 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Jul 3, 2007
Description:
More firefighting birds, but I don't recognize it.
Date Taken:
Jul 3, 2007
Place Taken:
Owner:
File Name:
waterbomber2.jpg - Photo HTML
Full size - <img src="/show.php?splash=SZUYI0000h">
Medium - <img src="/show.php?splash=SZUYI0000m">
Thumbnail - <img src="/show.php?splash=SZUYI0000s">
Category:
|
|
|
|
|
Click on photo to view the original size. |
| Viewers
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Read what others had to say:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Paul Friddell - Jul 03,2007
Viewers
| Reply
|
| |
Ken,<br />This is the old navy P2V built by Douglas. Note the long tail cone for the MAD gear. It was the Navy's front line sub hunter before the P3.
| | |
|
Kenneth Leonard - Jul 03,2007
Viewers
| Reply
|
| |
I remember the P3, but not this one. (MAD=Magnetic Anomoly Detector) before anyone asks.
| | |
|
Rick Oreair - Jul 03,2007
Viewers
| Reply
|
| |
My Dad flew the P2V during his Navy career. I remember it as being HUGE, when I was a young lad. I visited a cockpit of one converted to a water bomber, recently, at the Ocala airport, and could not believe how small it now looked. It was a neat bird, with jet engines that were only used for takeoff assistance.
| | |
|
Rick Oreair - Jul 03,2007
Viewers
| Reply
|
| |
I'll bet the ride in the plexiglass nose would be a hoot. Especially when flown on the deck of the ocean. These planes were used for anti submarine warfare. I've got some neat pictures with them dropping torpedoes.
| | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
