Aircraft of Carrier Wing 8 (1978) - a photo on Flickriver

Aircraft of Carrier Wing 8 (1978)

Having built six new airplanes and a helicopter this year, I don't have concrete plans to build more of them this year. Instead I've got at least one more car planned and a few sets Ieft to build. I bought a FIAT 500 and Ecto-I and have three Winter Village sets that I'd like to add to a temporary Christmas display in my dining room.

In the meantime, here are some older models that I haven't shown in a while. It has been a few years since I last took a photograph of all of these together. They are aircraft that were part of Carrier Wing 8, aboard USS Nimitz, in 1978. Since taking the older picture, I completely rebuilt the A-6 Intruder and A-7E Corsair II, the Tomcat changed colours and the RA-5C Vigilante was updated slightly and received a new nose cone, in tan rather than white.

In addition to the aircraft and helicopters that were part of its Air Wing, USS Nimitz also used to have an aircraft directly assigned to it: a C-1A Trader nicknamed "Salt One", which was still in storage in the "Desert Boneyard" as late as 1996, sixteen years after its retirement. I've wanted to build it for a while; perhaps I'll get around to it next year.

Taken on: November 15, 2020

Tags:

Lego

US Navy

CVW-8

F-14

Tomcat

A-6

Intruder

A-7E

Corsair II

Corsair

RA-5C

Vigilante

SH-3

Sea King « less

Sets appears in: • Aircraft of Carrier Wing 8 • US Navy aircraft more » • Wings « less

Groups appears in: • LEGO • Lego Air Force more » • LEGO Dutchies • Lego 35+ • Lego Military Models • EiA LEGO! • LEGO Air&Space « less

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