pollie Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Has anyone seen my Hoover lately? BuNo 160575? One of the few Hoovers that went missing! Would like to know where it ended up too! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HOLMES Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Wolfgun33 Nice phtos...very good of you to post it .Thnak you and Scot Dram Noce updates with your contributions too.. {by the way Wolfgun33 are you the same as Wolgun33?} Quote Link to post Share on other sites
billi Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 ES-3A from VQ-5 on the ramp at NAS Whidbey Island July 1997. Cheers Bill Inglee Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GreyGhost Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 Very cool Bill! Nice to see shots of these rare Shadows! Thanks! -Gregg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
viper50 Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 Nice to see this thread back from the dead. I had forgotten I posted some photos on here. I got to visit the Midway in San Diego a while back. I'll see if I can find some of the pics. Don M. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dutch Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 (edited) On 10/21/2007 at 8:51 AM, Eddie M. said: I enjoyed the S-3 a lot at sea. One reason was the sound of the engines, especially on recovery. On launch, if you closed your eyes for a second, you could imagine a large airliner by the sound. It always seemed that the main mounts took a beating. I never saw a main mount collapse in person, but I've seen a couple on plat tape. IIRC, the US-3 didn't have ejection seats. Never understood that one. One thing we always looked forward to was Miss Piggy bringing out the mail. Eddie Eddie, Are you sure the S-3 did not have ejection seats? I am pretty sure they left the factory with them installed. I do remember a tragic incident at an air show (North Island?), mid to late 1980s when a young boy sitting in the cockpit of a static display S-3 somehow removed the safing pin and activated the seat and was catapulted to his death. Another spectator sitting in the other seat suffered burns. My memory is kind of fuzzy now. Were the seats just deactivated after that? Curious to know. R/ Dutch Edited July 29, 2019 by Dutch Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Collin Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 S-3A/S-3B’s did have ejection seats (I sat on them for years with the sore back end still to prove it). The US-3 model did NOT have “ejection” seats. That aircraft was a COD variant and had seats in the rear tunnel vice electronic gear the A/B had back there. The front seats in the US-3 were de-armed and the rear seats were not ejection capable. The S-3B that NASA still flies has seats, but they are de-armed as well. Cheers Collin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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