It's baaaaaaack!

[DemoTex]

My old P-2V Neptune logo!

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Darest I ask...how old is that plane????

[DemoTex]

3. The original P-2 was just post-WW-2

I actually flew the SP2-E (-5) in Viet Nam. But old, even then. It had two big radial engines (R-3350s) and two Westinghouse jets: two turnin' and two burnin'.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Anti submarine, I read just now.

Are they still flying?
What are they used for?

( I LIKE airplanes)

[DemoTex]

6. They are still flying as contract water bombers for the USFS.

But they have been long parked by the military. The US Navy used the P-2 variants to track subs. The USAF and US Army used versions of the P-2 for intel missions on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos. That was what I did.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. Viet Nam was a long time and a lot of people ago.

And my eyes still get moist every time I think of it.
It marked us forever.

Is it too late to say I am glad you made it back?

[DeSwiss]

2. K&R

A Lockheed P2V Neptune launches with "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_P-2_Neptune#Early_Cold_War">Jet-Assisted Take-Off (JATO)" from the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D.
Roosevelt (CVB-42) on 2 July 1951.

[DemoTex]

4. Yeppers

Another crazy test pilot from Pax River!

[Hawkeye-X]

7. Always liked that logo.

It shows awesomeness on your part. Did you drive that thing during Vietnam?

[Cetacea]

8. K&R