AW1Steve
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Joined: 3/10/2007 From: Mordor Illlinois Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: USS America Sounds like a P-3 to me. Although a P-3 does have a bomb bay, does carry bombs,torpedo's ,rockets,mines and missiles, please note that it is a P-3, not PB-3.It is not, a bomber. It's no more a bomber than an S-3,SH-3,SH-2, or SH-60. (All of which carry ordance). But I can attest from personal experince, they do burn easily! ? i must have forgoten this story. You can't forget what I haven't told. I could spend days telling about all the fires I've had on P-3's (and those are just the one's I recall!). Electrical,engine,grease,paper, and some that we still don't know what caused! The airplane is very old, jammed tail to nose with old electronics, repaired by people who'd rather be doing something else, and operates on a three thousand pound (weight not cost) equivalent of a Commodore 64! It first flew in 1962 (in time for the Cuban missile crisis--I've flown a lot on one of those 1st 8 P-3a's) and was due to be replaced when Jimmy Carter was president! Currently 1/2 to 2/3 rds of the fleet is down at any given time due to lack of parts and money. Yeah, I've had a few fires in my 23+ years of surviving them!
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