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Originally Posted by gamin
Yup. That's what we called the A-3. Our squadron averaged losing one per year. My room mate was killed in one by a cold cat shot on the FDR. Too fast to stop, too slow to fly. No ejection seats. Broke up and sank. I had to call his folks.
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That had to be rough. Hard to do.
I had one flight in an A-3, land based out of North Island for some testing we were doing in the '80's with a new radar data processor for airborne targets with the SH-60B radar.
The A-3 was flying specific patterns and I was doing data collection. There was also some range tracking sensors on the A-3 to verify the location (GPS wasn't on the A-3).
The Whale.
No seat quals and I spent a few hours getting requaled on parachutes and then a few minutes learning the egress from the A-3.
Different world.
