Reference is to the image of Colt 45 pistols
Blessed be the Peacemakers. I can tell from my referer logs that a large percentage of page views to Atomized still come from people looking for pictures of Ra5c's. A Navy two engined supersonic photo-reconnasaince plane commonly called the Vigilante, now part of aviation history. I was in the last of the RVAH squadrons, Heavy 7, which called themselves the "Peacemakers". Some of these hits come from people I know and haven't heard from in quite some time. Which is nice. At the moment; though, I have no new pictures to share. What I have is a link to the museum being set up for the USS Ranger
USS Ranger Museum Foundation I think all the old Forestal class carriers are out of service now. The
USS Ranger CV 61 - Wikipedia was commisioned back in 1957. There an area on the site for air wing Squadron patchs, they didn't have one for RVAH 7. I can fix that, I thought, and uploaded the squadron patch to the photo-albums page. So why is the background pink? Artifact of it having stated life as a gif. The background layer changed from neutral to pink when I changed it to a jpeg. The orignal gif was lost on the shredded hard drive of my old computer along with many of my other pictures (it occurred to me latter the original gif is up on Atomized Sr, I'll guess I'll swap it out if it bothers people. I pledge one day I will buy a new scanner and continue digibitalizing the photos I jammed into the bottom of my seabag when the Squadron decommisioned, and I left NAS Key West. Along with other stuff as I find it. I have a grey grainy black and white photo with eight slightly darker smudges on it; still recognizably RA5c's. A picture which I'm confident marks the last time there were that many vigi's in the air at one time. Three of them appear to be RVAH 7's (lopsided blue star on tail). Also the next scanner will have to scan slides; I have a slide of shipyard workers welding steel plates over the bow after the accident. A night shot with sparks flying from the arc welder. I always liked that one.
I can spread rumors of more museums. Down in San Diego, the Midway, an even older carrier than the Forestals is being outfitted as a museum too
The Midway :: San Diego's Aircraft Carrier Museum. For this one they are putting together an Air Wing sub musuem and their web site confirms they are restoring a Ra5c Vigilante
SDACM USS Midway Aircraft Restoration Hangar. I read just last week that someone is planning on making the USS Oriskany one of the WWII vintage Essex carriers into a musuem - on the ocean floor. The Mount Everest of the Scuba world is how they're framing that
Vietnam veteran is scuttled to be an Everest for divers - World - Times Online. (update Washington Post has this story too now
Veterans Reunite for Fla. Carrier Sinking. There is a web site that tracks the world of Navy ship museums
Preserved Naval Vessels in the US - Hazegrey.org Looking down the list just at aircraft carriers I see that there are already museums for two Essex class, and the Midway, the transitional carrier. Plus in a further list for new projects I see that there are plans to preserve three of the cold war Forestals - The first of the 'Super Carriers".
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