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 | A-7 Corsair Brake Failure and Zero-Zero Ejection | Northwest of Australia and just south of Bali, an A-7 taxiing has a total hydraulic and brake failure. The 70 is short for CVN-70, ie the USS Carl Vinson, and F means Foul deck, ie the ship is not yet ready to land aircraft. The rest of the numbers on the screen are classified; I could tell you their meaning, but then you would have to be killed.
play this video |   | Vought A-7 Corsair II - "Short Little Ugly Fucker" | The Ling-Temco-Vought A-7 Corsair II is a carrier-based subsonic light attack aircraft. The A-7 airframe design was based on the successful supersonic F-8 Crusader produced by Chance Vought. It was one of the first combat aircraft to feature a head-up display (HUD), an inertial navigation system (INS), and a turbofan engine. The YA-7A made its first flight on 27 September 1965, and began to enter Navy squadron service late in 1966. The A-7 enjoyed the fastest and most trouble free development period of any American combat aircraft since World War II. The first Navy A-7 squadrons reached operation status on 1 February 1967, and began combat operations over Vietnam in December of that year. In the following months, VA-147 flew around 1400 sorties losing only one aircraft. The USAF A-7D flew a total of 12928 combat sorties during the war with only six losses the lowest of any US fighter in the theater. The aircraft was second only to B-52 Stratofortress in the amount of ordnance dropped on Hanoi and dropped more bombs per sortie with greater accuracy than any other US attack aircraft. A-7Ds from Korat flew combat operations over Vietnam until mid-January 1973, in Laos until 22 February 1973, and in Cambodia until 15 August 1973. The last shot fired in anger by United States military forces in Southeast Asia was fired by an A-7D of the deployed 345th TFW / 353 TFS assigned to Korat RTAFB on 15 August 1973. Navy A-7E squadrons VA-15 and VA-87, from the USS Independence ...
play this video |  | Vought A-7 Corsair II | I just picked up Wings over Vietnam, I always loved the Corsair II but did not know there was a game about all the second generation jets in air combat history. Graphically the game is not too sophisticated, but I love it. It feels pretty arcade...
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