U.S. Navy F8U-2N Crusader aircraft missile attack operation using the acquisition and fire control system, United States. F8U-2N in flight with engine on afterburner. Various gauges on instrument panel. F8U-2N in flight. Pilot turns on the engine, anti-icing system and indicator lights glow. APQ-83 radar mounted in nose cone of F8U-2N. Pilot turns clutter limiting switch, scan switch to normal and turns on fire control system. Pilot sets up armament panel. Radar power switch being set to normal and antenna being tilted up by pilot, radar scope being adjusted. Pilot uses radar control stick and sets the brilliance and the gain. Antenna being restored to normal. Artificial horizon on radar scope. Test button being pressed by pilot. Target is located. Pilot tilts antenna up and down and moves hand control until the acquisition circle is centered over target. Acquisition switch being pressed to lock on. Radar enters acquisition mode. Radar scope indicates radar being locked on target. Autopilot being disengaged by pilot. Radar scope in track mode. Target range and maximum range is displayed on radar scope. Target in attack position. F8U-2N pulls up towards target and missile being fired. Target exploding.
U.S. Navy ZPQ-2 in flight over ship Mayflower II heading for Plymouth, Massachusetts. ZPQ-2 at the mooring mast. View from bow to stern. Underside of the blimp where engines are turning over. Gondola section of airship showing men standing around. Members of crew in the control cabin of the ZPQ-2 in flight. Runway below. ZPQ-2 in flight over water. Mayflower II ship underway at full sail enroute to Plymouth, Massachusetts. British flag flies from top mast. Mayflower underway. Members of crew aboard Mayflower wave to ZPQ-2 overhead. U.S.S. Fessenden (DE-142) underway. DE-142 and Mayflower underway. Mayflower II and USS General C. H. Muir (AP-142) underway as seen from window of airship overhead.
U.S. Navy aircraft in Vietnam during Operation Market Time of the Vietnam War. Three crew members in a parking area at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Saigon. U.S. Navy Lockheed P-2H aircraft on a line. A tow bar being attached to P-2H aircraft. P-2H being towed to the parking area. A sign on the aircraft reads 'Navy VP-2'. Four flight crewmen walk down the line past the P-2H aircraft.
U.S. Navy aircraft in Vietnam during Operation Market Time of the Vietnam War. Flight crew gathered around Lieutenant Commander B.D. Johnson as he gives a pre flight talk. Flight crew on the line next to a U.S. Navy Lockheed SP-2H aircraft. A tractor backs down to the tow bar of the SP-2H aircraft. The SP-2H aircraft being towed by a tractor. A crewman stands nearby as port engines start up. The SP-2H aircraft on the line as engines rev up. A crewman stands next to the aircraft. A Vietnamese Navy observer looks out of the window of the SP-2H while in flight.
United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) Douglas O-2 aircraft in Michigan, United States. A Douglas O-2 observation aircraft with its propellers spinning. The Douglas O-2 aircraft taxis on a field and takes off. O-2 engining. A pilot in a cockpit. The O-2 aircraft in flight. Aerial views of terrain.
S-2A,S-2D aircraft and SH-3A helicopter in flight from Naval Air Station in Point Mugu,California. Two United States Navy (USN) Grumman S-2As Tracker anti submarine warfare aircraft fly in formation with United States Navy Sikorsky SH-3As anti submarine warfare helicopter. SH-3A helicopter in flight. It hovers and cable for sonar ball is extended from the helicopter down to bottom of frame. United States Navy Grumman S-2D Tracker anti submarine warfare aircraft in flight with extended Magnetic Anomaly Detector (MAD) boom. S-2D banks off.
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