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Tom-D

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thought you might enjoy the picture
 

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...and, you thought right!

Thanks.
 
That is really cool.
 
Nice picture, brings back memories.

I guess from the VAQ-129 paint job on the 18G that they've started delivering them up at Whidbey (VAQ-129 being the Tactical Electronic Warfare training squadron ["RAG" in Navy parlance]). Any operational Growler squadrons yet? Also, I know someone who has a picture of the underside of that bridge -- with an A-6 canopy bow in the frame. Finally, I used to live about a mile to the right on the Anacortes side about 50 yards up from the water, just around the bend from the bridge.
 
Ah, and over Deception Pass, no less!! VERY NICE!!

Nothing quite like flying in the Northwest on a clear day!

P.S.--Is there some sort of wind-driven turbine on the left-outboard weapons pod device?
 
Not a weapons pod -- it's a jammer pod, chock full of electronics run by a generator turned by that ram-air turbine on the nose of the pod. Saves putting a bigger generator on the engines so they don't have wasted generator capacity when they're carrying fewer pods and thus have lower power demand. I understand you can feel the airplane slow down when you turn on the pods and the load picks up on those little propellers.
 
Ron Levy said:
Not a weapons pod -- it's a jammer pod, chock full of electronics run by a generator turned by that ram-air turbine on the nose of the pod. Saves putting a bigger generator on the engines so they don't have wasted generator capacity when they're carrying fewer pods and thus have lower power demand. I understand you can feel the airplane slow down when you turn on the pods and the load picks up on those little propellers.
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Did the EF-111's do that too?

On the RC's we ran with bigger generators and engines, but then we had four engines.
 
Ron Levy said:
Nice picture, brings back memories.

I guess from the VAQ-129 paint job on the 18G that they've started delivering them up at Whidbey (VAQ-129 being the Tactical Electronic Warfare training squadron ["RAG" in Navy parlance]). Any operational Growler squadrons yet? Also, I know someone who has a picture of the underside of that bridge -- with an A-6 canopy bow in the frame. Finally, I used to live about a mile to the right on the Anacortes side about 50 yards up from the water, just around the bend from the bridge.
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You lived in BizPoint? Wow that has evolved into the high rent district.

high end home starting a 5 mil at the road and the higher on the hill you get the bigger the price tag. That whole hillside is built solid from the park to Anacortes.

No squadrons yet, but the first will stand up shortly.

I also have a picture of the bottom side of the bridge, framed with a A3D upper hatch.

I'm a plank owner in VAQ 135.
 
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smigaldi said:
Did the EF-111's do that too?
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IIRC (I lived down the road from the Sparkvarks, but didn't fly them), the had all the electronics internally housed in the old weapons bay plus a "canoe" sticking down from it -- no wind-driven turbines.
 
That looks like the bridge north of Whidbey...
EA-6B, phasing out.
EA-18G, phasing in.
 
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