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Monday, October 29, 2007

S-3B Vikings near extinction

Some servicemembers question retirement of S-3B

Sailors and pilots call the jet the “Hoover.”

That’s because the S-3B Viking’s engines sound like a vacuum when they begin to turn.

But that familiar sound that has been a mainstay aboard Navy aircraft carriers for decades will gradually disappear from the fleet as the Navy retires the plane.

The jet is making its final appearance in the Persian Gulf on this deployment aboard the Enterprise.

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