NAS Miramar 1957

[Victor Archer]

http://www.pbase.com/marauder61/miramar_nas_1957









Good Lord, Both Tails Match..................
http://www.pbase.com/marauder61/miramar_nas_1957
 

[skippyscage]

great stuff Victor!

[Deadbolt]

Oh my word! Thank you for the images, Victor!

[Rob W.]

This just became my favorite thread on FenceCheck.

Cheers,
Rob

[Kriss22]

Awesome! thanks for posting.

[Fly-SoCal]

These are great! 

[Roger]

Great photos Victor

[Mickey]

And you won the caption contest on the last one .

Thanks for sharing .

Mickey

[RomeoCharlie]

Great stuff Victor, thanks a ton for sharing!:D

[Joe Prowler]

Amazing stuff!!!

[JClark]

Wow wow WOW!   

[skippyscage]

bloody hell - some real interesting stuff in the link

HU-16 using JATO
the flying boat in-flight refueling (no idea what it is)
close up of the rear guns on the A3D

thanks for bring some life to this section Victor

[Mickey]

The flying boat is Convair R3Y-2 Tradewind. Very rare:

After service trials the aircraft were delivered to US Navy transport squadron VR-2 on 31 March 1956. Problems with the engine/propeller combination led to the ending of Tradewind operations and the unit was disbanded on 16 April 1958.

The six R3Y-2s were converted into four-point in-flight tankers using the probe-and-drogue method. In September 1956 one example was the first aircraft to successfully refuel four others simultaneously in flight in 1956, refuelling four F9F Cougars.

Mickey

[rander]

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Thanks for posting these old pics.  I spent 17 years of my 21 year USN Career walking NAS MIramar's concrete(02/1973- 02/1990).  Even Now in 2009 a lot of that concrete in those photos around and between hanger 1 and hanger 2, is still there yet.