Tanker 9 - Flying in favorable winds

Some of you may remember that I wrote about the loss of tanker 9, a Lockheed P2V Neptune, several months ago. Just last night some e-mail came across my desk that provided me a poignant reminder of tanker 9 and her crew: Gene (Pilot), Gonzo (co-pilot), and Zach (flight engineer). One of the first things that I did this morning was to go back to that post (from April 2009) and watch that video, a nice photo montage of tanker 9 shot at Fox Field in 2007.

So, in memory of tanker 9 and her crew, please take about seven minutes and go here to watch this photo montage of tanker 9. The crew gave it their all. She is flying in favorable winds.

The embedded video shows another Lockheed P2V, tanker 7, taking off.