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A Trip to the Midway.

Posted: 2006-04-15 10:22pm
by Lonestar
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Hornet in agressor paint job.

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Huey from HAL-3, which provide air support of riverine operations in Vietnam.


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The A-6 Intruder, the greatest ground-attack aircraft in history. Fuck you AND your 'Forts, Shep! :P

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Some pics of the Midway

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Nice to know Newport News Shipbuilding is operational in the 23rd century...

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Phantom

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Vigilante.

Posted: 2006-04-16 10:02am
by kheegster
Awesome stuff. Kinda neat that they have mannequins in pilot gear sitting in the cockpits, and mock ordnance on the pylons.

I wanted to go see the Intrepid in NYC when I was there a couple of years back, but my friends weren't interested :(.

Posted: 2006-04-17 10:45am
by Tsyroc
I think the Midway and the Coral Sea were the last two carriers in the US Navy to have Phantom IIs fly from them. I'm assuming those were eventually replaced with F/A-18s since that class of ship wasn't supposed to be able to handle F-14s.

Did they have any A-4s, A-7s or F-8s on hand? I would have thought they'd have been used all on the Midway at some point.

Posted: 2006-04-17 11:13am
by Lonestar
They had a A-7 and F-8 as well.