for most recent additions LAST CALL There is a wide interest in airplane models, and Crusader models are still popular. We have had a section dedicated to that on "We Love Crusaders", since the beginning of the website. A recent contribution by Capt. Bob Kiem, son of the late Capt. Ed. Kiem, VFP-62's first Skipper, contributed great photos of a RF-8A model made for the Cold War Museum. It is hard to believe that it is not the real thing!
"Faces of VFP-62" have to be the most nostalgic pages for those of us who look for former shipmates, and sometimes ourselves, when others contribute old photos for our use. It goes in spurts, sometimes many come in and then a long dry period of nothing. Lately, Robert Strong and John Sees dug deep into their dusty attic boxes and came up with a few that will make some of you remember "the old times", when we were young, fresh-faced, and having fun in Cannes. Enjoy Page 12 and a new Page 13.
"In Memoriam" is expanding all too quickly it seems. However it is a great privilege to post last memorials to our shipmates. A new memorial is posted for Dick Bowns, provided by Dick Chilton.
A new memorial for Dick Bowns, AE3 VFP-62 circa 1962.
A picture of VFP-62's hanger and a newsletter from DET 65 (USS Enterprise) Feb-April 1963.
New Det 42-60 (USS Forrestal) Newsletters from Mac Warnell. Still more to come.
Go to "RF8 Photo Gallery link: New photo of VFP-62 pilots with full pressure suits in front of RF-8. Circa 1964 --photo by John Sees
Great photos of a RF-8A model made for the Cold War Museum. Click on the link: Crusader Models.
New photos on Page 12 and a new Page 13 added.
U2 flight video under "Special Interests"
Created on ... May 23, 2006