S-3 Viking (Hoover)

[StrykerFL]

Here's a good one I'm sure you Navy guys have all heard :

What's the difference between an S-3 and a Hoover Vaccum Cleaner?

The Hoover only has one dirt-bag.

 

[Chunk]

uhhhh....okay

moron....and you've flown what?

 

[StrykerFL]

Calm Down

Hey man calm down, it's just a joke. I grew up around the Navy Fighter Community my father having flown Phantoms and Tomcats. I was simply conducting an experiment. Sorry if you took offense.

I know the fighter guys all take pokes at each other and that its all in good-fun. Besides, I have heard that the "other" Navy Pilots are super-sensitive anyway. I would be too if I were a flying gas station. I guess the rumor is correct.

I know that I am just a Civilian and I would have loved to fly onboard a ship but that oppotunity has since long past and I am limited to flying GA aircraft and eventually Passenger Jets. One thing is true though, because we are pilots we all have a common link, whether you are training new pilots, flying passengers or cargo, or defending our country, we all love to fly. We are competitive creatures by nature and poking fun at each other is just part of it. True, I might have crossed the line, a civilian making a joke about an military S-3 guy, but it wasn't in anyway a personal attack. Take it as it was meant to be, simply a joke!

 

[Chunk]

I was a backseater....

It's like Patmack trying to egg on navy Vs. air force taunts for his own amusement....

Flying gas tank? Not when I was in the community.

Never pass up an opportunity to keep your mouth shut.

Chunk

 

[StrykerFL]

You were there when my father was then. During the Cold-War days. I don't know too much about the role of the S-3B as a Sub-Hunter. What kind of armament did you carry? Torpedoes, depth charges (conventional/nuclear), etc.? Did you have to loiter over a sonar buoy to zero in on a submerged target? Your weapons were most likely self-guiding upon deployment right?

I was just curious.

 

[Chunk]

Nah....actually I left with the rest of the SENSO's in 99. It went from a scout to a tanker.

We could drop practically any freefall weapons, plus Mk-46's, mines, AGM-84's, AGM-65F's (only some jets)

I didn't mean to jump on you....just seemed uncalled for!

Chunk

 

[LR25]

I live around NAS JAX, I tell ya, those S-3 guys are doing there part to have fun.

They come down the river doing all of there 250kts (yea right) in tight formation doing a there overhead right over Roosevelt BLVD.

I love it, and then the P-3 guys do the same.

I live right near the river, I go down to the sea wall and just watch, I wouldnt mind driving a gas station.