Aircraft Carriers: Forrestal Class

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Here she is about to be towed away............. :( DFO
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15th January 2022
USS Kitty Hawk today started her final voyage from Bremerton to a scrapyard in Texas. Built for $264 million in 1961 ($2.5 billion in 2021), the Kitty Hawk was sold to the scrap company for the bargain price of 1 cent. For another penny, the company also got USS John F. Kennedy.
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designeraccd wrote: Fri Jul 31, 2020 6:29 pm Here is the RANGER, and with CG LONG BEACH (fairly late view: note armored missile boxes aft)! :) DFO
I was attached to Ranger at that time... I was in my shop two decks below the flight deck in the sponson between the starboard aircraft elevators aft of the island.

That is a crop from a larger photo.
Crew members form the phrase "We The People" on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ranger (CV-61), May 1987, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the signing of the constitution of the United States. The Constitution was formally signed on 17 September 1787. The guided missile cruiser USS Long Beach (CGN-9), bottom, and the guided missile frigate USS Lewis B. Puller (FFG-23) were accompanying Ranger.

U.S. Navy photo by PH3 Ron Wimmer (DVIC id.: #DNSC8706761).
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USS Independence pictured at Hampton Roads in 1959.
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Forrestal Class Carrier USS Saratoga pictured at Hampton Roads on November 15th 1956.
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USS Forrestal and Carrier Air Group (CVG-8) pictured while conducting local operations off the East Coast on August 29th 1959.
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Forrestal Class Carrier USS Independence pictured off Hampton Roads in May 1968.
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An McDonnell Douglas F-4J Phantom II assigned to the VF-74 'Bedevilers' launches from USS Forrestal in 1975.
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US Navy F-4 RIO tells the story of when his Phantom II was mistakenly shot down by another US Navy F-4 (flown by a USAF exchange pilot)

Aug 12 2022

“Greyhound” Simons was a decorated Air Force exchange pilot who had lots of combat time over Viet Nam. He remembered stories of F-4 pilots calling “Fox 1” or “Fox 2” and failing to pull the trigger because they hadn’t been pulling the trigger during training. His habit was to always pull the trigger when he called a shot.

On Aug. 17, 1978 while flying over the Mediterranean 80 nm south of Marseille, France, a US Navy F-4 Phantom II from VF-74 attached to CVW-17 aboard USS Forrestal (CV-59) crewed by Sammy Bonnano and Dave “Fly” Svajda (checking the spelling, it’s Svajda) as Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) was mistakenly shot down by an AIM-9H Sidewinder missile fired by another VF-74 F-4 flown by Jim Simons (Greyhound, a USAF pilot on an exchange tour) with Scot Callaway (Bugs) as RIO.

The target RIO, Fly Svajda, recalls;
“We were flying a typical FORCAP mission seventy-five mile north of the Forrestal, an hour of boring intercepts then back to marshal (holding pattern before landing). The best part of the flight was that it was a day launch to a sun-set recovery, and a full moon to boot.
“We were the target for the last intercept. At the end of this intercept we planned to join the section together and return to the ship.

Continues at - https://theaviationgeekclub.com/us-navy ... nge-pilot/

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