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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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I wonder who bought her. The museum and its exibits went up for auction in
December last year. "Glenn Alderton" wrote in message ... |
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