Flightdeck Friday (I): Recce Edition

Taking a break from VTC h*ll (ed: 8+ hours yesterday alone, how the h*ll did Nimitz & Ike win a war without  it? – don’t answer, that was a rhetorical question… – SJS) & following up on the comments to a previous Flightdeck Friday (Phlightdeck Phriday: Phabulous Phantom Edition).  Some have offered their guess at the recce question posed in the first film.  To those who offered Badger C, you were almost there…it was a C-Mod whose chief recce feature were the notched flaps and wing racks to carry the AS-6, as shown below.  It also added the SHORT HORN (NATO code name) radar which provided support for the AS-6:

(image from www.fas.org)

Compare to the Badger C below:

(image from Air Power Australia)

The Badger J was notable by having the glazed nose as opposed to the C/C-Mod’s solid nose which housed the NATO-code named PUFF BALL search radar.

(image from Air Power Australia)

Oh and Skippy — not quite like the recce training we had back in the day – eh? 😉