Blue Angels, the Early Years, pt 3 - Douglas A4 Skyhawk Blue Angels 08.JPG (1/1)

That looks like El Centro. I spent a week there one day.

Rob
"Mitchell Holman" wrote in message
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Hell! That's not "Early". Early is Hellcats or Bearcat years.


"Scubabix" wrote in message
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That looks like El Centro. I spent a week there one day.

Rob
"Mitchell Holman" wrote in message
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"Chuck" wrote in
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Hell! That's not "Early". Early is Hellcats or Bearcat years.



It beat "Prior" years and "Previous" years in
all the polls I have taken.......

This is a great shot of the best looking 2nd generation carrier jet. Long
live the Skyhawk.

Mitchell Holman wrote in news:Xns9A839AD17CBBCta2eene@
216.196.97.131:

"Chuck" wrote in
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Hell! That's not "Early". Early is Hellcats or Bearcat years.



It beat "Prior" years and "Previous" years in
all the polls I have taken.......


And it's been 22 years since the Blues flew Scooters.

Gawd, I'm old...

Bob ^,,^

Not only good "looking" but one helluva good fighting and surviving little
bird.
I got to fly one 'way back in 1956 in Alameda California, (before NATOPS),
when
all you had to do to check out in a bird was to get someone to show you how
to
start it. (small wonder why our accident rate was so high), but "what the
hell!",
planes were cheap and if you screwed up, it was your own damned fault for
trying something you couldn't handle.

But I digress, After two tours on USS Boat in the Tonkin Gulf flying F8
Crusaders
I was amazed at the battle damage those little *******s could sustain and
still
bring their drivers home. They did a lotta' damage considering the
constraints
imposed by Robert STRANGE and LBJ. By contrast, the F8 was so tender that
a kid with a slingshot could almost bring you down, so speed was your only
defense.
My hat will always be off to the "Tink" drivers as I saw them disappear in a
flak
or SAM burst and still fly out the other side only to go back the next day
and
do it all over again.



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This is a great shot of the best looking 2nd generation carrier jet. Long
live the Skyhawk.

And it's been 22 years since the Blues flew Scooters.

Gawd, I'm old...

Bob ^,,^

Damn, and I'm getting old too. The first time I saw them, they were flying
the F11F's. Of course I was VERY young then.

Rob