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Sky King visits the Navy

Sun Jun 12, 2016 8:09 am

I found an episode of Sky King on YouTube that I vaguely remembered seeing about 50 years ago.
A bad guy has plastic surgery so he looks like Sky, steals the Songbird and goes to a nearby Navy test base to blow up a missile lab (you see Sky is known and trusted there).
Nice shots of the 310B taxing by a PB4Y-2 and a line Neptunes. Also, a SE with wings folded....but it looks to have a three bladed prop..so that eliminates a Skyraider. Not an Avenger either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUtfhUAjlE

And then there is a scene where Sky (a Naval reservist) goes after the bad guy in a jet fighter....I won't spoil the surprise by telling you the type.

Great fun from my youth...along with Whirlybirds (Bell 47G-2 and 47J Ranger).

Re: Sky King visits the Navy

Sun Jun 12, 2016 8:19 am

JohnB wrote:..., a SE with wings folded....but it looks to have a three bladed prop..so that eliminates a Skyraider. Not an Avenger either.


Skryaider. The two blades visible at top are at 90deg to each other, so four bladed prop. I was half expecting to find a Guardian

Re: Sky King visits the Navy

Sun Jun 12, 2016 8:53 am

I figured it HAD to be an AD given the timeframe...but I didn't see the 4th blade.
Any idea what NAS it was? Obviously somewhere near L.A.

Re: Sky King visits the Navy

Sun Jun 12, 2016 2:37 pm

Judging by the "7L" tail code, and the aerial shot of the runways, it looks like NAS Los Alamitos.
ETA: Ran it at 1/4 speed and pretty sure I have the jet IDed, too.

Re: Sky King visits the Navy

Sun Jun 12, 2016 6:34 pm

Definitely Los Alamitos NAS (Now Armed Forces Reserve Center). The house my parents bought in 1965 backed up to the base and I spent my youth watching all sorts of interesting stuff fly in and out of there. In fact, I flew in there at least twice in a T-37 and once in a KC-135R.
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