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Originally Posted by Seahawk

It is neat to watch. I have seen the Blue Angels a few times and the JATO take-off by Fat Albert is great.



I flew from Pt. Mugu NAS to New Zealand in a C-130. A friend of mine was a pilot at VXE-6 and I took some leave to hopefully get on the Antarctic ice.

A bit about VXE-6: https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/vxe-6.htm

As much as I loved the C-130, that is a long way to go at around 300kts!

We made it to Christchurch, NZ but the weather was awful on the ice so I flew back to San Diego commercially.

Even steerage felt great!

Dad was stationed in P'cola twice, so I've seen the Blue Angels several times. We also had an Air Show on Misawa Air Base. The JATO assisted take offs were impressive.

Japan, air show late 70s.





Cub Scouts getting to tour a P3


When coming or going from/to Misawa, you'd take a jet to/from an air base in the south end of Japan (Yokota or Yokusuka, I think) and then, I'm pretty sure you'd fly in a C130 from there to Misawa. That was an experience. seats loaded into the plane facing the rear of the plane. Usually only a handful of rows of seats with cargo in the back of the plane. The inside of the plane not finished, not heated, and not insulated from sound. You wore jackets as if you were outside, and ear plugs.