We can be driving somewhere and him ask me “hey you ever watch that flight of the intruder? “ Oh my foucking Gawd…i just say yeah with you… a lot and dont want to hear a story about it, the end
Then he shifts to CSI miami, new orleans, denver, buffalo, newark, blah blah blah
He is so lucky to have such an understanding son.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
I've become friends with a man at the gym where I work out. He was a USMC pilot flying the A4Skyhawk over Vietnam. He did 70 missions, so he told me. I'll have to ask him if he ever flew the Intruder.
After getting out of the Marines, he flew for American Airlines, 28 years. Helluva nice man, along with his wife, too. They both attend the gym same days I am there.
L.W.
"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." (William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830s.)
I've become friends with a man at the gym where I work out. He was a USMC pilot flying the A4Skyhawk over Vietnam. He did 70 missions, so he told me. I'll have to ask him if he ever flew the Intruder.
After getting out of the Marines, he flew for American Airlines, 28 years. Helluva nice man, along with his wife, too. They both attend the gym same days I am there.
L.W.
. 363 Skyhawks were lost in Vietnam, I just looked it up. Holy crap and that's just one aircraft type. Who thinks the Russians weren't manning those SAM launchers and radars ?
I have several buds that flew the A-6. The guys in the following incidents were IPs with me in VT-9 ‘77-‘78 or so…great guys you’d want on your team.
One was nearly killed when the large, heavy TDI attitude gyro (I think that’s what it was called) came out of the instrument panel on a night cat shot. It jammed the stick full aft and knocked the pilot out. The BN was able to reach over and get the thing off the pilot and get the nose down until the pilot came to. IIRC the thing weighted 65-70 lbs. Adrenaline can do wonders!
There had been at least one other incident where i think the BN was able to eject them ok.
Another who had flown A-4s in Vietnam was going through the weapons and tactics phase of the A-6 replacement squadron. They were bombing on one of the live ordnance targets in the Chocolate Mountains north of the NAS El Centro. I think the mishap was attributed to one of the Mk 82s arming early off the rack and a bomb to bomb collision below my bud’s aircraft and killed both of them. Left a wife and two teenagers.
The last one was also doing the weapons phase in the East Coast replacement squadron at NAS Oceana. I was in the F-4 RAG at Oceana at the time. They were doing a night, low level, nuclear weapons delivery at Dare County range in North Carolina. They flew into the trees on the W-E run in line at about 450 kts. Pretty sad memorial service…he left his wife and baby boy.
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We can be driving somewhere and him ask me “hey you ever watch that flight of the intruder? “ Oh my foucking Gawd…i just say yeah with you… a lot and dont want to hear a story about it, the end
Then he shifts to CSI miami, new orleans, denver, buffalo, newark, blah blah blah
Have a buddy that was on the Independence while they were filming the movie. He’s in one of the scenes and says he still receives a check every so often for his appearance. Have always enjoyed the movie.
I flew the EA-6B, the better looking fighting drumstick from the Grumman Ironworks.
When I got to NAS Whidbey in 88 they were filming the movie. They did a really good job in some respects making the A-6E's look like VN era A-6A's with new paint and removing the TRAM ball under the nose and the flying scenes in the movie were really good but they altered the story from the book far too much into implausible.
I was sure I was going to be an A-6 Bombardier all through flight school but come winging day (that last one of the FY) they sent the #1 guy to NAS Oceana with A-6's and everyone else got EA-6B's to fill a class at the FRS. Oh well, worked out well in the long run and I look back on 2200 hours in the Prowler with fondness.
Was going through pics recently and here's one I took on the wing of a VA-65 A-6E carrying a buddy store on the centerline station for aerial refueling. You can see the ball under the nose that was the TRAM (Target Recognition and Attack Multi-sensor). This was in 90 off the Lincoln as my Airwing did the shakedown cruise.
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I've become friends with a man at the gym where I work out. He was a USMC pilot flying the A4Skyhawk over Vietnam. He did 70 missions, so he told me. I'll have to ask him if he ever flew the Intruder.
After getting out of the Marines, he flew for American Airlines, 28 years. Helluva nice man, along with his wife, too. They both attend the gym same days I am there.
L.W.
. 363 Skyhawks were lost in Vietnam, I just looked it up. Holy crap and that's just one aircraft type. Who thinks the Russians weren't manning those SAM launchers and radars ?
My friend said to me, "I always felt damned lucky that when I returned to base, I did not have any more holes in me than when I started the mission. Can't say the same for my plane."
L.W.
"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." (William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830s.)
I flew the EA-6B, the better looking fighting drumstick from the Grumman Corporation.
When I got to NAS Whidbey in 88 they were filming the movie. They did a really good job in some respects making the A-6E's look like VN era A-6A's with new paint and removing the TRAM ball under the nose and the flying scenes in the movie were really good but they altered the story from the book far too much into implausible.
I was sure I was going to be an A-6 Bombardier all through flight school but come winging day (that last one of the FY) they sent the #1 guy to NAS Oceana with A-6's and everyone else got EA-6B's to fill a class at the FRS. Oh well, worked out well in the long run and I look back on 2200 hours in the Prowler with fondness.
Was going through pics recently and here's one I took on the wing of a VA-65 A-6E carrying a buddy store on the centerline station for aerial refueling. You can see the ball under the nose that was the TRAM (Target Recognition and Attack Multi-sensor). This was in 90 off the Lincoln as my Airwing did the shakedown cruise.
I flew the EA-6B, the better looking fighting drumstick from the Grumman Ironworks.
When I got to NAS Whidbey in 88 they were filming the movie. They did a really good job in some respects making the A-6E's look like VN era A-6A's with new paint and removing the TRAM ball under the nose and the flying scenes in the movie were really good but they altered the story from the book far too much into implausible.
I was sure I was going to be an A-6 Bombardier all through flight school but come winging day (that last one of the FY) they sent the #1 guy to NAS Oceana with A-6's and everyone else got EA-6B's to fill a class at the FRS. Oh well, worked out well in the long run and I look back on 2200 hours in the Prowler with fondness.
Was going through pics recently and here's one I took on the wing of a VA-65 A-6E carrying a buddy store on the centerline station for aerial refueling. You can see the ball under the nose that was the TRAM (Target Recognition and Attack Multi-sensor). This was in 90 off the Lincoln as my Airwing did the shakedown cruise.
There is something about that plane. It looks like a guppy, but I really like how they look.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
I was at Ft. Hood doing the medevac mission (UH1V) when that movie came out. Saw it at a theater in Killeen. Yea, we all wanted to be A6 pilots the next day. A fun time for us was NOE at 90 knots. I did get to see a whole lot of Ft. Hood most folks no longer get to see.
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I couldn't believe my eyes in 2005, al asad airbase iraq. AE-6 Prowlers operating daily. Replaced by the F-18 Growler? Anyway one of my favorites. Thanks you guys that flew it!
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