Word: p2v
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Naval Base at Argentia, Newfoundland, which in turn radioed Lieut. Commander Ernest Korte, skipper of a converted destroyer escort, the radar picket ship U.S.S. Roy 0. Hale, outward bound on a routine month-long sea patrol. Hale immediately turned and steamed to the point where a twin-engined Navy P2V Neptune had located the Russian ship: 49°3O min. north, 49°20 min. west. Sixteen hours after Admiral Burke set the operation in motion, Hale had sighted Novorossisk, raised signal flags: HEAVE
...reading your interesting article, I came across your picture captioned "Alfa Helicopter Pilot on Pursuit Exercise." This picture appears to have been taken through the nose station of a P2V-7F Neptune patrol plane. Having flown the latter plane, I am positive your picture was taken through what we call our "Poker parlor...
...volcanic origin. This is the region where Alaska and the Soviet Union stare face to face at one another across three to 55 miles of icy waters, and it was there one lonely morning last week, just about the hour that Molotov addressed the U.N., that a U.S. Navy P2V-5 Neptune patrol plane flew on its routine radar patrol...
...typical message to the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics: a report from a patrol-bomber squadron that the windshield wipers on its Lockheed P2V planes did not work because the windstream lifted them off the glass. The report went down through the aircraft division to the Lockheed patrol plane desk officer, headed through the airborne equipment division until in the aircraft systems design section it found a man who specialized in nothing but wipers. A copy went through the P2V maintenance section of the airframes structures unit of the aircraft maintenance division. Final action will be taken...
Though K-F lost $13,260,193 last year making automobiles, the company now has an estimated $500 million in defense contracts for Fairchild C-119 "Flying Boxcars," Chase Aircraft (49% Kaiser-owned) C-123 assault transports, Wright aircraft engines and components for Lockheed's P2V antisubmarine patrol bomber...