You have to understand something. Is that the Army have has tail dragons? US Navy and war with the US Coast guard have no tail draggers. They are Seahawks or pave Hawks. What you're looking at is a Blackhawk tail dragger
Avionics technician (ground pounder) VP-50 84-87, FRAMP instructor VP-31 87-91, both at NAS Moffett Field, VP-4 91-95 NAS Barbers Pt, retired. The model he is holding looks like an EP-3 reconnaissance. The photo of the #1 prop missing might be VP-6 at Barbers Pt which I saw parked behind the hangar when we were doing a gas and go on our way to Diego Garcia (VP-50).
While attending Avionics A School at NATTC Millington in early 1974, I got to a ride on a P-2 of a reserve squadron at NAS Millington. I sat in one of the tactical seats on takeoff and was allowed to crawl up to the nose seat as an observer. We flew low over the Mississippi countryside. I had to go back to my original seat for the landing. I was later in P-3 squadrons, VP-50, VP-31, and VP-4 when I retired.
Wilson a 'progressive' democrat 💩 Same bankers behind war & debt from the start... Made 'bank' shorting English investors over a 'win' by France at Waterloo...Rothschild Putz Wilson let them in the back door to plunder the US treasury in 1913 Been at war $ince, driving even greater MIC profit$ than even grandfather Amschel could have imagined.... Pharma is their other B$ profit driver Gate$ is their 'AG expert' 🤣👍 We live a $orry confab...
I flew the S-2 while going through Navy multi-engine flight training in Corpus Christi and hated it. It was like flying a brick. A very noisy brick that leaked oil everywhere. The only exciting flying was during carrier qualifications and the free deck launch. After leaving the deck, the plane would settle a few feet before climbing. Not a pleasant feeling. Flying the P-3 after I got my wings brought back my love of flying. Now, that was a wonderful aircraft.
2:00 "Enamored with it." Easy to explain: the Japanese love good suicide stories. And the rocket planes* were virtually suicide machines. Ba349 Natter and Me163 . . . not to mention the BI-1. The USA rocket planes (Bell X1 in particular) were also somewhat manpower intensive; especially in the "blaze of glory" parameter . . .
In Airborne School (March 1985) Jumped Three times out of a C-130E, and Twice out of A C-141B. Then at Bragg, Many Times Out of A C-141. Liked it better because of The Jet Deflection Apparatus that came out after the Parachute Doors opened. And then, all You had to do was stick you're foot out, and You were gone. Great Aircraft
