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<\/p>\nIn April this year, a business trip took me to Charleston, South Carolina.\u00a0 Once the catalyst for the civil war, then city still has real historical charm.\u00a0 It’s also home to over fifty USAF C-17 Globemasters from the 437th Air Wing and 315th Air Wings, USCG helicopters and a Boeing factory, now making the new 787.\u00a0 All caught my eye as we landed and taxied in to the airport terminal.\u00a0 But it was something else that really intrigued me.<\/p>\n
As we circled down over an elegant bridge across the estuary, I spotted a big US Navy aircraft carrier moored on the north side of the water.\u00a0 It was the USS Yorktown, a veteran of the Pacific war, Korea, Vietnam and, for anyone who remembers the Airfix model of the Sikorsky Sea King, the recovery of Apollo astronauts after splashdown.\u00a0 She’s now a museum.<\/p>\n
On the flight deck are well preserved examples of some of the US Navy’s recent hardware, from the huge Skywarrior to the F\/A-18 Hornet.\u00a0 In the hangar were some of the older aircraft.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve added the pictures I took aboard the Yorktown to the gallery.<\/p>\n
Also keep an eye out for the photos from the Vietnam exhibit ashore.\u00a0 Of particular interest for me here was a Bell UH-1E from the legendary US Navy HA(L)3 Seawolves squadron.\u00a0 Unlike most Hueys, this one has a forward facing M60 Gatling gun mounted on the port side of the cabin.\u00a0 Firing at 6000 rounds per minute,in four months in 1968, the Sea Wolves burned through 275 M60 barrels and had to borrow new ones from other units.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a taster:<\/p>\n
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There are plenty more of the photographs I took posted in the GALLERY SECTION<\/a> of the website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In April this year, a business trip took me to Charleston, South Carolina.\u00a0 Once the catalyst for the civil war, then city still has real historical charm.\u00a0 It’s also home to over fifty USAF C-17 Globemasters from the 437th Air Wing and 315th Air Wings, USCG helicopters and a Boeing factory, now making the new Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","cat-9-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowlandwhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowlandwhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowlandwhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowlandwhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowlandwhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowlandwhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowlandwhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/1081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowlandwhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowlandwhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowlandwhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowlandwhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}