And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I watched one of these crash on the flight deck of the USS Oriskany CV34 via closed circuit TV in 1976. Pilot ejected, but I don't recall if he was retrieved alive. Also that's the model jet that John McCain was shot down in.
That's the USAF version, check the tail. Worked on them in the nat'l guard. ALQ-119 (the buck 19) electronic warfare pod there on the pylon. Worked on those also.
A simple, inoffensive sub-sonic jet, but nothing to write home about, and famous for being purchased for nearly 20 years, years and years after it was obsolete and surplus, simply because of the power of certain TX congressmen on the House Armed Services Committee, which was not coincidentally also LTV's state of manufacture.
A-7 SLUF! (Short Li'l Ugly F--Uh--Fella)
ReplyDeleteI watched one of these crash on the flight deck of the USS Oriskany CV34 via closed circuit TV in 1976. Pilot ejected, but I don't recall if he was retrieved alive. Also that's the model jet that John McCain was shot down in.
ReplyDeleteMcCain was shot down in a A-4E Skyhawk.
ReplyDeleteThat's the USAF version, check the tail. Worked on them in the nat'l guard. ALQ-119 (the buck 19) electronic warfare pod there on the pylon. Worked on those also.
ReplyDeleteYou sir, are correct.....Navy version was labeled "Corsair II"...
DeleteA plane that proved if you had a big enough engine you can make any airframe fly.
ReplyDeleteIowa ANG?
ReplyDeleteI see scenes like this and I think X-wing fighters on Hoth.
ReplyDeleteA simple, inoffensive sub-sonic jet, but nothing to write home about, and famous for being purchased for nearly 20 years, years and years after it was obsolete and surplus, simply because of the power of certain TX congressmen on the House Armed Services Committee, which was not coincidentally also LTV's state of manufacture.
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