Busy day for MilComms Monitoring - Wed, 7 Apr 2004

AllanStern wrote:


BRONCO 02: OV-10D, US State Dept INM/AW Patrick AFB
2:00pm: Departs Patrick.
[133.75]

A *State Dept.* OV-10?
Golly is "Air America" back in business?

;-)

Al has posted the OV-10D in the past. Of course I know this because I
had to go look it up on the net since I never saw one before.

The "what's that funny dish" line is a classic. Nearly as good as the
pilots at Red Flag that ask "What's that base" when they fly the
Nellis ranges for the first time and discover a base not on the map.

Dweezil Dwarftosser wrote in message ...
AllanStern wrote:


BRONCO 02: OV-10D, US State Dept INM/AW Patrick AFB
2:00pm: Departs Patrick.
[133.75]

A *State Dept.* OV-10?
Golly is "Air America" back in business?

;-)

Dweezil Dwarftosser wrote:
AllanStern wrote:


BRONCO 02: OV-10D, US State Dept INM/AW Patrick AFB
2:00pm: Departs Patrick.
[133.75]

A *State Dept.* OV-10?
Golly is "Air America" back in business?

IIRC, these are connected with Columbian drug crop eradication efforts.
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A *State Dept.* OV-10?
Golly is "Air America" back in business?

IIRC, these are connected with Columbian drug crop eradication efforts.

True. About half of the OV-10Ds at Patrick have the spray apparatus on them.
They fly sorties over the coca crop in Columbia, accompanied by State Dept
armed UH-1Ns that are also based at Patrick. The OV-10Ds seldom return from a
sortie without bullet holes.
The OV-10Ds fly daily here at Patrick, training new pilots, many of them
Columbians.

AL STERN Satellite Beach FL

AllanStern wrote:

A *State Dept.* OV-10?
Golly is "Air America" back in business?

IIRC, these are connected with Columbian drug crop eradication efforts.

True. About half of the OV-10Ds at Patrick have the spray apparatus on them.
They fly sorties over the coca crop in Columbia, accompanied by State Dept
armed UH-1Ns that are also based at Patrick.

It seems to me they could have retained the mini-guns
and the bomb racks (rocket dispensers) and save the
cost of the UH-1s!

What *other* "military" planes are used as "crop dusters" *by Uncle Sam*?

eFrom: (DBurch7672)
Date: 5/10/2004 3:27 PM Mountain Daylight Time
Message-id:

What *other* "military" planes are used as "crop dusters" *by Uncle Sam*?


I think the only ones being used are some OV-10Ds and some modified turbine
Thrushes. Not quite sure about Air Tractors, but I am sure that you do not
want to be shot down while performing any of those flights.

If one is shot down in coca field territory, might as well consider yourself
executed.


Ron
Tanker 65, C-54E (DC-4)
Silver City Tanker Base