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Posted: **Mon Nov 18, 2013 8:05 pm**

Posted: **Mon Nov 18, 2013 8:11 pm**

Great bird! Great pics!

Welcome to SimViation.

Posted: **Mon Nov 18, 2013 9:27 pm**

Fab shots, Great flying. <<v

Posted: **Tue Nov 19, 2013 3:50 am**

Hi,
Thanks a lot for comments.

Erratum : You must read panther F9F5P of course, but I'm surprised that I can't edit my post...

Bill.

Posted: **Tue Nov 19, 2013 7:31 am**

Very very nice :clap:

Posted: **Tue Nov 19, 2013 11:00 am**

Wonderful set...well done...

Posted: **Wed Nov 20, 2013 7:56 am**

OldAirmail wrote:Great bird! Great pics!

Welcome to SimViation.

Hi,
thank you very much, OldAirmail.
Tx all for comments.

Erratum : you must read Grumman F9F5P or not F5F9P, of course...sorry but I can't edit it.

Bill.

Posted: **Fri Nov 22, 2013 11:26 pm**

Hi,

Set of pics & video loosely based on the end of a movie that I saw Sunday afternoon entitled:

" The Bridges at Toko-Ri " .

Original Trailer :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS-h1MZwJnE

Plot :
U.S. Navy Lieutenant Harry Brubaker (William Holden) is a U.S. Navy Reserve officer and pilot who was called back to active duty from his civilian profession as an attorney to fly fighter-bombers in the Korean War. Returning from a mission with battle damage, he is forced to ditch into the sea and is rescued by a Sikorsky H-5 helicopter manned by Chief Petty Officer Mike Forney (Mickey Rooney) and Airman Nestor Gamidge (Earl Holliman).

Production :
The movie was filmed aboard the USS Oriskany (CV-34) and the USS Kearsarge (CV-33), 27,100-ton Essex-class aircraft carriers standing in for the USS Savo Island. The aircraft used in the film is the Grumman F9F-2 Panther, a Korean War workhorse still in service and equipping the air groups of both carriers. In the novel, however, Brubaker's squadron flew McDonnell F2H Banshees. The squadron depicted is an actual unit, Fighter Squadron 192 (VF-192) "Golden Dragons," which was aboard the Oriskany during the filming, and from its part in the movie, thereafter, billed itself as the "World Famous Golden Dragons." VF-192 had two war deployments to Korea, but aboard the USS Princeton (CV-37) and flying Vought F4U-4 Corsairs. The squadron continues service today today as Strike Fighter Squadron 192 (VFA-192), a McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet unit.

Credits : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridges_at_Toko-Ri

Regards,

Bill.

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