Fullbore Friday
the airwing as art
This is such a great video, and we have thousands of new followers and subscribers now than we did seven years ago…time to bring this FbF back.
As I have often mentioned, I have a soft spot for the name "Shangri-La" for aircraft carriers. It has a great story to it, and just sounds cool as hell.
Bill Schultz reminded me that there is a simply awesome video available of a unique and under-appreciated time in naval aviation; the early 1960s.
What an incredible time of change and advancement ... and a time yet warped by the war that would dominate the rest of the decade.
So, let's take a moment to give tribute to those Sailors of the early-60s ... in glorious technicolor, on the USS Shangri-La (CV 38), circa 1962, somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea.
Crusaders, Skyrays, Skyhawks, Skyraiders ... just glorious.
From the film Flying Clipper, (1962). Narration by Burl Ives. In color…great quality video…simply superb.
When you lean on the breeze on a deck that slants
and the carrier's underway
they can tell by your knees and the hitch of your pants
that you hail from the USA
NOTHING compares to flightops
Makes me wish I was back on Forrestal in the late 70's "shooting" Air Wing 17 Phantoms, Corsairs, Intruders, Whales and Vikings ....