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A-7 pictures from Facebook.

Cool. I remember standing on the refueling probe during a launch trying to fix some problem in the cockpit. It was fun climbing up there from the right side too, where there's no boarding ladder. You had to be able to do at least one chin-up! :icon_lol:
 
VA-94 ship boltering, USS Enterprise, 1982. Note "live" Rockeyes (and AIM-9), and just one drop tank.


 
Cool pics, I always liked it when we had A-7s onboard the Lexington for refresher training.
 
Rgr that Willy. Just don't get too close to the front end when the motor is running... I did that once. Once, that is (once), in a moment of carelessness, that I will never forget..! If there is a God, he was looking out for my dumb-*** that day.
 
I only went close to them when they were parked in the hanger bay. Us knuckle dragging snipes had better sense than to wander out onto the flight deck when we managed to escape the engineering spaces. :icon_lol:

The A-6 Intruder was another that we saw fairly regular. But most of the time it was T-2 Buckeyes, TA-4 Skyhawks and C-1 Traders.

The bigger stuff like F-4s and F-14s were too big to operate off of an Essex class. At least that's what we were told anyway.
 
Thanks for all the photos, folks!

I have always liked the SLUF, in all of its incarnations. In many ways it was the 60's and 70's version of the SBD Dauntless; tough, versatile, agile... they went out and got the job done, and kept their pilots safe while doing so.

My experience with the Corsair II was mainly seeing them fly over Denver, when the 140the TFW, COANG out of Buckley AFB were using the A-7D. One of those D's is at Wings Over the Rockies Museum here in Denver.

A-7D_at_Wings_over_Rockies_Museum_2007.JPG


:salute:
 
A-7E from VA-22 (the Fighting Redcocks -- you can't beat 'em) taxiing out to one of the waste cats, on a gloomy day, somewhere in the Pacific, USS Enterprise, 1982,
 
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