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Posted: 9/26/2014 10:12:36 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/26/2014 10:27:25 PM EDT
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I always liked them. The original mouth breather. AKA: The Linda Lovelace airplane. Cute little nose and always sucking up the seamen. |
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Posted: 9/26/2014 10:29:15 PM EDT
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My all time favorite bomb truck...I can not count how may models that I built of that aircraft. Awesome thread OP.
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Posted: 9/26/2014 10:37:31 PM EDT
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Loved that little plane from the first I saw them. Worthy of the "Corsair" name.
Vought A-7D Corsair II Cockpit Where they are now: 
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Posted: 9/26/2014 10:37:43 PM EDT
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I like building them! 1/32 scale E model. I have a D to build next.
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Posted: 9/26/2014 10:42:07 PM EDT
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My grandpop flew them at the end of his career. He started with Corsairs and flew most everything in the naval inventory inbetween, but the A7 was his favorite plane.
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Posted: 9/26/2014 11:13:04 PM EDT
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It may be an F8, but I always thought the Cuban recon flight scene from the movie 13 Days was awesome.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_KmELSpOheA |
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Posted: 9/26/2014 11:18:13 PM EDT
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It may be an F8, but I always thought the Cuban recon flight scene from the movie 13 Days was awesome. http://youtube.com/watch?v=_KmELSpOheA OK I haven't seen that movie. After that scene, I am going to watch it. Amazing bit of flying. |
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Posted: 9/26/2014 11:22:25 PM EDT
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It may be an F8, but I always thought the Cuban recon flight scene from the movie 13 Days was awesome. http://youtube.com/watch?v=_KmELSpOheA F8. Pointy nose and elevating wing. ETA: given the lack of cannon and the presence of cameras, RF-8 
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Posted: 9/26/2014 11:30:26 PM EDT
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They were good attack birds in their time. But I'll take what replaced them (F-16 for the USAF, F-18 for the USN) any day of the week.
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Posted: 9/26/2014 11:31:42 PM EDT
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I built a model of one when I was a kid. Loved it.
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Posted: 9/26/2014 11:38:41 PM EDT
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OK I haven't seen that movie. After that scene, I am going to watch it. Amazing bit of flying. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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It may be an F8, but I always thought the Cuban recon flight scene from the movie 13 Days was awesome. http://youtube.com/watch?v=_KmELSpOheA OK I haven't seen that movie. After that scene, I am going to watch it. Amazing bit of flying. There is a lot of non-action in that movie, except for a great U2 recon scene as well, but otherwise a great historical flick centered on the Cuban missile crisis. |
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Posted: 9/26/2014 11:47:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Seen one of them suck up a boulder while I was on deployment in Korea for Team Spirit '86. Doing high power run up's. Aftermath wasn't a pretty picture  I was in Iwakuni when the Navy started filling in the UDP role of our A4 squadrons with their A7's. The A4 squadrons were transitioning to Harriers. I worked with VA-105, VA-37, and VA-92. |
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Posted: 9/26/2014 11:52:28 PM EDT
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Thanks a lot, homo. I went to google trying to find a screenshot to post, and ended up watching vids from the game Now I'm gonna end up spending the rest of the evening trying to get the game to run in Windows 7. What can I say--the visuals and audio take me back to a more carefree time in my life. So bleep you very much Apex inbound, drop chaff... http://www.migman.com/sw/USNF/pics/train-008.jpg Dat ex-Soviet swarm is within spitting distance of the carrier action, doe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgg2SI17Vpo Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I loved them in Jane's USNF '97. Thanks a lot, homo. I went to google trying to find a screenshot to post, and ended up watching vids from the game Now I'm gonna end up spending the rest of the evening trying to get the game to run in Windows 7. What can I say--the visuals and audio take me back to a more carefree time in my life. So bleep you very much Apex inbound, drop chaff... http://www.migman.com/sw/USNF/pics/train-008.jpg Dat ex-Soviet swarm is within spitting distance of the carrier action, doe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgg2SI17Vpo "The airlines they are hiring" Can't remember which game but if you fucked up the carrier landing........
.....you'd hear that... 
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Posted: 9/27/2014 1:01:00 AM EDT
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Unfortunately no pics but in 1989 I was driving by NAS Dallas (Grand Prairie) and glimpsed
the coolest A-7E's I ever saw. The first was an overall Zinc Chromate Yellow A-7 at the Vought plant headed to the paint shop as well as a painted silver A-7E behind it. |
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Posted: 9/27/2014 1:24:08 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/27/2014 8:38:50 AM EDT
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PSA, War Story to follow: Once in Vietnam I pulled my Cobra up out of a steep dive after blasting a target with my ordinance and as I came around with my nose pointed toward the sky I looked up through the canopy to see an A-7 coming down the chute apparently attacking the same target. Before I could do anything, he pickles a pair of 500 lb. bombs! That is a sight you'll never forget, that air intake on the front looks huge coming at you. Well, I damn near rolled my Cobra over upside down trying to get out of the way as the Corsair passed me within 100 feet. I'm not sure he ever even saw us.
Apparently, another FAC had come on station and was working on another frequency assigning targets to the TAC Air arriving overhead without first checking to see if anyone else was working the area. .............................and that's how air-to-air tragedies happen
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Posted: 9/27/2014 8:42:07 AM EDT
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I wish the USN had gone forward with the North American proposal for the A7 simply because it would have been neat to have a Fury/Sabre variant in service into the 90s.
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Posted: 9/28/2014 10:00:52 PM EDT
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A school by me has one on a post on display in team colors.
Couple of kids got caught fucking in the intake a few years ago haha |
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Posted: 9/28/2014 10:04:32 PM EDT
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Quoted: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/A-7E_Corsairs_of_VA-27_and_VA-97_in_flight_in_1986.jpg/800px-A-7E_Corsairs_of_VA-27_and_VA-97_in_flight_in_1986.jpg Warhawks in the foreground, Chargers in the rear I'm old. |
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Posted: 9/28/2014 10:07:07 PM EDT
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Thanks a lot, homo. I went to google trying to find a screenshot to post, and ended up watching vids from the game Now I'm gonna end up spending the rest of the evening trying to get the game to run in Windows 7. What can I say--the visuals and audio take me back to a more carefree time in my life. So bleep you very much Apex inbound, drop chaff... http://www.migman.com/sw/USNF/pics/train-008.jpg Dat ex-Soviet swarm is within spitting distance of the carrier action, doe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgg2SI17Vpo Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I loved them in Jane's USNF '97. Thanks a lot, homo. I went to google trying to find a screenshot to post, and ended up watching vids from the game Now I'm gonna end up spending the rest of the evening trying to get the game to run in Windows 7. What can I say--the visuals and audio take me back to a more carefree time in my life. So bleep you very much Apex inbound, drop chaff... http://www.migman.com/sw/USNF/pics/train-008.jpg Dat ex-Soviet swarm is within spitting distance of the carrier action, doe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgg2SI17Vpo But the A7 was the "You're completely out of decent planes, so you get unlimited uses of this" plane in that game.
Kharn |
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Posted: 9/28/2014 10:10:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryThis is what we have now... 
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Posted: 9/28/2014 10:22:08 PM EDT
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I was on the last WESTPAC for the Corsair in the US Navy. I'm old.
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/A-7E_Corsairs_of_VA-27_and_VA-97_in_flight_in_1986.jpg/800px-A-7E_Corsairs_of_VA-27_and_VA-97_in_flight_in_1986.jpg Warhawks in the foreground, Chargers in the rear I'm old.
I was on WestPac with the A-7s in the Photo 
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Posted: 9/28/2014 10:23:23 PM EDT
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They were part of the Air Wing on my first Westpac in '88. We were giving an air/sea power show and they dragged an old research ship out to serve as a target.
There were strafing runs and two bombs from an A7 sank it. It was something to see. |
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Posted: 9/28/2014 10:27:03 PM EDT
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My mahogany model of the "Bicentennial SLUF."
The exact aircraft this model was based on. 
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Posted: 9/28/2014 10:30:22 PM EDT
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A-7E's were the best at what they did. Other than speed and a slight edge in maneuverability, the legacyBug couldn't touch the Corsai.
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Posted: 9/28/2014 10:35:36 PM EDT
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A-7E's were the best at what they did. Other than speed and a slight edge in maneuverability, the legacyBug couldn't touch the Corsai. Sure, other than the g-limitations, speed restrictions, hydraulic leaks, wing cracks and UHT problems it would smoke an F-18. 
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Posted: 9/28/2014 10:35:58 PM EDT
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A-7E's were the best at what they did. Other than speed and a slight edge in maneuverability, the legacyBug couldn't touch the Corsai. The A-6 was better. |
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Posted: 9/28/2014 10:37:37 PM EDT
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Loved the look of those birds.
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Posted: 9/29/2014 10:54:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: A school by me has one on a post on display in team colors. Couple of kids got caught fucking in the intake a few years ago haha Alliance High School, Aviators. |
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Posted: 10/4/2014 2:40:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Pure fucking junk. I worked on them for almost 7 years. Junk Junk Junk Junk (in before SluffDriver) Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: fuck yes show me someone who doesnt love an A-7, and I'll show you someone who obviously isn't an aviator.... and is probably a communist. Pure fucking junk. I worked on them for almost 7 years. Junk Junk Junk Junk (in before SluffDriver) |
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Posted: 10/4/2014 2:53:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Sure, other than the g-limitations, speed restrictions, hydraulic leaks, wing cracks and UHT problems it would smoke an F-18. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: A-7E's were the best at what they did. Other than speed and a slight edge in maneuverability, the legacyBug couldn't touch the Corsai. Sure, other than the g-limitations, speed restrictions, hydraulic leaks, wing cracks and UHT problems it would smoke an F-18. ahemmm. (clears throat) Caauuuausssssssssssse I'm a pilot, I only care about me I don't give a fuck if I bring your jet back code 2 or code 3 I'm a pilot and I never make mistakes I'll take the credit if it aint broken, I'll blame you if it breaks the 'real' problem with the legacy bug is that it makes for shitty internet arguements, because besides from its legs and a couple other minor shortfalls, its a true 'jack of all trades, master of none.' and the place where it really shines over its predecessor is how it performs below deck. So while a great improvement in the real world, who the hell ever falls in love with a hornet. (other than the drivers and definitely the maintainers who probably took a piss all over the back of their tomcats after they all returned from their final flight and are now in the relative utopia that is the superbug. |
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Posted: 10/4/2014 3:25:37 PM EDT
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These were mine to love and care for.
I was there in '88 and worked this airshow. 
http://www.air-and-space.com/19880416%20China%20Lake.htm |
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Posted: 10/4/2014 3:38:09 PM EDT
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I like building them! 1/32 scale E model. I have a D to build next. http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y157/ScottsGT/A7-21.jpg I had a heck of a time tracking down 1/72 scale kits of later model A-7's a while back. This is collecting dust in my collection right now, still sealed and it was in great shape until I dropped it down a flight of stairs.
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Posted: 10/4/2014 3:49:43 PM EDT
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Loved the A-7. Was very disappointed when our local ANG unit lost theirs and got saddled with lawn darts (errr, F-16s). Miss those A-7s. Sigh.
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Posted: 10/4/2014 3:49:43 PM EDT
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Ain't no slack in light attack
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Posted: 10/4/2014 3:53:52 PM EDT
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I was doing some research last week on and AF crash w/ejection next to the University of Arizona campus in 1978. I thought it was an A-10, turns out it was an A7D. Here is a PDF to all the articles and fire dept. photos for those interested. It killed people on the ground, crashed next to where the UA rec center is now. |
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Posted: 10/4/2014 4:19:21 PM EDT
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How was it that Air National Guard units were equipped with the Navy A7 aircraft? I just know my former state growing up the NAFEC NJ Air Guard unit still had F106s into the 90s. |
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Posted: 10/4/2014 4:31:26 PM EDT
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There's an A7 plane-on-a-pole down at the USS Kidd museum less than a mile from where I live in downtown Baton Rouge. They're repainting it now.
Google image: 
RC |
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Posted: 10/4/2014 4:34:15 PM EDT
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I had a heck of a time tracking down 1/72 scale kits of later model A-7's a while back. This is collecting dust in my collection right now, still sealed and it was in great shape until I dropped it down a flight of stairs.
<a href="http://s288.photobucket.com/user/zug556/media/IMG_12481_zps0264dc9c.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll193/zug556/IMG_12481_zps0264dc9c.jpg</a> Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I like building them! 1/32 scale E model. I have a D to build next. http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y157/ScottsGT/A7-21.jpg I had a heck of a time tracking down 1/72 scale kits of later model A-7's a while back. This is collecting dust in my collection right now, still sealed and it was in great shape until I dropped it down a flight of stairs.
<a href="http://s288.photobucket.com/user/zug556/media/IMG_12481_zps0264dc9c.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll193/zug556/IMG_12481_zps0264dc9c.jpg</a> I think that should be MB on the tail rather than MN,looks like the 354th TFW emblem on the fuselage |
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Posted: 10/4/2014 4:48:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: How was it that Air National Guard units were equipped with the Navy A7 aircraft? I just know my former state growing up the NAFEC NJ Air Guard unit still had F106s into the 90s. A-7D - Air Force A-7E - Navy |
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Posted: 10/4/2014 4:58:58 PM EDT
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I think that should be MB on the tail rather than MN,looks like the 354th TFW emblem on the fuselage Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I like building them! 1/32 scale E model. I have a D to build next. http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y157/ScottsGT/A7-21.jpg I had a heck of a time tracking down 1/72 scale kits of later model A-7's a while back. This is collecting dust in my collection right now, still sealed and it was in great shape until I dropped it down a flight of stairs.
<a href="http://s288.photobucket.com/user/zug556/media/IMG_12481_zps0264dc9c.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll193/zug556/IMG_12481_zps0264dc9c.jpg</a> I think that should be MB on the tail rather than MN,looks like the 354th TFW emblem on the fuselage I would probably kit-bash and change it up to some guard unit if I ever do get around to building it. I forgot the guys at Myrtle Beach flew them before converting to Hogs. |
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