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.
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Looks like somewhere in California's Central Valley
It's amazing how geography looks alike at the same latitudes around the globe, or the same distance from the equator. You'd feel right at home in many of those places.
Lockheed nailed it with the P-3 Orion, based off of their Electra passenger turboprop. The things have so much power, they can take off with only one engine running, the other three still. Pilots say it handles like a single-engine plane... I've seen them used as firefighters, and remember a pilot following the terrain up a mountain dropping fire retardant. .
I've seen the Oz asw guys at the commissary at Jax, the flight suits are different from the U.S. issue. Nas Jax, Home of the tube slugs!
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ReplyDeleteP 8 Poseidon, P 3C Orion, P2V-7 Neptune and PBY Catalina.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how geography looks alike at the same latitudes around the globe, or the same distance from the equator. You'd feel right at home in many of those places.
ReplyDeleteExcept Sub-sahara Africa.
DeletePBY Catalina did some amazing service in WWII
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Photo is over South Australia Photo taken from a RAAF PC9 for the arrival ceremony for the P8
ReplyDeleteWhat are those tube shaped things at the ends of each wing of the airplane? I looked on Wikipedia, but I can't figure it out. Are those fuel tanks?
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ReplyDeleteFar more likely the Oxnard and Ventura fields near Pt. Mugu.
NAS nearby, and only about 30 miles from the Lockheed plant in Burbank.
Unless they sourced the legacy birds and shot it Down Under.
DeleteLockheed nailed it with the P-3 Orion, based off of their Electra passenger turboprop. The things have so much power, they can take off with only one engine running, the other three still. Pilots say it handles like a single-engine plane... I've seen them used as firefighters, and remember a pilot following the terrain up a mountain dropping fire retardant. .
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