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Posted: 9/27/2017 10:44:53 PM EDT

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HNY92504 Pair Working by FredMan, on Flickr

HNY92504 N420AT Fueling by FredMan, on Flickr

Posted: 9/28/2017 9:25:09 PM EDT

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Gotta say, this one speaks to me.

Posted: 9/29/2017 6:44:44 AM EDT

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Gotta say, this one speaks to me.

Thanks.

Posted: 9/29/2017 6:46:17 AM EDT

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More Grumman. The light was too good to not take advantage of....

Posted: 9/30/2017 5:37:55 PM EDT

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FLU16027 N420AT Sun Pass by FredMan, on Flickr

Posted: 9/30/2017 5:50:30 PM EDT

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GOO16022 N420AT Inbound Belly of the Beast by FredMan, on Flickr

Posted: 9/30/2017 5:58:31 PM EDT

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Vs duck

Posted: 10/1/2017 3:12:48 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/1/2017 5:55:50 PM EDT

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scanned some old pictures today

Posted: 10/1/2017 8:08:55 PM EDT

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AB01033 N9677N Inbound Wide by FredMan, on Flickr

Posted: 10/1/2017 8:36:46 PM EDT

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Cool picks, looks like some Navy reserve squadrons there. Mid 90's I'd guess?

Posted: 10/1/2017 8:47:53 PM EDT

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Yup, CVW-20. I was a cadet assigned to VFA-204. We were on the Kennedy for the annual 2 weeks. We were down doing runs on Vieques. Summer of 98.

Posted: 10/1/2017 9:29:29 PM EDT

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Yup, CVW-20. I was a cadet assigned to VFA-204. We were on the Kennedy for the annual 2 weeks. We were down doing runs on Vieques. Summer of 98.

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Good stuff, thanks for your service! Watching cat launches has to be a thrill!

Posted: 10/1/2017 9:53:13 PM EDT

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I was just a cadet in high school, I never served. I don't talk about it much because I don't like giving people the wrong idea.

That being said, it was a helluva experience for a fifteen year old. Being on the flight deck, just as an observer, was dangerous as hell and thrilling. I have unlimited respect for the enlisted guys that work on the deck all day and all night.

Posted: 10/1/2017 11:47:45 PM EDT

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Tomcats, Hawkeyes, and C model Hornets. Awesome stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Posted: 10/2/2017 6:33:25 AM EDT

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Actually, they're A-models.

Posted: 10/2/2017 9:46:21 AM EDT

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Tomcats, Hawkeyes, and C model Hornets. Awesome stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Actually, they're A-models.

Posted: 10/2/2017 1:33:58 PM EDT

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Reserve unit, what can you do? [shrug]

Posted: 10/2/2017 6:56:56 PM EDT

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I was just a cadet in high school, I never served. I don't talk about it much because I don't like giving people the wrong idea.

That being said, it was a helluva experience for a fifteen year old. Being on the flight deck, just as an observer, was dangerous as hell and thrilling. I have unlimited respect for the enlisted guys that work on the deck all day and all night.

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Ah, thanks for the clarity. Still pretty cool none the less, and not something a lot of kids would get to see first hand!

Posted: 10/2/2017 8:05:39 PM EDT

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Yeah, it almost ended before it started. While I was cleared to go through the CO of the squadron (and I'm assuming the CAG), when we got on the ship, the ship's CO and the Admiral weren't too happy about not being consulted. They even threatened kicking us off the ship at one point. I think they realized that shooting us off with the COD and trying to arrange for housing or transport once we got back to CONUS was going to be a bitch. So in the end, they pulled us from the air wing and berthed us with ship's crew from G4 div of WEPS dept to make them feel better about us being "properly supervised".

We still worked with the squadron, though. So we'd muster in the morning with G4, go to chow, muster with the squadron and work with them on various things, or tour different parts of the ship, and then at the end of the day go back to berthing with G4. Any emergency drills and we had to muster again with G4 since they were "responsible" for us.

Posted: 10/2/2017 8:33:23 PM EDT

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CAM11011 N9677N Fueling Detail by FredMan, on Flickr

Posted: 10/3/2017 6:20:34 AM EDT

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Posted: 10/3/2017 7:08:28 PM EDT

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Evening Airliner by FredMan, on Flickr

ETAsk: Big difference on contrail between left and right engines; what might be the cause of that?

Posted: 10/3/2017 8:50:44 PM EDT

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NKT15010 Ground Idle N9677N by FredMan, on Flickr

Posted: 10/3/2017 9:19:04 PM EDT

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Maybe the angle of the sun is making the contrail from the left engine pop a bit more? That, or the chemtrail tank in the right wing is a little low on chemtrail chemicals??

Posted: 10/4/2017 8:01:37 PM EDT

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AB01033 N420AT Outbound Sun by FredMan, on Flickr

Posted: 10/4/2017 8:40:59 PM EDT

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Back in the days, 20 or so years ago, wasn't VFA-203 a Navy Reserve squadron? The reason I ask, is my younger brother flew Hornets in that squadron before they were disbanded. They were at one time at Cecil Field, Jacksonville, FL, then moved to Atlanta before being disbanded it seems. I think they were called "The Blue Dolphins".

Posted: 10/4/2017 10:49:32 PM EDT

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Back in the days, 20 or so years ago, wasn't VFA-203 a Navy Reserve squadron? The reason I ask, is my younger brother flew Hornets in that squadron before they were disbanded. They were at one time at Cecil Field, Jacksonville, FL, then moved to Atlanta before being disbanded it seems. I think they were called "The Blue Dolphins".

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Yes. They were the sister squadron to VFA-204, the River Rattlers. They were both in what was then called CAG20, the reserve air wing. They were with us on the Kennedy on that trip.

The camo plane is from 203. I'll post some more pictures of them in a sec.

Posted: 10/5/2017 4:46:01 PM EDT

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Great Pics! I was in the Blue Dolphins and had just left BF the JFK "cruise". My last traps were on the USS John C. Stennis the summer before. I think "Kimo" (Lee Moak), "O.D". John ODonnell, and "Needles" Tim Cannol were still in the Rattlers then. Remember any of the pilots?
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Posted: 10/5/2017 5:58:08 PM EDT

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Great Pics! I was in the Blue Dolphins and had just left BF the JFK "cruise". My last traps were on the USS John C. Stennis the summer before. I think "Kimo" (Lee Moak), "O.D". John ODonnell, and "Needles" Tim Cannol were still in the Rattlers then. Remember any of the pilots?
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Wow, talk about ships in the night!

The only pilot I remember specifically was the Skipper, CDR Maynard. Partly because my mom is still acquainted with him.

Needles sounds familiar. I also had a note that a pilot, "LT Fish" took some pictures on deck for me one day. Don't know of that was his name, or callsign.

Edit: also remember and NFO we called Fridge.

Posted: 10/5/2017 9:52:11 PM EDT

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Squid1jz, this is my brother I mentioned in an earlier posting.

Posted: 10/5/2017 9:53:08 PM EDT

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GOO16022 Outbound Belly of the Beast by FredMan, on Flickr

Posted: 10/5/2017 10:25:11 PM EDT

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Awesome! Thanks for posting, guys.

Posted: 10/7/2017 6:47:05 AM EDT

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Capt. has throttle pulled back so the stewardess has a place to sit while they do the, well you know!

Posted: 10/7/2017 10:39:35 AM EDT

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how are there two #7's?

Posted: 10/7/2017 11:31:12 AM EDT

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I never got a straight answer on that. They flew at least one #7 all weekend because #5 was down, but on Friday they went up with two sevens.

Posted: 10/8/2017 11:14:19 AM EDT

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NKT15010 Inbound N420AT by FredMan, on Flickr

Posted: 10/8/2017 7:30:49 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/8/2017 9:12:47 PM EDT

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PAT15002 N420AT Loading by FredMan, on Flickr

Posted: 10/9/2017 12:13:10 PM EDT

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Went back to an old picture and tried something new in processing. I think it's right on the edge of "too much"

Posted: 10/9/2017 5:17:54 PM EDT

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I think it's fantastic. The tan monochrome; mirage, and oh wait! Check out that crewman!

Posted: 10/9/2017 5:22:07 PM EDT

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I've never really messed with monochrome, or sepia before. I was going to process this picture for a contest anyway, but a photographer acquaintance out west had mentioned a specific ColorEFX recipe in Nik, "Black Gold". I figured I'd try it for shits and grins after I did my basic edit. I was pleasantly surprised.