Sorry about the poor pic quality but it's the only one I have of a F7U in BA colors.
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Posted on 10/08/2007 3:07:59 PM PDT by doug from upland
No - I just use a 7 megapixel camera and cut out the good parts. ;)
BUMP!
They were fantastic in Salinas. They came in right over your head...
In San Francisco, if your lucky, you can watch them from Pier 39 area. Not even close.
In Salinas, there is no bad seat in the house. They fly right down the runway in front of you.
Let them kill the Angles on Fleet Week. Go to the Salinas air show and watch them perform there. Much better.
Semper Fi
Former Marine
It was in the early 60s, I was an early teen, and raead a lot of books about military aircraft, I thought the name was corsair, but I am sure it was F8U, a twin tail jet, one of the early ones
Thanks for the input. I didn’t drive the 7-8 hours up there just to see them. I happened to be in town. But it was great that I picked the right long weekend for a visit.
We used to watch the Blue Angels practice when we’d vacation at Perdido Key FL. They were so awesome.
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/fa18ef/index.htm
I spent two hours at this sight yesterday looking at some beauties.
Great shots Doug. I am looking forward to seeing them Saturday at Kaneohe Air Station here on Oahu. Can’t beat the scenery, hope to get some shots with the Koolau mountains in the background.
Never flew F-8s..
Since 1946, there have been eight types of aircraft:
1. Grumman F6F Hellcat, June-August 1946
2. Grumman F8F Bearcat, August 1946-1949
3. Grumman F9F-2 Panther (first jet), 1949-June 1950 and
Grumman F9F-5 Panther 1951-Winter 1954/55
4. Grumman F9F-8 Cougar, Winter 1954-55-mid-season 1957
5. Grumman F11F-1 Tiger (first supersonic jet),
mid-season 1957-1969
6. McDonnell Douglas F-4J Phantom II, 1969-December 1974
7. McDonnell Douglas A-4F Skyhawk II, December
1974-November 1986
8. Boeing F/A-18 Hornet, November 1986-Present
Sorry about the poor pic quality but it's the only one I have of a F7U in BA colors.
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Fan-tastic. I used to work on the 39th floor of the BofA and this always was a favorite time of the year for me...
Thankfully, I was surrounded by capitalist pigs at the time (stock and bond brokers) and didn’t have to listen to the simpering moans of the moonbats.
God Bless America, God Bless our troops and thank you, Doug for bringing us these pics bump.
That is it, I just had my names and numbers wrong. I hsd time to do some research a little while ago, and it was the Vought f7U 3 with some extra upgrades that thier B team used in the late 50s and early 60s that went to small places like eugene, or where I saw them, they were moving up to the F11F Tiger. The Cutlass was a much more beautiful AC to the eye than in pictures, I made 2 models of them and practised my formation flyiing.
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