NAS North Island

[Realbigtaco]

That's great.

We were in SD last February for my son's basketball game against USD. We stayed at the Marriott in the Gaslamp and had a great view of all the channel approaches to North Island.

Channel approach (of the non-helicopter type) are kind of rare, but when the do it, they are sweet!

[Wombat_1]

Gotta' check this place out. Cool video.

[16Right]

Channel approach (of the non-helicopter type) are kind of rare, but when the do it, they are sweet!

It was mostly helos and one C2, but the highlight was an Osprey. I've never seen one before that.

[phantomphan1974]

Nice video Nick.  Got quite a bit out there...

Video is up!

[Venom1]

Thanks everyone! Friday was definitely the most active I've seen it there. But having the other runway shut down and the race that weekend was probably why.

[kick Z tail out]

Yep, when I heard 11/29 was the only option I figured it would be a good day to finally get out of the house. That's as good as NASNI gets. Most activity I've ever seen come down the beach, that's for sure. Unfortunately the weather only gave us a window of about an hour for decent light, during which only a couple aircraft came in. Lots of awesome stuff was in the soup though. 

NASNI gets some really cool stuff, but on a normal day you're kind of hosed by the runway options. You might have 30 arrivals, but only have 8 or 9 come down the beach. That's the crappy part.

Here are some of the weapon toting P-3s. First one is an AGM-84 SLAM, second one I was pretty sure was an AGM-65, but I'm puzzled by the lack of "tail fins"...

[SBGrad]

[phantomphan1974]

Nice ones Ron.  Did they fence them in or that's just the perimeter fence in the back?

[SBGrad]

Nice ones Rob Ron.  Did they fence them in or that's just the perimeter fence in the back?

You could walk right up to them get your fingerprints all over them, whatever.  Where the aircraft were you didn't need a ticket, anybody could've checked out the aircraft and/or gone on a ship tour (choice of Reagan, Arleigh Burke class USS Benfold or Canadian frigate Ottawa) for free.  The fences in the pictures are between the aircraft and the area where you needed a ticket.

[kick Z tail out]

Black Knights Hornet coming in for an arrested on 29.

[rammsteinmatt]

Here are some of the weapon toting P-3s. First one is an AGM-84 SLAM, second one I was pretty sure was an AGM-65, but I'm puzzled by the lack of "tail fins"...

what was your processing on the second shot?  There's a "dreamy" look to the edges, really interesting haven't seen anything like that before on a/c pictures

[phantomphan1974]

IMG_0648DDURAN_NASNI by PhantomPhan1974 Photography, on Flickr

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IMG_0562DDURAN_NASNI by PhantomPhan1974 Photography, on Flickr

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IMG_0566DDURAN_NASNI by PhantomPhan1974 Photography, on Flickr

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Electronic Attack Squadron VAQ-134 "Garudas" EA-6B Prowler by PhantomPhan1974 Photography, on Flickr


Electronic Attack Squadron VAQ-134 "Garudas" EA-6B Prowler by PhantomPhan1974 Photography, on Flickr


Electronic Attack Squadron VAQ-134 "Garudas" EA-6B Prowler by PhantomPhan1974 Photography, on Flickr