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Between 1974 and 1977 I served with an ASW Squadron that flew P3C Orions based out of NAS JAX FLA. They covered a vast area of the Atlantic tracking Soviet subs. The close up photos of Soviet ships and subs lining the admin office walls were very detailed, with Russian crewmen waving at the planes. We participated in NATO exercises and would deploy at least once a year to Iceland or Sicily. Good duty (extra pay when over seas) except for winter in Iceland. Summer in Iceland wasn't bad at all. I got to fly in one a couple of times when we would do Allied crew exchanges at nearby bases. Very cool watching the crew working the sonar equipment while enroute to our destination. At that time they were worth $14,000,000 apiece.
I was an AX out of Brunswick from 72-75 and we had P3Bs. I wasn’t aircrew but I went to many places on every detachment many times with a patrol enroute. I also did Unitas 14/around South America. When we went to SA the Navy painted up two P3As with the US flag on the tail. They sent operators and techs to Pax to teach us old stuff like sniffer and AQA-5. I only went to Spain, Azores and Sicily for deployments but went to places like Crete and Athens. We also went up to England for a few days while in Azores. We went to a Nimrod base in SW England.
As a boy growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, the P-3 was a familiar sight as patrols came and went from Moffett Field Naval Air Station. The drone of the turboprops were unmistakable.
Yes indeed, you are correct. And never forget the midair collision between the P3 and the NASA jet while flying parallel final approaches into Moffett.
I grew up in the Campbell/ San Jose( the bay) area and loved watching with my Dad back in the 60's and 70's. These Beautiful aircraft would come in from over the Santa Cruz Mountains. We both loved Aircraft and would stop and stare at nearly everyone of them that passed by over head heading for Moffett. A 12 year old and his Dad are now only memories. Do you remember the Radar station on top of Mount Umunhum with the turning dish you could see from anywhere in the valley searching for intruders to the horizon.
I grew up in Sunnyvale, directly below the flight path into Moffett Field. At least 10 a day flew over. Along with whatever Ames Research Center was flying. U2, C5A, and the tiltrotor all flew overhead. steve
Also grew up outside NAS Moffett Field - enlisted in 1986, with the intent of being a Sensor Operator on the Orion, but unfortunately I SWAM too well, and the Navy designated me a Sensor Operator in the Seahawk Helicopter with the additional duty of being a Rescue Swimmer . After my 1st Sea Tour: while serving as a systems instructor, I managed to qualify as an SO in both the Orion and Viking - dream realized.
Great video. I flew in many P-3 variants from 1978 - 1991 and really, really enjoyed your presentation. You have some great video footage there. I will always believe this airframe is a classic beauty and I feel blessed to have spent so much time caring for, and flying in, the Orion.
I flew as SS2 & SS3 on P3B and P3C between 1972-1975 at NAS JAX with VP5. Serving in the USNavy as an Aircrewman was a great Honor that involved 2,000 flight hours and over a year of training!
13:18. I recognized those tail letters "YD". Those are VP-4's aircraft. I was in the squadron from '85 -87' When we switched the squadron decal from a chinese skinny line art dragon. (hence the squadron name "Skinny Dragons"), to the one you see on the tail in the picture. Great times and great deployments. VP-4 transitioned to the P-8A sometime in 2016.
It's a beautiful aircraft. I love propeller planes and this is a beauty. Evidently she was in service for a long time. I think I'll do some reading on the one. You were lucky to serve on this plane.
My dad flew the P3 orion 76 77 Jax Florida, and came back in '81 with others from Holland to Jax. He was so proud to have been a pilot on the orion, in Florida and in Holland, my dad J.W. Niessink.
Really well done!! This is going to be my 'go to' military vid stop now. I thought I new the P-3, but the NEW info in this vid astounded me: 800km/hr = about 500mph speed record!! WTH!! That's getting up there with Soviet 'Bear' speeds for prop planes! Well narrated, can't wait to see more of your lineup (the SeaKing next). Thx! (P.S. Great comments in the section, looks like a lot of Navy folks). :-)
Too nice video about p-3 Orion with clear explaining of its characteristics and abilities in addition its creativity and participant's in operations during cold war struggle between western countries & eastern countries...too nice video from excellent specific channel detective weapon
I miss watching the P-3's flying in and out of the former Barbers Point NAS Hawaii before decommissioning in 1995, the P-3's had a distinct hum which was easy to identify.
I know that metric measurements are considered the international standard BUT, mariners and aviators still regularly use nautical miles (km) and knots (nautical miles per hour - kts.) as their distance and speed measurements and performance specifications. Hint: A Nautical mile is based on the circumference of the earth, and is equal to one minute of latitude (1/60th of a degree). That's why dividers are one of the basic tools of a navigator. Measuring the distance between two points on a chart is made easier with dividers. The dividers allow you to measure distance in nautical miles when used in conjunction with the latitude scale of your nautical map. Place one point of the dividers at point A and the other point of the dividers at point B. Keeping the same spread measure the distance on the latitude scale. If it's 20 minutes of latitude, then the distance is 20 nautical miles, i.e. one minute is one nautical mile. Remember to only ever measure by latitude because longitude is different depending how far north or south you are. For measuring distances that are longer than your dividers, set the dividers to a whole number then rotate the dividers end to end and then add up the number of rotations.
In certain Navy exercises years back we worked with P-3s and have to say it was better for us to work with the British Nimrod. Even former P-3 crews that were with us said the same thing.
It's also had an extensive civilian career, as research aircraft, hurricane hunter and anti-drug interdiction (and likely many other non-military roles)
Can’t carry torpedoes on wing station for operational use as the torpedo Otto II fuel will freeze at altitude and therefore has to be bomb bay carried. Up former Aviation Ordnancemen inflight Aircrewmen.
I hate these things, not because they are good or bad, I was a submariner and listening to sono-bouys pinging for days on end during wargames and losing sleep sucks.
An odd statement, since the standard load out of sonobuoys was about 85% passive only, active pinging was rarely used (and only against our own subs) and buoys were set to scuttle after 1 hour. I took part in many exercises, and we hardly ever used active buoys, and then only pinged a couple times. Active sonar is not used to hunt submarines; only to get precise range data on a target at an already known position to generate an attack solution, which only needs a couple pings, and these are very low power. But not having been on the receiving end, I guess I have to take your word for it.
@@mikearmstrong8483 Yea but wargames is when the fun and stupid things happen. Also hated trying to maintenance in port and destroyers calibrating sonar all day and I just wanted to put a pump back together.
I was an IFO (1990-1995). Was flying out of Jeddah during Desert Storm. Also flew over Bosnia for operation Deny Flight. I got to watch some inert ordnance drops but never a live weapon. Although on my last deployment to Sigonella we did fly with live Mk 20 Rockeye's and AGM-65 Mavericks. Ended up with over 1700 hrs during my short span. Much love & respect for P-3C. Cheers!
Canada doesn't fly the P-3 Orion. It Flies the CP-140 Aurora. While it uses mostly the same air frame as the P-3, it has a completely different sensor suite making it far more capable than the standard USN P-3.
Смотрю ваш канал не чего не понимаю. Просьба лично от меня. Я конечно не знаю как это все устроено и работает но можно сделать русские субтитры. Огромное спасибо!
I miss that dirty bird!! I was with VP-40 out of Whidbey Island WA, 2001-2008. I remember when the EP-3 went down cause of the Chinese fighter plane. Yes, they did use the EDK's to destroy as much as they could. But,.. they should have followed procedure and ditched it in water keeping the chinese from getting their hands on it. there are valid reasons certain military occupations remain out of the scope of coed,.. when its you and your brothers its mission first, always, you're feelings of saving the female aren't there to cloud thought process. Now, did the chinese get it there and be like, "WOW, you can do all this?" Not really, it was more "Wow, you can do all this from one plane?" So, they did their duty with EDK's destroying the most essential classified instrumentation beyond recognition making it harder to tell what the plane could do. And yes thank the Lord they came home safe. And no, in case you wondering, i am not the type of person who thought or thinks women incapable of the positions on the aircraft, i worked with them for years, i was simply putting out the reason of how human compation can play a role in our decision making when we're supposed to do one thing yet choose another. Thankfully things went smoothly for the crew.
Big sea Vietnam has zero asw aeroplane and hoping the US greenlit for Vietnam to buy decommissioning P3 from Japan. Like, hell, this should be no brainer at current geopolitics
Great video. I flew in many P-3 variants from 1978 - 1991 and really, really enjoyed your presentation. You have some great video footage there. I will always believe this airframe is a classic beauty and I feel blessed to have spent so much time caring for, and flying in, the Orion.
Great video. I flew in many P-3 variants from 1978 - 1991 and really, really enjoyed your presentation. You have some great video footage there. I will always believe this airframe is a classic beauty and I feel blessed to have spent so much time caring for, and flying in, the Orion.
Great video. I flew in many P-3 variants from 1978 - 1991 and really, really enjoyed your presentation. You have some great video footage there. I will always believe this airframe is a classic beauty and I feel blessed to have spent so much time caring for, and flying in, the Orion.
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Between 1974 and 1977 I served with an ASW Squadron that flew P3C Orions based out of NAS JAX FLA. They covered a vast area of the Atlantic tracking Soviet subs. The close up photos of Soviet ships and subs lining the admin office walls were very detailed, with Russian crewmen waving at the planes. We participated in NATO exercises and would deploy at least once a year to Iceland or Sicily. Good duty (extra pay when over seas) except for winter in Iceland. Summer in Iceland wasn't bad at all. I got to fly in one a couple of times when we would do Allied crew exchanges at nearby bases. Very cool watching the crew working the sonar equipment while enroute to our destination. At that time they were worth $14,000,000 apiece.
I was an AX out of Brunswick from 72-75 and we had P3Bs. I wasn’t aircrew but I went to many places on every detachment many times with a patrol enroute. I also did Unitas 14/around South America. When we went to SA the Navy painted up two P3As with the US flag on the tail. They sent operators and techs to Pax to teach us old stuff like sniffer and AQA-5. I only went to Spain, Azores and Sicily for deployments but went to places like Crete and Athens. We also went up to England for a few days while in Azores. We went to a Nimrod base in SW England.
As a boy growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, the P-3 was a familiar sight as patrols came and went from Moffett Field Naval Air Station. The drone of the turboprops were unmistakable.
My air station, NAS Moffett Field VP-50
Yes indeed, you are correct. And never forget the midair collision between the P3 and the NASA jet while flying parallel final approaches into Moffett.
I grew up in the Campbell/ San Jose( the bay) area and loved watching with my Dad back in the 60's and 70's. These Beautiful aircraft would come in from over the Santa Cruz Mountains. We both loved Aircraft and would stop and stare at nearly everyone of them that passed by over head heading for Moffett. A 12 year old and his Dad are now only memories. Do you remember the Radar station on top of Mount Umunhum with the turning dish you could see from anywhere in the valley searching for intruders to the horizon.
I grew up in Sunnyvale, directly below the flight path into
Moffett Field. At least 10 a day flew over. Along with whatever
Ames Research Center was flying. U2, C5A, and the tiltrotor
all flew overhead.
steve
@@Blue_Dragon50 Drifty Fifty!
Also grew up outside NAS Moffett Field - enlisted in 1986, with the intent of being a Sensor Operator on the Orion, but unfortunately I SWAM too well, and the Navy designated me a Sensor Operator in the Seahawk Helicopter with the additional duty of being a Rescue Swimmer . After my 1st Sea Tour: while serving as a systems instructor, I managed to qualify as an SO in both the Orion and Viking - dream realized.
Great video. I flew in many P-3 variants from 1978 - 1991 and really, really enjoyed your presentation. You have some great video footage there. I will always believe this airframe is a classic beauty and I feel blessed to have spent so much time caring for, and flying in, the Orion.
I flew as SS2 & SS3 on P3B and P3C between 1972-1975 at NAS JAX with VP5. Serving in the USNavy as an
Aircrewman was a great Honor that involved 2,000 flight hours and over a year of training!
13:18. I recognized those tail letters "YD". Those are VP-4's aircraft. I was in the squadron from '85 -87' When we switched the squadron decal from a chinese skinny line art dragon. (hence the squadron name "Skinny Dragons"), to the one you see on the tail in the picture. Great times and great deployments. VP-4 transitioned to the P-8A sometime in 2016.
After the P-2 Neptune and P-8 Poseidon videos, I was wondering when the P-3 video would come. Nice video. Thanks
I miss my flying days on this bird, great memories.
It's a beautiful aircraft. I love propeller planes and this is a beauty. Evidently she was in service for a long time. I think I'll do some reading on the one. You were lucky to serve on this plane.
Big same. AT1 IFT.
@@scenepointjudgeSame here, loved every minute of it.
My dad flew the P3 orion 76 77 Jax Florida, and came back in '81 with others from Holland to Jax. He was so proud to have been a pilot on the orion, in Florida and in Holland, my dad J.W. Niessink.
I'm proud to have flown as an acoustic instructor on board this beautiful aircraft.
Really well done!! This is going to be my 'go to' military vid stop now. I thought I new the P-3, but the NEW info in this vid astounded me: 800km/hr = about 500mph speed record!! WTH!! That's getting up there with Soviet 'Bear' speeds for prop planes!
Well narrated, can't wait to see more of your lineup (the SeaKing next). Thx! (P.S. Great comments in the section, looks like a lot of Navy folks). :-)
Excellent video, I’ve been waiting for someone to do a video of the P-3C Orion thank you for sharing and keep them coming 👍
I worked on the avionics for this airplane with VP-47 out of MCBH Kaneohe Bay, Oahu. Good times!
Thank you for this. My Dad flew these back when they were new and it was nice to see how these have continued.
Best job I ever had
While in the Navy from 1982 to 1986, I worked on the engine and propeller system on the P3C at NAS Jacksonville, FL.
The P3 has also been used by NOAA as a hurricane hunter, flying right through the eyes of hurricanes.
Thumbs up well deserved, great vídeo!
Had those at Misawa Japan. Lovely machine.
Too nice video about p-3 Orion with clear explaining of its characteristics and abilities in addition its creativity and participant's in operations during cold war struggle between western countries & eastern countries...too nice video from excellent specific channel detective weapon
Very good and informative content...
I miss watching the P-3's flying in and out of the former Barbers Point NAS Hawaii before decommissioning in 1995, the P-3's had a distinct hum which was easy to identify.
I served with the navy in barber point vp-4 skinny dragons p-3 squadron from 1996-2000
An excellent anti-submarine guard. But it is true that although still valiant, the old warrior is tired.
Japan plans to sell them elsewhere as they're being replaced by the Kawasaki P1.
@@Joshua_N-A Canada will probably buy them lol. Ours are still being constantly updated, we are in the proct of giving them C130J engines
The P3 Orion never gets tired...she just likes to take a couple breaks here and there
wish Ireland had it we badly need it
I know that metric measurements are considered the international standard BUT, mariners and aviators still regularly use nautical miles (km) and knots (nautical miles per hour - kts.) as their distance and speed measurements and performance specifications.
Hint: A Nautical mile is based on the circumference of the earth, and is equal to one minute of latitude (1/60th of a degree). That's why dividers are one of the basic tools of a navigator.
Measuring the distance between two points on a chart is made easier with dividers. The dividers allow you to measure distance in nautical miles when used in conjunction with the latitude scale of your nautical map. Place one point of the dividers at point A and the other point of the dividers at point B. Keeping the same spread measure the distance on the latitude scale. If it's 20 minutes of latitude, then the distance is 20 nautical miles, i.e. one minute is one nautical mile. Remember to only ever measure by latitude because longitude is different depending how far north or south you are. For measuring distances that are longer than your dividers, set the dividers to a whole number then rotate the dividers end to end and then add up the number of rotations.
im happy to say i have been inside a P-3 Orion
Consding the fact it failed as a airliner did well in ASW role
In certain Navy exercises years back we worked with P-3s and have to say it was better for us to work with the British Nimrod. Even former P-3 crews that were with us said the same thing.
Great aircraft!
I spotted that smoke trail when we were doing a minex down around fort sumpter. Asked flight if any body else was on the range.
Love your videos! Would love to see videos on Chinese aircraft and ships
Military Aviation History just released a very good one on Chinese aviation
It's also had an extensive civilian career, as research aircraft, hurricane hunter and anti-drug interdiction (and likely many other non-military roles)
Can’t carry torpedoes on wing station for operational use as the torpedo Otto II fuel will freeze at altitude and therefore has to be bomb bay carried. Up former Aviation Ordnancemen inflight Aircrewmen.
For practical purposes, the only use of the bomb bay was to fit the luggage rack.
A Legendary Plane
The proposed Japanese air defence cruiser sounds pretty intense. Is there more info on this somewhere?
the p3 is my sweetheart its so cool i love it
I really like this airplane
At 11:00 you see my bird! Fighting Marlin...Laging Handa
Can you make video on JF 17 thunder. Chinese yuan class submarine..
Please make a video on U2 Japanese plane
My uncle flew these
I hate these things, not because they are good or bad, I was a submariner and listening to sono-bouys pinging for days on end during wargames and losing sleep sucks.
An odd statement, since the standard load out of sonobuoys was about 85% passive only, active pinging was rarely used (and only against our own subs) and buoys were set to scuttle after 1 hour. I took part in many exercises, and we hardly ever used active buoys, and then only pinged a couple times. Active sonar is not used to hunt submarines; only to get precise range data on a target at an already known position to generate an attack solution, which only needs a couple pings, and these are very low power. But not having been on the receiving end, I guess I have to take your word for it.
@@mikearmstrong8483 Yea but wargames is when the fun and stupid things happen. Also hated trying to maintenance in port and destroyers calibrating sonar all day and I just wanted to put a pump back together.
Sorry about that
My uncle flew these😆
I was an IFO (1990-1995). Was flying out of Jeddah during Desert Storm. Also flew over Bosnia for operation Deny Flight. I got to watch some inert ordnance drops but never a live weapon. Although on my last deployment to Sigonella we did fly with live Mk 20 Rockeye's and AGM-65 Mavericks. Ended up with over 1700 hrs during my short span. Much love & respect for P-3C. Cheers!
God I miss these birds, an absolute workhorse. Hooyah VP-16 🦅
Canada doesn't fly the P-3 Orion. It Flies the CP-140 Aurora. While it uses mostly the same air frame as the P-3, it has a completely different sensor suite making it far more capable than the standard USN P-3.
I flew one of these babies at Midway.
Lucky me I had to work on the P3 that was struck by the Chinese fighter lolz plane always had problems on the port side.
Aircraft 511. Flew on many missions with that bird. My favorite out of all of them.
Turkish maritime patrol meltem 1 2 and 3 project please
Red Storm Rising
where did you hear about japan modifying their Orions to carry aim-54's. I would love to read more about that project.
It was mentioned in a 1980s issue of a Japanese magazine called Ships of the World. We got the information from a friend living in Japan.
Смотрю ваш канал не чего не понимаю. Просьба лично от меня. Я конечно не знаю как это все устроено и работает но можно сделать русские субтитры. Огромное спасибо!
You didn't mention the role in hurricane hunting.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_WP-3D_Orion
I miss that dirty bird!! I was with VP-40 out of Whidbey Island WA, 2001-2008. I remember when the EP-3 went down cause of the Chinese fighter plane. Yes, they did use the EDK's to destroy as much as they could. But,.. they should have followed procedure and ditched it in water keeping the chinese from getting their hands on it. there are valid reasons certain military occupations remain out of the scope of coed,.. when its you and your brothers its mission first, always, you're feelings of saving the female aren't there to cloud thought process. Now, did the chinese get it there and be like, "WOW, you can do all this?" Not really, it was more "Wow, you can do all this from one plane?" So, they did their duty with EDK's destroying the most essential classified instrumentation beyond recognition making it harder to tell what the plane could do. And yes thank the Lord they came home safe. And no, in case you wondering, i am not the type of person who thought or thinks women incapable of the positions on the aircraft, i worked with them for years, i was simply putting out the reason of how human compation can play a role in our decision making when we're supposed to do one thing yet choose another. Thankfully things went smoothly for the crew.
2,000 hour on P3B & C with VP 5
Barbers point hawaii vp-4 skinny dragons 1996-2000
"Well earned retirement" doesn't mean a nice plane farm upstate. It means the knackers yard.
After Sea Kings can it be useful in Ukraine?
Big sea Vietnam has zero asw aeroplane and hoping the US greenlit for Vietnam to buy decommissioning P3 from Japan. Like, hell, this should be no brainer at current geopolitics
What the hell is a kilowatt
No retirement
begging someone to like and subscribe AT THE OPENING of you vid is hubris
First
you really need to change up the music. it is so redundant. I cant stand it over and over. Come on man!
I flew in the P-3 Orion from 1979 to 1998. I have over 8500 hours flying in her. She took good care of me and my brothers. 🫡🇺🇸
Great video. I flew in many P-3 variants from 1978 - 1991 and really, really enjoyed your presentation. You have some great video footage there. I will always believe this airframe is a classic beauty and I feel blessed to have spent so much time caring for, and flying in, the Orion.
77-99 for me
The name Froehlig ring a bell
Great video. I flew in many P-3 variants from 1978 - 1991 and really, really enjoyed your presentation. You have some great video footage there. I will always believe this airframe is a classic beauty and I feel blessed to have spent so much time caring for, and flying in, the Orion.
Great video. I flew in many P-3 variants from 1978 - 1991 and really, really enjoyed your presentation. You have some great video footage there. I will always believe this airframe is a classic beauty and I feel blessed to have spent so much time caring for, and flying in, the Orion.