[maddog55]

Awesome AC.. sad to see it go.

[Azeem]

EW airframes come and go, but the EC-130h lives on.

[DesertRhino]

Incredible airframe in both EW, tanker, and bomber. Now they’ll have to make do with a less capable super hornet variant.

The Navy never had a plane with such loiter endurance and a load. 3 intruders was equal to a B-52. They wanted a stealth A-12 that was a failure. But to clear the way they dumped most of the A6-Es into the ocean off St Augustine. Many of them were almost -brand new- and others were functionally new and re-engined and re-winged.

[Yo-Yo]

Bump

[shotgun]

I worked on Whidbey Island NAS back in the late 90’s. Those Prowlers have to be the loudest planes they ever made. The F-15’s I was around for 2 years after that were like whispers compared to the Prowlers.

[MichaelCorleone]

Always a sad thing to see these planes get sent out to pasture, so to speak.

It can be very emotional (quite understandably) for some.

[mosesdapoet]

Miss your reports

[mosesdapoet]

Miss your reports

[matt1234]

A friend of mine is a retired Prowler pilot. Being a 4 seater, he said if he triggered ejection, he would have the wait for the other 3 seats to eject before he ejects. Yikes!

[Tucker39]

During Nam there were a few pilots, called “Wild Weasels” who intentionally flew low, dangerous patterns to incite the NV and Cong missile sites to fire up their radar so they could turn around and knock the site out with a missile. Were any of these planes used for that?

[Revolutionary]

Amazing aircraft. The crews took a lot of heat at the bar that they were flying the aircraft backwards.

[hattend]

Had I still been at Lajes, I would have briefed the crews on their flight to Cherry Point.

I remember briefing some Hornets who were going from Lajes to MCAS Miramar, nonstop. That was some fun times back in the ‘90s

[real saxophonist]

VMAQ-2 used to be called the Playboys, with a Playboy bunny as their logo. Guess that wasn’t PC enough.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Each Navy squadron, like mine, VAQ-140 Patriots, had 4 EA-6Bs. Because of it's size, it was difficult to fly. But the model was long in the tooth, a design over 40 years old.

[stylin19a]

Thank you all. the education I get from these types of threads is amazing.
Can’t get this type of info out of a book.
FR seems to have a lot of Marines and Navy as members.

Thanks again.

[spetznaz]

Amazing plane with amazing capabilities. The Prowler, and it’s successor the Growler, may not be as famous as some other jets - but they are true legends.