Another irreplaceable warbird gone. CONSOLIDATED VULTEE PBY-6A Catalina, BuNo 64041 (c/n 0169) civil registry N6458C, C-GFFI, now N85U Registered to FLYING FIREMAN INC of SPANAWAY Wa Flew as air tanker 85 retired and then restored, was being used in filming a movie about the sinking of the USS...

as seen in Google Earth aerials of the breakers yard.. USS Forrestal (CV-59) already down to the hull with flightdeck removed USS Saratoga (CV/CVA/CVB-60) part of the flight deck and island already removed USS Constellation (CV-64) fantail part of the flightdeck gone

USS Ranger (CV/CVA-61) left storage under tow thursday, bound for the breakers yard in texas. last reported position passing Clallam Bay in Strait of Juan de Fuca reportedly under tow by tug Crosby Leader on a five-month, 16,000-mile trip

CORBIN FOSS/USS CONSTELLATION – ARRIVAL BROWNSVILLE Jsn 16 2015 THE USS CONSTELLATION HAS BEEN DELIVERED TO INTERNATIONAL SHIPBREAKERS.

From the Corbin Foss tow log The Corbin Foss will make a 140-day trip beginning in early August 2014, towing the USS Constellation 16,000 nautical miles from Bremerton, Washington to Brownsville, Texas where the aircraft carrier will be scrapped. The Corbin Foss' will make its inaugural voyage...

In the LIFE magazine photo archives , found a set of photos they show a P5M-1 Marlin of VP-46 0304 sunk in what the caption sez is Quemoy strait or Quemoy harbor. Only the tail with the tailcode RC and 0304 , RC makes it VP-46 ,& Checking the BuNo list it should be BuNo 130304 ship 12 and the...

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The Corbin Foss on 140-day trip towing the USS Constellation 16,000 nautical miles from Bremerton, Washington to Brownsville, Texas where the aircraft carrier will be scrapped. The Corbin Foss' will make its inaugural voyage through the Straits of Magellan, moving the 61,000-dwt tow at...

Dave in San Diego wrote: "John Teague" wrote in news:1146426193.693664.8940 @v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com: http://www.1stfighter.org/warstories/japanese_attack.html Didn't they make that into a movie? 1941 Hehe. Yeah, I guess they did at that.

If you loved the film and JUST have to have your own Grumman F9F Panther fighter. http://www.airplane-pictures.net/image14632.html Take care . . . John

Have a look at 29°57'59.70"N, 81°20'37.81"W. This is the Northrop-Grumman facility at the St Augustine, Florida airport. Along the south-east (lower-right) side of the building, there are what appear to be fighter or trainer jet aircraft. At first, based on the wing shape, I thought these were...

Okay folks, Have a look at 38°32'4.78"N and 89°50'14.30"W on Google Maps, just above the two light aircraft. There is what may be a slab sided blotchy green thing with what appear to be swept wings. Beneath each "wing" appears to be a drop tank midway between the root and tip. By the way, the...

There is an aircraft carrier docked at North Island (San Diego) aft of the George Washington which appears to have its island, antennas and other structures wrapped in a white material. What carrier is it and is it being mothballed? Or is the wrapper being used to trap paint being stripped in...

I'm looking for info - a TM or scanned data from the TM - on the AN/ ALR-3 Radar Warnig Receiver as fitted to P2V-7/SP2-H aircraft. I have recent pictures of the equipment if anyone needs to have their memory refreshed. The system consists of Receiver R-467/ALR and Control Box C-1933/ ALR-3. The...

Did USAF Phantoms ever land and take off from a carrier deck? I believe that at least the USAF F4-C was at least initially was nearly identical to the Navy F4-B. Was the F4-D and F4-E capable of taking off and landing from a carrier deck? Was it ever done? If the F4-D/E was not capable of...

I just have a thought of the above subject. Say you're the planner for an RN size navy, which one would you prefer, 4 x small CVBG or 1 x BIG CVBG? Say it's all for offensive purpose and not for homeland defence. I think it equates well in terms of tonnage and man power, but how about power...

Too bad, I'm reading 'Over the Beach', about initial combat ops in VN off the 'O' boat... Finished that one just last week. It is a good read. _____________ José Herculano

I remember reading that one of VF-17s Corsair pilots was so small he had to "get creative" to be able to use enough rudder on take off. Sometimes you see a picture in which it looks like there is a contortionist gorilla in the cockpit. I know there are some size guideliness, and also know that...

http://www.news.navy.mil/management/photodb/webphoto/web_050127-N-4658L-015.jpg The San Francisco after the incident... looks far worse than previously reported... a wonder they didn't all die... yaicks! _____________ José Herculano

Daring you to tell the audience how did you end up with your callsign.... =) _____________ José Herculano