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Let Let Let - Warplanes => Combat Warplanes => Topic started by: No.1 on January 22, 2012, 02:21:17 PM

Title: Grumman A-6 Intruder
Post by: No.1 on January 22, 2012, 02:21:17 PM: One of the next subject for our magazine will be Grumman A-6 Intruder and good moment to put some images of this famous airplane.

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Title: Re: Grumman A-6 Intruder
Post by: Second Air Force on January 22, 2012, 03:13:09 PM: Nice subject matter, No.1.

I've always looked at the shape of the A-6 and thought that someone at Grumman had a bit of Messerschmitt engineering blood in them--the Intruder looks a LOT like the P.1101!
Title: Re: Grumman A-6 Intruder
Post by: No.1 on January 22, 2012, 03:45:19 PM: Good point about that, do you have any drawings of German project?
Title: Re: Grumman A-6 Intruder
Post by: Second Air Force on January 22, 2012, 03:56:31 PM: Just what I've seen on the web and in an old magazine that I have in storage. Here's a link that shows a three-view drawing toward the bottom of the page:
http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/p1101.html
Title: Re: Grumman A-6 Intruder
Post by: No.1 on January 22, 2012, 04:03:28 PM: Thank you :)
Title: Re: Grumman A-6 Intruder
Post by: No.1 on January 22, 2012, 04:39:38 PM: More images :) I did not make any selection so all are mixed types :)
Title: Re: Grumman A-6 Intruder
Post by: Sall on January 22, 2012, 07:34:52 PM: Wonderful Srecko!! :-clap Thanks for share all of this with us! I like this plane so much!! Very interesting to me!! Hardly wait to see his article in next issue of magazine! :-tri
One more thing. I really like this green experimental camouflage on A-6. Few days ago i have read something about that camouflage on a few of planes during the Vietnam war, like A-10,F-16... ;) Really nice camouflage! :-love
Title: Re: Grumman A-6 Intruder
Post by: Jicehem on January 29, 2012, 06:06:57 PM: Hi No 1, hi everybody, :-salut :-salut :-salut

Some pictures that I took on different US aircraft carriers when they were in the Mediterranean Sea... There are too some Prowlers...

First, on the USS Saratoga on 5th July 1987 (in Marseilles harbour) :

Grumman A-6A Intruder, BuNo 155604_AA 520 :
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/uss_sa10.jpg)

Grumman A-6E Intruder, BuNo 151792_AA 522 :
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/uss_sa11.jpg)

Grumman A-6E Intruder, BuNo 151792_AA 522 :
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/uss_sa12.jpg)

Grumman A-6E Intruder, BuNo 152939_AB-523 :
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/uss_sa13.jpg)

Then USS Eisenhower on 17th April 1988 :

Grumman KA-6D Intruder, BuNo 155589_AG 510 :
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/uss_ei10.jpg)

and on 29th June 1990 :
Grumman EA-6B Prowler, BuNo 162224_AG 606 :
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/uss_ei11.jpg)

Grumman A-6A Intruder : look at the walkway on the back of the airplane.
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/uss_ei12.jpg)

On USS Enterprise in August 1986 :

Grumman KA-6D Intruder, BuNo 149482 :__
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/uss_en10.jpg)

USS Coral Sea on 2nd July 1989 :

Grumman A-6A Intruder, BuNo 155620_AK 510 :
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/uss_co10.jpg)

Grumman A-6E Intruder, BuNo 152902_NK 511 (In fact, this picture is not dated and was certainly not taken on that day...) :
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/uss_co11.jpg)

Grumman EA-6B Prowler, BuNo 161883_AK 606 :
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/uss_co12.jpg)

Grumman EA-6B Prowler, BuNo xxxxxx_AK 605 :
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/uss_co13.jpg)

Grumman KA-6D Intruder, BuNo 151562_AK 504 :
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/uss_co14.jpg)

Cheers,

Jicehem :-wave :-wave :-wave
Title: Re: Grumman A-6 Intruder
Post by: No.1 on January 29, 2012, 06:14:33 PM: Great images mate, you really have everything :-clap :-ok
Title: Re: Grumman A-6 Intruder
Post by: Jicehem on January 29, 2012, 06:33:41 PM: Quote from: No.1 on January 29, 2012, 06:14:33 PM
Great images mate, you really have everything :-clap :-ok

:-salut :-salut

If you need some of them to be published don't hesitate to ask me for better resolutions...

Jicehem :-wave :-wave
Title: Re: Grumman A-6 Intruder
Post by: No.1 on January 29, 2012, 06:42:32 PM: Off course mate, this is nice subject to be considered ;)
Title: Re: Grumman A-6 Intruder
Post by: Jicehem on January 29, 2012, 06:52:58 PM: And I have some from USS Forrestal during her last operational tour in the Mediterranean Sea.

Jicehem
Title: Re: Grumman A-6 Intruder
Post by: No.1 on January 29, 2012, 06:56:30 PM: Nice to hear that mate, long time ago I have plastic kit of USS Forrestal
Title: Re: Grumman A-6 Intruder
Post by: Jicehem on January 29, 2012, 06:59:32 PM: Quote from: No.1 on January 29, 2012, 06:56:30 PM
Nice to hear that mate, long time ago I have plastic kit of USS Forrestal

From what manufacturer ? Revell ?
Title: Re: Grumman A-6 Intruder
Post by: No.1 on January 29, 2012, 07:21:36 PM: I think so...
Title: Re: Grumman A-6 Intruder
Post by: Jicehem on January 30, 2012, 09:54:09 AM: Hi No. 1, :-salut :-salut

A picture of A2F-1, No 3 from the cover of a French magazine dated 15 May 1963...
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/grumma10.jpg)
©AviMag

Cheers,
Jicehem :-wave :-wave :-wave
Title: Re: Grumman A-6 Intruder
Post by: No.1 on January 30, 2012, 10:05:03 AM: This one is great!!
Title: Re: Grumman A-6 Intruder
Post by: Sall on January 30, 2012, 11:49:39 AM: Yes,very nice! ;)
Title: Grumman A-6 and EA-6 on USS Forrestal
Post by: Jicehem on January 30, 2012, 11:59:47 AM: Hi everybody, :-salut :-salut :-salut

Last of A-6s pictures taken on USS Forrestal on 27th December 1989 in Marseilles Harbour.
Grumman A-6A Intruder, BuNo 158045_AE 512 :
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/uss_fo10.jpg)

Grumman A-6A Intruder and EA-6B Prowler :
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/uss_fo11.jpg)

Grumman A-6E-5-GR Intruder, BuNo 158045_AE 512 :
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/uss_fo12.jpg)

Grumman EA-6B Prowler, BuNo 160787_AE 605 :
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/uss_fo13.jpg)

Grumman EA-6B Prowler, BuNo xxxxxx :
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/uss_fo14.jpg)

Grumman EA-6B Prowler, BuNo xxxxxx_AE 605 & 607 :
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/uss_fo15.jpg)

Grumman KA-6D Intruder, BuNo 159xxx_AE 502 :
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/uss_fo16.jpg)

Grumman KA-6D Intruder, BuNo 151570_AE 517 :
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/uss_fo20.jpg)

Grumman KA-6D Intruder, BuNo 151814_AE 516 :
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/uss_fo18.jpg)

Grumman KA-6D Intruder, BuNo 151787_AE 521 :
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/uss_fo19.jpg)

Cheers,
Jicehem :-wave :-wave :-wave
Title: Re: Grumman A-6 Intruder
Post by: Sall on January 30, 2012, 12:33:48 PM: Again great photos Jicehem! Beautiful collection of photos mate! :-clap :-clap
Title: Re: Grumman A-6 Intruder
Post by: No.1 on January 30, 2012, 12:56:28 PM: Great selection of images mate and I guess that you have great feeling there on board when you took this images :-ok
Title: Re: Grumman A-6 Intruder
Post by: Jicehem on January 30, 2012, 01:06:02 PM: Quote from: No.1 on January 30, 2012, 12:56:28 PM
I guess that you have great feeling there on board when you took this images :-ok

Yes ! That was wonderful. :-ok :-jump