Monday, 11 April, 2005

Another Ra5c Vigilante picture After a bit of a false start* I have another picture here of the North american Rockwell Ra5c Vigilante. I suppose somewhere I even have pictures of the plane I took myself. In those days I was shooting ektachrome or kodachrome slides mostly with maybe one roll in three being tri -x pan. I can't think of a way of digitizing all those damn slides I have now. They don't even make slide projectors anymore. Anyway, this picture I believe was taken by my boss IS2 (within months IS1) Mark Ramsey (distinct from my fellow ISSN Mark Edmunds - Ramsey, as I can remember him now, looked like Ginger Baker the drummer from Cream). What I know abou t this picture is it was not taken on the cruise when I was with heavy seven (RVAH-7) , but would have been taken during the previous cruise on the Kitty Hawk. I was transfered into the squadron while they were finishing up that cruise. I recall that Mark was fond of this picture. I believe in printing this particular take he dodged the front a bit to bring out the detail of the steam in the rear of the picture to make it look more dramatic. It was either this picture or another one of a Vigi landing that I have he later put on the cover of our decommisioning booklet. I have that booklet somewhere... The navigator in this photo (indistinct in this small version of the photo is marked on the plane as a Capt. Breyer. This I believe was the Air force liason officer that was with us when I got to the squadron. That is he was an O-3 same as a Navy Lt. Pilot was Lt. Carroll. * For some reason even though it was designed to make life easier I always let the Radio Userland picture uploading tool get me completely turned around. 11:58:45 PM    comment [];trackback [];

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