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Neptune at Dubbo
"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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Neptune at Dubbo
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
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
Boomerang wrote:
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... Yup, on checking further, I have 2 photos, circa '67 featuring the radome. -- Cheers Dave Kearton |
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Neptune at Dubbo
Boomerang wrote:
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... Yup, on checking further, I have 2 photos, circa '67 featuring the radome. -- Cheers Dave Kearton |
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Neptune at Dubbo
"It" being the RAAF bird, yes. The other "it" is the red firefighter in
Wayne's citation which was old.LG-11 |
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Neptune at Dubbo
"It" being the RAAF bird, yes. The other "it" is the red firefighter in
Wayne's citation which was old.LG-11 |
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Neptune at Dubbo
"Harriet and John" wrote in message
... "It" being the RAAF bird, yes. The other "it" is the red firefighter in Wayne's citation which was old.LG-11 Ah ha , thanks, now it makes sense. -- Cheers Dave Kearton |
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Neptune at Dubbo
"Harriet and John" wrote in message
... "It" being the RAAF bird, yes. The other "it" is the red firefighter in Wayne's citation which was old.LG-11 Ah ha , thanks, now it makes sense. -- Cheers Dave Kearton |
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Neptune at Dubbo
Bob Moore wrote:
CWO4 Dave Mann wrote I am wondering if the "flash bulb" P2V was something special cooked up for Vietnam. We had two of them flying out of Da Nang with US Army crews on board. That was from mid-1965 to -mid 1967. The US Army operated AP-2E (P2V-5F) ECM aircraft from Cam Rahn Bay (67-72), the Navy operated OP-2E with machine gun pods from Nakhon Phanon, Thailand, and the Navy operated AP-2H armed ECM aircraft along the Ho Chi Minh Trail from 1967 to 1969. Bob Moore Thanks for the corrective info Bob ... nothing like 40 years to muddle the puddle! Cheers, Dave |
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