Reply #1037 on: February 03, 2020, 08:29:21 AM
Ahem!
ASW fixed wings don't get a lot of respect, but they were ballsy types.
Once saw a helicopter that was preparing to dip it's sonar at probably under a hundred feet of altitude. An S-2 Tracker flew under the helicopter to drop a sonobuoy.
Don't know what the helicopter crew thought, but we felt the pucker factor as the Tracker seemed to be intent on colliding with the hovering helicopter.
"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell." - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side." Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.
