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Offline ASTAC

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« on: February 13, 2006, 01:22:48 PM »
Right next to my neighborhood in Virginia Beach, VA is NAAS Pungo.

I have a geocache hidden here....Clicky

commissioned in 1943 as a satellite airfield for nearby Norfolk Naval Air Station.
The station's intended mission was to support operations & training of aircraft intended to operate from escort carriers. A total of 24 such squadrons passed through Pungo during WW2,most consisting of TBF or TBM Avenger torpedo bombers and F4F or FM Wildcat fighters.

The site is a Coast Guard Communications Station (Most of it) and the rest is privately owned.

Anyway Thought I'd post some pictures of some "Pill Boxes" that were in the fields adjacent to the Airfield. These will be destroyed within a week. They are putting a new residential area here. They were pretty clean inside and still in great shape. The job supervisor asked me if I wanted one. But alas I have nowhere to put it.









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« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2006, 01:25:14 PM »
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« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2006, 01:37:52 PM »
Navy Auxiliary Air Station Pungo..Then and Now








Only Aircraft on the field.
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« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2006, 01:58:57 PM »
OMG!!..You found Kurt Tank's last project smuggled out of Germany and sent to Pungo for research and reverse engineering!!

It looks to be the training version of the C152missile/rocket, codenamed "Cessna" by the Allies, and named "Blitzkreig Leider-hosen" by the Germans.  It was only rumored to exist, as the war ended before mass production of the prototype could begin.  According to some estimates it could hold as much as 37.5 gallons of rocket fuel and had enough payload capacity for 1 pilot and luggage!

Clearly the Allies did not want this technology to fall into the hands of the Soviets.

Obviously very advanced technology, even in the paint applied.  It still retains it's camouflage paint scheme.
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« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2006, 02:11:08 PM »
:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
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« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2006, 04:35:35 PM »
So our airfields used to be clean of all trees then HTC left them alone for 60 years and now we have 200 foot tall trees?
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« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2006, 04:41:25 PM »
This plane should be made operational in AH ASAP.

I heard the prototype was strafed during the war when it was rolled from one hangar to another hangar for the top secret camo paint job. So it saw combat.
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« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2006, 05:30:28 PM »
Wow this is the "feedback" forum content in once sentence(sp?) Toad, bravo :)
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« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2006, 03:26:16 AM »
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So our airfields used to be clean of all trees then HTC left them alone for 60 years and now we have 200 foot tall trees?


And within a few feet of the runways too.
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« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2006, 07:55:19 AM »
ASTAC

There is another good one out in Suffolk where my uncle lives. It an old Naval Comm's station..its off the Nansemond River..
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« Reply #10 on: February 14, 2006, 08:49:36 AM »
Anybody get a load of the center-mount cannon muzzle on that "Leider-Hosen" bird?  Must be 8" caliber, at least.

How many rounds you figure it could carry?

We need these in AH, for sure...

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« Reply #11 on: February 14, 2006, 09:21:45 AM »
Iwas thinking...  "what a great place for a racetrack or 4.

lazs
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« Reply #12 on: February 14, 2006, 09:36:04 AM »
Would be a great place to park FEMA trailers... even further from the people that need 'em.
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« Reply #13 on: February 14, 2006, 12:55:48 PM »
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Iwas thinking...  "what a great place for a racetrack or 4.

lazs


The one runway that is privately owned is in bad shape..the coast guard ones though..aren't too bad. The local chapter of the SCCA uses the tarmac  for autocross races.
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« Reply #14 on: February 14, 2006, 03:23:51 PM »
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And within a few feet of the runways too.


End the ubertree menace! Bring the Mach 5 with Twin Rotary Saw Blades to AH2!
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