For you aviation enthusiasts (Page 2): They do have a small air museum at the old Willow grove Navel air base. We just heard that they are not going to reoped the base but they are...

Hal81 Loc: Bucks County, Pa.

They do have a small air museum at the old Willow grove Navel air base. We just heard that they are not going to reoped the base but they are going to have a drone control unit there. Those operators are doing a great job without puting our boys in danger. But I dont know why they made that public. I think that should have been kept a top secret.

nimbushopper Loc: Tampa, FL

Hal81 wrote:

I was in Pensacola on a tin can 889. We had to plane guard the carriers. That was back in the early 50s. They were learning to land the old yellow painted prop planes on the carriers. We later went to gitmo cuba and did the same thing but down there they were training to land the jets. When they put one of those in the drink we had nothing to do they sank like a rock. the helocoptors would pick up the pilot before we would even get there.

Those yellow prop planes would be the SNJ( also called the T-6), which was replaced by the T-28.

Bartulius Loc: Bristol, Ct

These pictures brought back some memories.
I went through Aviation Ordnance School in Jax, Fla in 1969. From there I spent 3 years in an A-4 Squadron home based in Lemoore, Ca.
I made 3 Vietnam combat cruises.
There is a website www.togetherweserved.com to help re-connect with old service buddies.

phnewmx Loc: LC New Mexico

Great pictures of naval aircraft and I hoped to see a WV or P2v
as I flew out of Duva on the Connie 59/60 on some long patrols over the South Pacific with VW-1 and VW-3. Good duty and nice
liberty in Japan and the PIs. Was able to buy last of Canonflex
cameras as President determined that no more foreign products
could be sold in the PX.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

In about '71 I got to fly as the third pilot on a Connie out of Pt. Magu. They were used to collect telemetry data from test missles. I think it was the last place EC-121d were used. One of the Naval Aviators was a Chief Petty Officer! Apparently there was a shortage of pilots during Korea and he was part of a trial program.

flyguy Loc: Las Cruces, New Mexico

bsprague wrote:

In about '71 I got to fly as the third pilot on a Connie out of Pt. Magu. They were used to collect telemetry data from test missles. I think it was the last place EC-121d were used. One of the Naval Aviators was a Chief Petty Officer! Apparently there was a shortage of pilots during Korea and he was part of a trial program.

Actually enlisted pilots were a product of world war two, and when I enlisted in the Naval Air Reserve at the Naval Air Station, South
Weymouth, Ma. in January,1957 there was a chief petty officer enlisted pilot on active duty there who was still on flight status at the time.

nimbushopper Loc: Tampa, FL

phnewmx wrote:

Great pictures of naval aircraft and I hoped to see a WV or P2v
as I flew out of Duva on the Connie 59/60 on some long patrols over the South Pacific with VW-1 and VW-3. Good duty and nice
liberty in Japan and the PIs. Was able to buy last of Canonflex
cameras as President determined that no more foreign products
could be sold in the PX.

The larger a/c are on the outside display that one has to board a trolley to see. It was broken the day I was there so I'll have to make another trip someday to visit the A/C I flew most(P3B), and see the others you mentioned above.