Over the Water and On Station

• Patrolling The combat stores ship USNS Spica (T-AFS 9) comes along side the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) in the North Arabian Gulf for an underway replenishment as a P-3 Orion patrol aircraft flies over head. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Matthew J. Magee. Nov. 25, 1997
• Rigging, A P-3C Orion of the "Mad Foxes" of Patrol Squadron Five (VP-5) makes a low approach on a cargo ship during drug interdiction training. VP-5 is deployed to Naval Station Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico. (U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Jim Hampshire. May 14, 2000.)
• "Feather" of a US sub to the left of engine 3. (photo by Richard Yates; scanned from orignal)
• Finishing a rig (found 29 April 2001 at http://www.lmasc.com/p-3/gallery.htm)
• View out front windows off the coast of California as CAC-2 of VP-4 approaches a submarine "target" while flying in support of COMPTUEX 01-2 (Photo by LT Paul Sameit, VP-4; found 24 April 2001 at http://www.navy.mil/homepages/vp4/pages/new4.htm)
• P-3 on station over the ocean. Notice that engine 1 is shut down and the propeller is feathered. P3's often fly on station in this configuration, called three-engine loiter. The catch is that often that #1 engine won't restart. (found at the homepage of VP-1 on 13 April 2001, http://www.naswi.navy.mil/vp-1/websitemenu.htm)
• P-3s and ships as part of RIMPAC '00 (found 25 April 2001 at http://www.navy.mil/homepages/vp-47/html/pictures.html) and another where the US P-3 is from VP-47 and the Japanese plane is from their Maritime Self-Defense Force fly in formation over bilaterial forces (photo by Andrew Rutigliano, [000616-N-6046R-009] June 16, 2000. Found at http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/images/imageair21.html)
• RIMPAC '98 A U.S. Navy P-3 Orion from the Skinny Dragons of Patrol Squadron 4 leads a Japanese P-3 from Japan's Maritime Self Defense Force Detachment 33 in flight over a bilateral force of U.S. and Japanese ships. The ships in formation are: USS Key West SSN 722, USS Vandergrift FFG 48, USS California CGN 36, USS Chancellorsville CG 62, USS Port Royal CG 73, JDS Kirishima DDG 174, JDS Shirane DDH 143, JDS Murasame DD 101, JDS Harusame DD 102, and JDS Towada AOE 422. The operations are part of RIMPAC '98. RIMPAC '98 is designed to enhance the tactical capabilities of participating units in major aspects of maritime operations at sea. RIMPAC '98 is the sixteenth in a series of Pacific naval exercises. DoD photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Spike Call. (Released) (found 29 April 2001 at http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/p-3.htm but is probably originally from http://www.defenselink.mil/photos/Jul1998/980715-N-5961C-001.html)
  Another shot. (Taken July 15, 1998, U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Spike Call.)
  Submarines. The attack submarine USS Columbus (SSN 762) and the Korean submarine ROKS Lee Jong Moo (SS 66) (foreground) sail off the coast of Hawaii as a P-3C Orion patrols overhead during RIMPAC-98. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class August Sigur. July 19, 1998
• A VP-46 P-3 over the ocean (found on 13 April 2001, at http://www.naswi.navy.mil/vp-46/orion.htm)
• P-3 Orion Airborne Early Warning aircraft in use by U.S. Customs (found 29 April 2001 at http://www.lmasc.com/p-3/gallery.htm)
• "Chinaman's hat" (found 25 April 2001 at http://www.navy.mil/homepages/vp-47/html/pictures.html)
• Aircraft "3296" in front of bluffs (found 29 April 2001 at http://www.lmasc.com/p-3/gallery.htm)
• Flying near a beach (found 29 April 2001 at http://www.lmasc.com/p-3/gallery.htm)
• Black and White photo of a high-visibiliy paint scheme. (found January 25, 2002, at http://www.geocities.com/ncrow/Orion.html)
• A P-3 flies over a submarine partially surfaced. (found January 25, 2002, at http://www.geocities.com/ismael_maidana/P-3/P-3.html)
• A P-3 flies over a sub that's on the surface. (found March 26, 2002, at http://www.navy.mil/homepages/vp-45/serv04.htm)
• A VP-45 bird works with a US warship. (found March 26, 2002, at http://www.navy.mil/homepages/vp-45/serv04.htm)

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