Monday, March 19, 2007

Another Set of Ra5c pictures A short period with few airplanes pictures in the web log is over. The iBook that ran the scanner gave up the ghost, the new computer is a MacBook, the OS 9 Driver for the scanner means nothing to it. I'd buy a new scanner, but what I really want is a AlphaSmart Neo. Plus there are things certain others want. Then someone in the office mentioned that the photocopy machines at work here, the Xerox Multi Function Devices (MFD), also function as emailing scanners. Even if just in black and white. So the other day I descended upon one with a stack of Ra5c pictures and other assorted images from those days. I have enough now that I can drop them in every so often, plus I have some picts of Ra5c's that Henner Lenhardt sent me. The first of today's pictures I mentioned before; not much at first glance, but there are eight Ra5c's in the air in that photo (plus one A-4 or something). A unique even chimerical event by the time I arrived at NAS Key West. The next picture is a nice shot of one of RVAH-7's Vigilantes being moved into the forward port catapult position on the deck of the USS Ranger (CV 61). The picture seems to have been taken from the starboard catwalk after one plane has just launched. The last picture is view of one of RVAH 7's three Vigi's from another above it. The sort of picture you can take when you are a photo-reconnasaince plane. Below them both is the Arizona or New Mexico desert. My recollection is that this was part of series of originally color picts that where taken at the time of our last fly-out to San Diego.I double-checked that these last two pictures did not appear in the cruise book. At the same time I have multiple copies of some of these, and that would have only happened if we were trying to get pictures ready for some official purpose. 26Mar07 Note: I adjusted the display size of the pictures in this post down somewhat because they were breaking the template of this page. The actual size of these pictures is about 20% larger. Plus I have the full size images (8x10), tiff & jpeg. If you want them leave a comment. 11:57:12 PM    comment [];trackback [];

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