Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Tomcat

 


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    1. No.
      Say it with me: "Jet Blast Deflectors."
      Afterburner is hard on cat crew deckhands' underpants.

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  2. Why is the hull number on the bow upside down?

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    1. That was the first thing I noticed too, Rick. It's not a reversed photo because the angled flight deck is correct.

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    2. Me 3.

      Unless someone's been hiding CVA-09 from us, because Saratoga's deck number is right-side up in every pic I've ever seen.

      Maybe this was in the 1960s, when the military was taking the 60-IQ recruits, and the dyslexic SOB's painted it backwards.

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  3. Lot of interesting and informative Tomcat stuff at the Ward Carroll YouTube posts.

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