Stunning Corsair pic

Andy,

Of all the planes the HU-16 was the close to the Tower. The B-25 had more then anothe roll for take off. The Corsairs and the TBM just jumped off the Deck.

If I can get some photos from one of the guys I’ll post them the best one I saw was the shot of the Corsair going over the Bow, this shot is taken with the Corsair just overhead.

Cheers

USS Carl Vinson.

Thanks for that CM
That B-25 had a bit more space to operate off a CVN than they did off the original USS Hornet.
Still very impressive though.
All the best.
Andy

Andy,

We were on the USS Carl Vinson CVN-70 The Golden Eagle, this was also the same carrier that the Discovery channel did the show on. I think the show was call Carreirs Fortress at Sea. In one of the scenes a 14 does a super-sonic fly-by and eats a n engine I got to meet the crew of this plane.

Also on board was VA-95 Fist of the Fleet who were still flying A-6 these are the guys who did all of the Stuff for The Flight of the Intruder movie and this was there second to last cruise before the A-6 were Decond.

As I stated before this was one of magor highlight of my life. I have ben able to see two of the three modern Warbird Carrier lanchs. The first being the 50anv. of Doolittle raid off the USS Ranger with 2 B-25 and the 50 anv. of the end of WWII off the Carl Vincen. I missed the third one in SanFran. this was during Fleet Week in 95 also the on board the Carl Vincen.

Cheers

I know nowt!

Ta James

Goose and Gooses are one type.

Widgeons look similar, and are another type.

Tales of the Golden Monkey starred ‘Cutter’s Goose’

have a look here: http://www.grummangoose.com/

And here: http://members.aol.com/thegneech/goose.htm

Among others.

A great exec a/c the Goose…

Cheers / Salut

I love the Goose/Geese/Widgeon – they are brilliant little aeroplanes – are there any in the UK?

Does anyone remember a TV program with one in Tales of the Golden Monkey (?) in the 80s when i wuz a lad?

A lovely picture 😉 Anna 🙂 🙂

Carrier??

Which carrier did this take place on.
Very interesting stuff by the way.
Andy

Talking about hub…

… did you see the B-25 Nose reflection in the Prop Hub dome???

Great picture!!! 😉

Cheers,

Jacques.

Turbo,

If I remember right the hub wasn’t that heavy with out the blades in it, also we had five guys working on the Prop plus a stand up mini-cran thanks to the US Navy.

Cheers

Uh okay thanks…

I’ll bet the prop assembly weighed a ton !!

Cheers

Turbo,

If I remember right the blades were all # , the ones we had were just for show they were’nt airworthy. The hardest part was standing the bloody thing up so we could get the sling around it and hoist it back onto the prop shaft. If I remmeber right there was No metal found in any of the screens but I think the shaft was slightly out of line. i do know the blades were toast. O think we left one of the blades on board for the crew to cut down and put in their display case.

Cheers

There’s a question for you…..

Do the blades have to go into the hub in a particular order ?
ie for balancing purposes ?
Or is it not that critical ?

I remember reading once how they track blades on a huey. They get it with the rotors moving along at a decent speed and then touch a pole on the one thats not quite tracking right !!!

hmmm… :rolleyes:

Cheers
Chris

Hey Turbo,

No problem, I wish I could post some pics but all of my stuff was losty in a barn firer, I’ve made contact with some of the guys who were their so maybe they can get me some stuff.

I would love to have a photo of us changing the Prop on the TBM, all the Mechs. were quite amazed that we were Man-Handling the Prop off. I was sitting up on top of the Engine smacking the blade with a rubber hammer when some safety guy come along and tells me I should be have a Brain bucket on well that got a laught out of all of us because all I had on was a pair of work shorts and Boots. The funny part was when we went to put together the new prop we laid out the blades and the hub and we had this LT ask if we need a pully to put the blades in, were the owner took him aside and explain that these things are down with are hands. The Mechs. enjoy are little impromp school of prop assembly.

Cheers

That just sounds like a warbird-lovers dream come true !!!!

Thanks again, Crazymainer !! 😀

Hi Turbo,

Watching the HU take off was alittle nerve racking I think if the grey matter right we must have pick up to 25 knots for her.

After the HU took off the two F/A-18 and the -4 did a fly by followed by the Gooses and the TBM with the FM-2 and SNJ then came the B-25 along and final Shipley in the FG. After that was over we have about 15 USAF/USN aircraft do a fly over.

As we enter Pearl Harbor the whole crew lined the deck as we past the USS Arizonia the 25s and corsairs did a Missing Man and we on Deck threw out a Lau.

The whole time we were there, I think we flew four to five hops a day. Everyone in their brother wanted Formation shots. I remember when we were doing the Fly-Over at Wheeler Field with the 25s we had a Coast guard C-130 pull up next to us for some impromp formation flying. The Carl Vincen was used as a flooting review stand and for two hours straight all sorts of ships and Aircraft passed in review. One of the Highlights was the Mass formation we had over the USS Arizonia. Can you picture 11 warbirds in a right hand turn over Pearl Harbor when we got call down for are Fly-By we drop down to 500AGL head straight toward Diamond Head then took a hard right hand turn over the Beach and head straight towards the Carly V turn another hard right passed her on her Left side then head down the Beach breaking off into varoius Formations for the return to Barbers Point.

I know the guys with the Gooses did some splash and dashs near Ford Island and Mr. Beatra beat up the North Shore real good. Mr.Shipley put on a great display everyday, We flew two Airshows a day one Mid-Morning and another Mid-Afternoon, when we were’nt at Barbers we had planes at Wheeler, Hickam for the dances.

Like I said before this was one the Highlights of my 37 years on this Earth.

Cheers

Hi,

Thanks for the comprehensive and very interesting reply.

The HU-16 Albatross and the two Gooses (Geese ??) must have looked a little weird going down the deck but I guess if they didn’t make it they had the option of landing straight away 😀 😮

I remember reading about the Doolittle raid and how Jimmy flew his B-25 off the Hornet first with about half of the deck length as the last B-25 had, and still made it!!!
Those B-25’s sure are amazing aircraft 🙂

Hi Turbo,

No the B-25 did’nt need that much Deck for the Take Off we had about 20Knots across the Bow. The Following Planes were on the trip

B-25J In The Mood
B-25J Buck U
B-25J Pacific Princess
2 TBM
FG-1D
F4U-4
2 JRF Gooses
1 SNJ
1 HU-16
1 FM-2

Of these planes one of the TBM took a prop strike during the Take Off trails and it was decied to bring her and have her on the Deck for the Festivitys

The FM-2 is the CAF bird that is now painted in FAA/RN colors.

As for take off the only hairy one was when Mr. Beatra flying his -4 drifted alitle to the left on take off and almost took out a camera person. The HU-16 used the most of the Deck almost the total 800 feet, of the 3 B-25 Wally Fisk had Buck U off just before the mid-section of the Tower matter of fact he dragged the skid-plate and for the rest of the time their we all called him Pop Wally.

Right after the last 25 took off the VFA-113 did a Hot Cat shot, this is when they bring up two 18 already running and put them straight onto the Cat 3&4 for a side by side launch. That was real impressive and there were alot of us who could have watch that all day long.

For all of us who were on the Carrier it was nice to be able to let are Men and Women who defend are Freedom to sit and fly along with the warbirds. We were hanger in #1 Hanger or V-Section 1. I remember being on watch at 1AM and having all sorts of people come down.

All and All its ranks up as one of the most enjoyable times I have ever had.

Cheers

Hi Turbo,

The B-25 is Pacific Princess, the shot was taken during the Carrier Trails for the 50th Anv. of the end of WWII. Both the 25 and Shipleys Corsair took off the Deck.

I was on board for the flight,once in a life time event.

Cheers

Wow, that must have been awesome !!

Did the B-25 need much deck space to take off ?

Hi Turbo,

The B-25 is Pacific Princess, the shot was taken during the Carrier Trails for the 50th Anv. of the end of WWII. Both the 25 and Shipleys Corsair took off the Deck.

I was on board for the flight,once in a life time event.

Cheers