Tag Archives: P-3 Orion

Hugo & the P-3

The P-3s are advertised as sub hunters but anybody who remembers the one that was downed flying along China’s border a few months before 9/11 may remember that it was packed with computers for listening to digital and analog communications.

Course it’s a bit hard to imagine Hugo’s regime being particularly sophisticated enough to warrant P-3 snooping. Which makes our denial more than plausible for once. I do wish Chavez & Co. didn’t have F-16s, but that’s neither here nor there now. Worse is Hugo’s new ties with Iran.

Missing the P-3 Orion

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I know the nephew is missing his P-3, but he’s a new father now and that will occupy him. He’ll get back on the flight deck someday, I’m sure.

Lt.jg. Frank E. Hand, III, R.I.P.

The remains of South Carolina native and P-3 Orion co-pilot Frank Hand, lost with eleven other crew members when their plane was downed off the coast of Viet Nam in 1968, finally have been repatriated and will be interred today in the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery. Four F/A-18 Hornets will fly over the service for the Eagle Scout who grew up in Fort Worth.

Via Patterico