Here’s the link to a picture of a Navy NC-121 Super Constellation that I took in 1980. http://www.flickr.com/photos/9632389@N03/2560951879/ The plane was retired a couple of years later, flown to a museum in South Carolina, where it was left uncared for, and now only the forward 53 feet of the...

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Here are a couple of pictures of the Navy's NP-3D, which I believe is stationed at Patuxent River NAS. http://www.flickr.com/photos/9632389@N03/3702385420/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/9632389@N03/3702385394/ Anybody know exactly what the Navy is doing with this plane? It seems to me to be part...

You'all realize that when the EA-6B is retired in favor of the new EA-18G Growler, the only Grumman-built aircraft still in service in the navy will be the E-2 hawkeye and the C-2 Greyhound, right? So, Include here, a few pictures as sort of my tribute to seventy years of great contributions to...

Here's some of my pictures of vintage airplanes, mostly warbirds, but a few others as well (such as an old Beech Staggerwing). http://rides.webshots.com/album/554498717HQTHOO

I've read about the experiences of a few pilots who have had to eject - by all accounts it's an extremely violent process which none would care to repeat. Obviously it's done as a last alternative when the potential benefits out weigh the considerable risks. In the GA world it's not an option that...

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(Pechs1) wrote in : jhp- unless the wings are taken from you, you can wear them even when you're not flying anymore. What about other insignia? For example, a SEAL that gets hurt and can no longer operate in the community,...

Somebody on another forum was trying to convince people that because of the gasoline shortages during WW-II that there were quiet a few aircraft that actually used diesel fuel. I know that people are playing with that today, but was it really used in aviation back then? Thanks, Coug

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I'm writing an article about the North Korean shoot down of a Navy EC-121M surveillance aircraft in 1969. The plane was from VQ-1. Thirty men died. I have several pictures of Navy EC-121Ms, but not the actual aircraft and not from 1969. In the mid-sixties they had a much darker paint...

A few months ago Playboy magazine had a picture of an all-black F-14 with the bunny logo. I thought this logo had been banned from Navy aircraft after the Tailhook scandal. Does anybody know any details? D

I just read in Defense News that the carrier USS America is going to be sunk in tests off the East Coast of the US. They will detonate various explosives aboard her to determine how much damage she takes. Six A-7 Corsairs will be located at various positions to see how much damage they take. The...

Can anybody point me to a good account of Randy Cunningham's dogfight in Vietnam? Book or magazine form is okay. D

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51177-2005Apr13.html Iranian Pleads Guilty In Arms Export Sting By Eric Rich Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, April 14, 2005; Page A14 Federal agents operating undercover in Maryland snared an Iranian citizen