Sure do miss you dad.
#MemorialDay #FlyNavy

F4 Phantoms Flying Over USS Enterprise (CVN-65) by Robert McCall; 1964, #USNavy Art Collection. #PhantomFriday, #F-4 #F4Phantom #PhantomII #FlyNavy

Always nice to have visitors.

Welcome aboard HSC-28.

#VoxMaris
#Team20
#flynavy

New album cover just dropped.
Photo credit: AWS1 Allen, HSC-28

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#VoxMaris
#Team20

VAW-116 "Sun Kings"
Hawkeye Country, NAS Pt. Mugu

#usnavy #film #photography #filmphotography #35mm #kodak #e2hawkeye #grumman #northropgrumman #aviation #usmilitary #navy #flynavy

A pair of Junglies, seen here during the Commando Assault demo at RNAS Yeovilton Airday 2004
#aviation #avgeek #airshow #SeaKingSaturday #helicopter #flynavy

#flynavy #photography #aviation #museum #travelphotos #photography #nikon #navalaviation

Some friends stopped by for a visit this Saturday.

#FlyNavy
#VoxMaris
#Team20

You only get one of these if you perform poetry on an aircraft carrier.
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#SeaKingSaturday

A big ole baggie from #Yeovilton

#PhotographersofBluesky #UKPhotographers #PhotographersUnited #photography #avgeek #AviationPhotography #Aviation #MilitaryAviation #Canon #RoyalNavy #FleetAirArm #SeaKing #FlyNavy

Training aircraft like this were known as Yellow Peril
#flynavy#photography #aviation #museum #travelphotos #photography #nikon #navalaviation

#OTD in 1911, Naval Aviation began when Capt. Washington Chambers ordered a Curtiss A-1 Triad amphibious plane. USS Independence (CVA-62), USS Saratoga (CVA-60) and USS Intrepid (CVA-11) marked the 50th anniversary in 1961. #FlyNavy

#OTD in 1911, Eugene Ely became the first pilot to land a plane on a warship when he touched down on the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay. The Pennsylvania had been fitted with a special platform and a crude arresting system of ropes and sandbags. #FlyNavy

#OTD in 1917, the United States declared war against the German Empire. Naval Aviation consisted of 48 pilots, 239 enlisted men, and 54 planes. By the time the Armistice was signed 19 months later, the force had grown to 6,716 officers, 30,393 enlisted men and 2,107 planes. #WWI #FlyNavy

Things you don't expect to see in northwest Arkansas

#flynavy #aviation #museumplane #photography #nikon #Arkansas #summervacation

#OTD in 1969, the all-Navy crew of Apollo 12 reached the moon. CDR Charles "Pete" Conrad and CDR Alan L. Bean became the 3rd and 4th men to walk on the surface while CDR Richard F. Gordon remained in lunar orbit in the Command Module "Yankee Clipper".

#FlyNavy

“Independence from the Blue Angels”, by Wesley McKeown, 1972, #USNavy Art Collection. The famed #BlueAngels flew the #F-4J #PhantomII fighter jet from 1969-74. #PhantomFriday #navy #flynavy #navalaviation #USSIndependence #CV-62

Tomcat territory. Taken from vultures row whilst underway in the Persian Gulf whilst on board CVN-71 some nineteen years ago. Carrier decks have certainly become quite boring in comparison. #aviation #avgeek #tomcattuesday #flynavy #anytimebaby #f14 #cvn71 #tomcatters #blacklions