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A-7E Corsair II
That Time They Buried an A-7E SLUF at Sea
The Story of One Pilot’s Incredible Mission During the Corsair II’s Last War. Carrier aviation is rife with stories about perilously anomalous events. Cold cat shots. Cross deck pendants parting.…
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Achtung! The Luftwaffe Nearly Became an A-7 Corsair II Operator
Well SLUF fans we scoured the interweb but just couldn’t find this visually striking footage with an English narration. The German version of the film is narrated in German for…
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Watch: This Vought A-7 Corsair II Promo Film Attempted To Make Mighty SLUF Sexy
During the 1960s and 1970s military aerospace companies like Vought, or Ling-Temco-Vought, or Douglas, or McDonnell-Douglas…well let’s just say the companies that built military aircraft produced promotional films for their…
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Behold The Corsair II- The Undisputed Rodney Dangerfield of Vietnam-Era Attack Jets
The 1975 Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV)-produced promotional film “The A-7 Attack Fighter” features both the Navy’s A-7E and the Air Force’s A-7D Corsair II tactical jets. The Short Little Ugly F*cker (SLUF)…
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Valions Tribute: Tac Demo Gladiators Honor VFA-15 with Retro F-18
The 2017 airshow season is almost a wrap across the United States, and one of the crowd favorites, the NAVY Tac Demo “GLADIATORS” from VFA-106, paid tribute to the storied…
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WATCH: This Is What It Was Like to Fly the Whale From a Carrier Deck
Experience the Life of an EA-3B Skywarrior Crew During a Mid-1980s WestPac Deployment Bruce “Shooter” Gamble was a Navigator with Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron ONE (VQ-1) World Watchers between 1982…
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When the Tomcat Deployed for the First Time it Was a Happening
The film “F-14A Tomcat Progress Report 7- The Tomcat Deployed” was produced by Grumman Aerospace Corporation in 1974 to tout the Navy’s newest fleet defense interceptor- the Grumman F-14A Tomcat.…
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USS Midway’s Last Phantom Flight: The End of an Era
USS Midway (CV-41) was the last US Navy aircraft carrier to operate the McDonnell Douglas F-4S Phantom II. On March 25th 1986 the Midway sent the Phantoms to the beach…
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Watch “The Hawk” And Her Air Wing Kick Ass During Their 1972 WESTPAC
Carrier Air Wing ELEVEN (CVW-11) broke all the previous records for combat sorties flown and ordnance delivered during its sixth WESTPAC deployment aboard the carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) from…
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