I’ve mentioned this before, but it is amazing how small 90,000 tons and 1,000 feet of steel look from about 6,000 feet in the air.
USS John F Kennedy, CV-67, Med.
You can tell by the wake that the ship has straightened out from a starboard turn, perhaps to start the next launch.
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In the summer of ‘90 Big Jack and her airwing, CVW-3 ended up down off Puerto Rico running a little passing exercise (PASEX) with the French carrier FOCH.
The French had these Super Entendards they flew, along with some F-8 Crusaders. For the life of me I can’t remember how the air combat engagements with the [...]
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Snake Eater Extraordinaire and good reserve buddy Jake made mention in a comment a few posts ago that I *seemed* to be taking more ship pics than airplane pics. Well, as that great old sage Whomever said, “You got’s to dance with the gal you end up with!”
Or something like that.
Specifically, Jake opined:
And I always [...]
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Or, as it is properly called, Primary Flight Control, or PriFly. The strategic (it could be best described) location of PriFly atop the carrier’s island lets the Air Boss and the Mini Air Boss keep a sharp eye out on all aspects of the flight deck, from the roundown on the stern to the [...]
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Kind of a cool pic. The carrier Kennedy, sailing off into a rainbow. All sweetness and light and lollipops and ice cream, I know. Problem is, the carrier is always looking for wind to launch or recover aircraft. Wind always blows *away* from a major weather system, so to get that wind-over-the-deck, the ship needs [...]
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As in being slow at posting. Apologies, all. This new blog format is like a brand new coat – its cool and its neat to have a new coat and all, but it still just doesn’t feel right for some reason and needs a bit of time to get broken in.
In the meantime….contrast the Tophatter [...]
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Taken somewhere over Morocco in late 1989. The reflections are from the helmet of Jim “Rev” Jones, my main nose-gunner for most of the 88-89 Med cruise. Click on the pic….go ahead, click!!! lol….(not you Facebook readers…you’ll have to go to www.instapinch.com to click on it and all it will do is get bigger)
Morocco, VF-14, [...]
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