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Another one with lots of ink in my log book!

The T-39 or an F3F off the Big E in 38?

Touche'

We launched 3 B-25s, 2 Corsairs a Wildcat and a few others off the Carl Vinson for the 50th anniversary of VJ day. Was cool to be standing on the flight deck launching (deck runs actually) those old warbirds. Aircraft were craned aboard in San Francisco and launched just off Waikiki. The landed at Barbers Point Naval Air station before being loaded back aboard and taken back to San Fran where they launched off again.

I would to have love to have seen that.

We took a squadron of USMC OV-10's across the Atlantic and deck ran them in the Med. They stopped in Egypt for fuel before heading to Saudi Arabia.

The used the angle and before they had near reached the end of the deck they had the gear up and were climbing away. Not a fast plane but as it can carry two people and a bunch of stuff in the back I thought it would make a great backcountry plane for someone.

Great thread, Pugs! And thanks to the 100yrs of Naval Aviators who have served and defended our country.

I was a FAC(A) in the Tomcat and really liked the OV-10s. Read every book I could about them back in Vietnam. A re-engined version with a targeting pod would be very useful today.

Friend of mine works for Grumman and they proposed just such a beast as they apparently have all the North American Rockwell tooling. Cost was enormous though. Apparently there would have to be enough changes to meet modern standards that it would be just as easy to build a new plane.

I think they're looking at one built on the Tucano platform.

A few more of note.

101104-N-0000X-001 NORFOLK (Nov. 1910) In this file photo provided by the U.S. Naval Historical Center taken in November 1910, a floating crane from Norfolk Naval Shipyard lifts a Curtiss Model D biplane to the deck of the Chester-class cruiser USS Birmingham (CL 2). Civilian aviator Eugene B. Ely flew the plane off Birmingham on Nov. 14, 1910, the first aircraft launch from a warship. (U.S. Navy photo/Released)


101112-N-9589S-003 NORFOLK, Va. (Nov. 12, 2010) Retired Navy Cmdr. Bob Coolbaugh, prepares to fly his replica Ely-Curtiss Pusher aircraft on board Naval Station Norfolk, as part of a ceremony to commemorate 100 years of naval aviation. The orginal Curtis Pusher flown by Eugene Ely took off from the light cruiser USS Birmingham on Nov. 14, 1910 marking the beginning of Naval Aviation. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Richard J. Stevens/Released)


101115-N-3885H-191 NORFOLK (Nov. 15, 2010) A shooter signals to retired Cmdr. Bob Coolbauth, the pilot of a replica of a Curtiss-Ely Pusher, on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). The Curtiss-Ely Pusher was the first aircraft to launch from the deck of a Navy ship. The original aircraft was flown off the deck of the light cruiser USS Birmingham by Eugene Ely on Nov. 14, 1910, to launch naval aviation. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nicholas Hall/Released)

Ah yes, but you tread the same halls Sir.