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These two episodes cover the Lockheed P2V Neptune maritime patrol bomber in Anti-Maritime and Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) with the US Navy. We are privileged to feature an in-depth interview with former U.S. Navy Reservist Bill Bacon who shares his Cold War experiences with us as a crew member in the P2V-5F Neptune from 1956 into 1962, and then we feature a close-in flying demonstration of a P2V-7 we filmed in 1986, from startup to shutdown.
In Part 1 we touched on the technical evolution of the Neptune and its powerplants. We then interviewed Bill via cellphone as he shareed his impressions and Cold War experiences with the Neptune leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
In this Part 2 Bill concludes with his firsthand impressions of and experiences with this fabulous aircraft and its powerplants, after which we experience the close-in P2V-7 flying demonstration.
I'd like to make a correction in Part 2. We erroneously refer to the Naval Air Station South Weymouth as having been located in Maine--it was actually situated in Massachusetts.
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