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The 205 picture shows one of
the VS-29 S2E trackers that I flew in and worked on. I was an
AW (Rate) and flew in the #3 seat for radar, mad and ECM. I
also worked in the electronic shop, so I flew them, wrote up
problems and later fixed them (black box replacement mainly).
In the 202 photo, I'm the short guy on the right and to my
right was my flying partner Chief Antikanen (can't remember his
first name). I don't recall the names of the pilot and copilot
to our right either. One of them could have been the name on
the airplane below the pilots window, Lt. Ted Shown. The
harness that we are wearing are survival belts worn when we fly
over water. They include floatation devices and other
equipment(e.g. signal mirror, marker dye, knife, etc.) to be
used after ditching (successfully). Of course I'm wearing our
Navy issued flight jacket that I wish I still had. During cold
weather flights during the winter months we had to wear wet
suits with blowers connected to them. They weren't very
comfortable. I'm just glad I had excellent pilots and we didn't
have to ditch or bail out.
I believe that I logged over 100
hours of flight time. Most of it came from our deployment to
Viet Nam (Gulf of Tonkin) in the summer of 1972. We were on
station aboard the USS Ticonderoga (CVS-14) where we detected a
Russian sub masked under a trawler (we think). Attached are
some other photos that I took on some of our deployments. When I
got out of the Navy in August 1973, the squadron was due to switch to the
new S3-A Vikings and the Tico was going to the scrap yard. It
was fun when it lasted, but it was time to move on. I hope you
find this interesting.
Regards,
Pat Stanley
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