You've added lot color, detail, and excitement to the flight deck scenes in the Top Gun movies.
You certainly have enough material to write a special interest book. Aviation fans and bird-farm sailors would love to read this. Many publishing options are available.
I was surprised to find good pics of the Clansmen A7 on the web.
I also found a great site for pics of the USS John F. Kennedy, CVN-67.
Hot Damn!
Thank you for the link to the Airliners website. I was able to find an image of an aircraft that is on static display at my hometown airport, which I have been actively searching for since last night, after stumbling upon rlmorel’s thread. I remembered the Clansmen squadron moniker being on an aircraft that I saw many times and wanted to track it down to present to rlmorel, as he may have actually had a professional working relationship with this bird. In particular, I now have an aircraft number to identify the a/c by - 304... and there is what appears to be another identifier number - 158026, on the fuselage in front of the left horizontal stabilizer.
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LTV A-7E Corsair II - USA - Navy
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This A-7 was TOC by the USN around 1972 and was deployed with VA-46 aboard USS John F. Kennedy for during Operation Desert Storm. After retirement, it was transferred to the Naval Air Technical Training Command at NAS Memphis, TN, and assigned as a ground trainer. It is now on display at the Heritage In Flight Museum in Logan County.
For the likes of me, I cannot get past the protections on the website so I have been stymied in my efforts to post an image, link or address, without the code expanding sideways and running off the page.