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Hmmm. Interesting.

By The Armorer on June 5, 2007 | | Comments (14)

Lex certainly uses big bait when fishing on a deployment. Or, was this the catch?

Ooopsie!

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By Larry J on June 5, 2007 8:39 AM
Note to self: "Find out who installed the tail hook on this plane. Send thank you note."
 
By MIke L on June 5, 2007 9:30 AM
Dammit!! I thought that "full" was all the way to the LEFT!! Drats. ML
 
By lex on June 5, 2007 10:20 AM
Doesn't so much look like a catch as something we tried (and failed) to throw back. *Well* before my time. Might've served as CAS for you though, John /snerk.
 
By bad cat robot on June 5, 2007 10:27 AM
Looks like someone with more enthusiasm than knowledge tried to reinstitute the venerable naval tradition of keelhauling. I wonder what the plane did wrong? And those guys seem mighty calm in there. Must have been really good strawberries ;-)
 
By John of Argghhh! on June 5, 2007 10:33 AM
Ooooh. Lex made an age joke! For someone not that far behind me... I haven't even broke 50 yet. I just look like it. It's the mileage. I didn't get to sleep in a bunk and eat in a cafeteria alla time...
 
By AFSister on June 5, 2007 10:51 AM
Leave it to the Navy to redefine "spear fishing". "Stay right there, you rascally fish, or I'll hurl my pointy-ended airplane at you!"
 
By Richard on June 5, 2007 12:27 PM
It looks like both seat positions are clear. Which would mean a very tookus puckerin climb-out and harness hoist. No whale boat rescue I'll bet. Not with that Sword of Damocles :)
 
By J.M. Heinrichs on June 5, 2007 1:42 PM
Another radical ASW proposal which, on initial test, indicated some re-consideration required. Cheers
 
By John of Argghhh! on June 5, 2007 5:16 PM
Good one, CAPT H!
 
By ry on June 5, 2007 9:37 PM
What a waste of a Cutlass(at least I think that's a Cutlass).
 
By Roachman on June 5, 2007 11:03 PM
Doggone student drivers! Looking at the markings, the orange nose and tail, as well as the VT squadron number, I'd say this made an interesting entry in the training log.
 
By steveH on June 5, 2007 11:38 PM
ry, Looks like a Grumman Cougar (the F7U Cutlass is much more tailless, with twin vertical tails midway out on the wings). Man, the Bethpage Iron Works sure did make 'em tough. As for catch of the day, it looks like one that *almost* got away.
 
By ry on June 6, 2007 2:40 PM
SH, that hump in the middle first made me think of a late model A-4. Good call though.
 
By John of Argghhh! on June 6, 2007 2:54 PM
Careful, Ry - Maggie will think you're talking about her. That's not a hump. It's the canopy.