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Old January 30th 07, 03:04 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
Bob Moore
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Default Neptune at Dubbo

CWO4 Dave Mann wrote
This looks like the photo recon version with the zillion candlepower
strobes in the wing tips. Rare bird. The Mohawk had a similar system
only the strobe light was under the fuselage.


Nope! Just the standard 30 million candle power, copilot controlled,
searchlight mounted on the starboard side only.

It's a standard SP-2H of the RAAF. There is a photo of its sistership
number 81 on page 240 of Wayne Mutza's "Lockheed P2V NEPTUNE, An
Illustrated History"

Bob Moore
VP-21, SP-2H, 1959-1962
PanAm (retired)