aviation - 2011 levrluvr #4878584 01/30/11
Joined: May 2005 Posts: 17,133 Freedom Pugs OP Campfire Ranger
OP Pugs Campfire Ranger Joined: May 2005 Posts: 17,133 Freedom	Originally Posted by levrluvr Originally Posted by Pugs Levrluvr - What did your Dad fly? P2V's- sub chasing. From what my aunt tells me, he was pretty stressed by it. He developed a duodenal ulcer during his duty in the Korean War, had to leave on a medical discharge. He passed away when I was four, one week after Kennedy's assassination in 1963. That was a tough business back then. The P2V's were critical at tracking shipping during the Cuban Missile Crisis as well as around the world working the growing Soviet sub threat. Sorry he wasn't around for you. If something on the internet makes you angry the odds are you're being manipulated

Re: 100th Anniversary of US Naval Aviation - 2011 Pugs #4878618 01/30/11
Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 62,043 Northern Virginia I isaac Campfire Kahuna
isaac Campfire Kahuna I Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 62,043 Northern Virginia	No Skyraiders?? WTF?? The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. William Arthur Ward

Re: 100th Anniversary of US Naval Aviation - 2011 isaac #4878712 01/30/11
Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,896 Nebraska FlyboyFlem Campfire Outfitter
FlyboyFlem Campfire Outfitter Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,896 Nebraska	Originally Posted by isaac No Skyraiders?? WTF?? Bob,the Squids wore em out in Korea and then turned em over to the Airfarse in SEA ......actually not true just tryin to start some chit You better be afraid of a ghost!! "Woody you were baptized in prop wash"..crossfireoops Woody

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