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.
A pair of A-7 Cosair's, and A6E Intruder, and it looks like either an S-3 Viking or EA6B Prowler cockpit that the picture was take from....what say you...
I got buzzed by both types of a/c while hiking in the northern canyons of Joshua Tree, just south of 29 Palms. They saw our group and clearly knew what they were doing as they zipped through a canyon, because just about the time everyone's sphincter puckered from an attack jet passing within 100' of us, the trail pilot waggled his wings after they blew by us to show he'd seen us.
The two A-7Es are from VA-147, the 'Argonauts', a Pacific-based (the 'NG'; Atlantic Squadrons started with 'A') Light Attack Squadron. The sword on the tail was supposed to be from 'Jason and the Argonauts'. Notice the red colors; this was before Naval Aviation leadership directed that all aircraft have only tactical gray paint schemes. The 'Argonauts' were a good group of guys; can't tell when this picture was taken, exactly. Spent three years in VA-147. Compared to flying the A-4, the Corsair was like flying a cadillac, but boy oh boy, could the Corsair drop an accurate bomb. Ground guys loved it. We did, too.
A pair of A-7 Cosair's, and A6E Intruder, and it looks like either an S-3 Viking or EA6B Prowler cockpit that the picture was take from....what say you...
ReplyDeleteI think the pic was taken from an Intruder because of the triangular windshield.
ReplyDeleteAl_in_Ottawa
Yep.
DeleteVisual Search lists it and another picture as being a pair of A6E's in Attack Squadron 52.
Worked on A-7D's in the Air Force. Their weapons computer use wires and iron cores for memory. Long, long ago.
ReplyDeleteLate '70s/early '80s classic attack package.
ReplyDeleteI got buzzed by both types of a/c while hiking in the northern canyons of Joshua Tree, just south of 29 Palms.
They saw our group and clearly knew what they were doing as they zipped through a canyon, because just about the time everyone's sphincter puckered from an attack jet passing within 100' of us, the trail pilot waggled his wings after they blew by us to show he'd seen us.
The two A-7Es are from VA-147, the 'Argonauts', a Pacific-based (the 'NG'; Atlantic Squadrons started with 'A') Light Attack Squadron. The sword on the tail was supposed to be from 'Jason and the Argonauts'. Notice the red colors; this was before Naval Aviation leadership directed that all aircraft have only tactical gray paint schemes. The 'Argonauts' were a good group of guys; can't tell when this picture was taken, exactly. Spent three years in VA-147. Compared to flying the A-4, the Corsair was like flying a cadillac, but boy oh boy, could the Corsair drop an accurate bomb. Ground guys loved it. We did, too.
ReplyDeleteA6Es probably from VA-165
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