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50+ Years in an Aviator's Logbook
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Logbook: training
Basic Jet Navigation
1966-05: Welcome to the Vigilante
1966-12 SERE School: Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape
1967-03: The longest flight
1967-04: FCLP
1967-05: Hitting the boat
1967-08-13 First loss
RA-5C Vigilante
RA-5C Training
Why “Attack?”
No Slack in Heavy Attack
Engines and Engine Integration
Flight Controls
Longitudinal Flight Controls
Lateral Flight Controls
IOIC-IOIS
RA-5C Systems
RAN Cockpit
Issues
The A-5/ RA-5C, A historic Aircraft?
Vigilante Gallery
Logbook: Rolling Thunder
Combat Logbook
Reporting - June 1967
Carrier Life
1967-0620- First Time Downtown
1967-07- July
1967-08 The PECM mission
Coming Home
Suiting Up
A Day of Rolling Thunder
Composite timeline- 1967
Chronology
CVW-14 Squadrons
Victories
670810 F-4B shoots down MiG
670810 MiG-21 Shot Down by VF-142 F-4B
671026- MiG shot down by VF-143 F-4B
671030- MiG-17 shot down by VF-142 F-4B
Losses
670619- F4B Phantom to AAA, crew recovered
670628- F4B to AAA, crew captured
670630- A4C Skyhawk to AAA, pilot captured
670709- A4C lost to SAM, pilot KIA
670802- A-4C lost operationally- pilot recovered
670808- A4C lost operationally- pilot recovered
670813- RA-5C lost to AAA; crew captured
670817- RA-5C lost to unknown causes- both crewmembers KIA
670821 3 A-6's lost to SAMs and MiGs
670821- F4B Lost to AAA
670823 F4B lost to SAM
671030- F4B Lost to own AIM-7
671102- A-6A lost to AAA
671103- KA-3B lost in catapult accident
RA-5C Operations on Yankee Station
Phu Ly Bridge bypasses
SAM Site
Cong Phu RR Yard
Composite Timeline
Aftermath
Rolling Thunder Assessment
Impact of 1967 Operations
Elites deliberate: declassified documents
CINCPAC'S HISTORY of Rolling Thunder
A New Stategy?
THE BOMBING OF NORTH VIETNAM IDA Dec 1967
Flights
Declassified Documents
Presentations
Buz Sawyer Flies the RA-5C
Constellation 1967 Yankee Station Cruise
Violent Skies Presentation
References
Violent Skies symposium
Logbook: Mediterrenean
Another way to die
A Broken Airplane
Crew Coordination
Watching Ivan
Logbook: On Patrol
P2 Days
Back to Westpac
Subtime
Off to “Dodge”
PT 27
Alpha Sierra
Navigation by Driftmeter
Lightning Strikes
Special Topics
the Song of the Sky
WARNING!
Buz Sawyer Joins the RVAH Navy
Shore Duty
Naval War College
NWC 1 A
Sea Stories
Logbook
DEClassified documents
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