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Neptune at Dubbo
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"Glenn Alderton" wrote in message
... Interesting, where's the radome ? -- Cheers Dave Kearton |
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It should be there, someplace, maybe in the grass. All the other photos I
have of this aircraft show the APS-20 radom where iot should be. Maybe somebody cut it off... |
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"Boomerang" wrote in message ... It should be there, someplace, maybe in the grass. All the other photos I have of this aircraft show the APS-20 radom where iot should be. Maybe somebody cut it off... None of the P-2s I have seen recently have had radoms. They were all flying as water bombers fighting forest fires and looked something like this: http://website.lineone.net/~roling47/Bombers/WBP2a.JPG Wayne http://www.soaridaho.com/ |
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It sure had a radome when it was old LG-11 from VP-18.
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"Boomerang" wrote in message ... It sure had a radome when it was old LG-11 from VP-18. True. All the operational P-2s stationed at Whidbey Island back in the mid 1960s had radomes. Wayne http://tinyurl.com/yv2czg USN (Retired) |
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Boomerang wrote:
It sure had a radome when it was old LG-11 from VP-18. I'm not sure I follow you there on this one. This particular airframe was delivered new to the RAAF in '62. Interestingly trivia time the RAAF bought this Neptune as 61-49079 from the USAF. At the time, foreign air forces couldn't buy aircraft directly from the manufacturers, but had to go through the relevant service. When they were replaced, the Orions were purchased through the USN. -- Cheers Dave Kearton |
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"Boomerang" wrote in message ... It sure had a radome when it was old LG-11 from VP-18. True. All the operational P-2s stationed at Whidbey Island back in the mid 1960s had radomes. Wayne http://tinyurl.com/yv2czg USN (Retired) |
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Boomerang wrote:
It sure had a radome when it was old LG-11 from VP-18. I'm not sure I follow you there on this one. This particular airframe was delivered new to the RAAF in '62. Interestingly trivia time the RAAF bought this Neptune as 61-49079 from the USAF. At the time, foreign air forces couldn't buy aircraft directly from the manufacturers, but had to go through the relevant service. When they were replaced, the Orions were purchased through the USN. -- Cheers Dave Kearton |
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Neptune at Dubbo
It sure had a radome when it was old LG-11 from VP-18.
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