Thanks for the memories shipmate. I was one of the NFOs in EA-6Bs watching you!
EA-6Bs? I was in VAQ-140 back when they stood up in ‘85. What squadron were you in?
Hot DAMN! I loved those planes. I thought A-6’s in the hands of a good pilot must have been a fine flying plane, but the EA-6B Prowlers seemed so much faster and more maneuverable to me.
Fine looking planes, too, with that thinned out and extended fuselage ahead of the wings, the gold canopy, and the big radiation symbol on the front of the radome made it one bad-ass plane!
I loved it when they did the air shows for the crew at sea, and the Prowlers would fly in at a steep angle and level out right at the flight deck level and scream by.
I envy you that view from the plane...:)