Up in the Sky...its a bird, its a plane!

• Naval Air Development Center Orion flying. Photo from ATC Dave Spyker, Ret.
• Flying at sunrise or sunset. (found 13 November 2001, at http://www.aviation-central.com/1946-1970/afp00.htm)
• A VP-46 P-3 over Seattle (found on 13 April 2001, at http://www.naswi.navy.mil/vp-46/orion.htm)
• Gray and Black flying together. (Photo found at a ThinkQuest project)
• Returning to Brunswick NAS in Maine (found 9 May 2001 at http://www.midcoastmain.com/ccbbr/scenery/P3_returning.html)
• Flight by VP-93 plane over Mackinac bridge which connects lower Michigan with the Upper Peninsula; photo by Patrick Carraher (found 3 May 2001 at http://home.neo.lrun.com/vp93/vp93_photolab/vp93_photolab_p3/vp93_photolab_p3.html)
• LH1 flying over Detroit (found 3 May 2001 at http://home.neo.lrun.com/vp93)
• P3 over NAF Detroit; photo by Carl Mottern (found 3 May 2001 at http://home.neo.lrun.com/vp93/vp93_photolab/vp93_photolab_p3/vp93_photolab_p3.html)
• P-3 flying over Georgia (found 29 April 2001 at http://www.lmasc.com/p-3/gallery.htm)
• P-3 over Stone Mountain, Georgia (found 29 April 2001 at http://www.lmasc.com/p-3/gallery.htm)
• P-3C banking to show bomb bay doors open and two harpoon missiles (found at the homepage of VP-40 on 13 April 2001, http://www.naswi.navy.mil/vp-40/pictures.htm; Photo by Mark Meyer and probably originally housed at http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/images/imageair2.html)
• Grainy pic of P3 with bomb bay doors open (found 24 April 2001 at http://www.cnet.navy.mil/vp30home/graph/graph.htm); crisper version (found 29 April 2001 at http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/p-3.htm)
• Rear of flying P3 (found 24 April 2001 at http://www.navy.mil/homepages/vp9/p3c.htm)
• P-3 with tail "LY153416" (found on 13 April 2001, at http://orion.pspt.fi/orion.html)
• P-3 firing self-defensive flares in preparation for a surveillance mission over Bosnia-Herzegovina. Daily flying Deliberate Guard missions in support of NATO's Stabilization Force (SFOR), the specially-equipped P-3C is the ground commander's eye-in-the-sky, providing real-time photo and video images of the war-torn region. Photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class (NAC) Robert Fleugel, VP-45. (found at the homepage of VP-40 on 13 April 2001, http://www.naswi.navy.mil/vp-40/base.htm but originally from http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/aircraft/p3-flares.jpg)
• P-3C UIP 3296 performing a full flare jettison (found on 13 April 2001, at http://home.wxs.nl/~p3orion/sqn.html, photo: USN via RNoAF)
• Banking in front of hills (found 29 April 2001 at http://www.lmasc.com/p-3/gallery.htm)
• Underside (found 29 April 2001 at http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/p-3.htm)
• Over the Mall in Washington, D.C. (found 29 April 2001 at http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/p-3.htm)
• Clouds and mountains (found 29 April 2001 at http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/p-3.htm)
• P3A black and white photo by Lockheed (found 24 April 2001 at http://aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu/specs/lockheed/p-3a.htm)
• Landing somewhere... (found January 25, 2002, at http://www.geocities.com/edwardbaba/misc.html)
• High-visibility paint in an aqua sky (found January 25, 2002, at http://www.geocities.com/geo0156/milipicsp3o.html?992574671597)
• The underside of a flying P-3. (found January 25, 2002, at http://www.geocities.com/fabionat/coolplan.htm)
• Flying over the Golden Gate bridge, probably on the way out to a training flight out of Moffet Field. (U.S. Navy Reserve photo, http://www.geocities.com/gordon_feliciano/navy1.html, found January 25, 2002)
• Naval Air Station North Island, Calif. (Jan. 30, 2003) -- A P-3C "Orion" assigned to the "Skinny Dragons" of Patrol Squadron Four (VP-4) takes off on a routine training mission. The Orion, which carries a crew of ten, is a multi-mission, long-range maritime patrol aircraft. U.S. Navy photo by Senior Chief Photographer’s Mate Mahlon K. Miller. (RELEASED)
• Naval Air Station North Island, Calif. (Jan. 29, 2003) -- A P-3C "Orion" assigned to the "Fighting Marlins" of Patrol Squadron Four Zero (VP-40) takes off on a routine training mission. U.S. Navy photo by Senior Chief Photographer’s Mate Mahlon K. Miller. (RELEASED)
• Souda Bay, Crete, Greece (Nov. 1, 2002) -- A Navy P-3C “Orion” aircraft, assigned to the “War Eagles” of Patrol Squadron One Six (VP-16) lifts off and flies by during a check flight. VP-16, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based, is currently on a six-month deployment to the Mediterranean theater in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. U.S. Navy photo by Paul Farley. (RELEASED)
• Brunswick, Me. (Sep. 19, 2002) -- A P-3C “Orion” attached to the “Tigers” of Patrol Squadron Eight (VP-8) heads to a bombing exercise loaded with MK-20 “Rockeye” cluster bombs. MK-20 cluster bombs deliver 247 bomblets, which, upon detonation, release a jet of super heated and pressurized gas, which can penetrate 10 inches of steel and 31 inches of reinforced concrete. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate Airman Shannon Smith. (RELEASED)

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