Bye bye RNLN P-3 Orion...

Last Thursday the RNLN bid farewell to its last P-3C CUP Orion. After its
last take off from RNLNAS Valkenburg, the pilots of aircraft 312 made some
spectaculair low passes over the flightline of the base. The website of the
P-3 Orion Research Group has just been updated with a special picture page
featuring 34 excellent pictures of these low passes seen from different
angles at and around the base. The pictures were taken by Jaap Dubbeldam,
Hans Heemskerk, Martin Herbert, Gert Kromhout and Johan Boerman.

The picture site can be visited by going to http://home.planet.nl/~p3orion
and click on the link just above the opening picture.

Regards,
Marco P.J. Borst
P-3 Orion Research Group - The Netherlands

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"The reward of a job well done is to have done it."

"Marco P.J. Borst" wrote in
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Last Thursday the RNLN bid farewell to its last P-3C CUP Orion. After
its last take off from RNLNAS Valkenburg, the pilots of aircraft 312
made some spectaculair low passes over the flightline of the base. The
website of the P-3 Orion Research Group has just been updated with a
special picture page featuring 34 excellent pictures of these low passes
seen from different angles at and around the base. The pictures were
taken by Jaap Dubbeldam, Hans Heemskerk, Martin Herbert, Gert Kromhout
and Johan Boerman.

Seems like yesterday I was working on the simulator for that bird
and the Kanuckistani installation. Had to backfit the RNLN code
( FORTRAN ) to the Kanuckistani ship which was written in TI
assembler.
For reasons I'll never understand, the RNLN was able to get the
manufacturer to agree to model the effects of a wheels up landing
down to 0 speed. Interesting but 0 value for training.

IBM