Thursday, 10 March, 2005

More RA5C's I see from time to time hits in the referers window, of people looking in on Atomized to see pictures of the Ra5c Vigilante. Or as we used call them, the big pointy airplanes. I am willing to oblige these folk. Primarily because it prods me to scan these old photos which otherwise were just sitting in my closet, and have been these past --- hmm, not enough fingers or toes... Well then never mind how long. I have several of these good color ones, and many more of lesser quality. I have no idea where this is. All the times I've looked at this picture previously I thought it was over the California Coast. Looking at it more carefully I see it might be over the channel islands, or Baja, possibly over the Philippines a few months later then when I thought it was taken. Maybe somebody out there could tell me. As an 18 yr old ISSN I wasn't taking care to make notes on copies of pictures that had official documented negitives properly labeled and stored in the big cabinet. Who knows where that is now? Funny thing; historical preservation. The crew labels on the planes (black rectangles white lettering) indicate that was CDR Meyers, our (RVAH-7) CO's, plane. Lcdr McMahanan, RAN. 12:09:57 AM    comment [];trackback [];

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