Aircraft: YA4D-1 Skyhawk
Custodian: Naval Aircraft Torpedo Unit
BuNo: believed to be 137820
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Location: Quonset Point, RI
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Description: Torpedo Unit in formation. Note the flaps out on the Skyhawk, trying to stay slow enough.
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Photo credit: U.S. Navy
Contact: 'Boom' Powell
Footnote: "To join the gaggle of claimants to the fame of operating all the basic types of aircraft, .... I submit that the Naval Aircraft Torpedo Unit, Quonset Point, R.I., operated a P2V-5F, S-2, A-4 and HSS-1 for the two years I was a member, 1960-2. We had a torpedo range in Narragansett Bay where we conducted R&D on airborne torpedo accessories. Our fight pattern for drops would nowadays take us under the Jamestown-Newport Bridge".
Captain T. V. Golder |
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