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S-3 Viking Aircraft from VS-33 the Screwbirds.

In the foreground are the S-3 Viking Anti Submarine aircraft from VS-33 the Screwbirds.  You can see the photo of the Screwbird on the tail. 

Here's an interesting story about these S-3 aircraft Viking.  One night were off the coast of California.  It was very windy.  The seas were high and the ship was rolling heavily.  It was cloudy and foggy.  The Automatic Carrier Landing System (ACLS) was down so the planes were required to land visually and manually.   Can you imagine this?

An F-14 Tomcat came in for a landing only twenty feet off of centerline.  Its wing tip cut every one of these S-3's radomes and cockpits completely in half, destroying the entire squadron with one hit.

You should have seen the damage.  The S-3's were incredibly destroyed.  Wires and sheet metal were hanging everywhere.  Of course these planes would never fly again, at least without some major repair, and were off loaded in San Diego at NAS North Island.

About ten years later I was working as an Automated Test Programmer at the Sacramento Army Depot.  One of the engineers there was named Lisa.  I told her that I was on a cruise aboard the USS Kitty Hawk and told her about this accident.  Now, this is a small world, it turned out that Lisa was stationed at North Island and was one of the persons assigned to repair these highly damaged aircraft.