Yeah, really I'm talking crazy aerodynamics...
On the other hand, does anyone remember the Soviet sub overflown by a Navy P-3 in the 1980s that had a mockup small SAM launcher up on the sail? There was some turbulence after that photo hit the fan...
So -- if you think you've got intell collectors watching you, paint up a blue missile all authentic colors and mount it on a pylon facing backwards... Hope that word filters through to the bad guys and who knows? Maybe that MiG pilot will twitch a bit, thereby causing him to miss. The Chinese Nationalists lost a lot of aircraft over the years, including several P2Vs (RB-69As).
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Don McIntyre
Larry,
I heard the same stories you did (30 years ago or so, I'm a retired
AW), and I haven't been able to find anything that verifies the story.
Even some of the guys I knew flying in the "spookier" P-3s, that I knew
for years wouldn't verify anything.
Don McIntyre
Clarksville, TN
|
I was a CTI back-ender and it's only been the past few years that I have allowed myself to THINK about this stuff...let alone verify.
Here's a photo of a black-painted P-3 at NAF Naha in October of 1966 for maintenance. According to
www.vpnavy.net it's buno 149678, an EP-3B of VQ-1. It was later converted to an EP-3B and was in VQ-1 but in October of 1966 it was still a P-3A, albeit modified, and belonged to the CIA/ROCAF and was flying from Taiwan, etc. Note the CHINAT insignia, along with a few odd bumps and whatnot, including adapter rails on the wing pylons...