Gord,

Your several recent references to the Argus reminded me of a visit by a
number of we NAS Whidbey junior officers to CFB Comox one winter weekend in
1972. The purpose, of course, was some trans-national goodwill and
celebration at the Comox Officers Mess with our hosts and several lovely
ladies. All had the proverbial good time.

(For those unfamiliar with the geography of the Pacific Northwest, CFB Comox
is located on the east (inland) side of Vancouver Island. It's about a 3 - 4
hour drive from Whidbey, depending upon how long you must wait for the
Vancouver - Nanaimo ferry.)

In the course of the evening, one of our folks managed to big-deal a hop in
one of Comox's Argus fleet the following flying day. He suffered a short
rug dance before COMFAIR WHIDBEY upon his return (not s'posed to do such
things unless all the bureaucrats sign off beforehand) but all was forgiven
quickly.

Our guy reported back that the Argus was quite a capable platform, disguised
in a rather homely airframe. Homeliness was not a problem to any of us who
flew the Ugly for our paychecks, though.

Have you any Argus stories to share with us?
--
Mike Kanze

"We all know the modern American campus, or think we do: concentration
camps of the mind where students are tortured by baby-boom professors whose
speech codes, leftist politics and unseemly obsession with race, sex and
gender have distorted the ideal of higher education."

- Philip Terzian


"Gord Beaman" wrote in message
...
Jim Carriere wrote:
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Mk 54's are depth charges...



Hmmm, my assumption was wrong. I figured they must be some big

You were both right, there is a Mk 54 lightweight torpedo coming...
someday. More or less the brains of the Mk 50 and the body of the Mk 46.

I did not know (or forgot) there was such a thing as a Mk 54 depth
charge. I've heard of the B57, you really only have to be close with
that one, like horseshoes and hand grenades, but no need for a
followup

Yes, I see that, called a 'hybrid' torpedo. Guess the Mk54 DC is
so old that it's not spoken of now...or at least predates google
so far that it doesn't list it, might very well do too, we used
them on Lancasters in the mid fifties, pretty damned impressive
explosion they produced too. I don't really know much about them
(it was 50 years ago) except that they weighed 450 pounds and
that they helped the Argus CG a lot because we carried them in
the forward bomb bay.
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-Gord.
(use gordon in email)