A3D On The Cat
Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:40 pm
A-3D (All 3 Dead) of Heavy 4 ready to launch from the Bonnie Dick
AKA whale on the hook
Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:44 pm
Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:48 pm
There's 5 or 6 of them at Van Nuys.
Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:11 pm
ZRX61 wrote:There's 5 or 6 of them at Van Nuys.
The Whales at Van Nuys are operated by Raytheon (my employer) on DoD electronics flight test contracts. Anyone have any recent photos, or perhaps videos of them in action?
Cheers!
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Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:35 pm
Then had one at Whidbey a few years ago and I chatted with the pilots and got a nice tour of the cockpit 
Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:10 pm
k5dh wrote:ZRX61 wrote:There's 5 or 6 of them at Van Nuys.
The Whales at Van Nuys are operated by Raytheon (my employer) on DoD electronics flight test contracts. Anyone have any recent photos, or perhaps videos of them in action?
Cheers!
Ypu can see them on google earth, corrner of Saticoy & Valjean near the old Lockheed hangars.
Wed Jul 16, 2008 11:58 am
Woohoo, my father used to be flight engineer on EA-3's with VQ-2 in the 60s before transitioning to EP-3 Orions with VQ-1 in the 70s