Posted on Nov 22, 2016
This 'Whale' saved 700 planes during the Vietnam War
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Thanks for sharing an interesting historical anecdote about the A-3 Skywarrior warplane known unofficially as the whale which probably was not a popular epithet with its pilots and ground crews SP5 Mark Kuzinski
Military ingenuity helped turned 85 whales into 85 into KA-3B tankers, and 34 more were also given jamming pods to become the EKA-3B.
It is an interesting factoid or perhaps statistic that "Aviation historian Joe Baugher noted that as many as 700 Navy and Marine Corps planes may have been saved by the Whale’s tanker capabilities."
Quite an accomplishment for a whale - reminded me of the whale in Pinocchio for some reason:-)
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Military ingenuity helped turned 85 whales into 85 into KA-3B tankers, and 34 more were also given jamming pods to become the EKA-3B.
It is an interesting factoid or perhaps statistic that "Aviation historian Joe Baugher noted that as many as 700 Navy and Marine Corps planes may have been saved by the Whale’s tanker capabilities."
Quite an accomplishment for a whale - reminded me of the whale in Pinocchio for some reason:-)
LTC Stephen C. Capt Seid Waddell CW5 (Join to see) CW5 Charlie Poulton SGM David W. Carr LOM, DMSM MP SGT SFC William Farrell SSgt Robert Marx SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4" SSgt (Join to see) TSgt Joe C. SGT (Join to see) SGT John " Mac " McConnell SGT Forrest Stewart SGT Robert Hawks SPC (Join to see) SrA Christopher Wright
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