The last one!

Most of you know that I spent 22 years in the US Navy. I worked on the A6A Intruder air craft for 12 years. This is the last shipboard launch of the last A6 in Naval history. A great aircraft to work on. Everything was normally easy to work on and didn't break very often.

 

An era has come to an end. Sad, but probably necessary.

 

She's a beauty, Capt.

 

This is one of two air craft that could carry it's own weight of ordinance. The other was a propellar air craft that was in use in WWII and in Korea. It was also used a little in Viet Nam. The A6 was the first air craft with an onboard computer.

 

Great picture...thanks for sharing.

 

You'd think they could still come up with a use for such a marvelous airplane. Thanks for showing us this.