For my A-6 Intruder Buds! I flew the EA-6B Prowler, it was a stretched A-6, and they are often confused for each other. This is an A-6 Intruder. A two man crew, Pilot and Bombardier-Navigator (BN). This is an EA-6B…
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The AWARD WINNING Aviator Series (MWSA 2012) catapults the reader into WWII. Action explodes from the pages of novelist LC Shanle's series set in World War II. Experience the battles from the cockpits of fighter aircraft, dangling from parachutes with the Army’s Airborne over France and through the eyes of men trapped in island tropical hells. Written by a retired Naval Aviator and former Paratrooper; the author puts the reader there, as warriors engage in a titanic struggle around the globe. This series offers a rare perspective written by an author that flew modern fighters over the historic battlefields, even from the decks of aircraft carriers that fought in the Pacific. |
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A-6 Intruder and EA-6B Prowler
Posted in Aviator book series, Blog, Book, Military, Naval Aviation, war bird Tagged with: A-6, A-6 Intruder, action novel, adventure book, adventure novel, air combat, amazon, Attack Aircraft, E-2 Hawkeye, e-publishing, EA-6B, EA-6B Prowler, f-18, F/A-18 Hornet, Grumman, historical fiction, HUD video, Intruder, Naval Aviation, Naval Aviator, picture of a Hornet, picture of F-18, video night carrier landing, video of landing on a ship, video of landing on aircraft carrier
Sea Legs
While circa 1980, this movie is still one of the best on how a carrier works. The people, aircraft and many of the ships have changed, however the concept and operation of aircraft carriers has not. It is a good…
Posted in flight test, Military, Naval Aviation Tagged with: A-6, aircraft carrier, EA-6B, f-14, F-4, how a carrier works, Naval Aviation, navy, navy pilots
Full circle:Radials to Jets and back
I wrote about returning to NAS Pensacola and the National Museum of Naval Aviation a couple of years ago. Much had changed, and much had not. Planes, people; even the base had changed after a hurricane smashed into it.…
Posted in Aviator book series, Blog, Book, Naval Aviation, Pilot shortage Tagged with: AV-8A, AV-8B, AV-8B Harrier, Bi-plane, EA-6B, EA-6B Prowler, fort morgan, gulf shores, Harrier, NAS Pensacola, national museum of naval aviation, open cockpit, Pensacola, Pensacola Beach, Pensacola naval aviation museum, Prowler, Skyhawk, T-2C, TA-4J
Example of why, it is so hard to trust mainstream media
I suppose it is the same for any profession; you read or watch what the main stream press writes about your area of expertise and just roll your eyes. Sometimes it is so bad you just have to laugh.…
Posted in Aviator book series, Blog, Military, Naval Aviation Tagged with: blue angels, CAG-8, Carrier Air Wing eight, EA-6B, EA-6B Prowler, f-18, FA-18, FA-18C, hornet, Navy strikes, New York Times, NYT, strikes on iraq, strikes on ISIS, usn, USS Bush
Solo Flight
Sliding the throttles outboard, I eased them further forward into the afterburner range. I heard the boom as they lit and began to stage, a quick glance at the burner can gauge showed the exhaust nozzles opening all the way,…
Posted in Asides, Aviator book series, Blog, blogging in formation, Featured, Military, Naval Aviation, Vengeance Tagged with: EA-6B, EA-6B Prowler, F-4 Phantom II, F-4N, Phantom, Solo flight, T-28, T-28B, T-28B Trojan, T-2C, T-2C Buckeye, usn
EA-6B Prowler flying from CVN-76
The mighty Prowler is now being replaced by a Hornet variant. I spent 1800+ hours flying the EA-6B. Tough and fast down low it was a real radar killer.
Posted in Blog, Military, Naval Aviation, Vengeance Tagged with: carrier operations, EA-6, EA-6B, navy, Prowler, usn
Day and Night Aircraft Carrier Landings (split screen)
I’ve often been asked the difference: Day is basically a race track pattern; a flight enters the break at 800 feet and after passing the carrier turns hard to the down wind. In the break the jet decelerates to landing…
Posted in Blog, Book, Crashes, Featured, Military, Vengeance Tagged with: aviation, books and novels, books on aviation, carrier landing, catapults, cats+traps, CVN-68, e-2, EA-6B, f-18, hornet, how to land on a carrier, landing on the ship, landing signal officer, Lexingtonon, LSO, Military, Naval Aviation, Nimitz, Prowler, ramp strike, Red Hawks, t-2 buck eye, T-45 Goshawk, USS Enterprise, USS Lincoln, USS Nimitz, VT-21, VT-21 Red Hawks, WWII