Sea Hawk

My daughters school had the Navy send over a SeaHawk to show the kids. I did not know it was comming so I was not prepaired. But managed to get a few shots...

They are part of VX-1 witch is the test group for the Navy the best I could tell mostly anti submarine stuff but evidently a lot of other stuff as well. All of the crew that came are lifers. Each with at least 2 tours in Iraq.

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I hope the fuzzy dice aren't there for good luck!

I might be left over from its maiden voyage. It is brand new. Not even 300 hours of fly time are on it yet.

IMO, you can't have too much luck when you're flying without wings?
Thanks for sharing it with us.

When I was heading into Iraq I was invited to ride up in the cockpit of our C-130 to take photos. After seeing that I was not some yahoo with a point and shoot they let me stay up there for the full sunrise over that ****ty country, as well as our combat landing and taxiing. I took probably 400 photos in a span on 2 hours. I documented everything that I could, I am always diligent with security measures, so I never take photos of sensitive things. I took some photos of the pilots messing with throttles and flipping switches and cool stuff like that. I showed them to a PA I did some freelance stuff for, public affairs is like a military journalist, and she told me that I was not allowed to photograph military aircraft instruments.

So when I see that civilians are invited to do so, I get kind of mad that she made me delete them. Too bad the dumb broad didn't know that I had already backed up my library. Muwahahaha.

I think the difference is the instruments are not turned on when I took the shots. Now that so much info is on the screens, it is easy to hide it when they are turned off. I doubt I would have been able to take the shot with it running.

Bringing back an old thread. That glass cockpit on the new navy -60's is pretty sweet.