Comments on: Flightdeck Friday: T-2 Buckeye Memorial Day Edition http://steeljawscribe.com/2008/05/23/flightdeck-friday-memorial-day-edition Looking for clues at the scene of the crime Mon, 14 May 2012 13:46:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: A Memorial Day Compendium | Steeljaw Scribe http://steeljawscribe.com/2008/05/23/flightdeck-friday-memorial-day-edition/comment-page-1#comment-5907 A Memorial Day Compendium | Steeljaw Scribe Fri, 28 May 2010 03:25:03 +0000 http://steeljawscribe.com/?p=859#comment-5907 [...] Through the years we’ve observed Memorial Day on these pages in a variety of ways.  Through it all, we’ve sought to instill a sense of perspective and context to an occasion that, unfortunately, most have come to recognize as a mere green light for the frivolous pursuits of the summer season.  We’ve offered a first person perspective: Some number of years later the memory came flooding back as we learned of the terrible news. It had been while flying a low-level anti-ship cruise missile supersonic profile for a destroyer. Just a training hop. He’d taken time off from his post-command staff job to climb back in the cockpit he so dearly loved. The big Tomcat was there one minute – and gone in a cloud of flame, smoke and vapor. Little was found – and a good friend, a husband, father, and fighter NFO beyond compare was gone. CAPT Scott “Scooter” Lamoreaux, USN. Bounty Hunter One. Rest easy Scooter and know that while we all miss you, we each have our memories. Mine forever of an orange and white jet with the countenance not unlike a guppy, suspended against the Florida sky and two young buck aviators, intense on the task at hand and loving every second of it with grins a mile-wide, yet hidden behind an O2 mask, having the time of their life…  Flightdeck Friday: T-2C Edition [...] [...] Through the years we’ve observed Memorial Day on these pages in a variety of ways.  Through it all, we’ve sought to instill a sense of perspective and context to an occasion that, unfortunately, most have come to recognize as a mere green light for the frivolous pursuits of the summer season.  We’ve offered a first person perspective: Some number of years later the memory came flooding back as we learned of the terrible news. It had been while flying a low-level anti-ship cruise missile supersonic profile for a destroyer. Just a training hop. He’d taken time off from his post-command staff job to climb back in the cockpit he so dearly loved. The big Tomcat was there one minute – and gone in a cloud of flame, smoke and vapor. Little was found – and a good friend, a husband, father, and fighter NFO beyond compare was gone. CAPT Scott “Scooter” Lamoreaux, USN. Bounty Hunter One. Rest easy Scooter and know that while we all miss you, we each have our memories. Mine forever of an orange and white jet with the countenance not unlike a guppy, suspended against the Florida sky and two young buck aviators, intense on the task at hand and loving every second of it with grins a mile-wide, yet hidden behind an O2 mask, having the time of their life…  Flightdeck Friday: T-2C Edition [...]

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]]> By: Tom Magno http://steeljawscribe.com/2008/05/23/flightdeck-friday-memorial-day-edition/comment-page-1#comment-5893 Tom Magno Wed, 26 May 2010 20:29:58 +0000 http://steeljawscribe.com/?p=859#comment-5893 Ohhh, those memories you recount come flooding back. Those days were both exhilarating as well as strikingly frightening to a newby SNFO fumbling to figure out the exhaust gas pressure from the terribly over xeroxed graph stuck to the platic cover in my kneeboard while my (screamer) IP is 'politely' telling me he has been ready for takeoff since before breakfast and what was my malfunction. Ahhh - I would (and wish I could) do it all again, in a heartbeat. Tom 'Mags' Magno VT-10 Feb-Sept 1982 VAW-123 83-86 VAW-120 86-89 VF-101 Aug-Oct 89 CVW-7/VAW-121/VF-142/VF-143 89-91 VAW-125 92-95 Ohhh, those memories you recount come flooding back. Those days were both exhilarating as well as strikingly frightening to a newby SNFO fumbling to figure out the exhaust gas pressure from the terribly over xeroxed graph stuck to the platic cover in my kneeboard while my (screamer) IP is ‘politely’ telling me he has been ready for takeoff since before breakfast and what was my malfunction. Ahhh – I would (and wish I could) do it all again, in a heartbeat.

Tom ‘Mags’ Magno
VT-10 Feb-Sept 1982
VAW-123 83-86
VAW-120 86-89
VF-101 Aug-Oct 89
CVW-7/VAW-121/VF-142/VF-143 89-91
VAW-125 92-95

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