08-27-2008, 11:29 PM
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Always votes for bush...
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Gator Navy meets Tailhook Navy!
This photo is NOT photoshopped. Yes..that's an F-14 tomcat on the flightdeck of the USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6)! I served on the BHR for two years. In this pic, she is enroute to Hawaii for exercises, and carrying one of the last F-14s to fly in active service. It's not flying, however. Instead, the BHR is taking the Tomcat to the Pacific Aviation Museum in Pearl Harbor where it will be a featured exhibit.
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08-27-2008, 11:45 PM
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El Chupacabra
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Re: Gator Navy meets Tailhook Navy!
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Originally Posted by CitationDrvr
This photo is NOT photoshopped. Yes..that's an F-14 tomcat on the flightdeck of the USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6)! I served on the BHR for two years. In this pic, she is enroute to Hawaii for exercises, and carrying one of the last F-14s to fly in active service. It's not flying, however. Instead, the BHR is taking the Tomcat to the Pacific Aviation Museum in Pearl Harbor where it will be a featured exhibit.
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So the plane was loaded aboard then, since BHR has no catapults or arresters. Interesting, hope the ship was scheduled to go to Pearl, and not just being sent as a ferry for that plane...what a waste of money if that was the case.
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08-28-2008, 12:17 AM
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Always votes for bush...
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Re: Gator Navy meets Tailhook Navy!
Yep..craned aboard. The BHR was going to Hawaii anyway for war games. We call the exercise "RIMPAC".
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08-28-2008, 12:20 AM
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Always votes for bush...
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Re: Gator Navy meets Tailhook Navy!
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08-28-2008, 12:43 AM
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Dr. Diecast I presume?
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Re: Gator Navy meets Tailhook Navy!
I want to go to Pearl.
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08-28-2008, 01:31 AM
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Always votes for bush...
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Re: Gator Navy meets Tailhook Navy!
I was at the museum earlier this past June. Presently, there are only a handful of planes to see in one restored hangar. They have plans to expand to three restored hangars each representing a different era in Naval aviation, and to also restore the iconic control tower.
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08-28-2008, 08:04 AM
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El Chupacabra
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Re: Gator Navy meets Tailhook Navy!
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Originally Posted by CitationDrvr
I was at the museum earlier this past June. Presently, there are only a handful of planes to see in one restored hangar. They have plans to expand to three restored hangars each representing a different era in Naval aviation, and to also restore the iconic control tower.
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Are there plans to expand the ship museums? I know they have Arizona, of course, and Missouri, but are there others, or plans for others?
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08-28-2008, 12:41 PM
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Always votes for bush...
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Re: Gator Navy meets Tailhook Navy!
Well, I do know that Hawaii had lost a bid to have the USS Midway come there. San Diego won that bid, as many know. I did spy an old LPH on the pier at Pearl Harbor Naval Station when I was there in June, but it may have been for training purposes. I imagine that Hawaii will bid for another Aircraft Carrier museum sometime in the future, but I really don't know.
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08-28-2008, 07:08 PM
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Buff man
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Re: Gator Navy meets Tailhook Navy!
Man that shot brings back some glory days of the Navy.
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