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MV is such a failure.

You are always proud to be going....but with a tug in your heart, too!!!!

Very special aircraft -- forward, sideways, backwards flight -- with all variations & combinations! I was lucky to have piloted them for two tours, 1796 flight hours and 396 ship landings in type. Great fun & great memories! And then... I moved on to the " more normal aircraft".....which, by comparison..... were a little more boring.😎

"99-2000, good times

Some 10+ years earlier, July 2004 I had the privilege of being present for the retirement & last flight of our CH113/113A aircraft. Canadian Air Force Search & Rescue version of the venerable Boeing Vertol with larger fuel tanks. It landed at the Canada Aviation & Space Museum in Ottawa. Similar scenario with its replacement the CH-149 Cormorant present. Columbia Helicopters of Portland Oregon subsequently purchased 8 of our retired aircraft. I'm sure they must have taken a few Sea Knights as well. They will continue to fly & serve in civilian livery. ;-) Couldn't help but cringe a little at the marshaller bringing her in like that. We were instructed never to approach these birds from the front as the rotor can dip quite low. At the very least duck your head my friend.....

That movie theater they were drifting in the parking lot of was regal cinemas and it closed back in 2001

It is very sad that, what I consider on of the best helicopters in the military has been retired. I flew them for four cruises and two tours in HC-11. Both, I consider the best.

The best scars on my hands were from the 46…..wish I could pull floor boards one more time.

Sea Knights are out, Ospreys are in! A new chapter has begun with the Ospreys for more years of services to come!

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Love the care that was taken to make this a memorable moment. Big thanks to all involved. The Phrog will be missed!

R.I.P. Warrior!

Flying coffin! Hated every minute I had to ride on them. The "Egg beater".

I was stationed there in 1978 with the Air Force. It went surprising well -- of course, there had been about six months of warning -- with "730" signs and "Think Left" buttons and LOTS of advertisements on civilian stations and AFRTS.

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Nice landing.

Wow

Correction: Okinawa officially switched from Right hand traffic to left hand traffic on 30th July 1978.

I was there for this

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I have rode on them.....good memories

Yup. 81 thru 84

Echo Papa Double Nuts was my bird in 1983. Doug <><

on this memorial day let us enjoy the machines that brought each and everyone of us home ahmen

Honestly, I feel like they ruined this by adding the plopter. This was a send off for the Phrog. It was her day.

12,000 hours in that airframe. Sorry to see her go.

Thanks for posting. Spent 20 years with her. Sad day for sure.

Schweet!

this is hilarious!!

yo i watched that it was hot i was going to bring my go kart

yeah you can do that now considering that cloverlief is litterally a ghost town.

falken is bad ass dud i love the tires!!!! nice video 5tars

Now this is what i call DRIFTING! Wide open throttle all the time! (WOT ATT)

mother of god...