A-7 Corsair II Youtube video....

[Bjoern]

And in a similar vein to the flying ADI gauge...
I suspect there are some old (OK, former) A-6 Intruder bubbas here who remember the pilot's pre-flight procedure of pulling on the handles of the Vertical Display Indicator (VDI) CRT panel to make sure it was secure before launch. That procedure dates to the A-6's early days when an improperly secured VDI came loose on a cat shot and hit the pilot. Don't recall if the incident caused a crash, but getting smacked in the chest by a hefty TV set would definitely impair your ability to fly the plane.

Reminds me of Apollo 12's watering. Poor Al Bean and that camera.

what an odd pairing, this video, and that song

Same thought when I saw it, but then again, maybe it was an irony job?

 

[Matt Wynn]

here we go.... me and Greek Kit again... can always rely on me to bring HAF to the floor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0zCvwhPlU4

 

[Emil Frand]

I was a plane captain in va37, found my plane, it was sent to AMARC in 87 and is still there.....amazing thing this internet.

 

[Bjoern]

here we go.... me and Greek Kit again... can always rely on me to bring HAF to the floor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0zCvwhPlU4

The TA-7 is one sexy thing...with that long, sleek canopy seamlessly transitioning into the fuselage...

 

[Matt Wynn]

aother HAF A-7 Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVLQBNOTeJY

Gotta love the A-7H and TA-7H (the H standing for Hellenic, or Greek)

 

[TARPSBird]

I thought the landscape looked familiar in those clips, that's the airport at Souda Bay, Crete. Spent a day there many years ago waiting for a helo out to USS Saratoga. Very hilly taxiways, A-7's would periodically pop up and disappear only to reappear on take-off.

 

[Matt Wynn]

I thought the landscape looked familiar in those clips, that's the airport at Souda Bay, Crete. Spent a day there many years ago waiting for a helo out to USS Saratoga. Very hilly taxiways, A-7's would periodically pop up and disappear only to reappear on take-off.

yup Souda AB, or Ioannis Daskalogiannis as it is on the Civvy side housed a few A-7's for a while, as did where i spent my Childhood, Larissa... saw the 'basking sharks' on an almost daily basis, along with 348 'Matia' RF-4's/F-4's... good times, and now the only time i see these old girls is when i pay a visit back 'home' in Greece, or at airshows, other aircraft well i see them on CAS in my job, wakes you up a bit