Neptune at Dubbo

Bob Moore wrote:
CWO4 Dave Mann wrote
I am wondering if the "flash bulb" P2V was something special cooked up
for Vietnam. We had two of them flying out of Da Nang with US Army
crews on board. That was from mid-1965 to -mid 1967.

The US Army operated AP-2E (P2V-5F) ECM aircraft from Cam Rahn Bay (67-72),
the Navy operated OP-2E with machine gun pods from Nakhon Phanon, Thailand,
and the Navy operated AP-2H armed ECM aircraft along the Ho Chi Minh Trail
from 1967 to 1969.

Bob Moore

Thanks for the corrective info Bob ... nothing like 40 years to muddle
the puddle!

Cheers,

Dave

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.

Cheers,

Dave

that's gotta make for interesting flying at night.....

redc1c4,
(a *little* too exciting for me. %-)
--
"Enlisted men are stupid, but extremely cunning and sly, and bear
considerable watching."

Army Officer's Guide

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.

Cheers,

Dave

that's gotta make for interesting flying at night.....

redc1c4,
(a *little* too exciting for me. %-)
--
"Enlisted men are stupid, but extremely cunning and sly, and bear
considerable watching."

Army Officer's Guide

I remember when we were testing the OV-1 strobes in Vung Tau way back
when...

JT




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.

Cheers,

Dave

I remember when we were testing the OV-1 strobes in Vung Tau way back
when...

JT




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.

Cheers,

Dave

redc1c4 wrote:
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.

Cheers,

Dave

that's gotta make for interesting flying at night.....

redc1c4,
(a *little* too exciting for me. %-)

Hey Red, yes I imagine it was. I've been on the ground when we had an
IMINT mission come over and it was really creepy, like one of those
disco dance places during the 1970's with the strobes.

You could see it at Ft Huachuca, AZ all the time, almost every night.
Looked like the mothership beaming down. I wonder now why they didn't
design in an infrared system, but then the only thing I know about the
OV1 family is that it was so ugly it was beautiful. High performance
bug ...

Cheers,

Dave

redc1c4 wrote:
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.

Cheers,

Dave

that's gotta make for interesting flying at night.....

redc1c4,
(a *little* too exciting for me. %-)

Hey Red, yes I imagine it was. I've been on the ground when we had an
IMINT mission come over and it was really creepy, like one of those
disco dance places during the 1970's with the strobes.

You could see it at Ft Huachuca, AZ all the time, almost every night.
Looked like the mothership beaming down. I wonder now why they didn't
design in an infrared system, but then the only thing I know about the
OV1 family is that it was so ugly it was beautiful. High performance
bug ...

Cheers,

Dave

I wonder who bought her. The museum and its exibits went up for auction in
December last year.

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