post your excellent aircraft videos here
^That is a nice looking plane
Quote from: bayonetbrant on March 03, 2013, 02:58:28 PM
post your excellent aircraft videos here
The Starfighter is one of my all time favs. Frakkin rocket with wings.
IIRC it was developed by renowned designer Kelly Johnson, who also engineered the U2 and SR71.
The story went that when the F104 was rolled out for the Secretary of the Defense, he gaped at it and blurted, "Where are the wings?"
+1 LB, love the WW1 birds too.
Quote from: besilarius on March 03, 2013, 07:37:12 PM
IIRC it was developed by renowned designer Kelly Johnson, who also engineered the U2 and SR71.
The story went that when the F104 was rolled out for the Secretary of the Defense, he gaped at it and blurted, "Where are the wings?"
You're right it was a Kelly Johnson "Skunkworks" project.
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Nice!
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Serious badassery...
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the wing flex is crazy. and the thought theyve be flying for almost 60 years more so.
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Interesting.
Wind tunnel?
Actually it is a "woofer" from a Nazi Heavy Stereo System. Designed but not deployed in time for combat.
Quote from: LongBlade on March 25, 2013, 02:22:52 PM
Interesting.
Wind tunnel?
I think so... just found the photo with no test... odd open shape for a wind tunnel though.... but made the stuff on the left that looks flexible is a movable shroud...
Quote from: Longdan on March 25, 2013, 02:24:26 PM
Actually it is a "woofer" from a Nazi Heavy Stereo System. Designed but not deployed in time for combat.
OK, I LOL'ed. That was pretty good ;D
Quote from: bayonetbrant on March 25, 2013, 04:33:24 PM
Quote from: Longdan on March 25, 2013, 02:24:26 PM
Actually it is a "woofer" from a Nazi Heavy Stereo System. Designed but not deployed in time for combat.
OK, I LOL'ed. That was pretty good ;D
I chuckled. Makes total sense if you have any sense of German weapons development from that era.
The 501st Schwere Telefunken Companie
Schräge Musik.
actually no.
you all get -10 grog points as the Schräge Musik was a upward facing cannon system for night fighters.
what you "grogs" were looking for was the Schallkanone.
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Stop harshing my Jazz, GDS. Any old Wilde Sau knows what Schräge Musik is. And anyone with a copy of Blueprint for Mars (http://www.amazon.com/German-Secret-Waepons-Blueprint-Ballantines/dp/B000KF2BXY/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364265204&sr=1-4&keywords=Blueprint+for+Mars) knows about the Sound Cannon.
;)
Quote from: Staggerwing on March 25, 2013, 09:34:36 PM
Stop harshing my Jazz, GDS. Any old Wilde Sau knows what Schräge Musik is. And anyone with a copy of Blueprint for Mars (http://www.amazon.com/German-Secret-Waepons-Blueprint-Ballantines/dp/B000KF2BXY/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364265204&sr=1-4&keywords=Blueprint+for+Mars) knows about the Sound Cannon.
It was, IMHO, one of the more cleverer grogjokes ever. It made my dumb joke into something sublime.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on March 25, 2013, 09:26:54 PM
actually no.
you all get -10 grog points as the Schräge Musik was a upward facing cannon system for night fighters.
what you "grogs" were looking for was the Schallkanone.
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Dude, I know exactly what Schraege Musik is.
We have been having fun.
Now...I seem to recall needing to speak to you about something, Star. What was it...?
Quote from: LongBlade on March 25, 2013, 10:50:37 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on March 25, 2013, 09:26:54 PM
actually no.
you all get -10 grog points as the Schräge Musik was a upward facing cannon system for night fighters.
what you "grogs" were looking for was the Schallkanone.
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Dude, I know exactly what Schraege Musik is.
We have been having fun.
Now...I seem to recall needing to speak to you about something, Star. What was it...?
Having fun...when did that become such a difficult concept around here?
Since when can we be arbitrarily stripped of grogpoints?
Quote from: Longdan on March 26, 2013, 10:38:15 AM
Since when can we be arbitrarily stripped of grogpoints?
When we arbitrarily feel like it :-*
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you all get -10 grog points as the Schräge Musik was a upward facing cannon system for night fighters.
Specifically fitted to the Ju88G and operated by NJG 102.
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^I love the picture of the A-10
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+1 Windigo. Got a good chuckle from that one.
^Me too :)
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^ Wow! Someone is still flying those death traps! :o
Pretty pic though..
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Supposedly hold two worlds records- fastest propeller-driven production aircraft ever built and also the loudest!
Quote from: Staggerwing on April 28, 2013, 09:15:16 AM
Supposedly hold two worlds records- fastest propeller-driven production aircraft ever built and also the loudest!
I believe it about being loud with those contra-rotating turboprops.
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^Is that what I think it is - an AGM65 Maverick being launched?
Good eye, Bob!
Yes it is, but why is a Maverick being equipped on a plane that appears to be mostly for ASW?
Quote from: LongBlade on May 03, 2013, 11:12:58 AM
Yes it is, but why is a Maverick being equipped on a plane that appears to be mostly for ASW?
The P-1 can be used in the ASW/ASuW role, same as our maritime patrol aircraft. I think Mavericks would be used against smaller surface ships that you might not want to waste a Harpoon on. Probably also handy in high traffic areas when you're worried about hitting civvies.
IIRC our S-3 Vikings could fire Mavericks and Harpoons.
Ah. Thanks!
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on May 03, 2013, 11:57:57 AM
IIRC our S-3 Vikings could fire Mavericks and Harpoons.
yup, last time I played Harpoon... many years ago, thats all I had left to blow ruskie shit up
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on May 03, 2013, 11:57:57 AM
IIRC our S-3 Vikings could fire Mavericks and Harpoons.
I think P-3s can too. Don't know about P-8s.
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Quote from: Centurion40 on May 03, 2013, 01:08:01 PM
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"Maybe he'll wander off and eat one of the ground crew and then take a nap. I really
really hope so 'cause we've been up here since last night and I have to pee..."
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No, it's not Air Force One.
What the heck is that?
Quote from: bob48 on May 15, 2013, 02:03:27 PM
What the heck is that?
Republic XF-12 "Rainbow"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_XF-12_Rainbow
Very interesting. Never heard of that one before.
Quote from: bob48 on May 15, 2013, 03:00:32 PM
Very interesting. Never heard of that one before.
I hadn't either. Impressive design for the time.
Must have been great visibility with that glass nose.
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Yes, the 'Caspian Sea Monster' is facinating and looks awesome, innit?
I love that thing!
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Ekranoplan!
that window right below the first missile tubes must give quite the view.
on a side note...
are those things in any version of Harpoon?
Here'a a page that has multiple pix of the MD-160 Lun (the version shown in the post above). Sadly, it looks like it's just sitting there, slowly decaying.
http://igor113.livejournal.com/51213.html
i don't know about Harpoon, but these are supposedly versions of the Lun or the KM (another huge Ekranoplan which was the actual vehicle that the CIA dubbed 'Caspian Sea Monster' based on mysterious satellite photos) available for FSX.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on May 15, 2013, 11:00:05 PM
on a side note...
are those things in any version of Harpoon?
Ask Herman Hum in the Computer Gaming forum. He'll know. I'm willing to bet he added it to the Players Database at some point.
Quote from: mirth on May 16, 2013, 10:00:58 AM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on May 15, 2013, 11:00:05 PM
on a side note...
are those things in any version of Harpoon?
Ask Herman Hum in the Computer Gaming forum. He'll know. I'm willing to bet he added it to the Players Database at some point.
Two excellent points.
Quote from: LongBlade on May 16, 2013, 11:57:25 AM
Quote from: mirth on May 16, 2013, 10:00:58 AM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on May 15, 2013, 11:00:05 PM
on a side note...
are those things in any version of Harpoon?
Ask Herman Hum in the Computer Gaming forum. He'll know. I'm willing to bet he added it to the Players Database at some point.
Two excellent points.
Okay, I asked. It is in the PlayersDB, but the one scenario it was used in is broken. However, Herman has offered to fix it.
http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=988.msg143718#new (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=988.msg143718#new)
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De Havilland Hornet!
Could be a Sea Hornet. Looks like it may have fold-able wings, from the seam on the wing, just inside the roundel.
The DH.103 was developed from the Mossie as a fighter. It was used in combat in Malaya against Communist insurgents in the 1950's.
that looks like tons of fun to fly!
I've had a look to see if there is one for FSX, but no luck as yet.
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Supermarine Spiteful.
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BTW, Supermarine added a Nene jet engine to the Spiteful, redesigned the fuselage and tailplane, and thus was born the Supermarine Attacker:
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Quote from: Staggerwing on May 23, 2013, 08:25:51 PM
BTW, Supermarine added a Nene jet engine to the Spiteful, redesigned the fuselage and tailplane, and thus was born the Supermarine Attacker:
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Way cool!
Here's a three-fer:
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From furthest to closest - Banshee, Phantom & Pirate?
Good call!
Since LB has a pic of one of my fav planes in his signature...here's a picture from the Canso bomber crash site near Tofino, BC. Great day, great hike, great plane...but lots of mud!
and one more...yours truly (the tall one) in foreground
What's the story behind that accident?
Quote from: Jack Nastyface on May 23, 2013, 11:46:06 PM
Since LB has a pic of one of my fav planes in his signature...here's a picture from the Canso bomber crash site near Tofino, BC. Great day, great hike, great plane...but lots of mud!
I've always liked the look of 'em. Dunny why. They're just really cool.
Airplane was based out of Tofino BC and was used to fly anti-submarine patrols to protect against possible Japanese incursion. Just before midnight of Feb 8, 1945, and shortly after take-off, one engine lost power (likely due to failed magneto) causing the plane to lose altitude, skim some trees and finally crash. All crew and passengers aboard (there may have been as many as eight aboard) survived with minor injuries. I believe the crew hiked out with assistance. At the base of the crash site, there is a large 20 foot crater (forever filled with rainwater) where salvage crew detonated the planes 4 depth charges. Pretty much anything of interest has been stripped from the plane, but there are still pieces of tire tube and cloth fabric from the flight control surfaces that you can find on the ground.
The catalina is one of my fav WW2 planes. Google Canso bomber Tofino for more photos.
Quote from: LongBlade on May 24, 2013, 08:06:01 AM
Quote from: Jack Nastyface on May 23, 2013, 11:46:06 PM
Since LB has a pic of one of my fav planes in his signature...here's a picture from the Canso bomber crash site near Tofino, BC. Great day, great hike, great plane...but lots of mud!
I've always liked the look of 'em. Dunny why. They're just really cool.
I like the PBY as well, and have been lucky enough to see one a couple of times at air shows.
air shows...... right.
No kidding. I think the last time I saw it flying was at RAF Leuchars - late 1990's. Also the Vulcan and a Mosquito were flying. And Mrs.B talked herself into the pilots seat of a Chinook - although the buggers didn't leave the key in the ignition.
About 26 surviving PBY's if Wikipingia can be trusted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_Consolidated_PBY_Catalinas
Quote from: Jack Nastyface on May 24, 2013, 03:51:18 PM
About 26 surviving PBY's if Wikipingia can be trusted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_Consolidated_PBY_Catalinas
better source than your Aunt Margy
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That is a cool looking picture at that angle.
Quote from: TheCommandTent on June 04, 2013, 06:34:03 PM
That is a cool looking picture at that angle.
Agreed. The light is awesome.
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The start....
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^ Dude 8)
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Interesting article about 1973
http://theaviationist.com/2013/06/24/iaf-f-4-vs-nk-mig21/
the Norks in the air over the Mideast
Love the look of the Israeli F-4!!
Quote from: bayonetbrant on June 24, 2013, 12:57:02 PM
Interesting article about 1973
http://theaviationist.com/2013/06/24/iaf-f-4-vs-nk-mig21/
the Norks in the air over the Mideast
Great find, Brant!
Netherlands F-16 flying team.....
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someone lend me some money.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Sea-Harrier-FA2-Jump-Jet-/281126520805?pt=Motors_Aircraft&hash=item41747247e5
A Sea Harrier in Red Deer??!! Perhaps Windi could go scout it out for you.
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this picture has been bugging me and I finally realized what it was. the horizontal tailplanes are new. this might not seem like a big deal but it would appear that theyre more stealthy based on the walkway outlines. I built the model, applied the decals and have seen enough BUFF photos to remember what the traditional no walk outline was like. those tailplanes have no 90 degree angles and theyre aysemetrical.
I shall now be running off to Israel to escape the DHS/CIA/NRO/FBI/CIA black team sent to arrest me for pointing this out.
Thanks, Star. Nice knowing ya. Hopefully you spell better in Hebrew than English.
I did my whole Bar Mitzvah in hebrew and to this day I dont know what I said.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on June 29, 2013, 10:42:20 PM
I did my whole Bar Mitzvah in hebrew and to this day I dont know what I said.
מזל טוב!
did you just call me a infidel?
Not according to Google Translate.
However, the NSA may have other ideas.
Love the BUFF, but it has never been stealthy. With all of the angles and surfaces, I don't see any way to come close to calling it stealthy.
Using 1970s era tech, they would show up on radar screens at least as far away as Bear Ds. With modern radar, I'd guess they would be painted strongly enough to see them much farther away.
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Quote from: Centurion40 on July 25, 2013, 09:03:25 AM
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Nice!
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^ That is a cool shot.
love the olde timey war planes, they run on lawn mower technology
it looks cool but it would scare the poo out of me to fly in one.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 25, 2013, 10:40:42 AM
it looks cool but it would scare the poo out of me to fly in one.
Really???
I kinda imagine you flying one of this things inverted so you could take a piss.... just saying
I dont fly in anything with less HP then my ceiling fan. :)
Quote from: Windigo on July 25, 2013, 10:32:54 AM
love the olde timey war planes, they run on lawn mower technology
I know. Very cool stuff.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 25, 2013, 11:31:49 AM
I dont fly in anything with less HP then my ceiling fan. :)
hell look at the advantages...
if the engine quits at 10000 ft, you could fix any carburation problem, hell rebuild the sucker, and still have 2000 ft cushion
Quote from: Windigo on July 25, 2013, 12:01:43 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 25, 2013, 11:31:49 AM
I dont fly in anything with less HP then my ceiling fan. :)
hell look at the advantages...
if the engine quits at 10000 ft, you could fix any carburation problem, hell rebuild the sucker, and still have 2000 ft cushion
I haven't seen survival status, but I have seen pictures/reports of guys walking away from WWI fighter crashes. Those things rarely got over 100 mph. If the engine quits you just glide to a landing. I'd say your odds are better than in a faster, more modern craft.
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Reminds me of my favorite Xmas song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlf---13Q0g
This weekend we have the 25th Sunderland Air Show. Its just a few miles down the coast from me, so we quite often get stuff fly over.
I'll be listening and looking out for the Eurofighter, P51D, Vulcan and Dutch AH64's, plus the good 'ol PBY.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/find-things-to-do/sunderland-airshow-2013---guide-4923998
how trhe ol PBY snuck up on anything during patrol is beyond me... those suckers are louder than GDS in an airport washroom
I thought they grounded the last flying Vulcan to preserve it.
They did, and I saw it on its 'last' flight (at RAF Leuchars), but its been made airworthy again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Vulcan_XH558
they should keep it grounded so nothing happens to it.
To see one in flight is awesome, and they have very unique sound - the Vulcan 'howl'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhckJ9SkNbU
Edit. As I was typing that, I heard aircraft engines and looking out of the window, across the Tyne Valley, was the Red Arrows in a perfect 'V' formation. They whole formation went into a half roll before flying back towards the coast. This is the opening of the airshow, so I hope to see more stuff over the next couple of days.
sweet!
driving to an airshow once in Miami I almost crashed when the highway was overflown by a B-1 at about 1000 feet. it was in a right hand bank and as I watched it I started drifting to the right. good thing I caught myself as I was on a rather high overpass at the time.
Quote from: Windigo on July 26, 2013, 12:46:37 PM
how trhe ol PBY snuck up on anything during patrol is beyond me... those suckers are louder than GDS in an airport washroom
Everything with a pair of radial engines is loud and ,besides, the The PBY wasn't conducting attacks on IJN battlewagons. It was used for ASW and could carry both small torps and depth charges when armed. The subs could often hear them but a crash dive could take long enough that the PBY might still be able to get a hit. As far as surface ships go, the most lethal PBY attacks were conducted by the 'Black Cats', PBYs painted all black and used for night attacks against Japanese ships from just above wave top level.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_PBY_Catalina#Night_attack_and_naval_interdiction
Thanks, Stagger. I didn't know about the night attacks. That's cool.
Quote from: LongBlade on July 26, 2013, 08:34:08 PM
Thanks, Stagger. I didn't know about the night attacks. That's cool.
yes.... very
they make good fire suppression bombers too
This is a nice little story;
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/sunderland-international-airshow-gets-underway-5373064
So far, just flying over the house on the way to/from from Newcastle Airport I've seen the Lancaster and Spifire twice, and an AH64. This afternoon, oh joy-of-joys, flying very low and slow was a Fairy Swordfish - sadly I did not have the presents of mind to have a camera handy.
the F-35 now without test markings:
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Two U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II aircrafts with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 121, Marine Aircraft Group 13, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW), conduct a training flight from Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Yuma, Ariz. to MCAS Miramar, San Diego, Calif., Aug. 7, 2013.
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Looks like the 2 seater trainer and not a Schwalbe.
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There is alot of awesomeness happening in this picture.
Quote from: bob48 on August 16, 2013, 12:57:24 PM
Looks like the 2 seater trainer and not a Schwalbe.
The 2 seater was also the basis for the night-fighter variant.
I always thought that cockpit just killed the graceful lines.
You want to see jarring lines from a 2-seat variant look at the Dornier Do-335. you'll almost think that's where the inspiration for the later MiL-24 Hinds came from.
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The first one looks evil. The second one? Not so much...
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The X-Jet!
I didnt think those things could turn like that. :o
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The B-One is one sexy bitch. It has a kind of Golden-Age-of-Jets style that I can only describe as "Yesterday's tomorrow".
the sharp eyed will note the LANTIRN pod underneath. 8)
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on August 27, 2013, 07:10:00 PM
the sharp eyed will note the LANTIRN pod underneath. 8)
So the buxom 60's scifi vixen in the body suit got herself a smart-phone. I'm ok with that anachronism.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on August 27, 2013, 07:10:00 PM
the sharp eyed will note the LANTIRN pod underneath. 8)
Ah! I wondered what the heck that was.
for a closer look scroll above to the F-16 pic. its on the right side under the intake.
Gotchya. Ta.
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i am in love :-*
Lol K,
Now you're just trolling for a comment from Star.
i am not looking at planes for their character merits, it's the curvy lines i am looking at. a 17th gen armlaar radar with semi conducting milflactation erslm gives me no wood at all.
If your saying the latest Russian fighters have sweet lines then yes I agree.
I found a picture of the whole Canadian Air Force!
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QuoteCanadian CF18 Hornet aircraft from 409 Squadron in Cold Lake, Alberta and Russian Su-27 aircraft from Anadyr, Russia are practicing procedures to transfer a simulated hijacked airplane from Russian to American airspace during the NORAD Exercise VIGILANT EAGLE 13 on Aug. 28, 2013. (Photo: Cpl Vicky Lefrancois, DAirPA FA2013-5100-14)
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on August 29, 2013, 04:14:20 PM
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QuoteCanadian CF18 Hornet aircraft from 409 Squadron in Cold Lake, Alberta and Russian Su-27 aircraft from Anadyr, Russia are practicing procedures to transfer a simulated hijacked airplane from Russian to American airspace during the NORAD Exercise VIGILANT EAGLE 13 on Aug. 28, 2013. (Photo: Cpl Vicky Lefrancois, DAirPA FA2013-5100-14)
I was surprised there weren't vacuum cleaners involved. I figured the Russians would just shoot it down and figure it out later.
In Soviet Russia, planes hijack you!
nah, they just shoot them down...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007
^The VVS forgot about the 'hijack' part though.
I've got to hand it to the Russians, that's a beautiful paint scheme on their jets. Probably not as effective as our solid gray schemes but beautiful nonetheless.
from the email files:
From the mailbag and for all my Air Force friends:
There I was at six thousand feet over central Iraq, two hundred eighty knots and we're dropping faster than Paris Hilton's panties. It's a typical September evening in the Persian Gulf; hotter than a rectal thermometer and I'm sweating like a priest at a Cub Scout meeting.
But that's neither here nor there. The night is moonless over Baghdad tonight, and blacker than a Steven King novel. But it's 2003, folks, and I'm sporting the latest in night-combat technology. Namely, hand-me-down night vision goggles (NVGs) thrown out by the fighter boys. Additionally, my 1962 Lockheed C-130E Hercules is equipped with an obsolete, yet, semi-effective missile warning system (MWS). The MWS conveniently makes a nice soothing tone in your headset just before the missile explodes into your airplane. Who says you can't polish a turd? At any rate, the NVGs are illuminating Baghdad International Airport like the Las Vegas Strip during a Mike Tyson fight. These NVGs are the cat's ass. But I've digressed.
The preferred method of approach tonight is the random shallow. This tactical maneuver allows the pilot to ingress the landing zone in an unpredictable manner, thus exploiting the supposedly secured perimeter of the airfield in an attempt to avoid enemy surface-to-air-missiles and small arms fire. Personally, I wouldn't bet my pink ass on that theory but the approach is fun as hell and that's the real reason we fly it.
We get a visual on the runway at three miles out, drop down to one thousand feet above the ground, still maintaining two hundred eighty knots. Now the fun starts. It's pilot appreciation time as I descend the mighty Herk to six hundred feet and smoothly, yet very deliberately, yank into a sixty degree left bank, turning the aircraft ninety degrees offset from runway heading. As soon as we roll out of the turn, I reverse turn to the right a full two hundred seventy degrees in order to roll out aligned with the runway. Some aeronautical genius coined this maneuver the "Ninety/ Two-Seventy." Chopping the power during the turn, I pull back on the yoke just to the point my nether regions start to sag, bleeding off energy in order to configure the pig for landing.
"Flaps Fifty!, Landing Gear Down!, Before Landing Checklist!" I look over at the copilot and he's shaking like a cat shitting on a sheet of ice. Looking further back at the navigator, and even through the NVGs, I can clearly see the wet spot spreading around his crotch. Finally, I glance at my steely-eyed flight engineer. His eyebrows rise in unison as a grin forms on his face. I can tell he's thinking the same thing I am. "Where do we find such fine young men?" "Flaps One Hundred!" I bark at the shaking cat. Now it's all aimpoint and airspeed. Aviation 101, with the exception there's no lights, I'm on NVGs, it's Baghdad, and now tracers are starting to crisscross the black sky.
Naturally, and not at all surprisingly, I grease the Goodyear's on brick-one of runway 33 left, bring the throttles to ground idle and then force the props to full reverse pitch. Tonight, the sound of freedom is my four Hamilton Standard propellers chewing through the thick, putrid, Baghdad air. The huge, one hundred thirty thousand pound, lumbering whisper pig comes to a lurching stop in less than two thousand feet. Let's see a Viper do that! We exit the runway to a welcoming committee of government issued Army grunts. It's time to download their beans and bullets and letters from their sweethearts, look for war booty, and of course, urinate on Saddam's home.
Walking down the crew entry steps with my lowest-bidder, Beretta 92F, 9 millimeter strapped smartly to my side, I look around and thank God, not Allah, I'm an American and I'm on the winning team. Then I thank God I'm not in the Army.
Knowing once again I've cheated death, I ask myself, "What in the hell am I doing in this mess?" Is it Duty, Honor, and Country? You bet your ass. Or could it possibly be for the glory, the swag, and not to mention, chicks dig the Air Medal. There's probably some truth there too. But now is not the time to derive the complexities of the superior, cerebral properties of the human portion of the
aviator-man-machine model. It is however, time to get out of this shit-hole. "Hey copilot, clean yourself up! And how's 'bout the 'Before Starting Engines Checklist."
God, I love this job!
- Author chooses to remain anonymous
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^ Post Sequestration A-10.
Some footage of the new Russian T-50 fighters from the MAKS airshow.
And some helicopters including the Mi-28 Havoc.
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luv the tub!
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now thats just frikin hot!
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that is an amazingly awful paint scheme.
waaaaayyyy better than anything by hand I could do.
thats done by machine.
Ill leave your handy skills uncommented on. :P
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 03, 2013, 04:56:36 PM
thats done by machine.
Ill leave your handy skills uncommented on. :P
there's a reason why I have refused to visit LBs house ;D
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Quote from: mirth on September 03, 2013, 06:00:26 PM
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Love the seat cover!
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Movie trivia question: What movie had a bunch of guys flying around in a restored B-29 converted into a pirate radio station? IIRC Dennis Hopper was in it. Made in the 80's, maybe?
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erection achieved!
^yeah that was for you specifically :)
I may have to dump Gus then. hes Jewish and makes my mom happy but I need to consider my feelings.
I know what fighter aircraft make you happy.
Talk to me Goosefury.
You dudes know that Kelly McGillis now bats for the home team, don'cha?
Queue up "Take my breath away"...
lesbians are threesomes with no commitment issues.
Quote from: Staggerwing on September 03, 2013, 07:24:47 PM
You dudes know that Kelly McGillis now bats for the home team, don'cha?
Queue up "Take my breath away"...
So she flies with VF-69, the "Rugmunchers"?
Quote from: mirth on September 03, 2013, 07:35:09 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on September 03, 2013, 07:24:47 PM
You dudes know that Kelly McGillis now bats for the home team, don'cha?
Queue up "Take my breath away"...
So she flies with VF-69, the "Rugmunchers"?
Escort missions, low-level passes, target hand-offs. Good to go...
Quote from: Staggerwing on September 03, 2013, 07:53:55 PM
Quote from: mirth on September 03, 2013, 07:35:09 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on September 03, 2013, 07:24:47 PM
You dudes know that Kelly McGillis now bats for the home team, don'cha?
Queue up "Take my breath away"...
So she flies with VF-69, the "Rugmunchers"?
Escort missions, low-level passes, target hand-offs. Good to go...
below the hard deck?
Nach...
Erection seat!
I would still do some Wild Weasel with her
you have enough kids and thats a SEAD plane. ;)
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 03, 2013, 08:55:19 PM
you have enough kids and thats a SEAD plane. ;)
Just what the world needs a genetic hybrid of disillusioned tree hugger working with the man and a hot lesbian actress .... oh right... its been done before... nm
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 03, 2013, 08:55:19 PM
you have enough kids and thats a SEAD plane. ;)
In this case SEAD equals Suppression of Erection and Desire
Quote from: Windigo on September 03, 2013, 08:57:45 PM
Just what the world needs a genetic hybrid of disillusioned tree hugger working with the man and a hot lesbian actress .... oh right... its been done before... nm
thank you for admitting that your agw issues. that must have been difficult for you.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 03, 2013, 09:06:27 PM
Quote from: Windigo on September 03, 2013, 08:57:45 PM
Just what the world needs a genetic hybrid of disillusioned tree hugger working with the man and a hot lesbian actress .... oh right... its been done before... nm
thank you for admitting that your agw issues. that must have been difficult for you.
must you contaminate every thread?????????????????????????????? have you no boundaries??????????????????????is there no limit to these question marks??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
I suffer the same with my PitF review.
You suffer with the global warming.
neither exists but we both claim they do. ;)
QuoteThen I thank God I'm not in the Army.
Amen!
Good read. :)
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 03, 2013, 09:41:27 PM
I suffer the same with my PitF review.
You suffer with the global warming.
neither exists but we both claim they do. ;)
yours is exclusively of your making.....
the other requires a world wide global conspiracy of all scientific bodies ....
yours could be made true in a day.
the other is already true...
Denialism is not an artform, its letting your rational roommate stay locked out while your fears/biases FAP you into a brain weakened state.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 03, 2013, 09:41:27 PMI suffer the same with my PitF review.
You suffer with the global warming.
neither exists but we both claim they do. ;)
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^best looking US warbird in my book. and my book is da book.
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Quote from: mirth on September 07, 2013, 05:01:38 PM
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Nice photo of the
Widow Maker.... where'd you find it?
^Reddit. They have a section called "Military Porn". Lots of cool stuff gets posted there.
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Quote from: mirth on September 12, 2013, 11:36:47 AM
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Classic lines. I love that midnight blue.
Quote from: mirth on September 12, 2013, 11:36:47 AM
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Ah yes... the
Clunk....
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The Canadians had what may have been the most advanced intercepter in the world at the time but it never went into service:
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Notice the chase plane? The first test flight was in 1958.
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Quote from: mirth on September 18, 2013, 11:28:55 AM
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right there is probably more throw weight in bombs then the whole 8th AF had in 1944.
Quote from: Staggerwing on September 16, 2013, 05:45:09 PM
The Canadians had what may have been the most advanced intercepter in the world at the time but it never went into service:
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Notice the chase plane? The first test flight was in 1958.
That's because we were ordered/arm twisted not to make it as it was direct competition for the US manufacturers. :P
Quote from: mirth on September 16, 2013, 05:33:22 PM
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Nice shot of the VooDoo. 8)
Quote from: Barthheart on September 18, 2013, 01:10:54 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on September 16, 2013, 05:45:09 PM
The Canadians had what may have been the most advanced intercepter in the world at the time but it never went into service:
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Notice the chase plane? The first test flight was in 1958.
That's because we were ordered/arm twisted not to make it as it was direct competition for the US manufacturers. :P
well thats one part, the one I know and put credence to is that it just cost too damn much and the american armtwister was giving us a helluva a deal to shelve the project
Quote from: Windigo on September 18, 2013, 04:37:26 PM
well thats one part, the one I know and put credence to is that it just cost too damn much and our great American allies and brothers to the south were giving us a helluva a deal to for much better kit
fixed it for ya.
Anyone recognize this rare sight?
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Very good, Star. And so fast with the visual aids.
well to be fair its not like there were ever a lot of Japanese aircraft subs to dig through. ;)
for those that have kids, get them into model building. ya learn a lot of history and shizzle!
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some Cold War goodness:
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not something you see everyday:
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QuoteA QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target from the 82nd Aerial Targets Squadron flies over the Gulf of Mexico during its first unmanned flight at Tyndall Air Force Base Sept. 19. The 82nd ATRS operates the Department of Defense's only full-scale aerial target program. The QF-16 will provide a more accurate representation of real world threats for testing and training. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. J. Scott Wilcox).
If we use those to buzz Iranian jets over the Gulf I think we should put glow-in -the-dark plastic skeletons wearing Ray-Bans in the pilot's seats, making sure that the Iranians got a good look as the F-16s buzz them.
Quote from: Staggerwing on September 23, 2013, 08:04:44 PM
If we use those to buzz Iranian jets over the Gulf I think we should put glow-in -the-dark plastic skeletons wearing Ray-Bans in the pilot's seats, making sure that the Iranians got a good look as the F-16s buzz them.
Awesome!
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Quote from: Barthheart on September 30, 2013, 09:55:46 AM
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Glorious. Something about those lines makes that era amazing.
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It was indeed a beautiful plane....
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I took about 150 shots of a B-17, B-24, and a P-51 from a 'Wings' tour back in 2010. Here's but a few of them.
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Here's a few more:
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Man, I love the B-17.
Great pics. Thanks, Banzai.
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Royal Thai Air Force.
Quote from: Barthheart on September 30, 2013, 10:35:29 AM
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love this pic
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a beautiful aircraft that Ive shot done by job lots. ;D
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on October 07, 2013, 11:06:49 AM
a beautiful aircraft that Ive shot done by job lots. ;D
Yeah that never gets old!
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Another one for you, Star.
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Damn you Mirth! :'(
Quote from: mirth on October 07, 2013, 11:00:47 AM
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Looks like it shoulda been a Thunderbird!
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Happy Tomcat Thursday, Starfury!
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Fox One!
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Quote from: mirth on October 23, 2013, 11:23:33 AM
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now thats an intake!!!
Quote from: mirth on October 23, 2013, 11:27:11 AM
Fox One!
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Dude! thats like the whole Canadistanian Air Force!!!
not quite... think we have about 80 of those bad boys operational
Quote from: Windigo on October 23, 2013, 12:15:26 PM
not quite... think we have about 80 of those bad boys operational
You're talking about the AIM-7s right?
this picture would be a lot cooler if you photoshopped out the asphalt and put in some clouds instead ;D
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Quote from: mirth on October 23, 2013, 11:23:33 AM
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So what's the story here?
Quote from: mirth on October 23, 2013, 12:21:05 PM
Quote from: Windigo on October 23, 2013, 12:15:26 PM
not quite... think we have about 80 of those bad boys operational
You're talking about the AIM-7s right?
nah... probably have 2 per plane so thats about 160 ;D
The aircraft is also furnished with AIM-9 Sidewinders, AIM-120 AMRAAM and AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missiles. The air-to-ground missile installed in the hornet encompasses AGM-65 Maverick and CRV7 rockets.
Quote from: Centurion40 on October 23, 2013, 12:34:10 PM
Quote from: mirth on October 23, 2013, 11:23:33 AM
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So what's the story here?
This one time at band camp...
^^That's an RAF Lightening, despite it's resemblance to a Mig21 from that angle.
Quote from: Staggerwing on October 23, 2013, 06:13:29 PM
^^That's an RAF Lightening, despite it's resemblance to a Mig21 from that angle.
Aha!
Quote from: Centurion40 on October 24, 2013, 12:55:52 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on October 23, 2013, 06:13:29 PM
^^That's an RAF Lightening, despite it's resemblance to a Mig21 from that angle.
Aha!
Sorry, I thought everyone would realize it wasn't a 21 :P
Quote from: mirth on October 24, 2013, 07:28:22 AM
Quote from: Centurion40 on October 24, 2013, 12:55:52 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on October 23, 2013, 06:13:29 PM
^^That's an RAF Lightening, despite it's resemblance to a Mig21 from that angle.
Aha!
Sorry, I thought everyone would realize it wasn't a 21 :P
Fooled me, but I'm not a plane expert.
Quote from: mirth on October 24, 2013, 07:28:22 AM
Quote from: Centurion40 on October 24, 2013, 12:55:52 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on October 23, 2013, 06:13:29 PM
^^That's an RAF Lightening, despite it's resemblance to a Mig21 from that angle.
Aha!
Sorry, I thought everyone would realize it wasn't a 21 :P
thats gotta be sub sonic; look at the length of those two rods coming off of it. I am gussing the one is for aerial refueling
Quote from: Windigo on October 24, 2013, 08:58:32 AM
Quote from: mirth on October 24, 2013, 07:28:22 AM
Quote from: Centurion40 on October 24, 2013, 12:55:52 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on October 23, 2013, 06:13:29 PM
^^That's an RAF Lightening, despite it's resemblance to a Mig21 from that angle.
Aha!
Sorry, I thought everyone would realize it wasn't a 21 :P
thats gotta be sub sonic; look at the length of those two rods coming off of it. I am gussing the one is for aerial refueling
or mating.
;D
Quote from: Windigo on October 24, 2013, 08:58:32 AM
Quote from: mirth on October 24, 2013, 07:28:22 AM
Quote from: Centurion40 on October 24, 2013, 12:55:52 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on October 23, 2013, 06:13:29 PM
^^That's an RAF Lightening, despite it's resemblance to a Mig21 from that angle.
Aha!
Sorry, I thought everyone would realize it wasn't a 21 :P
thats gotta be sub sonic; look at the length of those two rods coming off of it. I am gussing the one is for aerial refueling
It was most definitely supersonic, with the later models capable of Mach 2. Also was the first 'supercruise' capable fighter in the world. It was a beast of an interceptor.
how the hell could it pull high-g with those rods coming off it?
the front is a pitot tube and the other is a refueling probe.
I dont see whats so difficult about it.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on October 24, 2013, 01:19:01 PM
the front is a pitot tube and the other is a refueling probe.
I dont see whats so difficult about it.
its the whole length of the refueling probe with the hard point way back of its center of mass ... still seems like a WTF to me
looks fairly well bolted on to me.
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Star, it's futile trying to explain these things to the n00bs.
just as a comparable
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that Lightning musta had a solid brick airframe
Maybe it was reverse-engineered from Bumblebees?
so whats with Windy and his probes.....
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on October 24, 2013, 07:53:30 PM
so whats with Windy and his probes.....
I'm lonely ..... ::)
So Wone-wee.. :'(
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Quote from: mirth on November 01, 2013, 07:54:55 AM
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Loaded for bear, I see.
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One of the most beautiful aircraft ever made. Gotta love the 'Bone'.
http://theaviationist.com/2013/11/15/mirage-2000-selfie/
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QuoteBy David Cenciotti
Brazil operates a fleet of 12 Mirage 2000 single and two-seat fighter planes that are used for air-defense purposes.
The Mirages, known as "Jaguars" in the Brazilian Air Force (Força Aérea Brasileira – FAB), were obtained from a French Air Force surplus between 2006 and 2008. They are assigned to the 1º Grupo de Defesa Aérea (1º GDA – 1st Air Defence Group), based at Annapolis, in Central-West Brazil, and they will be withdrawn from service by the end of 2013.
For this reason, the cool image taken by an FAB photographer from the backseat of a Mirage 2000B may be one of the last ones shot aboard the French plane.
The Mirage 2000 was to be replaced by the future Brazilian fighter F-X2. However, until a next generation fighter plane is selected (the procurement of a new fighter jet started at the beginning of the 2000s as F-X....), Brazil will replace the Mirages with some upgraded F-5 Tigers.
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but do you know what they are? ;)
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on November 15, 2013, 12:46:24 PM
but do you know what they are? ;)
ones a ruskie thingy and the other is an Interplanertary Defence Force Interceptor... ;)
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on November 15, 2013, 12:46:24 PM
but do you know what they are? ;)
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then what are they?
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on November 15, 2013, 01:02:18 PM
then what are they?
Seriously? Sukhoi Su-24s. NATO Codename: Fencer.
I started reading guides for Cold War Era military hardware before I was a teenager.
I know what they are Im just keepin ya honest. ;)
its a very cool photo.
It's also quite possibly my favorite Soviet aircraft. A remarkably modern and sophisticated design for when they initially developed it.
Makes me wish we still the Varks in service.
Quote from: mirth on November 15, 2013, 01:09:49 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on November 15, 2013, 01:02:18 PM
then what are they?
Seriously? Sukhoi Su-24s. NATO Codename: Fencer.
I started reading guides for Cold War Era military hardware before I was a teenager.
listen... if you can't play 'the game' without getting the rules spelled out for you (thus disqualifying you from 'the game') and getting huffy about it ... go visit Azz
Quote from: Windigo on November 15, 2013, 01:23:26 PM
Quote from: mirth on November 15, 2013, 01:09:49 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on November 15, 2013, 01:02:18 PM
then what are they?
Seriously? Sukhoi Su-24s. NATO Codename: Fencer.
I started reading guides for Cold War Era military hardware before I was a teenager.
listen... if you can't play 'the game' without getting the rules spelled out for you (thus disqualifying you from 'the game') and getting huffy about it ... go visit Azz
Are you off your meds, Methuselah?
Was there ever any doubt?
Quote from: mirth on November 15, 2013, 01:25:19 PM
Quote from: Windigo on November 15, 2013, 01:23:26 PM
Quote from: mirth on November 15, 2013, 01:09:49 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on November 15, 2013, 01:02:18 PM
then what are they?
Seriously? Sukhoi Su-24s. NATO Codename: Fencer.
I started reading guides for Cold War Era military hardware before I was a teenager.
listen... if you can't play 'the game' without getting the rules spelled out for you (thus disqualifying you from 'the game') and getting huffy about it ... go visit Azz
Are you off your meds, Methuselah?
never even heard of that one... is it like the raloxifene you've been taking?
Quote from: LongBlade on November 15, 2013, 01:28:05 PM
Was there ever any doubt?
or maybe its the raloxifene that LB puts in his customized Aveeno
Strike Eagle are more versatile IMHO.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on November 15, 2013, 01:36:42 PM
Strike Eagle are more versatile IMHO.
True. I did like the Vark though.
We are better off having just a few multi-role types than a bunch of specialized aircraft, but do miss some of the sexy ones.
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nice little gif at takeoff. As you can see while accelerating, there's a little right wing dip ... typical torque steering from a front wheel drive .... ::)
thats just a crazy maneuverable plane.
Quote from: Windigo on November 16, 2013, 09:04:22 PM
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nice little gif at takeoff. As you can see while accelerating, there's a little right wing dip ... typical torque steering from a front wheel drive .... ::)
Is that really from stop? The wheels are off the ground in under 1 second.
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QuoteEarlier this year Iran unveiled the Qaher F-313 stealth fighter jet "one of the most sophisticated fighter jets in the world," according to Tehran.
Even if Iranian media outlets published articles that listed the aircraft's top features, based on the first (and only) images released on Feb. 2, 2013, we explained that the Qaher would never fly unless it was extensively modified and improved.
No more images of the F-313 have been released since then, until a new photo (taken by a user nicknamed "Iranian Spotters") has emerged on Pakistan Defense forum, an image that allegedly shows the Qaher being moved to be prepared for taxi tests.
The new image (possibly partly photoshopped, based on some suspect blurry details on the tails and elsewhere) doesn't add much to what we have already seen: the aircraft is probably the same (mock-up) plane showcased on Feb. 2.
http://theaviationist.com/2013/11/23/f-313-new-photo/
the plane is a mockup. the last photos I saw couldnt even fit a pilot in the cockpit and certain panels looked like duct tape.
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^KLu, Baby!
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on November 25, 2013, 08:11:10 AM
the plane is a mockup. the last photos I saw couldnt even fit a pilot in the cockpit and certain panels looked like duct tape.
Not to mention the strap-down technique shown by the guys hauling that 'priceless stealth aircraft' is just top notch.
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very nice.
Always loved the Draken.
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The rhino was a great plane. Lots of design problems, but those two massive engines made up for a lot.
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Sukhoi PAK FA!
That is a sharp looking plane. Hopefully the Rooskies don't build enough to export any and keep the design data on Chinese-proof servers.
Quote from: Staggerwing on December 01, 2013, 09:13:43 AM
Sukhoi PAK FA!
That is a sharp looking plane. Hopefully the Rooskies don't build enough to export any and keep the design data on Chinese-proof servers.
I'll be worried if they do something about those engines. For now they're killing the stealthiness.
when you get down to it, thats a 4.75 aircraft. not even close to a 5th gen F-22 type.
Still bad news for our allies if it goes after their 4th gen airframes.
the Russians cant even afford their own Su-37s. interesting technical exercise but nothing thats going on patrol ever.
Unless they get cash customers.
where are the customers for this:
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testbed. We didn't field/sell too many X-29s either now did we?
oh, they wanted to buy and sell Berkuts. they were already weapon capable whereas the x-29 never was.
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its a big one!!!
A group of F-15E Strike Eagles taxi, following a combat mission during Blue Flag exercise on Uvda Air Force Base, Israel, Nov. 26, 2013. Aircraft from the 492nd Fighter Squadron, Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, deployed to participate in the exercise, where they engaged multiple heavy air defense assets, ground base targets and simulated opposition forces to meet combined operations requirements. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Lee Osberry/Released)
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and one for Toonces:
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Nov. 29, 2013) Patrol Squadron (VP) 16 Commanding Officer Cmdr. Bill Pennington Jr. takes off on a P-8A Poseidon No. 429 aircraft from Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Nov. 29. The take-off represents the squadron's historic first operational deployment of the Poseidon within the Navy's maritime patrol and reconnaissance community. (U.S. Navy photo by Clark Pierce/Released)
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whats with you and the commie stuff?
The last pic is an F-18 doofus.
Quote from: mirth on December 05, 2013, 10:41:14 PM
The last pic is an F-18 doofus.
... doing 'walk like an Egyptian'
strange looking F-18. ???
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Quote from: GDS_Starfury on December 06, 2013, 08:40:31 AM
strange looking F-18. ???
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I said the last pic was an F-18, not the Backfire. Do try to read the posts :P
then do try to understand the context on my questions.
did you go to sleep last night grumpy pants?
Quote from: mirth on December 06, 2013, 09:58:14 AM
did you go to sleep last night grumpy pants?
yes... but his hand was too tired
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Quote from: mirth on December 06, 2013, 01:21:56 PM
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Sweet!
SE5a's ?
Quote from: bob48 on December 06, 2013, 02:15:22 PM
SE5a's ?
Bristol F2Bs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/australian-war-memorial/3288870174/
Ta.
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Straight out of Red Storm Rising...
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I saw this monster take off from IAH when I worked there...it was amazing it could get in the air!
You should see the AN 225, the version that the Sovs built to schlep around their Space Shuttleski, the Buran. That thing must touch down in one postal zone and finally come to a stop in another.
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IAF!
Quote from: Staggerwing on December 17, 2013, 07:17:26 PM
You should see the AN 225, the version that the Sovs built to schlep around their Space Shuttleski, the Buran. That thing must touch down in one postal zone and finally come to a stop in another.
Maybe it was a 225 I saw, then, and not the 124. It was a while ago, but it stopped all of us in our tracks to watch it take off. Either way, this 225 is pretty incredible too.
I like the Guppy (Super Guppy?), also...saw one at an airshow here a few years back. Amazed me as a kid that it could get up into the air at all.
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^It's the Brain Bug!
Exactly. I can almost see the proboscis coming out of its head and killing bad acting in its tracks. 8)
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on December 17, 2013, 07:25:31 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on December 17, 2013, 07:17:26 PM
You should see the AN 225, the version that the Sovs built to schlep around their Space Shuttleski, the Buran. That thing must touch down in one postal zone and finally come to a stop in another.
Maybe it was a 225 I saw, then, and not the 124. It was a while ago, but it stopped all of us in our tracks to watch it take off. Either way, this 225 is pretty incredible too.
I like the Guppy (Super Guppy?), also...saw one at an airshow here a few years back. Amazed me as a kid that it could get up into the air at all.
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The wife and I got to climb inside the guppy a couple years ago in El Paso. It's the weirdest looking flying object out there.
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Quote from: mirth on December 18, 2013, 09:02:47 PM
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^you win!
Sorry. First thing I thought of. My mind doesn't work quite right.
Anyway, back on topic.
I like the Ho-229; I loved playing this plane in "Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe."
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Polar Bear?
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Quote from: bayonetbrant on December 23, 2013, 07:36:43 AM
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I guess they could put a pumpkin on the end of that refueling rod and enter that into the next Pumpkin Chunkin' contest.
Quote from: bayonetbrant on December 23, 2013, 07:36:43 AM
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totally wins the 2013 WTF? award
Point defence idea in case of nuked runways.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on December 23, 2013, 04:11:59 PM
Point defence idea in case of nuked runways.
Kinda a one way trip.
if nukes are flying landing is the least of your issues.
The most amazing thing about that picture is that I think I see an actual helmet in the cockpit. :o
oh that wasnt a mock up.
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Now I know why and how Star got to be... 'Special'
I figured it wasn't a mock-up. I just didn't think they would test it with a real live human unless there was an actual war on...
Excellent vid of MIG-31s in flight:
And an awesome photo collection of the F-20 Tigershark:
http://imgur.com/a/hOUgj#TgsrTGz (http://imgur.com/a/hOUgj#TgsrTGz)
A sample:
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^That is quite literally awesome. Still, can it Vector in Forward Flight?
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Quote from: W8taminute on December 31, 2013, 08:16:21 PM
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Frakkin Starbuck! Always landing in the handicap spots! >:(
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+1 for Mirth and the F-16XLs. That was a nice plane they should have kept working on for CAS.
That's the 'Cranked Falcon', isn't it?
yup. GD's entry into the strike fighter competition which the F-15e eventually won.
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Lockheed Martin maintainers complete preflight checks on the Royal Netherlands Air Force F-35A Lightning II prior to a sortie at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The RNLAF completed their first joint strike fighter flying sortie Dec. 18. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)
Man, the F-35 is such an ugly plane. I guess it gets the job done, though.
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on January 08, 2014, 10:21:11 AM
Man, the F-35 is such an ugly plane. I guess it gets the job done, though.
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Quote from: Banzai_Cat on January 08, 2014, 10:21:11 AM
Man, the F-35 is such an ugly plane. I guess it gets the job done, though.
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@bart,
that response of your is soooo 2013/another thread ;) :)
The A-10 is not ugly!
The P47C Razorback is ugly too?
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^Awesome, Windi.
Quote from: mirth on January 09, 2014, 12:18:22 PM
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F3H Demon- the Phantom's pappy!
Quote from: mirth on January 09, 2014, 06:39:52 PM
^Awesome, Windi.
there's a whole shitload of lift going on it that pic
Can anyone spot the interesting detail on this one?
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the famous toilet bomb.
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you can actually buy that as an aftermarket part for modeling.
You gotta love the Spad.
;D
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Hehe, cute. Definitely not money down the drain! :)
All cisterns go!
Best seat in the house.
You're looking a bit flushed.
Drained, even...
sort of a plane
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Awww yu guys are not vewy fwunny
we're not very funny, we're outrageously funny!
Quote from: Staggerwing on January 13, 2014, 06:59:56 PM
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THAT is funny.
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Quote from: GDS_Starfury on January 15, 2014, 09:48:08 AM
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The Vulcan is a great old plane. These flew at 100 ft over my head when I was a kid in Goose Bay, Labrador. The terrain around there apparently resembled terrain in Russia....
Man were they loud..... :o
Some Vulcans flew over my head too, here in Nova Scotia. But they were too high up to hear. They were heading south, far south to visit some Argentinians.
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Great pic!
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:'(
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US Navy F-18 on the De Gaulle:
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and some Rafales on the Truman:
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^ Starfighters?
I used to draw those all the time when I was in elementary school. No idea why I was so fascinated with that particular plane.
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on January 16, 2014, 12:52:16 PM
^ Starfighters?
I used to draw those all the time when I was in elementary school. No idea why I was so fascinated with that particular plane.
Because it was awesome. A rocket with wings!
Quote from: mirth on January 16, 2014, 02:49:39 PM
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on January 16, 2014, 12:52:16 PM
^ Starfighters?
I used to draw those all the time when I was in elementary school. No idea why I was so fascinated with that particular plane.
Because it was awesome. A rocket with wings!
Pretty apt description- It was also know as a Widow Maker due to high landing speed and teeny-tiny wings. Both the KLu and Luftwaffe lost a number of Starfighters and also pilots to the plane's unforgiving flight envelope.
EDIT: Also, IIRC, the Starfighter is the only true supersonic production aircraft that did not have swept wings.
it didnt have swept back wings but the leading edge was swept. ;)
That was pretty much the case with every jet built since the dawn of the jet age- none of them had a leading edge perpendicular to their fuselage centerline axis. The Starfighter's wing is a trapezoid.
EDIT: The U2 comes close though...
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Syrian MiG. Slightly used...
thats how I like to see Migs.
when you see it. ;D
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Quote from: GDS_Starfury on January 18, 2014, 11:29:54 AM
when you see it. ;D
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If it's not a 'shopped BSG homage then I'm guessing the closest F4 has a 'guest' pilot.
more likea guest F-4:
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Is there more to the story? They would have to have repainted the entire aircraft darker grey and those markings are pretty sharp for a quicky gag-picture. Did the US phantom actually operate off the RN CV for a while?
its the same thing as the pictures of the Rafales operating of the Truman. arresting and launch kit is common across NATO/France aircraft. the Brits probably just repainted the Colonial bit while in the second photo the Marines added the tail markings.
Actually, on closer examination, the phantoms in the two pictures are different airframes. The RN types in the 1st pic have the modified vertical stabilizers with upgraded RWR unit and the Marine example on the flight deck (as well as the RN examples in the back) have the US standard fin. the 1st picture must have been taken much later after the change to the Marconi RWR. US and RAF Phantoms were never fitted with them, just the RN types.
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Quote from: mirth on January 18, 2014, 02:41:19 PM
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Gotta love those takeoff/landing intake vents on top of the regular ones. The MiG designers obviously planned for chickens on the runways of some of their customers. :D
Who's insignia is that anyway?
Slovakian Air Force and the vents were for grass/rough field operations.
Thanks for clarification on the insignia. The vents I know about. There are doors on the main lower intakes that close during takeoff.
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An F-102A Delta Dagger static display stands in Heritage Park at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson as a reminder of its service here. The F-102A was considered a high-tech upgrade over the fighter jet it replaced, the F-89 Scorpion. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Robert Barnett)
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Always loved the Buccaneer!
I've recently had the pleasure of working with two former RAF helo pilots (Wessex & Merlin). They were stationed in Cyprus aound the bad times in Beirut and had to fly out UK nationals from there. The Brits also sent a few Buccs to fly through (not over) Beirut back in the early 80's in order to send a message. From the stories I've heard, this was quite an impressive feat (the planning going into that and not crashing into buildings (or each other)). Not to mention how that must have sounded on the ground.
Was just looking at some of the Navy Buccs attempting landings on Ark Royal back in the day. That was a big beast.
Another story I heard was before they replaced it, they tried to mixing 1 engine from the Bucc and 1 engine from the Tornado. The pilots said it was a fantastic improvement in power and handling. However, I guess the Bucc had had its day.
Try reading 'Phoenix Squadron', its absolutely superb.
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my personal belief is that they never went forward with that because having a dedicated weapons officer would be to unfair. ;D
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from DS:
;D
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what is with you and the commie shit?
its not even a good plane.
No, but it's a cool pic.
Another for Comrade Starfury ;D
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Quote from: mirth on January 28, 2014, 10:16:06 PM
No, but it's a cool pic.
it looks like a flying blue broken dildo.
it could be Windys.
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Quote from: GDS_Starfury on January 28, 2014, 10:33:06 PM
it could be Windys.
no need.. I get off on 57 chevys and screamin' guitar
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Canberra!
It is (I think) but was it not called something else in the USAF?
The other name was the Intruder (or Night Intruder, depending on version).
I've read some good stuff about Australian Canberra's being very good at precision low-level bombing in 'Nam.
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Talk about short and stubby :)
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on January 29, 2014, 06:08:21 PM
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I always keep thinking this was in the old War of the Worlds movie - but that's another 'flying wing'.
A clip of the YB-49 (a jet conversion of the YB-35 above) was used in the 1950's version, IIRC.:
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Talk about short and stubby :)
why does Star come to mind?
because both me and that plane are to big for your mouth.
Ladies and fellow Grogs, I present to you a small ballad to highlight this event between Star & Windy (in good spirited jest, no harm intended). To be sung in the fashion of Gordon Lightfoot's "The Edmund Fitzgerald" Please enjoy!
The legend lives on at the Grog-nadi fo-rum
of the Big Two they named Star & Windy
The two they say never would give way-ay!
Both with big packages and brimming fumes of hot-air
Global warming folks might well find their holy grail right the-re!
And we all hoped for a few more fixed-wing pin-ups
But then the gales of Star & Windy came early!
Quote from: endfire79 on January 30, 2014, 07:10:30 AM
Ladies and fellow Grogs, I present to you a small ballad to highlight this event between Star & Windy (in good spirited jest, no harm intended). To be sung in the fashion of Gordon Lightfoot's "The Edmund Fitzgerald" Please enjoy!
The legend lives on at the Grog-nadi fo-rum
of the Big Two they named Star & Windy
The two they say never would give way-ay!
Both with big packages and brimming fumes of hot-air
Global warming folks might well find their holy grail right the-re!
And we all hoped for a few more fixed-wing pin-ups
But then the gales of Star & Windy came early!
beautiful
Brought a tear to my eye........
that was really awesome.... :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
That was full of more gooderness.
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^Fokker T-V Bomber in wartime plumage.
and the first Red Flag of 2014 is underway!
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I was born in the country it was built in. Duh.
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Kenny?
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Is that his Alpine villa back there?
That a-10 shot is sweet!
^Yes it is. Would make a smashing framed wall picture.
There's a retired A-10 at the New England Air Museum that's pretty impressive. You can see that Avenger muzzle up close and it is enormous.
http://www.neam.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&layout=edit&id=896
Check the rest of the website out. They have some cool stuff there and And I highly recommend a visit if you live within a few hours' drive of Bradley Int'l Airport in Windsor Locks, CT.
Russian Tomcats
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heres some trivia for ya:
Dragon was the symbol of Chinese Emperor, it never allowed using this design by others including nations around China.
That is to say, China was the center for all things.
Accordingly, the Emperors of nations around China were sensitive to this, they settled that reducing the number of claws.
China : five claws (five fingers).
Korea : four claws (four fingers).
Japan : three claws (three fingers).
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Nuke powered B-36 and a heavily modified B-29 or B-50 to be particular. Nice picture.
It wasn't actually Nuke powered, it had a working reactor installed so they could test shielding in flight. The reactor wasn't hooked up to anything. Actually propelling the beast was a next but far off step. Many plans for ways to get the reactor output were explored but before a prototype was built somebody remembered that a big honking rocket could carry a nuke payload and was much cheaper. The reason the USAF wanted nuclear-powered a/c was so they could perma-loiter with intent just outside enemy airspace, allowing them to go in to said airspace at a moment's notice. An ICBM fits that bill as well. It just does it's loitering a bit farther away.
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Quote from: mirth on February 01, 2014, 04:25:51 PM
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Now THAT is awesome. 8)
more Red Flag 14-1
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Bear tracks
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Awesome.
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That thing was a damn fast beast for it's time. Mach 2 and 1st in the world to be supercruise capable.
MOOOOOOR Red Flag 14-1
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and for my mates across the pond a cracking good bit o history boyo!
100 years!
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so lets recap that:
British fighter pilots
100 year squadron birthday
spending 6 weeks in Vegas
what could go wrong?
Those Eurofighter Typhoons really do look sharp. Do the RAF pilots refer to them as 'Tiffys' (as their predecessors did the Hawker typhoon) by any chance?
Nice one Star :) :) :)
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Ouch! WTH happened? Emergency landing or just badly overshot the runway?
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^There's something we won't be seeing again. :(
why do you make me cry Mirth? :'(
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on February 19, 2014, 10:20:30 PM
why do you make me cry Mirth? :'(
It will be okay. Now go watch Top Gun.
JATO in action....
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^ Good for getting tons of gold bullion out of your last regional capital when the Ministry buildings have fallen and all you have is a short runway with a rebel BMP2 rolling up to the other end...
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Sorry Star...
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Those guys in the chase plane are having fun.
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@jack,
one of the coolest model airplanes I ever built
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Wasn't there some obscure sim based around that aircraft? Damn... what the hel was it again?
I can't think of it either. It was a minor success as I recall.
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There was a pretty good NOVA episode about the YF-22/YF-23 competition. 'Battle of the X-Planes':
I watched that on Netflix. Good stuff.
They also did one on the Dambusters (couldn't find the whole thing on youtube):
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/bombing-hitler-dams.html
And here's one (by NatGeo?) on the Ho-229/Go-229:
Im kinda convinced that the f-23 was the aurora hidden in plain sight.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on March 01, 2014, 12:59:21 PM
Im kinda convinced that the f-23 was the aurora hidden in plain sight.
Donuts-on-a-rope?
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Mmmm... donuts.... on a rope...*
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The Vigilante was a real beauty.
Happy Sunday, Star
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is that in game footage? ;)
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The Russian Air Force is getting down to the official testing of their T-50 fifth-generation jetfighter in what is evidence that the aircraft is actually ready and can soon be passed into service. The T-50 flight tests have been scheduled to start at the Akhtubinsk flight test centre in March or April this year.
Click image for larger version. Name: 130795.jpg Views: 0 Size: 109.2 KB ID: 215614Five aircraft are due to be tested, with the fifth T-50 having taken off in October 2013. Just a month later, the overall number of flights exceeded 450. Once the Russian Air Force gets 6 or 8 experimental T-50 jetfighters, the number of flights could easily reach 400 to 500 per year, which provides for carrying out the flight test programme of 2000 flights in a matter of three to four years. The first few T-50 jetfighters are due to arrive at the Lipetsk training centre of the Russian Air Force for retraining Russian military pilots in 2015.
T-50 will become the first new-generation jetfighter that the Russian Air Force has adopted for service since the late 1980s, when the Su-27 was commissioned. 50 to 60 T-50 jetfighters are due to be bought by the Russian Air Force by 2020, while the overall number of T-50 to be adopted for service will make up 200 to 250. It is held that the first combat manoeuvre unit will be combat ready by 2017 or 2018.
The new jetfighter should largely boost the Russian Air Force combat potential by replacing the now obsolete Su-27 and partly Su-30, and ensuring supremacy in hypothetical air combat clashes with the enemy who relies on updated fourth-generation and even fifth-generation jetfighters, such as the F-35 or the F-22, which is currently used by the USAF.
The Soviet Union launched work on fifth-generation jetfighters back in the 1980s. By the mid-1990s, the Mikoyan Design Office came up with Project 1.44, while the Sukhoi Design Office, with Project S.37. S.37 was originally meant to hone some new technologies, so a new MIG jetfighter could have gone into production, but the Mikoyan project ground to a halt for lack of funding.
It became obvious by the mid-1990s that the projects in question were growing morally obsolete and should therefore be given up. A decision to develop a basically new aircraft was taken in the early 21st century. The Sukhoi, Mikoyan and Yakovlev Design Offices came up with their respective projects. As a result, Sukhoi became the lead developer of the new aircraft, which came to be known as T-50.
The F-22 designers have largely sacrificed performance characteristics for low-observability, while the T-50 designers focused on ensuring the acceptable combination of the former and the latter. As a result, T-50 boasts by far better performance characteristics, including cruising speed and flying range, which are crucial for a heavy jetfighter, such as T-50. All signs are the Russian jetfighter also boasts more capacious inner weapon compartments, which is a major tactical advantage.
But the low observable technology was not sacrificed at all in the long run, since Russia has begun to produce new composite materials, radar-absorbing coatings, and the types of dyes that, if combined with an advanced aircraft geometry analysis and radar blockers in the intake duct passages, make T-50 a very low observable aircraft.
The key factor in the T-50 kill potential is the jetfighter's fire control system, including an active phased array radar in the fore-body and more antennas in the wings and the aft-body, ensuring an all-round view.
T-50 is still more superior to F-35, which has failed to become a fully-fledged fifth-generation jetfighter, but costs nevertheless only slightly less than its predecessor, F-22. The cost of F-35 has been lowering recently as its series production gains momentum, but it's not that easy to improve performance characteristics.
Just as F-35, T-50 will be offered for sale abroad. The first major project to that end is the Russian-Indian joint effort to develop a Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft, FGFA, on the basis of T-50. Once FGFA is manufactured, T-50 is expected to emerge on foreign markets, just as an Indian contract many years ago became the hour of triumph for the Russian Su-30 aircraft, which has been the best-selling fighter plane in the past 15 years.
http://congnghequocphong.blogspot.com/2014/03/russian-fifth-generation-jetfighter-t.html
so this might become operational 15+ years after the F-22. ::)
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^Awesome.
Insane take off.
http://www.military.com/video/aircraft/military-aircraft/kc-10a-extender-insane-takeoff/3308274842001/
Very unusual B-24 paint schemes.
http://aviacaoemfloripa.blogspot.com.br/2011/01/camuflagens-exoticas-b-24-assembly-ships.html
heres a fun read on the SR-71:
http://www.sbnation.com/2014/3/7/5447310/sr-71-blackbird-pilot-interview
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^Great articles, guys. Thanks.
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Heinemann's Hotrod!
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^HA! Awesome!
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Oh snap! :o
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Awesome.
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"Filler up wi' Hi Test!"
Apparently a self-service station.
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hes gonna be standing there a loooooooooong time.
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The B-36 is huge. Great pic.
the bomb bays must be significant
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Quote from: Windigo on March 26, 2014, 12:11:30 PM
the bomb bays must be significant
On bombers they often are. It's what sets them apart from cargo planes.
is it now...
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Wise guy...
thats a Minuteman that then launched btw.
Gus and JH meet on the flightline...
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all joking aside, I really thought 141's weren't that much smaller.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on March 26, 2014, 08:16:05 PM
thats a Minuteman that then launched btw.
looks like a fucked up way to serve a stadium sized sub sandwhich
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not to be confused with syrian barrel bombs
P40 Warhawks taking off from the carrier Chenango during the invasion of North Africa.
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where, pray tell, did they land?
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on April 02, 2014, 04:44:55 PM
where, pray tell, did they land?
Well, a captured airfield would be my bet...........
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on April 02, 2014, 04:44:55 PM
where, pray tell, did they land?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Chenango_(CVE-28) (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Chenango_(CVE-28))
Port Lyautey, French Morocco, apparently.
In WW2 smaller carriers often ferried non-carrier planes from place to place. The USS Langley (CV1) was also ferrying P-40's to Australia (IIRC) when she was attacked by Vals and sunk (or had to be scuttled?).
Quote from: Staggerwing on April 02, 2014, 05:59:27 PM
In WW2 smaller carriers often ferried non-carrier planes from place to place. The USS Langley (CV1) was also ferrying P-40's to Australia (IIRC) when she was attacked by Vals and sunk (or had to be scuttled?).
Brits did it quite a bit in the Med too. Particularly to reinforce Malta. Think we used Wasp for one of those runs too.
According to the article that little CVE was carrying 77 of them!
on some levels it would be awesome if Japan sank most of the Chinese navy with replica Zero's flown off their new carriers.
fabric covered and wood framed for stealth.
I like your idea of giant killer robots better Star
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Okay Mirth, I think it's happy to see you... :o
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you can pick up an air worthy one for 2 or 3 million bucks.
Early naval aviation on board USS Lexington.
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B-52 boneyard in Tuscon, AZ.
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IL-78M refueling two MiG-31s
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Thuds waiting for a drink:
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Swiss Air Force F-18 and German Luftwaffe MiG-29 next to the Matterhorn
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Cool.
How are those hand-me-down MiGs holding up anyway? IRRC the Poles eventually bought em for a dollah each. :D
Still, I heard there were some seriously bent noses after the Luftwaffe first started using their 29s as aggressors for NATO eval and wiped the floor with any Western fighters inside 5 or 10 miles.
http://www.migflug.com/jetflights/german-luftwaffe-mig-29-fulcrum.html (http://www.migflug.com/jetflights/german-luftwaffe-mig-29-fulcrum.html)
QuoteThis led Johann Koeck, Oberstleutnant at German Luftwaffe, to the analysis:
"Inside ten nautical miles I'm hard to defeat, and with the IRST, helmet sight and 'Archer' I can't be beaten. Period."
Another article breaking down the pros and cons of the 29 while in Luftwaffe service:
http://www.16va.be/mig-29_experience.htm
150 nm range..... BWAHAHAHAHA
Keep in mind those were the export version of very early model MIG-29s.
keep in mind we have helmet mounted sights and Aim-9x now. to be fair I think NATO training standards are what let them get what they do out of those frames. thankfully neither the Russians or China seem to spend as much on training as we do.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on April 17, 2014, 07:31:58 PM
keep in mind we have helmet mounted sights and Aim-9x now. to be fair I think NATO training standards are what let them get what they do out of those frames. thankfully neither the Russians or China seem to spend as much on training as we do.
I agree about the training making the difference.
The 29 was probably designed to operate from forward airfields and insure local air superiority over the conflict zone at the cost of being able to operate far into enemy airspace. For
that, the russians designed the Su-27 line.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on April 17, 2014, 07:31:58 PM
keep in mind we have helmet mounted sights and Aim-9x now.
We have those now. We didn't back in the late 80's and 90's. Every dog may have it's day. This particular one just never got to play in it's own neighborhood when the day came.
that version got its day in Iraq. ;D
USAF F-15Es vs IRAF MiG-29s
On the opening night of the war two MiG-29s attempted to engage a flight of USAF F-15Es. One of the MiGs crashed while flying at low altitude but the other MiG pressed on. One of the F-15Es fired an AIM-9 Sidewinder when the MiG locked him up but missed. Several other F-15Es simultaneously tried to engage the lone MiG-29 but were unable to get the kill. One F-15E was actually flying past the Iraqi jet and maneuvered in for the kill but the pilot hesitated to take the shot because he was unsure of his wingmen's location and because he did not get a good tone with the Sidewinder missile.[2]
I hadnt heard about this one:
IRAF MiG-29 vs USAF F-111 and B-52G
An Iraqi MiG-29 struck an F-111 aircraft with a R60 missile, though the sturdy F-111 stayed airworthy. Several minutes later the same pilot fired a R27 missile at a B-52G on a bombing run, severely damaging it.[4]
and so it goes...
USAF F-15Cs vs. IRAF MiG-29s
Two F-15Cs, piloted by Captains Craig Underhill and Cesar Rodriguez gave chase to a pair of MiG-29s detected by AWACS. The Iraqi aircraft, one piloted by Captain Jameel Sayhood, promptly turned and engaged the two American fighters, and one of the most dramatic dogfights of the Persian Gulf War ensued. The two MiGs and F-15s flew straight at each other, each attempting to visually identify the other. Underhill was facing Sayhood's wingman, while Sayhood himself was facing Rodriguez. Underhill fired an AIM-7 at Sayhood's wingman, scoring a head-on hit and killing the opposing pilot instantly. Simultaneously, Sayhood gained a lock on Rodriguez, throwing him onto the defensive. Rodriguez dove to low altitude in order to clutter Sayhood's radar and break the lock-on, and dropped flares to counter his adversary's infra-red search-and-track. However, after seeing his wingman shot down, Sayhood disengaged and fled to the north. Considering the engagement over, Rodriguez and Underhill turned south to rendezvous with a KC-135 tanker in order to refuel, but Sayhood reversed course and set off after them, prompting them to reengage. With the now lone MiG-29 closing head-on with the pair of F-15s, Underhill gained radar lock-on, but did not fire due to a glitch in his IFF interrogator system keeping him from being certain he wasn't about to shoot down a Coalition aircraft. Sayhood sliced into the American formation, causing a classic merge. Underhill kept Sayhood locked-on and climbed, while Rodriguez committed to the merge in order to visually identify the opposing aircraft as hostile. As they passed head-on, Rodriguez identified it as an Iraqi, and each pilot turned left to engage the other. Sayhood was relying on his MiG's better turning radius to get into a firing position on Rodriguez' tail. Both aircraft lost altitude through the sustained hard turning, bringing them perilously close to the ground. Fearing that Rodriguez would obtain infra-red lock-on and shoot him down with an AIM-9, Sayhood attempted to disengage using a split-s. Rodriguez didn't match Sayhood's manoeuvre, and observed him eject just prior to his MiG impacting the ground - he'd commenced his escape maneuver too low. It is not known if he survived.[2][3]
RAF GR.1 Tornado vs. IRAF MiG-29
It has been claimed by some sources that a Tornado (ZA467) crewed by Squadron Leader Gary Lennox and Squadron Leader Adrian Weeks was shot down on 19 January by a R-60MK (NATO reporting name: AA-8 Aphid) missile fired from an Iraqi MiG-29 piloted by Jameel Sayhood,[5] however this aircraft is officially recorded as having crashed on 22 January on a mission to Ar Rutbah.[6][7]
Formation of Short Stirlings
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Hellcat testing the hangar deck catapult of an Essex class carrier.
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Different angle, different Hellcat, probably a different carrier entirely:
QuoteAn F6F-3 Hellcat from Fighting Squadron One (VF-1) being launched from the hangar deck catapult of USS Yorktown (CV-10) during her shakedown cruise near Trinidad in June 1943.
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I don't think these were ever used operationally.
I was not aware that such a thing even existed. How interesting.
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they both are very good at BSU!
It would be funny if it wasnt such a depressing truth. :-\
QuoteA SwAF SAAB 37 Viggen showing off its foldable tail fin while being towed out of a mountain hangar in Säve, Sweden
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QuoteThunderbolt Mark Is of No. 135 Squadron RAF, lined up at Chittagong, India, while being overflown by three other Thunderbolts, 1944
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Fuselage of a C-130 inside a C-5.
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Quote from: mirth on April 28, 2014, 11:00:37 AM
Fuselage of a C-130 inside a C-5.
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That seems vaguely cannibalistic.
nah, thats how theyre born.
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Hawaiian Pre-War Fleet Maneuvers. January, 1941 onboard USS Enterprise (CV-6).
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More - http://imgur.com/a/ziRQC#aaR4PNu (http://imgur.com/a/ziRQC#aaR4PNu)
YB-40 bomber escort gunship:
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More pics - http://imgur.com/a/3IL2w#nGFLxbc
That pic of the Devastators still in peacetime colors is a nice find! I've always had a soft spot for that aircraft ever since I first read about Torpedo 8.
Quote from: mirth on April 29, 2014, 12:56:52 PM
YB-40 bomber escort gunship:
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More pics - http://imgur.com/a/3IL2w#nGFLxbc
The YB-40 looks formidable on paper but it turned out to be as heavily laden with those added guns and armor as a regular Fortress was with bombs. Once the bombs had been dropped the YB-40 couldn't keep up with the now fast and agile B-17s on their way home. Also, there are supposedly several cases of YB-40s shooting down 'friendly forts' because the YB-40 crews were told to look out for strange Forts that didn't seem to belong. This happened after Kampfgeschwader-200 supposedly shadowed a few raids with crashed airframes that had been returned to flying condition by the Luftwaffe.
Quote from: mirth on April 29, 2014, 12:52:16 PM
Hawaiian Pre-War Fleet Maneuvers. January, 1941 onboard USS Enterprise (CV-6).
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More - http://imgur.com/a/ziRQC#aaR4PNu (http://imgur.com/a/ziRQC#aaR4PNu)
That's a great picture. What is the device just on the outside right of the cockpit and before the engine cowling?
laser range finder
LOL - so you don't know either then.
Only 2 planes have it. The 2nd one out has the cradle for it but not the device. Maybe it is used in preparing the aircraft somehow.
its a gun camera cradle and the pod is the gun camera.
damn Im good!
Fairchild model H-1 gun camera
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Damn but you are good!
At least that's what the guy in the gif in the 'I laughed and thought of...' thread told me. :D
thats what ya get from a lifetime of model building. ;)
Well done that man, so now we know. I've put you down for an award.
Xian JH-7 of the PLAAF
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He-162 being built in an underground factory
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its a VERY good thing they didnt get that into squadron service.
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Quote from: GDS_Starfury on May 02, 2014, 11:52:54 AM
its a VERY good thing they didnt get that into squadron service.
Finding trained pilots would have been a bigger problem.
QuoteU.S. Air Force Capt. David Vincent, 65th Aggressor Squadron pilot, flies an F-15 Eagle with an updated Splinter paint scheme Oct. 20, 2011, at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. The updated Russian paint scheme promotes realistic threat replication when participating in simulated air to air combat.
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70 years of the Normandie-Niemen, a French Air Force squadron that fought alongside the Soviets in WWII
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Quote from: GDS_Starfury on May 02, 2014, 12:05:37 PM
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What's the "square" bits on two of the birds wing/fuselage joint area?
Conformal fuel tanks.
very nice.
I know a thing or two.
Bart, those are Israeli designed conformal fuel tanks / equipment pods.
same idea as the F-15s but different location.
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there are F-18 versions in testing:
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Thanks guys.
Doesn't that add an "explosive" vulnerability to the top of yer plane though? And you can't drop them when empty.... are they mostly fro long haul restaging?
Are Israelis using them for anything other than fuel? We stopped calling them FAST (Fuel and Sensor Tanks) packs I believe because they were only used for extra fuel.
Quote from: Barthheart on May 02, 2014, 01:02:59 PM
Thanks guys.
Doesn't that add an "explosive" vulnerability to the top of yer plane though? And you can't drop them when empty.... are they mostly fro long haul restaging?
I imagine the Israelis use them operationally for long range strike missions. Handy to have when you don't have a ton of tanker assets.
I know the IAF likes jamming more ECM and flares into theirs.
as for damage... IMHO if youre taking any hits youre probably fucked any way ya slice it.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on May 02, 2014, 01:10:36 PM
IMHO if youre taking any hits youre probably fucked any way ya slice it.
That's the truth.
Quote from: mirth on May 02, 2014, 01:11:26 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on May 02, 2014, 01:10:36 PM
IMHO if youre taking any hits youre probably fucked any way ya slice it.
That's the truth.
True enough.... thanks again ... I have learned something new today. I think I'll call it and go fer beer.
The big trick is not screwing up your wave drag for supersonic flight with those tanks. I'm betting a lot of simulation time has been invested in getting the shapes right. 8)
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on May 02, 2014, 11:52:54 AM
its a VERY good thing they didnt get that into squadron service.
RAF testpilot-extrodinaire Eric Brown flew the He-162 and thought it was quite a formidable fighter. It's main problems were very limited range and lots of production defects. Considering who had to built those things I'm sure a number of those defects were intentional.
Also, rumor has it that it did get into service at the very end of things and scored at least one kill.
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^I surrender!!!
TBM Tarpons (Avengers) in Royal Navy colors.
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Great picture.
I agree Boob48
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FICON_project#Project_MX-1016_.28Tip_Tow.29
Man.... they dreamt up some crazy shit in the 50's.... :o
Quote from: Windigo on May 06, 2014, 11:01:50 AM
I agree Boob48
Boob48? We all know where your mind is Windi...........
Quote from: Barthheart on May 06, 2014, 11:31:58 AM
Man.... they dreamt up some crazy shit in the 50's.... :o
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Ya think?
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Indian Navy P-8I Neptune armed with Harpoons
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Cool.
B-57B observing a nuclear test during Operation Redwing, Bikini Atoll, 12 July 1958.
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Oooo, bank right! Hard right!!!
But it looks so inviting, like a giant golden boob with a glowing nipple.
Thats a millisecond after detonation. Very cool.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on May 07, 2014, 03:23:02 PM
Thats a millisecond after detonation. Very cool.
Marcan using metric who's not a scientist or government worker... how positively progressive of you
I'm neither of those things and I use millimeters and milliliters all the time, both at work and home. How come you're not picking on the Brits with their pints, pounds, farthings, miles, stone, and yards as well?
hes a crown loyalist.
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 07, 2014, 07:41:41 PM
I'm neither of those things and I use millimeters and milliliters all the time, both at work and home. How come you're not picking on the Brits with their pints, pounds, farthings, miles, stone, and yards as well?
I am a loyalist.... still pissed that you let those bloody insurrectionists off the hook the way you did.
shit... we went with 120mm as the common NATO round because 4.7 inches hit to close to home for Europe.
Quote from: Windigo on May 07, 2014, 10:49:35 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 07, 2014, 07:41:41 PM
I'm neither of those things and I use millimeters and milliliters all the time, both at work and home. How come you're not picking on the Brits with their pints, pounds, farthings, miles, stone, and yards as well?
I am a loyalist.... still pissed that you let those bloody insurrectionists off the hook the way you did.
Hey, don't blame
me- I showed up long after the fuss was all over. According to conventional wisdom hereabouts
you were actually around then to do something about it.
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 07, 2014, 07:41:41 PM
I'm neither of those things and I use millimeters and milliliters all the time, both at work and home. How come you're not picking on the Brits with their pints, pounds, farthings, miles, stone, and yards as well?
wait, what?
what does your beer and milk come in?
Bartini Beriev VVA-14, vertical take-off amphibious aircraft, designed to destroy US SSBNs.
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Wow. Thunderbirds go!
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^Good find
Quote from: mirth on May 08, 2014, 12:31:45 PM
^Good find
Thanks
"Anything Mirth can do, you can do better..."*
*Mirth's mom
Quote from: undercovergeek on May 08, 2014, 05:18:45 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 07, 2014, 07:41:41 PM
I'm neither of those things and I use millimeters and milliliters all the time, both at work and home. How come you're not picking on the Brits with their pints, pounds, farthings, miles, stone, and yards as well?
wait, what?
what does your beer and milk come in?
Cartons and bottles.
(Note, I said "as well", not "instead". We are all in this mixed measuring thing together. ;))
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 08, 2014, 06:03:50 PM
Quote from: undercovergeek on May 08, 2014, 05:18:45 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 07, 2014, 07:41:41 PM
I'm neither of those things and I use millimeters and milliliters all the time, both at work and home. How come you're not picking on the Brits with their pints, pounds, farthings, miles, stone, and yards as well?
wait, what?
what does your beer and milk come in?
Cartons and bottles.
(Note, I said "as well", not "instead". We are all in this mixed measuring thing together. ;))
and socks too?
Those are for making Goat Cheese. Fill'em up, hang 'em up, and a few days later- Voila!
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 08, 2014, 06:03:50 PM
Quote from: undercovergeek on May 08, 2014, 05:18:45 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 07, 2014, 07:41:41 PM
I'm neither of those things and I use millimeters and milliliters all the time, both at work and home. How come you're not picking on the Brits with their pints, pounds, farthings, miles, stone, and yards as well?
wait, what?
what does your beer and milk come in?
Cartons and bottles.
(Note, I said "as well", not "instead". We are all in this mixed measuring thing together. ;))
but whats the capacity of your cartons and bottles
you dont have a pint of milk? :o
surely you can get a pint of beer in the US
Milk is usually in quarts, 1/2 gallons, and gallons but there are some smaller containers such as pints, used mainly for putting some milk in your coffee at work.
Pints of beer you can get by the glass at bars and restaurants. For retail sale (stores) beer is sold mostly in 12 ounce bottles or cans. You can also find 7, 22, and 40 ounce bottles and Foster's is available in 24 ounce cans. Some microbreweries and brewpubs will also sell 'growlers' (64 ounces). Occasionally you can find those in liquor stores as well. I recently heard that my state (Connecticut) passes a law allowing beer in smaller cartons similar to those used for wine and some premixed cocktails. It remains to be seen if anything comes of it as no one has started packaging them that way yet.
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Holy crap. I didn't know the UK had done away with its ARMs
http://www.janes.com/article/32800/uk-retires-alarm-missile
50mm cannon installed in the nose of a Me 262.
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But where is Jessica Beals?
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Intakes big enough to chop and dice a bison
Speaking of which, haven't seen Bison posting for a while.
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hell of a way to change a tire.
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^^^ I did that one already.
Not the first time I did one you already did.
Are we still talking about planes?! ::)
^One can only hope so!
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Quote from: mirth on May 19, 2014, 10:16:37 PM
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That Stratojet must have looked quite futuristic to those folks who remember bombers from merely 20-odd years earlier looking like this:
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Quote from: Capn Darwin on May 19, 2014, 09:18:03 AM
Are we still talking about planes?! ::)
No, . . . lesser known members of the Dutch royal family ::)
I Dinant know what you are talking about. That was a very Hague reference.
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An F-18 Hornet from the U.S. Marine Corps Marine Air Group 50 taxis down a runway to join flying operations during Exercise Eager Tiger May 11, 2014, at an air base in northern Jordan. This exercise provides fighter pilots from the U.S. and Jordanian militaries a chance to conduct joint operations which enhance interoperability. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Tyler McLain/Released)
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F-16 Fighting Falcons from the U.S. and Royal Jordanian air forces, as well as an F-18 Hornet from the U.S. Marine Corps, fly over Jordan May 13, 2014, during Exercise Eager Tiger. Hosted annually in Jordan, the exercise allows fighter pilots and maintainers from around the world to exchange knowledge while increasing interoperability and showing their dedication to regional stability. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Roidan Carlson/Released)
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Saunders-Roe SR./A.1 prototype flying boat fighter
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There's something very diesel-punk about that aircraft.
you mean kerosene-punk
Never even heard of that aircraft before. Nice one!
Quote from: Windigo on May 21, 2014, 02:26:20 PM
you mean kerosene-punk
Diesel-punk covers the time period from the 20's to 50's. There are enough sub-genres already. I'm not adding yet another.
no... that would be subversive.
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Quote from: GDS_Starfury on May 25, 2014, 09:58:06 AM
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oopsie
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 25, 2014, 02:46:25 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on May 25, 2014, 09:58:06 AM
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oopsie
New stealth aircraft?
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QuoteA Strategic Air Command B-52D Stratofortress aircraft overflies the Soviet aircraft carrier Kiev while on a routine maritime reconnaissance mission over international waters, 03/11/1983
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It's legit, at least as far as the National Archive is concerned
http://research.archives.gov/description/6363454
QuoteA Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter biplane aircraft taking off from a platform built on top of HMAS Australia's midships "Q" turret, in 1918
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From this excellent collection of WWI aviation photos published by The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/wwi/wwiair/
QuoteU.S. Navy Martin P5M-2 Marlin (BuNo 135534) from Patrol Squadron VP-47 being hoisted aboard the seaplane tender USS Currituck (AV-7). near Kodiak, Alaska 1962
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QuoteHangar of USS Enterprise during Operation "Sea Orbit", 15 September 1964
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QuoteFlying low over the jungle, an A-1 Skyraider drops napalm on a Viet Cong position below as smoke rises from a previous pass at the target, December 26, 1964.
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QuoteF2H-2 Banshee of Fighter Squadron 12 (VF-12), "Flying Ubangis," part of Air Group 1 (CVG-1), early 1950s
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landing in a jet, on a carrier with the cockpit open.... :idiot2:
Ejection mechanisms were still a little squirrelly back then. Maybe the pilot figured he would eliminate one variable by not having to punch through the canopy if it didn't blow off.
Here's a PDF with specs for the Banshee. Bottom of page 4 lists the landing stall speed at 86-91kts.
http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/hist-ac/f2h-2.pdf
Someone on Reddit thought that the early jet pilots did the open canopy landings to improve visibility in the days before optical landing systems.
Plus its so much easier to get rid of cigarette ends and sandwich wrappers............
And the whiskey bottle.
^Great vid! Love the Thud. Thing was a beast!
the end was nice.
Quote from: mirth on June 06, 2014, 01:01:30 PM
^Great vid! Love the Thud. Thing was a beast!
IIRC, it was originally designed to deliver a nuclear payload while fighting it's way to the target, if needed.
At mach no less. Truly one of the greats.
Eurofighter Typhoon in D-Day stripes
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Love that early GPS receiver. Only 12lbs! :P
ROK Air Force KF-15s and a 737 AEW&C.
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and accurate to within 60 feet! lol
That early 80s AF vid had some interesting tidbits. Like how the narrator called the Tomahawks "glickums". I realize that was the terminology back then for GLCMs. Just like SLCMs were "slickums". But how much cooler and easier it is to just call them Tomahawks.
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If WW2 in Europe had gone on another year or the Red Army had kept rolling west after getting to the Elbe then those P-80s (later F-80s) would have been escorting waves of B-29s and possibly B-36s.
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Been there, done that.
dumb fuckers! the lot of them!!! >:(
http://www.airforcetimes.com/article/20140610/NEWS05/306100061/House-appropriators-easily-kill-measure-save-10-fleet
That's bullshit. Time to let the Army have fixed wing CAS aircraft.
Army should buy up most of the a-10s.
I'm sure they would if they were allowed to actually operate them.
Bear Hunting through the years:
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P-2 Neptune
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Nice. Another great looking aircraft.
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Well, I'll be a Zeke's uncle!
^Yes! But your name is Claude, not Zeke. ;)
Typhoon intercepting an Su-27
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F-14s tandem launching from USS Harry S Truman
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Rafale launching from Charles de Gaulle
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An A-10 on a gun run over Kirkuk, Iraq
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USAF-RMAF mixed formation air-to-air photos during Excercise Cope Taufan 14.
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More:
http://thebaseleg.blogspot.com/
F-16s from the USAF 18th Aggressor Squadron
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Sharp looking aircraft.
Quote from: mirth on June 20, 2014, 07:57:44 AM
An A-10 on a gun run over Kirkuk, Iraq
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of all the fucking aircraft on the chopping block...... FFS! >:(
Nice shot of a Bone touching down.
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Even with it's feathers all ruffled like that it is still a gorgeous bird.
That's why I thought it was a cool pic, very bird-like.
its the details....
the starboard tail plane is higher to keep the landing straighter. wonderful.
Quote from: Staggerwing on June 25, 2014, 06:22:35 PM
Even with it's feathers all ruffled like that it is still a gorgeous bird.
O0
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Well done!
That pad/stand looks ready mde for that.... must happen all too often.... :o
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QuoteA Harrier at San Carlos Forward Operating base, a crude airfield constructed on the Falklands to allow for a few Harriers to operate closer than the aircraft carriers allowed.
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Tu-22M Backfire low pass.
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Holy crap, that's cool!
Even if it is a Commie plane. 8)
Kamov Ka-22, experimental Soviet gyrodyne transport
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I really do try to not use profane language on the forum.
really, I do....
but thats just fucking ugly.
A lot of mil-tech stuff from the late 40s through the early 60's has that odd vintage Buck Rogers esthetic.
Textron Scorpion - from drawing board to first flight in 23 months. And currently on display at Farnsborough.
http://www.kansas.com/2014/07/15/3553811/textrons-scorpion-attracts-attention.html
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Quote from: Barthheart on July 21, 2014, 07:23:53 AM
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Is that a Black Widow?
Don't think so, it's only got a single tail. Not sure what it is.
F7F Tigercat.
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Fantastic looking aircraft. P61 Black Widow Night Fighter.
Quote from: bob48 on July 21, 2014, 09:00:42 AM
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Fantastic looking aircraft. P61 Black Widow Night Fighter.
Ah, yes. My bad.
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Hey look! The intakes have adjustable doors that regulate how much money it can suck up and burn as it makes low-level passes over the Pentagon budget... ;D
dont be a jealous 3rd world country.
Mak-10/101. Designed by Russian Ivan Makhonine and built in France. It had a telescoping wing and was used for early research into variable wing area.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhonine_Mak-10
^Very cool plane. I've never heard of that one before.
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AC-119G gunship vietnam 1969
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 31, 2014, 02:10:37 PM
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AC-119G gunship vietnam 1969
Beautiful innit! O0
Not if you're on the receiving end it aint.
Quote from: bob48 on August 01, 2014, 07:22:03 AM
Not if you're on the receiving end it aint.
It's still beautiful, but for a much shorter time.
This is the plane I'm currently flying in War Thunder.
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Curtis Hawk
F-15SGs of the Singapore Air Force ready for take off on the flight line at Nellis Air Force Base for Ex Red Flag 2014.
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QuoteThe F-15SG will be an advanced version of the U.S. Air Force's F-15E Strike Eagle external link, which adds longer range and a lot of ordnance to the base F-15 air superiority fighter. Singapore's fighters will add a number of enhancements, making them the world's most modern Strike Eagles.
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/singapores-rsaf-decides-to-fly-like-an-eagle-01141/
Was just browsing the news, and there was a tight landing the other day at RNAS Culdrose in UK during the Royal Navy's Air Day. It was an old Hawker Sea Fury that appeared to have some problems at the end of the flight and then it had a problem with 1 of its landing gear (good landing considering that and the age of the aircraft). All the exciting stuff happens when I'm not in town.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2712450/Moment-historic-Royal-Navy-fighter-plane-crash-landed-thousands-airshow-spectators-suffering-mechanical-problems.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2712450/Moment-historic-Royal-Navy-fighter-plane-crash-landed-thousands-airshow-spectators-suffering-mechanical-problems.html)
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^ Why are we getting rid of these again .... :-[
because stupidity knows no bounds or horizons.
watch... the week after the last one is mothballed or scrapped Russia will get frisky with its 60,000 tanks in storage.
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I was flying this plane in War Thunder until I got the requisite 10 kills to unlock a new skin for it.
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RCN Banshee over Halifax Harbour. Aircraft carrier HCMS Magnificent is under the bridge.
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i suppose in a deferential nod to todays flight sims - that, to me, almost looks like a screenshot
Note the false cockpit painted on the underside.
Yes John Madden. O0
Harrumpf! :P
I'll bet that at least one person somewhere who read this thread is now at least one factoid smarter than before they clicked on the thread title.
Me.
And me
What's the madden reference?
Quote from: Staggerwing on August 24, 2014, 02:47:23 PM
Harrumpf! :P
I'll bet that at least one person somewhere who read this thread is now at least one factoid smarter than before they clicked on the thread title.
Me as well. Can you explain why they paint that on?
Quote from: undercovergeek on August 24, 2014, 04:42:28 PM
What's the madden reference?
John Madden was a commentator for American football who was well known for stating the very obvious during games. Some people found this very maddening.
::)
The false canopy is a rudimentary deception technique. Makes it more difficult to tell the true orientation of the aircraft. Butterflies have been doing similar things for much longer.
The jury's still out on whether or not the technique has helped boost the butterflies' kill ratio in dogfights.
Put a 20 mike-mike on a butterfly and that might change.
you should really hug a butterfly and find your happy place.
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Awesome display from old to not so old. :)
Hawker Hunter 3rd down from the top- my dad flew those in the KLu (Royal Netherlands Air Force) back in the early 60s. He said that when you fired all four Aden 30mm guns at once the resultant airframe deceleration felt like the plane hit a cement wall.
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Stop. Grippen time. :2funny: Swedes make some purrty airplanes.
Vintage footage of Foxbats doing some crazy low level flying (if nothing else watch 3:23-3:33)
Quote from: mirth on September 03, 2014, 07:01:57 PM
Vintage footage of Foxbats doing some crazy low level flying (if nothing else watch 3:23-3:33)
Looks like someone just watched Top Gun!
Quote from: Capn Darwin on September 03, 2014, 02:38:37 PM
Stop. Grippen time. :2funny: Swedes make some purrty airplanes.
+1
Quote from: Centurion40 on September 04, 2014, 12:37:59 PM
Quote from: mirth on September 03, 2014, 07:01:57 PM
Vintage footage of Foxbats doing some crazy low level flying (if nothing else watch 3:23-3:33)
Looks like someone just watched Top Gun!
Talk to me Gooseski!
Im less then impressed.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 04, 2014, 07:26:09 PM
Im less then impressed.
Don't be like that, Ice.
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we've seen far better flying at far lower altitudes.
besides, now isnt the time to be a ruski propagandist. :P
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 04, 2014, 07:35:47 PM
we've seen far better flying at far lower altitudes.
besides, now isnt the time to be a ruski propagandist. :P
Better flying from a plane designed as a high altitude, supersonic interceptor? The 25 is a pig. It was never meant to be driven in the weeds.
thats treetop not the weeds. I'd also submit that anything that big looks like its hauling ass that low. in reality I can see a C-17 passing them in the backround during a combat takeoff.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 04, 2014, 08:07:23 PM
thats treetop not the weeds.
Kinda hard to fly much lower than treetop. The trees tend to get in the way.
oh man this is fucking morbidly funny.
so Im googling South African low flying and this comes up:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/africa/10336925/Giraffe-killed-by-low-bridge-in-South-Africa
just go to 1:40 :coolsmiley:
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 04, 2014, 08:16:39 PM
oh man this is fucking morbidly funny.
so Im googling South African low flying and this comes up:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/africa/10336925/Giraffe-killed-by-low-bridge-in-South-Africa
Hangover 4??!! :o
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I can't believe the US/West doesn't have an operational shuttle service anymore. Without it we can't start any missions to other solar system destinations (Mars, Europa, Asteroids). We can't depend on the Russians and in this fiscal environment I fear it will be a long time before we once again regularly operate our own surface-to-orbit payload lifting craft.
If we actually ever do... :(
I know exactly why we don't have a shuttle service anymore but I'm not going into any details. I don't want to get myself or this site into trouble. But in a word let's just say "Don't have the money to waste on a space program anymore" perhaps?
???
:'(
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GOOOOOOSSEEE!!!
Not a lot of Zeroes to splash out over the desert.
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AKA the Widowmaker. Still, a fierce-looking plane.
Cheer up, Star. One country is still operating the Tomcat :P
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After all those years of parts embargos it's probably apropos that you used the singular rather than the plural.
Quote from: Staggerwing on September 15, 2014, 06:43:00 PM
After all those years of parts embargos it's probably apropos that you used the singular rather than the plural.
My understanding is that the Iranians scored some parts as we scrapped our Tomcat fleet. However you are correct that there aren't many operational these days. Ironic though that without the handful of IRIAF Tomcats still flying, there would be none at all. :(
its because of those fucksticks that we chopped ours up! >:(
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Kim Campbell, who flew her damaged A-10 for an hour back to base and managed to land it safely without any hydraulics at all.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Campbell_%28pilot%29 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Campbell_%28pilot%29)
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/kimcampbell.html
:smitten:
Her call sign is "Killer Chick"
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now that would be an interesting race to 55,000 feet.
The 22 might get there first, but the 15's pilot would still have a working oxygen system :P
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Custer's plane from Little Bighorn?
Piper Arrow?
Quote from: bob48 on September 26, 2014, 03:58:09 PM
Piper Arrow?
I dunno! You probably gotta buy her dinner first!
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flying to low over the farther reaches of the Amazon would be my bet.
Back in the day the natives would have a proper God fearing respect for a plane. Now the punks shoot anything that moves. It's the damn music these days I tells ya.
The Cargo Cult must have been pissed that their Great God didn't bring them more prepaid android phones and Kardashian-themed supermarket checkout magazines.
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Quote from: mirth on September 26, 2014, 03:48:46 PM
Custer's plane from Little Bighorn?
ROFLMAO!!!
And the first coffee spew of the day to boot ;D
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meanwhile, somewhere over Syria:
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Quote from: GDS_Starfury on October 02, 2014, 07:49:06 PM
meanwhile, somewhere over Syria:
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Looks like some dirtbags are about to get BONEd.
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^Most excellent!
Awesome.
No matter how many times I've seen the Lanc, the sound of those 4 Merlins still gives me a thrill.
Brazilian F-5s
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^A very underrated Gen-3 fighter. Rumor has it that when the USAF and US Navy first used F5Es as aggressor aircraft the F5s kicked ass against the F-15s and Tomcats until the pilots of both latter aircraft got used to what an F5 can and can't do as well as benefiting from a 'tweak' or two to the simulated performance of their own missiles.
Over 50 years in service and entirely possible some F-5s will still be operational 15-20 years from now.
Corsair being readied for launch off Korea, 1952
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I loves me some F4U. :)
Quote from: mirth on October 04, 2014, 12:32:28 PM
Brazilian F-5s
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What's the matter with you guys??? None of you recognize a MiG 28 when you see one??? >:D
Quote from: bob48 on October 04, 2014, 06:38:03 AM
Awesome.
No matter how many times I've seen the Lanc, the sound of those 4 Merlins still gives me a thrill.
Are you talking dirty in British, Bawb??? Is this a Fish and Chips sorta thing???
Ooh yeah O0
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Seaplane?
Looks like either a DC3 or C47.
DC3/C-47 it is. I saw one flying in my neck of the woods a few months ago. Amazing after 70+ years.
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Quote from: bob48 on October 06, 2014, 01:02:37 PM
Seaplane?
Looks like either a DC3 or C47.
Looks like it's a C-47:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrodome_(aeronautics)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_C-47_Skytrain
QuoteThe C-47 differed from the civilian DC-3 in numerous modifications, including being fitted with a cargo door and strengthened floor, along with a shortened tail cone for glider-towing shackles, and an astrodome in the cabin roof.[3][4]
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on October 06, 2014, 01:32:36 PM
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There's a message for the Texans with the Phantom, isn't there?
Probably. :-[
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thats just wickedly cool!
Ok, now that is just too cool.
amazing what you can accomplish when women arent present if your life!
So, getting laid is bad for human evolution?
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ok, thats oddly impressive but a huge waste of fuel.
Turns out it's a photoshop job.
This one is not though
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It's just proof of concept stuff.
http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/09/12/5158336/v-22-osprey-tested-as-aerial-refueling.html?rh=1
Blue Angels over San Francisco in 1950
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F-16's of USAF 8th Fighter Wing, Wolf Pack, stationed in Kunsan, Korea
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Love the Buccaneer. Phoenix Squadron is a great book about the Buccaneer flying off Ark Royal.
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Are those Skyflash AAMs under the front fuselage? I don't see any fins. ???
Training rounds with seeker heads.
Ah, thanks.
http://forms.flightglobal.com/0111_WorldAirForces2014?product=PREM&DMDcode=FGD42&mode=DOWNLOAD&fcid=%7b88f2f053-6c3d-4ab4-a297-0b453358a560%7d_FC055_PREM_201312&fcfileext=pdf
Quote from: bayonetbrant on October 27, 2014, 11:10:08 AM
http://forms.flightglobal.com/0111_WorldAirForces2014?product=PREM&DMDcode=FGD42&mode=DOWNLOAD&fcid=%7b88f2f053-6c3d-4ab4-a297-0b453358a560%7d_FC055_PREM_201312&fcfileext=pdf
Sweet, dude. Thanks!
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QuoteRAAF F-111 from 1SQN in flight through Cunningham's Gap, Queensland GNL
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Typhoon with Storm Shadow missiles.
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A CF-5 Freedom Fighter of the RCAF in aggressor camouflage, CFB Cold Lake, 1983
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QuoteAn F-14A Tomcat of Fighter Squadron (VF) 111, the "Sundowners," pictured during recovery on board the carrier Carl Vinson (CVN 70) underway in the waters off southern California, on November 2, 1987.
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Quote from: mirth on October 30, 2014, 07:53:48 AM
A CF-5 Freedom Fighter of the RCAF in aggressor camouflage, CFB Cold Lake, 1983
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Even without the flag and rondels and name 'Canada' on the side that could only have been a Canadian aircraft. :))
Likes da moose on da tail does ya?
O0
She's a beaut, eh? ;)
Quote from: Staggerwing on November 04, 2014, 08:18:59 PM
She's a beaut, eh? ;)
♬ ♬ She's one-in-a-mill-yon-girlllls...why would I liee...ieee...ieee? ♬ ♬
first carrier landing by an F-35 yesterday:
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A Royal Netherlands Air Force F-16 over Afghanistan
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^Love it. Nice find double B.
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well well well....
guess whos playing together at Eglin?
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B-One = sexy!
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O0 nice pics!
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Quote from: mirth on December 04, 2014, 12:52:36 PM
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Who's are these? The paint looks like it was put on with a hand brush.... ???
Star?
Thsts sprayed on but the metal skin is old, stressed and beat up. Its like stretching Windy over an airframe.
Quote from: mirth on December 04, 2014, 12:49:12 PM
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Whoa! :o
^SAAB Draken. Got to be.
sweet ride aint it!
The Draken is a lot like the F-16XL 'Cranked Arrow', except 20 years earlier. Benefits of a steep swept wing with those of a shallower one without complicated swing-wing mechanisms.
they couldnt build cars for shit, I owned one, but they made some damn fine airplanes.
Might as well be two different companies.
Oh, wait...
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slow day of atom smashing Bart? :)
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on December 08, 2014, 10:51:48 AM
slow day of atom smashing Bart? :)
Yeah.... someone lodged a proton in the electron gun...... >:(
Quote from: Barthheart on December 08, 2014, 10:55:18 AM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on December 08, 2014, 10:51:48 AM
slow day of atom smashing Bart? :)
Yeah.... someone lodged a proton in the electron gun...... >:(
Are you...
positive about that?
;D
dont be discouraged, get up and atom.
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^^Nice... but is real?
High bank refueling of B-52s, done as a training maneuver:
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QuoteDuring Instructor training, pilots were shown the full envelope of the aircraft including what was not in the manual and what could be accomplished. In this particular maneuver, the aircraft would perform refueling and accomplish a whifferdill in formation
To perform a whifferdill (because Wikipedia's description is pitiful) basically, you pull up to vertical while in level flight and as airspeed bleeds off, you kick in a little rudder, and your nose drops to that side; it should be noted that . As you approach the top of the maneuver, your vertical velocity drops off and the nose drops to the side of you put in rudder with that side's wing pointing at the ground. From the point you go vertical, the wings are not producing lift and you are being held in the air by momentum. The rudder movement redirects that momentum into an arc that allows the airplane to fall ballistically until airspeed picks up and the control surfaces are fully effective. The airplane then pulls up from a nose-low dive going 180 degrees from the starting heading and with the same energy/airspeed as before (an energy neutral maneuver)
Since, at the top, they are falling ballistically at the same rate (weight and lift are not a factor), it's relatively easy to stay in formation and continue refueling without spoilers. I think the flaw in your logic is assuming they are doing this in a level turn (which they aren't).
Again, this was a demonstration maneuver to show student instructor pilots on the KC-135 and B-52 the full limitations of their respective airframes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_talk:USAF_B-52_refueling_with_a_KC-135.jpg
Quote from: Barthheart on December 10, 2014, 12:26:24 PM
^^Nice... but is real?
yup
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampfgeschwader_200
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on December 10, 2014, 12:47:28 PM
Quote from: Barthheart on December 10, 2014, 12:26:24 PM
^^Nice... but is real?
yup
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampfgeschwader_200
No the pic above that with the F15... looks put together....
Quote from: mirth on December 10, 2014, 12:34:40 PM
High bank refueling of B-52s, done as a training maneuver:
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QuoteDuring Instructor training, pilots were shown the full envelope of the aircraft including what was not in the manual and what could be accomplished. In this particular maneuver, the aircraft would perform refueling and accomplish a whifferdill in formation
To perform a whifferdill (because Wikipedia's description is pitiful) basically, you pull up to vertical while in level flight and as airspeed bleeds off, you kick in a little rudder, and your nose drops to that side; it should be noted that . As you approach the top of the maneuver, your vertical velocity drops off and the nose drops to the side of you put in rudder with that side's wing pointing at the ground. From the point you go vertical, the wings are not producing lift and you are being held in the air by momentum. The rudder movement redirects that momentum into an arc that allows the airplane to fall ballistically until airspeed picks up and the control surfaces are fully effective. The airplane then pulls up from a nose-low dive going 180 degrees from the starting heading and with the same energy/airspeed as before (an energy neutral maneuver)
Since, at the top, they are falling ballistically at the same rate (weight and lift are not a factor), it's relatively easy to stay in formation and continue refueling without spoilers. I think the flaw in your logic is assuming they are doing this in a level turn (which they aren't).
Again, this was a demonstration maneuver to show student instructor pilots on the KC-135 and B-52 the full limitations of their respective airframes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_talk:USAF_B-52_refueling_with_a_KC-135.jpg
WOW! That's a crazy way to throw those big gals around AND refuel! :o
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This is pretty cool: R/C 1:4 scale F16
http://theblnkt.com/guy-builds-amazing-rc-replica-dutch-orange-f-16-military-fighter-jet/
More cool R/C stuff......
Sorry, this should have been in the Tanks thread I guess.
^No one noticed :P
A10 lands on the A29 autobahn during NATO exercise "Highway 84"
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That's cool footage.... should send it to Putin just to remind him of what he's up against....
Quote from: Barthheart on December 13, 2014, 04:14:42 PM
That's cool footage.... should send it to Putin just to remind him of what he's up against....
He'll send back a picture of him riding a tiger....shirtless :crazy2:
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That paint job is...oddly soothing.
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Quote from: mirth on December 17, 2014, 07:52:15 AM
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"Thanks for the lift pal!"
"No problemo. Now, go get some for me too. O0"
and thats how baby A-10s are born son.
how low are they flying these damn things?
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Hellcat carrying a Sparrow I missile.
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Quote from: mirth on December 23, 2014, 12:19:42 PM
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B-52 strafing run! Awesome! :knuppel2:
Quote from: mirth on December 23, 2014, 12:19:42 PM
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Where is this? It looks like my last post.
The photo must be from the 60's based on the paint scheme (or lack there of).
There isn't much in the way of source information on that pic. This guy has it on his blog:
https://dougkeeney.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/the-clobber-factor-2/
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In Sweden the runways can double as roads when needed... :))
Quote from: mirth on December 24, 2014, 09:05:35 AM
There isn't much in the way of source information on that pic. This guy has it on his blog:
https://dougkeeney.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/the-clobber-factor-2/
I'm almost sure that it's just north of El Paso, Texas, looking west at the Franklin mountains, out in the Ft. Bliss/White Sands reservation.
Ascension Island during the Falklands War
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QuoteGrumman XF10F Jaguar. A prototype swing-wing fighter aircraft offered to the Navy in the 1950s.
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V-bombers are cool!
Another pic from Ascension during the Falklands War
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QuoteLuftwaffe F-4Fs and MiG-29s. Early 2000s, probably Laage AB.
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Somewhere in Germany.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on December 30, 2014, 12:58:35 PM
Somewhere in Germany.
Yeah, I had added the caption but I put in an image tag :P
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on December 30, 2014, 12:58:35 PM
Somewhere in Germany.
So
that's where Luftwaffles are from... :))
QuoteBoeing P-26 20th Pursuit Group
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Nice pic!
IIRC, many of the bracing wires on the Peashooter were not really needed but the designers added them thinking that Army Air Corps pilots transitioning from biplanes wouldn't trust the monoplane's structural integrity without seeing the wires they were used to.
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Don't know if this copied properly. Never heard that the U-2 tried carrier landings.
http://creativefission.com/Frame_Film_DVD_U2.html
About the only thing that hasn't landed on a carrier is one of Mirths larger ex's.
Let me guess, there's an issue with the wingspan?
No way to strap JATO bottles to her.
QuoteMitsubishi G4M torpedo bombers flying extremely low to avoid flak (Guadalcanal - 1942)
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The good old Wellie
Quote from: bob48 on December 31, 2014, 08:09:59 PM
The good old Wellie
Beautiful in a goony bird sort of way.
From the Wikipedia entry on the Wellington:
QuoteIn one incident, a German Bf 110 night-fighter attacked a Wellington returning from an attack on Münster, Germany, causing a fire at the rear of the starboard engine. Co-pilot Sergeant James Allen Ward climbed out of the fuselage in flight, kicked holes in the doped fabric of the wing for foot and hand holds to reach the starboard engine, and smothered the burning upper wing covering. He and the aircraft returned home safely, and Ward was awarded the Victoria Cross.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_Wellington
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Allen_Ward
If my memory is right, it was unable to stay in flight if one of the engines failed.
Although most of the Welly's ultimately went to Coastal Command, they were not appreciated by the pilots due to this dangerous flaw.
Flight of Douglas B-18 Bolos
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What is that?
Handley Page Victor. Former Brit nuke bomber that was converted to a tanker. They used them in the Falklands War to refuel Vulcans that carried out the Black Buck Raids.
This is what I'm currently flying in War Thunder:
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Sparviero. Nice!
Thanks! She's a beauty but very vulnerable to fighters that get on your blind spot in the tail.
Ive always liked the Jag. dunno why but the lines and mission appeal to me.
heres a couple getting close and personal.
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Not sure this one is 100% legit, but sure looks cool
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What makes you think it's not legit?
because its flying. :2funny:
I'm supposed to be the one busting on the F-35.
Quote from: mirth on January 06, 2015, 06:23:00 PM
I'm supposed to be the one busting on the F-35.
Ive been pretty non-biased about the plane.
Quote from: mirth on January 03, 2015, 05:13:25 PM
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Looks like something out of Star Wars. I've always loved seeing them at air shows. :smitten:
QuoteGerman "Albatros D.III" fighters of elite squadron "Jasta 11". The 2nd closest aircraft is piloted by Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron". (France - 1917)
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Quote"Hannover CL.II" fighter with pilot and gunner
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QuoteU.S. fighter ace Eddie Rickenbacker in his French SPAD XIII (1918)
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http://www.vfp62.com/f14_rio.html
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QuoteConvair XC-99 prototype heavy cargo aircraft. The largest piston-engined land-based transport aircraft ever built, it was developed from the B-36 bomber.
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Japanese Nakajima A6M2-N seaplanes (Bougainville Island - Pacific)
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now thats the life! wake up and go for a swim, have some cocktails in cut out fruit with umbrellas and then jump in your sea plane fighter.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on January 14, 2015, 07:01:13 PM
now thats the life! wake up and go for a swim, have some cocktails in cut out fruit with umbrellas and then jump in your sea plane fighter.
... did they call those guys the twenty minuters? Or was that only reserved for the WWI flying corps on the western front (and Japanese pilots after late 1943) ? ;)
Im going non-historical here. thinks Thunderbirds.
Thunderbirds go!
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Kfir on loan from Israel for the Aggressor Unit at TOPGUN?
Colombian Air Force
Ah.
Don't think the logistics would work so well, maybe if they flew P-51s or OV-10 Broncos.
^Nice!
I've been having a ball flying my A20 Havoc in War Thunder. Those nose mg's really tear enemies up to shreds whether they're planes or light vehicles. The Havoc is a joy to fly.
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^Looks like the A-10's grandpappy fought in The War.
Quote from: Staggerwing on January 25, 2015, 05:45:07 PM
^Looks like the A-10's grandpappy fought in The War.
Weren't we still flying Havocs in Nam?
At the very least, I think we gave some to the French.
Quote from: mirth on January 25, 2015, 05:54:11 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on January 25, 2015, 05:45:07 PM
^Looks like the A-10's grandpappy fought in The War.
Weren't we still flying Havocs in Nam?
Those were A-26 Invaders, derived from the B-26:
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Ahh my bad. I always confuse them.
Quote from: mirth on January 25, 2015, 06:41:30 PM
Ahh my bad. I always confuse them.
You're not alone.
There's the original unrelated B-26 (Martin B-26 Marauder):
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The Douglas A-26 Invader (with both glass and solid nose, interchangeable by mechanics within a few hours):
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The similar (but not the same) Douglas A-20 Havoc (USAAF)/DB-7 Boston (Commonwealth):
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QuoteA-10 Thunderbolt from 354th TFW taxiing during exercise Thunderhog V
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Star & Mirth what's your take on this bit:
http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/air-space/strike/2015/01/28/sixth-generation-fighter-2016-budget/22477329/ (http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/air-space/strike/2015/01/28/sixth-generation-fighter-2016-budget/22477329/)
Good! the F-22 is late 80s / early 90's technology and its going to have to be replaced eventually.
Money given to DARPA is generally a good investment.
Did we just agree on something?
Quote from: mirth on January 30, 2015, 09:34:53 AM
Did we just agree on something?
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http://dcist.com/2015/02/largest_flyover_in_dc_history.php
May 8, an enormous flyover of Washington, DC is scheduled to commemorate the end of World War II.
Quote from: besilarius on February 07, 2015, 10:42:51 PM
http://dcist.com/2015/02/largest_flyover_in_dc_history.php
May 8, an enormous flyover of Washington, DC is scheduled to commemorate the end of World War II.
I hope someone films it and puts it on youtube since I'll be stuck at work, being it's on a friday.
Lightnings.
Nice! Anyone have a pic of the Warthog and his pappy Jug?
and a P-38 only cost $97,147 in 1944.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on February 09, 2015, 10:24:38 PM
and a P-38 only cost $97,147 in 1944.
Adjust for inflation and you get: $1.3 million.
CPI Inflation Calculator (http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm)
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Wooweee!
Quote from: Staggerwing on February 09, 2015, 09:56:31 PM
Nice! Anyone have a pic of the Warthog and his pappy Jug?
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And both are sporting invasion stripes no less! Bravo!
OMG!!! Mig-28s at NAS Fallon!
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http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/19/world/uk-russia-aircraft-intercepted/index.html
some nice pics of Russian aircraft that have wandered into other nation's airspace.
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this:
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plus this:
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is how Warthogs are made!
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A B-52, appropriately named "Ghost Rider", is resurrected from the Arizona desert to fly again.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/21/us/arizona-b-52-restored/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/21/us/arizona-b-52-restored/index.html)
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the flip side is that its not cool to be dipping into that part of the reserve pool for operational use as a complete airframe.
My understanding was that the planes at Davis-Monthan were intended both for parts and for possible re-constitution in emergencies. No?
yeah, but..... a B-52.....
Yeah turns out we need to keep 60 year old bombers in service for the foreseeable future.
Our aircraft procurement in the past 30 years has not been great :(
I dont mind the use of parts. But a whole airframe that needs to be brought up to current spec....
oddly it will probably have the fewest flight hours in the fleet. :P
Just saw this: http://www.airforcetimes.com/story/military/pentagon/2015/02/19/b52-comes-back-from-the-boneyard/23675305/ (http://www.airforcetimes.com/story/military/pentagon/2015/02/19/b52-comes-back-from-the-boneyard/23675305/)
A B-52H bomber named "Ghost Rider" is back from the dead.
The bomber was sitting in the "boneyard" at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, when it was selected to replace another B-52 that was damaged in a fire, said Maj. Phillip Ventura, spokesman for the 2nd Bomb Wing.
The Air Force is such an odd animal. Bringing back an old Buff to replace a damaged one is a common sense thing. Then on the other hand you have them wanting to cut the A-10 and spending billions on stealth planes we don't use...
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its like Bawbs moustache flying off into the sunset.
if his stach' didnt fly for the Luftwaffe.
I always maintained an airworthy spare.
Quote from: bob48 on March 05, 2015, 08:41:19 AM
I always maintained an airworthy spare.
Just like the Mrs. and her frying pans.
Those would be 'hairworthy' rather than 'airworthy'.
Quote from: bob48 on March 05, 2015, 12:07:19 PM
Those would be 'hairworthy' rather than 'airworthy'.
Don't you pronounce those the same way though.....
ah, so you've heard all those aitches being dropped then?
I ave.
2 Harriers about to mate:
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Harrison Ford loves flying vintage aircraft in formation.
Look at those rotors! Antonov-70 @ Paris Airshow 2013
Credit to Maciej Swiderski via Google+
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French experimental ramjet-powered fighter aircraft Nord 1500 Griffon.
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Ospreys on Mars?
Piloted by Elvis?
http://www.odometer.com/lifestyle/9545/27-bizarre-aircraft-we-cant-believe-existhow-do-some-of-these-even-fly?org=t
New Bomber program
http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/air-space/strike/2015/01/18/air-force-bomber-industry/21805275/
Quote from: besilarius on March 16, 2015, 05:33:19 PM
New Bomber program
http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/air-space/strike/2015/01/18/air-force-bomber-industry/21805275/
When I read articles like this, I can't help but wonder how many "UFOs" are actually experimental aircraft.
Turkish F-4
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Love the paint and weathering.
Are those JSOWs on the hard points?
seems to be a homegrown Turkish stand off missile.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOM_%28missile%29
^Bingo.
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Voodoo and a widow maker. Nice shot.
O0
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Sometimes Darwin's Ghost is looking the other way...
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http://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/soviet_pilot_flies_under_bridge
I dunno. It seems awfully good for the Dark Ages Before Photoshop. The jet wash could cause that kind of effect under the bridge and the plume is probably hollow and curtaining out to either side. If he had been flying very low for a short distance along the river on his approach getting very close to the water would also create 'wing in ground effect' and push down on the surface.
I didn't post the link because I think it's a hoax. The guy breaking it down acknowledges that it probably happened, even if the pic was doctored.
Pretty cool either way.
Shit... Photoshop learned editing from the Soviets.
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^ That's a cool shot! O0
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If only Eddie Rickenbacker knew what his Spad would look like 50-odd years hence.
Spads were very versatile. They could deliver almost any ordnance.
yup! :2funny:
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a Sudanese Mig-29 flying out of Saudi Arabia attacking targets in Yemen.
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QuoteFirst Para-drop by 2 Battalion PPCLI using C130 Aircraft, Bon Accord, Alberta, 1963
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On the deck of French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle
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Four RCN F2H-3 Banshees over the HMCS Bonaventure, 1960
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U-2R aboard the USS America in 1969
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http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/q0050.shtml (http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/q0050.shtml)
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Painted by a cubist.
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^In Warthunder that plane is a tough one to fly but she can defend herself fairly well with those bubble turrets. O0
your very own, awesomely ass-kicking A-10 treason coin
http://doctrineman.tumblr.com/post/115378187489/save-the-a-10-save-the-world
Quotetreason
Eh? ??? Am I missing an inside joke? Did some Air Force bling-shirt say that saving the A-10 would be 'treasonous'?
Quote from: Staggerwing on April 03, 2015, 08:03:21 AM
Quotetreason
Eh? ??? Am I missing an inside joke? Did some Air Force bling-shirt say that saving the A-10 would be 'treasonous'?
http://www.stripes.com/news/general-s-a-10-treason-comment-sparks-concerns-over-protected-speech-1.325471
QuoteMaj. Gen. James Post raised eyebrows this month when he warned fellow airmen in Nevada that talking to Congress about the embattled A-10 Thunderbolt could qualify as treason.
"If anyone accuses me of saying this, I will deny it ... anyone who is passing information to Congress about A-10 capabilities is committing treason," Post told an audience of officers at Nellis Air Force Base according to the military blog John Q. Public.
The Air Force has brushed off the statement as hyperbole but confirmed Friday the inspector general has opened an investigation. The two-star general's warning comes at a delicate time for the Warthog — the service is facing an internal backlash from airmen who want to keep the close-air-support aircraft and another uphill budget battle with Congress over the retirement. The blog said it corroborated the quote through senior officials and several other sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Experts said the statement was meant to quash disagreement within the Air Force over phasing out the A-10 and push the plans by leadership. Whether Post's method was inappropriate or trampled the rights of servicemembers depends on your point of view.
"Just to the lay person who has never been in the military, it would seem to have a chilling effect" on protected speech among troops, said Larry Youngner, who served as an Air Force judge advocate for 20 years and is now a managing partner in the Virginia law firm Tully Rinckey. "Most of the A-10 pilots I've known in the past would take it as a challenge ... They are so proud of the accomplishments of the A-10 they would take it as an opportunity. It would embolden them to contact Congress."
Post is the vice commander of the Air Combat Command, which oversees A-10 air wings and close-air-support units. Federal and military law gives all servicemembers the right to communicate with congressional representatives through official and private channels, though they are not to use their service or rank to endorse partisan political causes or campaigns.
"I love that platform. That said, if I'm for it or against it, I have the unfettered right to contact Sen. Lindsey Graham in South Carolina and tell him about my support of that aircraft," Youngner said.
http://www.stripes.com/news/after-treason-comment-senator-asks-af-chief-about-reverse-probe-1.326342
QuoteAir Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh faced tough questioning Wednesday in the Senate over whether the service is investigating airmen who have spoken to Congress about the planned retirement of the A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft.
Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., said she was told about the internal probes after the two-star vice commander of the Air Force Air Combat Command caused a minor scandal and prompted an ongoing inspector general investigation by warning airmen that discussing the aircraft's capabilities with lawmakers could amount to "treason."
The service is trying to retire the close-air-support aircraft — known for its 30 mm Gatling-type cannon — to save money, but has run into resistance from troops and members of Congress who believe the so-called Warthogs are still highly valuable on the battlefield. Maj. Gen. James Post's comments and the report of internal investigations come as the White House prepares to release the proposed defense budget and likely opens another year of wrangling between the Air Force and Congress over the aircraft's retirement.
"What I'm hearing is there is actually an investigation going on in reverse — to find out who has communicated with Congress — and to me that seems the opposite of what we would be trying to accomplish in looking at what Gen. Post said, and whether it was lawful or not," Ayotte said during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. "So, I hope there will be no punishment or any kind of pursuit of people trying to communicate with Congress."
Welsh, who had been called to testify on budget caps, denied any involvement or knowledge of the probes.
"I know of nothing along those lines at all. I would be astonished by it," Welsh said. "Certainly I am not part of it; the secretary is not part of it; and I would not condone it."
Federal and military law gives all troops the right to communicate with congressional lawmakers through official and private channels, though they are not to use their service or rank to endorse partisan political causes or campaigns.
"I completely commit to the lawfulness of communication with Congress," Welsh said. "I support any airman's right to discuss anything that you'd like to discuss with them, and for them to give you their honest opinion."
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Meet the Douglases
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gotta love the Skyhawk.
the basic A:
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A-4AR:
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One of the most brilliant aircraft designs ever.
And still operational after 60 years.
"Heinemann's Hot-Rod"
Impressive.
the things man can achieve when hes single....
Or has more money than responsibilities...
you dont just buy into that hobby at that level.
if married there are no pans in the kitchen.
That's a highly time intensive hobby. Before he passed, my grandfather started getting into it and would spend Saturdays out at a private field where they flew those things. His was prop-driven if I remember right. He was retired so he had all the time in the world and had a workshop in his garage for it. The cabinets and stuff are still there (my mom lives there now), but all the aircraft and parts they sold after he passed. I didn't have an interest in it at all back then, but neither did he ever invite me, so I guess it worked out for him.
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RNLAF F-16s intercepting a USAF B-52 on April 2nd in a simulated strategic bombing mission.
^Damn, she still looks lethal. I used to love hearing them fly....you always knew it was a BUFF by the sound of those engines alone.
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Nice!
I get vertigo looking at that pic.
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^awesome.
Quote from: Staggerwing on April 03, 2015, 08:03:21 AM
Quotetreason
Eh? ??? Am I missing an inside joke? Did some Air Force bling-shirt say that saving the A-10 would be 'treasonous'?
http://www.stripes.com/news/af-general-who-said-protesting-a-10-decision-was-treason-removed-from-post-1.339480
QuoteThe Air Force general who told airmen that speaking to Congress about plans to retire the A-10 Thunderbolt amounts to treason has left his command position and been reprimanded, the Air Combat Command said Friday.
The service's inspector general found that the comments by Maj. Gen. James Post, then the ACC vice commander, had a "chilling effect" and caused airmen to feel constrained about their right to speak to lawmakers about important issues, according to the command.
Post was issued a letter of reprimand and is moving from his position following the statements Jan. 10 to about 300 airmen at a Weapons and Tactics Review Board meeting at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. The board was discussing the controversial retirement of the A-10, which has sparked a pushback from Congress and infantry troops and pilots who believe it has unique capabilities on the battlefield.
"It was sincerely never my intention to discourage anyone's access to their elected officials," Post said in a released statement. "I now understand how my poor choice of words may have led a few attendees to draw this conclusion and I offer my humble apology for causing any undue strain on the command and its mission."
Post was asked a question about the A-10 and discussed the tight budget leading to the Air Force decision to retire the aircraft. The general talked about the importance of loyalty to the decisions by senior leadership and used the word "treason" to describe airmen who discuss dissenting opinions with lawmakers, the ACC said.
The IG found that Post had been "attempting to prevent" some of the airmen from contacting their representatives on Capitol Hill, according to the command.
Quote from: Windigo on April 09, 2015, 12:15:20 PM
I get vertigo looking at that pic.
I look at a target climbing to be shot down.
Wheres the photo of the Chinese flanker and what are those bombs it was dropping?
This plane here keeps interfering with my ground strike missions in WitE. I destroyed 6000 Soviet aircraft in the first 4 months of the war and I'm still getting harassed by the Soviet Air Force.
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You have to bomb Soviet airfields with vodka first.
^Awesome! Maybe someone has made a mod for that in game? :)
I recall reading it in a WW3 novel where leading armor units were hit with cluster bombs carring spheres of vodka.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on April 10, 2015, 05:05:29 PM
I recall reading it in a WW3 novel where leading armor units were hit with cluster bombs carring spheres of vodka.
Yes, they were ineffective. Russian soldiers spend a lifetime building a resistance to the effects of cheap vodka.
India's getting French Rafale fighter jets
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-3034290/India-makes-deal-France-buy-36-Rafale-fighter-jets.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-3034290/India-makes-deal-France-buy-36-Rafale-fighter-jets.html)
Quote from: mirth on April 08, 2015, 05:03:28 PM
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QuoteA pair of FJ-3 Fury aircraft of Marine Fighter Squadron VMF 312 roars over advancing leathernecks from the Second Marine Regiment, 1957
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Pretty easy to see where the Navy got the design from!
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Quote from: Barthheart on April 13, 2015, 08:15:05 AM
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Nice.
Trivia: the B-52 took its first flight today in 1952.
You just brought up a memory.
In 1991 was driving down 295 east of the Potomac River. I always look to the east to see if a plane could be spotted over Andrews AFB.
This one time it was a BUFF. There aren't any BUFFs based in the east.
If the Big Uglies were moving out, it meant war.
More airplane-nerd trivia, answering the question that has torn entire WW2 aircraft enthusiast communities apart:
Which is it: Bf-109 or Me-109?http://109lair.hobbyvista.com/articles/bf-me/bf-me.htm
Quote
Bf or Me 109?
Which is correct?
Every so often, a verbal skirmish will break out over this seemingly contentious issue... "It's Bf 109!" "No, it's Me 109!" "Bf!" "Me!!" Frequently, this degenerates into name-calling, questioning of parentage, gnashing of teeth, and other such impolite and unproductive activities. Well, today we will conclusively lay this dispute to rest once and for all...
Both terms are correct.
First, a little history is in order. The 109 (8-109, if one wants to be strictly pedantic and refer to the aircraft with the 8- prefix assigned by the RLM to fighter aircraft) was first flown at the end of May 1935 at the home field of the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke in Augsburg, Germany. Design of the aircraft was started in March 1934 under the direction of Dipl. Ing. Willy Messerschmitt, who joined the firm after a merger of his own company, Messerschmitt Flugzeugbau, with BFW as ordered by the Bavarian government. (1) Emboldened by the success of his Bf 108, and anticipating certain defeat in the RLM's fighter design competition due to personal animosities, Messerschmitt "went for broke" technologically, incorporating a number of aerodynamically and mechanically advanced features into the 109 such as automatic leading edge slots, trailing edge flaps, flush-retracting landing gear, an aluminum alloy monocoque fuselage, and a fully enclosed cockpit. The results of the competition, of course, are well known today... the 109 won handily due to the inherent superiority of the design, and the rest, as they say, is history.
With the competition decided, production orders soon followed, and further development of the airframe continued. A stream of prototypes and production aircraft issued forth from the BFW factory, and the German propaganda machine wasted no time in trumpeting the superiority of the 109. As part of the continued development of the aircraft, early production aircraft were sent to join the Legion Kondor in Spain, and comprehensively established air superiority wherever they appeared. Unfortunately, these were not the type of accomplishments which readily lent themselves to positive publicity in the eyes of the world... such an opportunity presented itself in July 1937, however.
The Fourth International Flying Meeting was held at Dübendorf in Switzerland between 23 July and 1 August 1937, and the Luftwaffe's latest and greatest aircraft were on hand to show their capabilities. Among the aircraft dispatched to the meet were five 109s, which swept the top spots in every event in which they were entered. With the world press on hand to record the mounting successes of the latest Messerschmitt wonder, the propaganda value of the event was immeasurable to the German government. Further glory was achieved on 11 November 1937 when Dr.-Ing. Hermann Wurster snatched the landplane speed record with an average speed of 379.38 mph on four passes over a 3km straight course. (2)
With this run of incredible achievements, the management of BFW saw an opportunity to maximize on the positive publicity surrounding the achievements of their designer, and on 11 July 1938 incorporated the company as Messerschmitt AG (Aktien Gesellschaft), and Dr. Ing. Willy Messerschmitt was made Chairman and Managing Director.(3) This is a significant turning point in our story of "Bf vs. Me"... heretofore, all aircraft designed under the auspices of the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke carried the prefix "Bf" before the type number to indicate the origin of the aircraft. After the incorporation of Messerschmitt AG, all aircraft designed by the firm carried the prefix "Me", indicating the Messerschmitt factory (e.g. Me 210, Me 323, Me 262, etc).
So, the 109 would therefore only be called a "Bf 109", right? Read on...
As always, things aren't always what they seem. While it is undoubtedly correct to refer to the 109 as the Bf 109, the "Me" prefix was used interchangeably, and not just by outside sources such as American or RAF pilots or licensees such as Erla or WNF, as has been suggested... allow me to demonstrate below.
Exhibit A: Page 1 of a 10 page factory report from Messerschmitt AG concerning high-speed stability tests on Me 109F W.Nr. 9928 (reproduced in full elsewhere here on the site, translation to follow at some point):
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Exhibit B: Page 8 from the SAME FACTORY REPORT, from the MESSERSCHMITT FACTORY, by the SAME AUTHOR (Kalinowski), referring to Bf 109F W.Nr. 9928... did it somehow miraculously become a different aircraft?! No, it's obviously still the same aircraft.
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But wait, there's more!
For my next trick, I present for your investigation and edification two documents scanned from Vol 1. of the Bethke/Henning Jagdgeschwader 300 books... this first example is an example of an actual Verlustmeldung, or loss report for I./JG300, as typed up at unit level and submitted to the RLM for accounting purposes; note the consistent use of the term "Bf 109" throughout (this is reflected in other Verlustmeldungen copied in the book)(4)
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I'm not done yet... see below! :)
And lastly, from the SAME UNIT, we have the following damage assessment form from I./JG300 concerning an Me 109G-6/AS or G-14/AS.(5)
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Wow... Me 109! Could this be the SAME THING as a Bf 109? Why, it sure is!
And that's not all. Allow me to quote from an 8 December 1942 German radio broadcast from Dr. Ing. Messerschmitt himself, as published in Armand van Ishoven's "Messerschmitt Bf 109 At War":
"With extremely limited means I designed and built a series of sports and transport aircraft which, through their high performance, served as first steps towards a high performance fighter. Soon after, when I received the assignment to develop a fighter, it was evident to me that it would have to derive from aircraft like the M23 and M29. I then tried to equip an aircraft as small and light as possible with a powerful engine, in order to create a fighter that could out-perform anything then known. This was proved clearly at the International Flying Meeting in Zürich in 1937. Since that time this aircraft has been developed constantly at a hectic pace to meet the new challenges, and improved upon over and over again, so taht to this day our enemies consider it the most successful fighter in the world. In English circles now and then one hears the assertion that they have brought out an aircraft superior to the Me 109. Nothing can better disprove this than the list of our victories. From the steadily improving performance of the Me 109 in the course of this war, and its lasting superiority, you can see that we are actively maintaining this superiority into the future as well."(6)
So, what have we learned today? We've learned where the confusion stems from between Bf and Me, we learned when the changeover occurred, and we learned that the terms are used interchangeably at ALL levels within the Luftwaffe... so they're BOTH right!
Thus endeth the sermon. :)
(1) Wings of Fame vol. 4, Messerschmitt Bf 109- The First Generation. David Donald, p.40.
(2) ibid.
(3) ibid.
(4) Jagdgeschwader 300, Teil I. Herbert Bethke and Friedhelm Henning, p.76.
(5) Jagdgeschwader 300, Teil I. Herbert Bethke and Friedhelm Henning, p.190.
(6) Messerschmitt Bf 109 At War, Armand van Ishoven, p. 184.
If the Germans themselves couldn't even figure it out then the rest of us can finally cut each other some slack. Whew!
Now, onto Peace in the MiddleEast...
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Im laughing so hard it hurts. :2funny:
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I sense some serious shit going down....
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Crashed Me 262 recovered in Netherlands.
http://www.warhistoryonline.com/whotube-2/messerschmitt-262-jet-fighter-found-netherlands.html
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Must have a try at that!
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German Panavia Tornado at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico
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English Electric Lightning?
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QuoteU.S. Air Force command center at Tân Sơn Nhứt Air Base (Saigon, South Vietnam - 1966)
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Now there's a memory.
"Red Crown, Red Crown, this is Blackbeard."
Quote from: mirth on April 30, 2015, 08:31:56 AM
Quote from: bob48 on April 30, 2015, 08:13:08 AM
English Electric Lightning?
yessir!
First plane capable of 'supercruise', ie no afterburner needed.
Quote from: mirth on April 30, 2015, 07:49:16 PM
QuoteU.S. Air Force command center at Tân Sơn Nhứt Air Base (Saigon, South Vietnam - 1966)
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Those poor basturds in white t-shirts are writing all the info in the status board live,
backwards so it can be read through the board. I guy my father worked with a guy that used to do this and was able to use both hands at the same time while listening to two different info feeds, one into each ear!
QuoteA Sea Vixen of 899 Naval Air Squadron during live firing practice
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I want one!
Hawker Nimrod
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Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk scout-fighter circa 1934, based on (or more correctly in) the USS Macon (ZRS-5) US Navy Rigid Airship. By the time the first two photos had been taken the pilots had become so adept at operating from the Macon that the planes' landing gear was removed to save weight and improve streamlining.
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The Sparrowhawk in original configuration:
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just the idea of airship aircraft carriers is fucking awesome!
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Quote from: GDS_Starfury on May 05, 2015, 09:46:08 PM
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For some reason those Sky Captain carriers remind me of Babylonian sphynxs or (slightly) Escher's bird-man sculpture.
Yeah, I can see that.
QuoteBlackburn NA-39 (Buccaneer) taking off from HMS Victorious - June 1959.
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is that the B2?
Quote from: undercovergeek on May 10, 2015, 01:23:09 PM
is that the B2?
Na... Tu-160 Blackjack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_B-1_Lancer).
Oh, wait...
its sexy, whatever it is
Quote from: undercovergeek on May 10, 2015, 01:23:09 PM
is that the B2?
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Wait, that's not a B-52?
Rock Lobster!
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on May 10, 2015, 02:15:20 PM
Quote from: undercovergeek on May 10, 2015, 01:23:09 PM
is that the B2?
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im taking air recognition abuse from someone who wears argyle socks
i dont think so girlfriend!!!
I'm pretty sure that pic was of swamp gas or a B-1B. You never see the two together. :crazy2:
Quote from: Capn Darwin on May 10, 2015, 04:57:18 PM
I'm pretty sure that pic was of swamp gas or a B-1B. You never see the two together. :crazy2:
Depending on how many caliente chili dogs the navigator had before takeoff...
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Wilbur don't get no respect.
QuoteU.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles wait to receive fuel from a KC-135R Stratotanker during exercise Red Flag 15-1 on their way to Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Jan. 23, 2015.
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A S-2F Tracker ready to take-off from Brazilian aircraft carrier Minas Gerais (former HMS Vengeance) sometime in the late 60's
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QuoteX-47b completing it's first autonomous aerial refueling
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Now that's cool!
UCAS-D is but a few short steps from Skynet.
click to enlarge
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Toonces - weren't you down at the bottom?
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:'(
F-35Bs on board USS Wasp\
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QuoteAir Force F-16 Fighting Falcons refuel behind a KC-135 Stratotanker during Red Flag-Alaska 15-2 while flying over the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex, May 11, 2015.
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Tomcats on the deck of USS Enterprise. First cruise for the F-14A, during which the Enterprise took participated in the evacuation of Saigon
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http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/40-years-ago-today-the-enterprise-headed-home-after-eva-1705901624
Wow, 40 years - I had no idea they were that old
Top Gun started production a mere 9 or 10 years after that photo was taken. Some of the filming was even done on the Enterprise.
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Anyone know if the Toms operated over Vietnam during the evacuation?
IIRC the answer is yes.
QuoteA flight of F-15C Eagles from the 44th Fighter Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan, flies during a solar eclipse over the island of Okinawa (July 22, 2009).
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Quote from: GDS_Starfury on May 23, 2015, 08:22:09 AM
IIRC the answer is yes.
Indeed they did
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-14_Tomcat_operational_history#American_withdrawal_from_Saigon_.281975.29
That could make for a cool 'what-if' gaming scenario.
Worth a read:
http://defencyclopedia.com/2015/02/14/origins-the-story-of-the-legendary-f-14-tomcat/ (http://defencyclopedia.com/2015/02/14/origins-the-story-of-the-legendary-f-14-tomcat/)
Never saw this pic of the F-111, in Navy colors, before:
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Quote from: mirth on May 28, 2015, 11:46:30 AM
Worth a read:
http://defencyclopedia.com/2015/02/14/origins-the-story-of-the-legendary-f-14-tomcat/ (http://defencyclopedia.com/2015/02/14/origins-the-story-of-the-legendary-f-14-tomcat/)
Never saw this pic of the F-111, in Navy colors, before:
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Very cool pic. I can just imagine how loud it would be.
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QuoteThe new and top-secret SR-71 being transported between Lockheed Martin's Skunkworks in Burbank and Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, c.1964
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QuoteThree U.S. Navy F-14B Tomcats from Fighter Squadron 102 patrol the sky over the Persian Gulf on Feb. 11, 1998
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some days I frikin hate you. :'(
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on June 13, 2015, 08:03:49 PM
some days I frikin hate you. :'(
Some days I hate me too.
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QuoteThe nose of this P-47 struck the ground on a strafing run outside of Milan, Italy. After hitting the ground, the pilot managed to get the aircraft safely back to home base 150 miles away in occupied Grosseto
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Continuing my ongoing effort to make Star cry like a little girl...
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QuoteItalian "Fiat CR.32" utilized by the rebel Nationalist Air Force (Spanish Civil War c. 1936-1939)
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Its good to be the king. :knuppel2:
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on June 17, 2015, 12:37:24 PM
Its good to be the king. :knuppel2:
until you have to pay for your army... enjoy that
Quote from: Windigo on June 17, 2015, 02:41:27 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on June 17, 2015, 12:37:24 PM
Its good to be the king. :knuppel2:
until you have to pay for your army... enjoy that
We'll just send it north and take all your sirop d'erable.
syrup on MREs... could be on to something
QuoteGloster Javelin FAW.9R (XH890) of No 23 Squadron banking away from the camera clearly showing the identification markers and the missile complement of Firestreak infra-red homing air-to-air missiles. This aircraft is flying from No. 23 Squadron's base at RAF Coltishall, c1960's.
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QuoteDouglas Thor intermediate range ballistic missile arrives in the UK. The missile is on a trolley and is being removed from the cargo bay via the nose of an C-124 Globemaster of the USAF's Military Air Transport Service. Royal Air Force Police and doghandlers are nearby, c1960's.
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Quote from: mirth on June 19, 2015, 11:22:53 AM
QuoteGloster Javelin FAW.9R (XH890) of No 23 Squadron banking away from the camera clearly showing the identification markers and the missile complement of Firestreak infra-red homing air-to-air missiles. This aircraft is flying from No. 23 Squadron's base at RAF Coltishall, c1960's.
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Those missiles look a little bit like the Nazi Ruhrstahl X-4:
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Cool!
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QuoteAn F-4 Phantom flown into a specially designed concrete wall, which is used to protect Nuclear Power Plants. The plane is flying at 500 mph, and is completely vaporized upon impact, while the wall remains standing.
QuoteModified Soviet Hurricane XIIb with rear gunner
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^ And that, folks, is why A-10s should be part of Army Aviation.
https://youtu.be/yg3rmVBv9bs (https://youtu.be/yg3rmVBv9bs)
Tali who? Nobody left but us crickets.
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That's a big Twinkie under there. :o
Either that or the MOALD (Mother of All Lawn Darts).
Atomic Jart
Quote from: Staggerwing on July 08, 2015, 09:07:38 PM
Either that or the MOALD (Mother of All Lawn Darts).
O0
To me, it just appears as if it is looking to mate.
Quote from: Centurion40 on July 09, 2015, 07:38:48 AM
To me, it just appears as if it is looking to mate.
Pon Farr
Just like a dog's, running out of skin. It's gotta go somewhere.
S-2T Tracker of the Republic of China Navy
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Nice cammo scheme.
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/472/19430673018_133fdfbae8_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/vB2h8L)SAM_0774 (https://flic.kr/p/vB2h8L) by jomni1 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/63207426@N00/), on Flickr
QuoteAn Italian F-104 Starfighter and Tornado, a Turkish F-104 Starfighter and a US Air Force A-7D Corsair II participating in NATO Exercise DRAGON HAMMER '87
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Flyby over Buckingham Palace to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.
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I don't know if this has been posted here before, but I thought you might find it interesting. It's a C-130 landing and taking off from an aircraft carrier.
http://theaviationist.com/2014/07/16/c-130-land-on-carrier/
I admit, I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see the video. Amazing!
That is incredible. I had to watch it several times. I'm surprised it could get up enough airspeed to take off.
Thinks.....wonder if I can do that in FSX?.................
https://www.facebook.com/ron.smith.7161953/videos/o.37212609567/566332770047539/?type=2&theater
Some landings are harder than others.
LMAO :D
On April 11, 1945, off Okinawa, The USS Missouri was struck by a kamikaze. The Missouri suffered several small dents to her armor and some scratched paint. The kamikaze was obliterated.
http://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=2420
Quote from: besilarius on July 14, 2015, 06:53:16 AM
https://www.facebook.com/ron.smith.7161953/videos/o.37212609567/566332770047539/?type=2&theater
Some landings are harder than others.
Ha! love it!
(I actually used to smoke those things when I was young and stupid. LSMFT...)
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Quote from: mirth on July 15, 2015, 07:37:22 PM
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Valkyrie and Hustler. Amazing shot!
Thanks Wing, I knew valkyrie, I was lost on the other. The front looks very similar to the delta dart style. The 4 engines on the delta wing i had not ever seen before.
French "Amiot 143" bomber (France c. 1940)
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Needs more windows.
That's the baguette display case. The French take their gastronomic standards with them.
Quote from: Mr. Bigglesworth on July 17, 2015, 12:35:38 PM
That's the baguette display case. The French take their gastronomic standards with them.
This what the French aircrew wore:
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A restaurant with a view! Nice!
Great pics and vids of the Me-323.
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/this-giant-nazi-plane-was-the-largest-land-based-transp-1717834039
http://mashable.com/2015/07/18/underwater-plane-graveyard-wwii/
B17s are really pretty maneuverable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGGynxYbA48
A few years back my son and I were at an airshow in south Houston, and they had a B-17. As we left for the day their B-17 buzzed the crowd, but it was virtually standing on its right wingtip a hundred feet or so off the ground. Holy hell was that impressive.
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Fighter pilots can ignore basic realities.
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http://americaloveshorsepower.com/23-military-aircraft-civilians-can-legally-own/24/
We have this on at the moment, and its just a few miles down the coast from me;
http://www.sunderlandlive.co.uk/airshow/in-the-air
Already seen the P40 which flew over quite low not long ago. I'm desperate to see the OV-10 Bronco.
May go down there tomorrow with one of my sons.
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The sled driver must be doing the equivalent of standing on the brakes to not run away from the rhino.
I think its at the .025 setting on the throttle.
QuoteThree Swedish Saab 35 Draken being towed out from F 18 Tullinge mountain hangar.
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QuotePiaggio Hammerhead P.1HH UAV from Italy, derived from the P.180 Avanti II business aircraft
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SU-35
SMH.....
its a Super Hornet in digital camo.
Yep, I was thinking the engine air intakes on an F-18 were rounded and not rectangle. That's why I was thinking Su-35
Quote from: OJsDad on August 04, 2015, 01:04:53 PM
Yep, I was thinking the engine air intakes on an F-18 were rounded and not rectangle. That's why I was thinking Su-35
The old Hornets were round. The Super Hornets are square.
Turkish F-4s
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QuoteA Nimrod MR2 maritime patrol aircraft passes over USS Spadefish (SSN-668) and HMS Trenchant (S-91) at the North Pole during Operation ICEX-92.
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QuotePolish Air Force Sukhoi 22M4 at Miroslawiec
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Hellenic Air Force F-16
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Tomcat ops from USS Coral Sea, noteworthy because the Coral Sea was not a "super carrier" (and the Tomcat was a big aircraft). It was a modernized Midway-class launched in 1946. The Tomcat didn't normally operate from the Midways, but it could.
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/could-the-f-14-tomcat-operate-from-the-uss-coral-sea-an-1722586198
Still a great looking plane.
Have never seen this before. Don't think it is a photoshop.
Quote from: besilarius on August 20, 2015, 05:03:21 PM
Have never seen this before. Don't think it is a photoshop.
Pretty sure it is - https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/wwi-and-wwii-plane-geeks.140199/
QuoteIndian Navy Tupolev 142 parked in Mumbai.
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great catch, mirth.
Thought it had to be some kind of mock-up, but there was always the sea dart
Quote from: besilarius on August 20, 2015, 06:56:42 PM
great catch, mirth.
Thought it had to be some kind of mock-up, but there was always the sea dart
Heh. Yeah, the Sea Dart is strange enough.
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You can never have enough Ekranoplan...
The Russkies do know how to build them weird.
Quote from: mirth on August 20, 2015, 08:10:47 PM
The Russkies do know how to build them weird.
They did have a unique design esthetic...
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Four Swedish SAAB J35 Drakens taking off.
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QuoteAvro Vulcan B2 (MRR), XH534, of No 27 Squadron RAF, based at Scampton, in flight over the sea, August 1976.
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3 generations of North American Aviation fighters.
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Awesome.
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QuoteIn support of an operational test exercise for their F-35s, the Royal Netherlands Air Force contingent at Edwards brought in six A-4s from Draken International, six F-16s from the 162nd Fighter Wing, Arizona Air National Guard, and a KDC-10 Air Refueling tanker from the RNLAF 334th Transport Squadron at Eindhoven Airport, Netherlands. The Joint Strike Fighter Operational Test Team contracted Draken International to provide the small fleet of A-4s that were employed as adversary aircraft with a variety of types of mission sets.
http://www.edwards.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123456902 (http://www.edwards.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123456902)
privatizing Red Flag.... :-\
Hey now!
Quote from: Staggerwing on August 28, 2015, 06:14:51 PM
Hey now!
♫♪...hey nowww...don't dreeeaaaam it's oooo-veerrr...♪♫
^Whenever I hear that song all I can think about is The Stand.
Quote from: Staggerwing on August 28, 2015, 06:29:56 PM
^Whenever I hear that song all I can think about is The Stand.
For me, it's Don't Fear the Reaper with that movie. The best part of The Stand is the beginning when everyone dies. After that, meh.
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25 or 31? I'm guessing 25.
25, yep.
From that angle, it looks like a want a be Tomcat.
judging from the nose its a recon version.
The Russians kept the recce version in service longest. Only got rid of the last of them a couple years ago.
More troubles for Lockheed and the F35
http://www.duffelblog.com/2015/08/f-35-loses-dogfight-to-red-baron/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=Duffel%20Blog&utm_content=Lockheed%20Upbeat%20Despite%20F-35%20Losing%20Dogfight%20To%20Red%20Baron
Snoopy is a hell of a pilot!
Yeah. He'll turn that F-35 into one helluva dog house!!
QuoteOne of only two airworthy Curtiss P-36 Hawks seen in the air over Duxford during the Flying Legends 2015 air show
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There is so much Warhawk in that pic, just waiting for the love of Allison.
I love that whole Hawk series of Curtis fighters.
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^bingo!
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^great pic!
Quote from: Staggerwing on September 03, 2015, 07:47:59 PM
There is so much Warhawk in that pic, just waiting for the love of Allison.
O0
Quote from: mirth on September 03, 2015, 07:54:51 PM
I love that whole Hawk series of Curtis fighters.
Me too.
Now I have to rewatch that entire movie.
:))
"Horrywood!"
I'm watching it now. Probably the first time in 30 years.
I have it on DVD. It's wonderfully stupid.
1941 is a fantastic movie. It saddens me when I find people have not heard of it.
It's very under rated. It gets a little more love today than it did when it was originally released
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-1941-spielberg-20150319-story.html
I must have watched it a dozen times or more when I was a kid. It was a Movie Channel staple.
1941 is a classic. Seen it way too many times and will see it more I'm sure. O0
A-6E Intruder of Attack Squadron (VA) 52 on final approach for recovery on the snow-covered flight deck of USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) operating in the Bering Sea, Jan. 21, 1987.
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http://theaviationist.com/2014/01/25/a6-landing-carrier-snow/ (http://theaviationist.com/2014/01/25/a6-landing-carrier-snow/)
QuoteThis is a picture of me and my B/N landing on the USS Carl Vinson in 1987 in the Bering Sea.
We were launched early in the morning to do a weather recon. They shot
us off the pointy end with more airframe icing than I had ever seen
on an aircraft. During our preflight, I called the Air Boss to discuss
this with him and his answer was, "We will just give you a few extra
knots of end speed, man up your aircraft." I anticipated that we would be very close to stall AOA when they shot us (the needle initially pegged) so I was prepared to
nurse it until we slowly accelerated and started our ascent.
We pickup up a considerable amount of icing during our climb-out. The tops were above
20,000 feet if I recall correctly. We stayed above the clouds for close
to an hour while the ice sublimated from the airframe. We then did a
high speed penetration with the speedbrakes fully extended to descend
below the icing as quickly as possible to a Case 3 recovery.
I can remember breaking out of the clouds and not seeing anything other than a
completely white flight deck. You could not see a defined landing
area. The only guidance for lineup was the faint strobe of the
centerline lighting sparkling through the ice on the flight deck. We
recovered on our first pass and flight ops were ceased for the remainder
of the day. I'm not certain but I think this might have been the only
time on our 1986 Cruise that our Airwing had one event on the flight schedule
for the day.
QuoteA Leoning OL-8 flies over USS Lexington (CV-2), Dec. 1928. The two-star fuselage placard and wing-strut pennant signify that this plane is the command aircraft of RADM Joseph M. Reeves. Location unknown.
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Quote from: Capn Darwin on September 07, 2015, 03:09:08 PM
1941 is a classic. Seen it way too many times and will see it more I'm sure. O0
Fave Spielberg pic of all time!! O0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbFAbHGAh7g
Horry Wood!!!
Quote from: mirth on September 08, 2015, 11:25:21 AM
QuoteA Leoning OL-8 flies over USS Lexington (CV-2), Dec. 1928. The two-star fuselage placard and wing-strut pennant signify that this plane is the command aircraft of RADM Joseph M. Reeves. Location unknown.
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Interesting rigging on the top wing. Looks like some kind of radio antenna array.
I think it is. It's a special setup as a command plane.
QuoteHandley Page Halifax B Mark III Series 1As of No. 1663 Heavy Conversion Unit undergo maintenance at night in a T2 Type hangar at Rufforth, Yorkshire, c1943.
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Great pic!! O0
QuoteMitsubishi XF-2A test aircraft carrying experimental XASM-3 anti-ship missiles and other weapons.
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The Horten H.IX, RLM designation Ho 229, German prototype fighter/bomber designed by Reimar and Walter Horten and built by Gothaer Waggonfabrik late in the war. Pictured is Ho229 V3, the third prototype that was unfinished. It is being restored at the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.
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Full gallery here:
http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?object=nasm_A19600324000
^There was a great NOVA episode (or maybe it was NatGeo?) about the serendipitous stealth capabilities of the 229. A bunch of engineers who specialize in building radar cross-section models built a full size mockup of the Horton jet with internal components designed to simulate the metal in the engines. While it was no F-117 the tests showed that it would have a notable detection range advantage against Britain's Chain Home system.
IIRC, the ep was titled something like 'Hitler's Stealth Fighter'.
Cool. Don't think I've seen that one. I'll check it out.
QuoteIn early 2008, Northrop-Grumman paired up television documentary producer Michael Jorgensen and the National Geographic Channel to produce a documentary to determine whether the Ho 229 was, in fact, the world's first true "stealth" fighter-bomber.[3] Northrop-Grumman built a full-size non-flying reproduction of the V3, constructed to match the aircraft's radar properties. After an expenditure of about US$250,000 and 2,500 man-hours, Northrop's Ho 229 reproduction was tested at the company's classified[clarification needed] radar cross-section (RCS) test range at Tejon, California, where it was placed on a 15-meter (50 ft) articulating pole and exposed to electromagnetic energy sources from various angles, using the same three HF/VHF-boundary area frequencies in the 20–50 MHz range used by the Chain Home system in the mid-1940s.[3]
RCS testing showed that a hypothetical Ho 229 approaching the English coast from France flying at 885 kilometres per hour (550 mph) at 15–30 metres (49–98 ft) above the water would have been visible at a distance of 80% that of a Bf 109. This implies a frontal RCS of only 40% that of a Bf 109 at the Chain Home frequencies. The most visible parts of the aircraft were the jet inlets and the cockpit, but caused no return through smaller dimensions than the CH wavelength. Given the high-speed capabilities of the aircraft, it would have given the British defences just two and a half minutes to respond, which would not have been enough time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten_Ho_229#Operational_history
Boeing concept art for an F-15 variant capable of carrying 16 AMRAAMs
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Thats a squadron killer that config... jeesus H!
I still like the idea of the B-1R
Or the unmanned Missile Truck:
http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2014/11/05/is_a_missile_truck_the_solution_to_one_of_the_scariest_wargames_ever__107528.html
Quote[The RAND study] analyzed a U.S.-China air war over Taiwan made the bold assumption that every air-to-air missile fired from a U.S. F-22 hit a Chinese fighter (100 percent kill rate) and that every Chinese missile missed the U.S. F-22s (0 percent kill rate). In their simulation, the United States still lost the fight. The F-22s ran out of missiles and the Chinese fighters were able to go after vulnerable tankers and command and control aircraft. A far more detailed simulation the following year showed the same results. Even though U.S. F-22s were pegged with a 27-to-1 qualitative advantage over Chinese fighters, their diminished numbers and the fact that they had to fight from long range meant the Chinese had vastly superior numbers and won the fight.
The RAND study emphasized that improvements in forward basing infrastructure were necessary for U.S. airpower to achieve its objective effectively.
But in a new report from CNAS, "Robotics on the Battlefield Part II: The Coming Swarm," Scharre offers another solution to mitigate China's numerical advantage – an unmanned "missile truck" fighter:
An uninhabited "missile truck" that brought additional air-to-air missiles to the fight to supplement human-inhabited F-22s could tip the scales back in the United States' favor. Such an aircraft need not have the full performance characticeristics of a 5th or 6th generation fighter aircraft. It would only need to have sufficient stealth to get close enough to launch its missiles against Chinese fighters. If it then perished in the engagement, that would be acceptable provided it took a sufficient number of enemy fighters with it. It would still have accomplished the mission. The uninhabited aircraft would not need advanced autonomy, merely enough to fly in a straight line under a human's control and sufficiently robust communications links for the human-inhabited F-22s to pass targeting data. All targeting and firing decisions would be made by the F-22 pilots. If such an aircraft could be built at relatively low costs, this uninhabited "loyal wing-man" could be a tremendous force multiplier for U.S. human-inhabited fighters.
IIRC properly data linked legacy aircraft can already turn their missile control over to F-22s. they can fire them from way beyond the front line and hand them off to either F-22s or AWACS.
In reference to the 'missile truck' concept- the vehicle would not have to be a true fighter airframe. Instead surplus airliners could be utilized in much the same way that the 747 was once proposed as a cruise missile carrier:
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Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 14, 2015, 08:06:15 PM
IIRC properly data linked legacy aircraft can already turn their missile control over to F-22s. they can fire them from way beyond the front line and hand them off to either F-22s or AWACS.
That's pretty much the idea.
Quote
More air-to-air missiles is a good thing for the Eagle. As the the new AIM-120D AMRAAM comes on line and is paired along with the F-15C/D's APG-63V3 and F-15E's APG-82 Active Electronically Scanned Array radars, the Eagle will be able to sling missiles from about double the range they can today, depending on the engagement situation. More missiles means more tactical options when facing a robust foe, and it also means the Eagle may be able to work as an arsenal ship of sorts for stealthy F-35s and F-22s which have far less beyond-visual-range missile carrying capabilities. By using the F-35 and F-22's data collected forward of an Eagle's position, along with the Eagle's greatly enhanced radar data, the F-15 could provide missiles on demand from many dozens of miles away. This would also allow F-35s and F-22s to work as battle managers of sorts well ahead of the Eagle's position even after their weapons bays are empty.
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/boeings-touts-new-16-air-to-air-missile-carrying-f-15-e-1730258333 (http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/boeings-touts-new-16-air-to-air-missile-carrying-f-15-e-1730258333)
QuoteOregon Air National Guard F-15s firing missiles
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Tupolev family photo
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I get a kick outta the Blackjack... if anyone wanted proof that the russkies steal technology/copy american design...
Putin says we stole it from them.
Of course he does. ::)
Quote from: mirth on September 15, 2015, 09:33:54 PM
QuoteOregon Air National Guard F-15s firing missiles
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Sweet!
Quote from: mirth on September 16, 2015, 11:33:48 AM
Tupolev family photo
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God help me but I think the Russians make great looking aircraft, in a rugged and unrefined sort of way.
Quote from: Airborne Rifles on September 16, 2015, 01:47:42 PM
God help me but I think the Russians make great looking aircraft, in a rugged and unrefined sort of way.
+1
Many of them have that 'Yesterday's Tomorrow' aesthetic as well.
Quote from: Staggerwing on September 16, 2015, 06:13:45 PM
Many of them have that 'Yesterday's Tomorrow' aesthetic as well.
Futuristic 1950s
Secret british design to win the war.
I think Longblade has some of the minis from that game...
QuoteThe experimental XNBL-1 Barling Bomber in flight testing (1923). The bomber was armed with seven .30-caliber Lewis machine guns, operated from 5 stations, covering practically the whole area around the bomber. It was also one of the first to incorporate bomb bay doors in the fuselage.
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Last Tomcat demo flight
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/relive-the-last-f-14-tomcat-demo-with-those-who-flew-it-1731626021
Wrong thread
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What's funny about those planes...Folland Gnat, right? I saw 'em in the Hot Shots movies and thought surely they were some kind of prop, but no, they were real damn planes...huh. That was a weird revelation.
Actually...
... it's a T-45 Goshawk. Not the first Navy plane to be named Goshawk either.
It is modified from a British design, Just not the Gnat.
My bad. To my untrained eye, they look much the same.
Here's a Gnat:
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Quote from: Staggerwing on September 23, 2015, 07:14:59 PM
Actually...
... it's a T-45 Goshawk. Not the first Navy plane to be named Goshawk either.
It is modified from a British design, Just not the Gnat.
It's one of Hawks right?
Same as the red arrows
Quote from: undercovergeek on September 24, 2015, 02:00:50 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on September 23, 2015, 07:14:59 PM
Actually...
... it's a T-45 Goshawk. Not the first Navy plane to be named Goshawk either.
It is modified from a British design, Just not the Gnat.
It's one of Hawks right?
Same as the red arrows
Yep. As Wing noted, the USN version has been heavily modified. Mainly to make it carrier capable.
and airworthy. ;)
Taranto
Don't you just hate it when this happens at the airport?
https://www.facebook.com/OffCamberShow/videos/813534938744026/?fref=nf
Quote from: besilarius on September 24, 2015, 05:45:48 PM
Taranto
When it comes to sinking battleships, either directly or indirectly, those "already-antiquated-in-their-own-time" Stringbags had nothing to be ashamed of.
Amazing story
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-time-a-tanker-saved-a-fighter-that-was-falling-apar-1733187406
USN efforts to develop our own Fritz-X.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Navy_drones_in_1945.jpg
QuoteAvro Vulcan XH558 and two Folland Gnats of the Gnat Display Team at the Yorkshire Air Show
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QuoteF7 Corsair II refuels an F8 Cusader.
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It's remarkable how much the F-7 and F-8 look alike while being so different.
Also, note the Sidewinders mounted to the side of the fuselage of the F-8. You don't see that every day.
It is an unusual mount point. The British Lightning had a similar set up.
That's right, I forgot about that.
XB-52, X-4 & B-36
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"That's my dad. He fought in dubya dubya two."
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QuoteF-5E Tiger of the Republic of China Air Force
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Gallery - https://www.flickr.com/photos/hsu-chunyuan/albums/72157627804594457
Quote from: mirth on October 04, 2015, 06:46:23 AM
QuoteF-5E Tiger of the Republic of China Air Force
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Gallery - https://www.flickr.com/photos/hsu-chunyuan/albums/72157627804594457
Nice little plane. It's too bad that the followup version, the F-20, was cancelled. It was actually more advanced than the competing generation of F-16 and way cheaper.
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QuoteBeriev Be-12 flying over Russian navy ships
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QuoteF7U-3M Cutlass with the early Sparrow I
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Quote from: mirth on October 08, 2015, 11:15:11 AM
QuoteF7U-3M Cutlass with the early Sparrow I
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Cool! I want one!!
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Quote from: eyebiter on October 10, 2015, 06:57:18 PM
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Assembly line of Chinese J-31s? :2funny: ::)
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QuoteBoeing B-17 afire (#42-29508), caused while testing new carburetor on #4 engine. August 29, 1943. Location: Chelveston, England
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Lady of the Lake - the remains of a B-29 weather reconnaissance aircraft that rests in the middle of an Alaskan lake near Eielson Air Force Base.
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http://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/09/lady-of-lake-ghostly-remains-of-b-29.html
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at Kep, North Vietnam, Lieutenant Commander Theodore R. Swartz received a Silver Star for shooting down a North Vietnam MiG-17 aircraft with air-to-ground rockets. The event was the only enemy aircraft downed by an A-4 Skyhawk during the Vietnam conflict.
The Tinker Toy don't get no respect.
The Jedi Transition
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-jedi-transition-a-canyon-that-fighter-pilots-love-1678453195
Took a while to get to it, but WOOHOO!
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QuoteAn F-22 Raptor takes off from Amari Air Base, Estonia, Sept. 4, 2015.
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QuoteA ShinMaywa US-2 amphibious SAR aircraft makes a low level pass past the JS Akizuki (DD-115)
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Soviet Tu-16 Badger overflying a Typhoon class SSBN.
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Yup. O0
Quote from: Centurion40 on October 21, 2015, 12:08:08 PM
Yup. O0
With the Libs talking killing the F35 purchase... bring on the Super Hornets.
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Quote from: Windigo on October 21, 2015, 04:24:46 PM
Quote from: Centurion40 on October 21, 2015, 12:08:08 PM
Yup. O0
With the Libs talking killing the F35 purchase... bring on the Super Hornets.
I want some A-10s too! Or at least a tribe of Apache's!
Just finished watching a doc on Netflix about the founding of the Israeli Air Force. Absolutely fascinating story of how it came about. Ironic how the IAF's first fighters we Me 109s.
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Quote from: Centurion40 on October 22, 2015, 08:18:46 AM
Just finished watching a doc on Netflix about the founding of the Israeli Air Force. Absolutely fascinating story of how it came about. Ironic how the IAF's first fighters we Me 109s.
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I watched it a couple weeks ago. It was well done. Amazing what they accomplished with a handful of planes and pilots.
Then they scored some Spitfires and 3 B-17s, with which they bombed Cairo! :o
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Quote from: mirth on October 22, 2015, 08:20:37 AM
Quote from: Centurion40 on October 22, 2015, 08:18:46 AM
Just finished watching a doc on Netflix about the founding of the Israeli Air Force. Absolutely fascinating story of how it came about. Ironic how the IAF's first fighters we Me 109s.
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I watched it a couple weeks ago. It was well done. Amazing what they accomplished with a handful of planes and pilots.
And ingenuity!
QuoteBlue Angels and the Thunderbirds on the same flight line with their F4 Phantoms
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QuoteRAF Washington B.1. B29s loaned to Great Britain until they had a nuclear capable bomber.
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QuoteF14A Tomcats from VF-114 and VF-213 assigned to Carrier Air Wing 11 on board the USS Enterprise, 1984.
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QuoteF-102 interceptors over Vietnam, 1966 (photo by Larry Burrows)
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a B-17 story:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/theres-an-eerily-untouched-wwii-bomber-sitting-in-hawaii/ar-BBmoox4?li=BBgzzfc&ocid=mailsignout
Wow. I'm glad they were able to bring it back home.
Sorry Goose, but it's time to buzz the tower.
Quote60 years ago today the Saab-35 Draken had its first flight.
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Pretty amazing considering it was 1955. Now that I think about it the Draken does have a bit of an Alexander Lippisch-style Luft-46 vibe to it. Maybe Saab got to collaborate with him while he was assisting Convair in the USA.
SU-30 video over Syria.
http://theaviationist.com/2015/10/25/su-30-video-air-to-air/
why carry air to air missiles?
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on October 26, 2015, 09:21:20 AM
why carry air to air missiles?
A purely defensive measure ::)
QuoteF-4 Phantoms over North Vietnam, 1972.
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QuoteF-14A of VF-51 Screaming Eagles intercepts a Soviet Tu-95RT
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QuoteMcDonnell Douglas Phantom FGR2, XV423 'R', of No. 29 Squadron RAF takes off from Coningsby in 1975. This aircraft later formed part of the Squadron detachment which deployed to Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands in October 1982.
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QuoteJordanian F-5Es bought by the Brazilian Air Force undergoing upgrades in Brazil, 2009
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As always, just amazing.
Quote from: mirth on October 30, 2015, 02:31:12 PM
QuoteJordanian F-5Es bought by the Brazilian Air Force undergoing upgrades in Brazil, 2009
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Nice find!
Crater made by a Tallboy bomb during the sinking of Tirpitz.
Quick way to dig a pool!
QuoteB-52 demonstrates low altitude flying for sailors of the USS Ranger(CV-61) Gulf of Mexico Feb 1989.
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Of course! It's all so clear now.
Carrier Landings by F6F and F4U.
http://worldwarwings.com/f6f-hellcat-and-f4u-corsair-carrier-landings-incredible-remastered-footage?a=mk&var=pinups-hellcorsair-carrier
QuoteXB-70 Valkyrie being backed into its new home on October 27, 2015
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http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Upcoming/PressRoom/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/466/Article/626004/xb-70-valkyrie-moved-into-museums-new-fourth-building.aspx (http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Upcoming/PressRoom/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/466/Article/626004/xb-70-valkyrie-moved-into-museums-new-fourth-building.aspx)
Planned layout for new hangar at the National Museum of the USAF
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QuoteFlight of Brewster F2A Buffalo's in Finnish service, The Continuation War (1941-'44)
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QuoteDuring the Continuation War (1941-'44) Finnish Brewster pilots shot down 484 aircrafts with own losses of 24. The top-scoring Buffalo pilot was Hans Wind, with 39 of his 75 kills with a Buffalo. The top scoring Finnish ace, Ilmari Juutilainen, scored 34 of his 94½ confirmed kills in a F2As.
During the Winter War in December, 1939, Finns signed a contract for the provision of 44 Model 239 Brewster fighters. The total price to be paid was US $3.4 million, and the deal included the provision of spare parts, 10 replacement engines and 20 Hamilton Standard propellers. The Buffalo fighters that were sent to Finland were de-navalized; before these fighters were placed onto ships for delivery to Finland, Brewster Company employees removed all the naval equipment on the fighters, such as their tailhooks and life-raft containers, resulting in a somewhat lighter aircraft. The Finnish F2A-1s further lacked self-sealing fuel tanks and cockpit armor.
These F2A-1 Buffalos given the export number Model B-239, were equipped with an export-approved Wright R-1820-G5 nine-cylinder radial engine of 950 hp (708 kW). After delivery to Finland, the Finnish Air Force added armored backrests for their pilots, metric flight instruments, the Finnish Väisälä T.h.m.40 gunsight, and four .50 in (12.7 mm) machine guns. The top speed of the Finnish Buffalos, as modified, was 297 mph (478 km/h) at 15,675 ft (4,750 m), and their loaded weight was 5,820 lb (2,640 kg).
Built in four batches, the "Finnish" Brewster were loaded to merchant ships in New York and shipped to Norway in January-February 1940. The crates with the fighters were sent by railway to Sweden and assembled by SAAB, near Gothenburg. But as the Winter War ended, only five Brewsters were combat-ready in Finland.
The Brewster B-239E fighter aircraft was never referred to as the "Buffalo" in Finland; it was known simply as the "Brewster" or sometimes by the nicknames "Pearl of the Sky", "Butt-Walter", "American hardware" and "flying beer bottle". The 44 Buffalo Model B-239(export) fighters used by the FAF received serial numbers BW-351 to BW-394.
In Finnish Air Force service, the B-239s were regarded as being very easy to fly, a "gentleman's plane". The Buffalo was also popular within the FAF because of their relatively long range and flight endurance, and also because of their low-trouble maintenance record. This was in part due to the efforts of the Finnish engine mechanics, who solved a problem that plagued the Wright Cyclone engine simply by inverting one of the piston rings in each cylinder. This had a positive effect on engine reliability. The cooler weather of Finland was also a plus for the engine. In the end, the Brewster Buffalo gained a reputation in Finnish Air Force service as one of their most successful fighter aircraft.
Attacking Soviet Air Force pilots using formulaic defensive tactics, many Finnish pilots racked up enormous scores on the Finnish front. The default tactic was the four-plane "swarm" with a pair flying low (but visible, not too close to the terrain) as the bait and a pair flying high to dive on the eventual interceptors. In the long run, the Soviet Air Force on the Finnish front never developed an efficient approach to counter this tactic.
After end of hostilities, cpt. Jorma Karhunen, one of the top-scoring Buffalo pilots(25½ kills out of his 31½ total) and commander of the 3rd flight of LeLv 24, recalled:
"The Brewster model 239 was good against the older Russian fighters, I-153 and I-16. Hence the period 1941–42 was the best time for us. In 1943 it was already significantly more difficult when the Russians began to use their newer fighters against us... Later, with the Yaks, Hurricanes, Tomahawks and MiGs, it became a fight to the death."
By late 1943, the lack of spare parts, aircraft wear-and-tear, and the improvement of Soviet fighters greatly reduced the effectiveness of the Finnish Buffalo. Brewster pilots still scored some 35 victories against Soviet aircraft in mid-1944. The last kills of Finnish Airforce were made with couple of B-239s, when they shot down two Ju 87s in Lapland War.
The remaining Brewster Buffalos served until september of 1948, when the type saw it's last flight. They were all scrapped in 1953. Only remaining authentic B-239 today is the one that Lauri Pekuri crash landed to a Karelian lake in 1942, and was lifted from there in 1998.
QuoteThe Red Arrows flying with the Vulcan bomber for the final time.
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4 members of the Century Series. Clockwise from top:
McDonnell F-101 Voodoo
Convair F-102 Delta Dagger
North American F-100 Super Sabre
Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
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Quote from: mirth on November 08, 2015, 11:44:09 AM
QuoteFlight of Brewster F2A Buffalo's in Finnish service, The Continuation War (1941-'44)
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The ML-KNIL used Buffalos in the Dutch East Indies as well.
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QuoteFairchild XSM-73 Bull Goose pilotless decoy missile test launch, late 1950s
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http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/MuseumExhibits/FactSheets/Display/tabid/509/Article/195736/fairchild-xsm-73-bull-goose.aspx
QuoteA-6 Intruder VA-34 over USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), 1982.
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The XB-40. This was a B-17 that was modified to be a heavily armed and armoured gunship that would fly with bomber formations and provide enhanced defensive firepower. It was brought into service just prior to the P-51s. 59 sorties saw 5 kills and 2 probables for a single loss. The main problem was that it was unable to keep up with the bombers once they had dropped their bombs due to its greater weight.
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Quote from: Silent Disapproval Robot on December 03, 2015, 06:02:20 PM
The XB-40. This was a B-17 that was modified to be a heavily armed and armoured gunship that would fly with bomber formations and provide enhanced defensive firepower. It was brought into service just prior to the P-51s. 59 sorties saw 5 kills and 2 probables for a single loss. The main problem was that it was unable to keep up with the bombers once they had dropped their bombs due to its greater weight.
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IIRC, the chin turret on the B-17G was originally designed for the X/YB-40 and a number of other gunner-friendly improvements were ported over as well.
Not necessarily new "news," but some interesting specifics here on where the Air Force is going with laser weapons. And the video demonstration of a laser cutting through a thick metal plate..impressive: http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/17/politics/us-air-force-laser-fighter-jet-weapons-research/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/17/politics/us-air-force-laser-fighter-jet-weapons-research/index.html)
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US Army Aviation
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http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/heres-your-go-to-graphic-to-understand-the-u-s-armys-m-1752205463
QuoteTwo Tilt-Wing CL-84s during trials, 1960s
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QuoteGlacier Girl" - a P38 stuck in ice
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Starfury will feel so conflicted...
Probably an Iranian Photoshop job. I doubt they have enough spare parts left to run four Tomcats at the same time. ;)
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Yeah Baby! Sexy! O0
QuoteGround crews service the F-117A aircraft of the 37th Tactical Fighter Wing on the flight line. The 37th TFW was preparing to deploy to Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Shield.
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Best scene from Catch-22.
Imagine this happening all over England for D-Day.
http://worldwarwings.com/17-mitchells-taking-off-is-even-cooler-than-you-think
Its been a very long time since I last watched that film. Looking at that clip again now, I realise just how awesome it is.
I thought you were there to see those planes off, Bob...?
Who do you think he was giving the finger to?
18 facts about the B-52.
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2015/08/18/you-knew-these-18-facts-about-the-b-52-didnt-you/?utm_source=revcontent&utm_medium=referral&utm_term=none
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on January 19, 2016, 08:55:33 AM
18 facts about the B-52.
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2015/08/18/you-knew-these-18-facts-about-the-b-52-didnt-you/?utm_source=revcontent&utm_medium=referral&utm_term=none (https://www.thevintagenews.com/2015/08/18/you-knew-these-18-facts-about-the-b-52-didnt-you/?utm_source=revcontent&utm_medium=referral&utm_term=none)
QuoteThere have been 744 B-52s built, but currently there are only 85 in active service, with 9 in reserve.
:(
F -16s over Japan
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QuoteCanadian CF-18 Hornet during Exercise AMALGAM DART
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McDonnell F2H Banshee, F3H Demon, and F4H Phantom II
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Quote from: mirth on January 20, 2016, 09:49:42 AM
McDonnell F2H Banshee, F3H Demon, and F4H Phantom II
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Nice classics.
F-105 Thunderchief.
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Quote from: Banzai_Cat on January 21, 2016, 07:37:35 AM
F-104 Thunderchief.
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I remember back in 2nd/3rd grade or so, I LOVED to draw this airplane. I don't know where my fetish for drawing it came from, but I got pretty good at it, I remember.
That ain't no Thunderchief.... -10 PlaneGeek points.
F-104 = Starfighter = your picture
F-105 = Thunderchief
;)
Oh BC, for shame :(
$*%*#
You're right. I meant to say it was a Starfighter. I don't know what I was thinking. It's been a bad few days, I should just stay off the frigging board.
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on January 22, 2016, 09:23:51 AM
$*%*#
You're right. I meant to say it was a Starfighter. I don't know what I was thinking. It's been a bad few days, I should just stay off the frigging board.
No, no. Please continue to embarrass yourself. It's highly amusing. ;D
Glad I amuse you, mirth.
QuoteA mock-up of an A-12 plane is radar tested on a pylon at Nevada's secret Area 51 base in the late 1950s.
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The A-12 almost became the F-12 as well, the worlds fastest interceptor carrying AIM-47 missiles, the precursor to the AIM-54 Phoenix.
QuoteSergeant Michael 'Jacko' Jackson, air engineer of Avro Shackleton MR.3 XF707 of No 206 Squadron, checks the wheel bay and undercarriage of his aircraft pre-flight at RAF St Mawgan, Cornwall - 1964.
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http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/blair-bunting-captures-the-essence-of-the-sr-71-blackbi-1755310939
QuoteFirst KC-46A Tanker Refueling Flight
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QuoteDC-130A drone control aircraft carrying BQM-34S Firebee target drones
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Sacrifices must be made.
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QuoteMosquito FB Mark VI Series 2, MM417 EG-T, of No. 487 Squadron RNZAF based at Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, in flight carrying two 500-lb MC bombs on underwing carriers, 28th February 1944.
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Love the Mossy, best looking plane ever in my book. :smitten: :smitten:
Quote from: Capn Darwin on February 02, 2016, 06:30:04 PM
Love the Mossy, best looking plane ever in my book. :smitten: :smitten:
Hard to argue with that.
QuoteF-111B touching down on USS Coral Sea, July 1968
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QuoteSwAF AJ 37 Viggen armed with RB75 (AGM-65 Maverick)
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QuoteBlackburn Firebrand strike fighter during trials on board HMS Illustrious on the River Clyde, Scotland, 9th February 1943.
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That's an early variant indeed. The production version ended up with a radial engine and looked like a flattened F4U.
Air Force pilots never worry about this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poy2F9HdWqc
Experimental U-2 landings and takeoffs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8HMPMYL19E
QuoteGerman night fighter Heinkel He 219 equiped with FUG-220 radar at Münster-Handorf in 1944
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QuoteSwedish Air Force J 35 Draken intercepting Soviet Tu-22M "Backfire", somewhere over the Baltic Sea, 1986
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Quote from: mirth on February 08, 2016, 11:40:31 AM
QuoteGerman night fighter Heinkel He 219 equiped with FUG-220 radar at Münster-Handorf in 1944
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Not many pictures of the Uhu around.
No. That's a good one too.
F-14 self-shootdown
http://www.ejectionsite.com/F-14%20SHOOTDOWN.pdf
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Is that the V/STOL version?
Not 100% sure, but I think it is.
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They sure weren't shy with the paintbrush. Those schemes remind me of the band getups in an 80's Sammy Hagar video.
Quote from: Staggerwing on February 10, 2016, 06:56:46 PM
They sure weren't shy with the paintbrush. Those schemes remind me of the band getups in an 80's Sammy Hagar video.
Just making it easier to find the crashed widowmaker.
True dat. Just ask the Luftwaffe... :(
QuoteX-47B drone lands on the USS Roosevelt
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QuoteSR-71, F-4 and F-14 over NAWS China Lake
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thats a whole lot of global warming! :P
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on February 14, 2016, 11:58:09 AM
thats a whole lot of global warming! :P
I'll add a few more LED lights at home to offset it.
QuoteSturmovik factory, Zavod 1 sometime in 1944.
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QuoteEgyptian Air Force F-4 Phantom, Mirage III, F-16 Falcon, Mig-19 and Mig-21 in formation with US Navy F-14 Tomcat , Vought Corsair and an A-6E Intruder over the Great Pyramid of Giza during Operation Bright Star - 1983.
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QuoteF-15K "Slam Eagle" fighters of the Republic of Korea Air Force
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It's a crying shame the Tomcat is gone. Such a beautiful, sleek looking plane buster! :'(
ya but those Strike Eagles are some serious hardware.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on February 18, 2016, 08:20:39 PM
ya but those Strike Eagles are some serious hardware.
Broken heart mending, are you finally moving on?
Acceptance is the first step to recovery.
QuoteF-4N Phantom IIs in flight with CF-104s near Cold Lake, AB, 1976
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More Eagles. Republic of Singapore Air Force F-15SG. Poor birds being molested and groped by the crowds.
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Some demonstration during the air show.
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Rafale showing off.
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(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1563/25024687322_d1e486767b_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/E8m4Gf)SAM_1434 (https://flic.kr/p/E8m4Gf) by jomni1 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/63207426@N00/), on Flickr
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QuoteT-50A Advanced Trainer built by Lockheed Martin & Korea Aerospace Industries for United States Air Force T-X program
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/lockheedmartin/sets/72157664400317750
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/t50A.html
Quote from: mirth on February 24, 2016, 12:19:41 PM
QuoteT-50A Advanced Trainer built by Lockheed Martin & Korea Aerospace Industries for United States Air Force T-X program
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1577/25105836201_0e0869dc71_o.png)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lockheedmartin/sets/72157664400317750
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/t50A.html
Reminds me a little of a high-tech A4.
QuoteF-100 Super Sabre demonstrating the Low Altitude Bombing System 'Toss Bombing' method
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QuoteUSS Constellation, 1967. A-1 Skyraider, A-3 Skywarrior, A-4 Skyhawk, A-5 Vigilante, A-6 Intruder, F-4 Phantom and SH-3 Sea King.
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Finding the Skyraider in that pic was like playing Where's Waldo.
Lotta birds on that deck.
QuoteBulgarian Su-25 and USAF A-10
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Quote from: mirth on February 25, 2016, 11:50:22 AM
QuoteBulgarian Su-25 and USAF A-10
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DCS birds! :smitten:
https://www.facebook.com/noticiassobreaviacao/videos/977428125706830/?fref=nf
J-15 testing at sea.
QuoteB-2 & B-52 at Diego Garcia
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I saw an An124 take off from IAH once back when I worked the ramp at the airport. Didn't think that monster was going to get off the ground, but damned if it didn't. ;D
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=182AepOJjMs
Bad one.
its like watching Mirth on a date.
Quote from: mirth on March 03, 2016, 03:55:15 PM
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Dad was a crewman on the E-4's in the late 70's early 80's. He told me the other day that it cost $10,000 to fly back then.
The B model is what they currently fly and were converting the A models to B's in the 80's. Back then they were costing half a billion. The B models have that extra hump which houses a satellite antenna. There is a 3 rung ladder to access it. The ladder cost $50,000 by itself.
Quote19-year-old Lieutenant Edwin Wright looks upon his airplane after being hit by an 88 mm shell, over the town/city of Munster, Germany. WW2
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QuoteCommander shows pilots how to perform aerobatic maneuvers on SU-7BM. Taganrog, 1979.
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Not sure if this should go in the Planes thread, or the Ship thread.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2KS6sfqM0fOeTdOT1ZQcXFDb0k/view
That is just cool! Thanks for sharing- I'd never heard of the Brodie device before.
QuoteB-52H Stratofortress over Andersen AFB, Guam
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QuoteSAC B-47 Stratojets based at Schilling AFB, Kansas in the 1950s.
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Jetpack Goat
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:2funny: :2funny: :2funny:
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*low whistle* .... nice!
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QuotePhoto Soviet Tu-16s taken from a Royal Norwegian Air Force F-104
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QuoteSupersonic interceptor Su-9 preparing to fly in the Arctic
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QuoteRAAF Mirage IIIOs in Malaysia
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Collection of WWII bombers that didn't make it home.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/featured/22-gut-wrenching-images-of-bombers-that-didnt-make-it-home.html (https://www.warhistoryonline.com/featured/22-gut-wrenching-images-of-bombers-that-didnt-make-it-home.html)
QuoteAn AV-8S Matador overflies the Spanish Aircraft Carrier Dédalo (R01) in the Mediterranean Sea on 1 June 1988.
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The first Air Force flies again
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http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-first-air-force-one-has-taken-to-the-skies-once-aga-1766275489
Connie!
Awesome!
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That should bring Starfury out into the light...
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Eerie...
Looks like a military version- it has the little astrolabe bubble over the cockpit.
QuoteBombing of The Gestapo headquarters in Shellhuset house, Copenhagen by the RAF, 1945
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wow, thats low
Yeah. One of the Mosquitos clipped a building and crashed.
http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/bombercommandattackongestapoheadquarterscopenhagen.cfm (http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/bombercommandattackongestapoheadquarterscopenhagen.cfm)
Czech L-159
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Disposal of retired A-6s.
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That's wrong on so many levels.
what the hell is this?
32°09'04.5"N 110°50'36.2"W
just copy/paste is into google.
Quote from: mirth on April 06, 2016, 08:13:24 AM
Disposal of retired A-6s.
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Looks like a pile of dead beagles. Sad.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on April 06, 2016, 05:42:23 PM
what the hell is this?
32°09'04.5"N 110°50'36.2"W
Coordinates for your goat farm.
look first and be snarky later.
I did look and I know what is at Davis Monthan.
QuoteAggressor F-15J of the JASDF
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Quote from: mirth on April 06, 2016, 08:13:24 AM
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:'( :'( :'( :'(
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"Yeah, I see 'em. Look sharp guys- Boris Badinov and Natasha Fatale can't be far behind..."
QuoteA US F-15 C/D takes off from Leeuwarden Airport to take part in exercise Frisian Flag 2016.
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Leeuwarden :smitten:
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QuoteSoviet Yak-141 doing carrier testing in March 1987
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QuoteUS Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet and JASDF F-4EJ Phantoms flying in formation
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RCAF F-86 Sabres
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QuoteBeriev A-50 Mainstay AEW aircraft
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I really like the Russian paint schemes.
QuoteB-52 over Paris - on its way to the Lafayette Escadrille
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QuoteThis beautiful photo of a U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bomber soaring above the Pacific Ocean was taken by Bobbi Garcia. The B-2 Spirit is flying below Mach 1. The creation of the B-2 Spirit's cloud involves a phenomenon in fluid mechanics called the Prandtl-Glauert Singularity.
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:'(
Is it just me or most of you pictures not displaying Mirth.
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Quote from: OJsDad on May 02, 2016, 06:52:04 AM
Is it just me or most of you pictures not displaying Mirth.
I'm seeing them all.
Strange. I found by laptop going through a hotspot worked fine. So I rebooted my DSL router and now they're showing.
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http://www.defensetech.org/2012/05/31/cia-docs-the-difference-between-the-a-12-and-the-sr-71/
The idea of A-12's escorting B-70's at mach 3.5 for first strike missions is one of the things that won that Cold War.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x495d6l_untitled_news
360 view of practice flight in SU 27.
QuoteCold War: USAF F-15 Eagles escort two USSR MiG-29 fighters above Alaska, USA. Canadian Armed Forces Major Bob Wade says the MiG-29s "came from the USSR into Alaska and spent the night at Elmendorf AFB on the 5th of August [1989]." The MiG-29s flew to Canada after visiting the USA.
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https://books.google.com/books?id=CPXN5nm31o0C&pg=PA5&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
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QuoteEB-66 Pathfinder leading four F-105s on bombing mission over North Vietnam
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^There's alway one in every party-crew who didn't get the theme-costume memo.
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 16, 2016, 07:16:58 PM
^There's alway one in every party-crew who didn't get the theme-costume memo.
Ha!
http://wwiivideoarchives.altervista.org/portale/?q=node%2F122
Last flying mosquito flies with a Lancaster, Hurrican, Spitfire, and Mitchell.
Quote101 F-84 Thunderstreak fighters line up at Goose Bay, Newfoundland, November 1961 for a flight to the Azores with a final destination of Europe during the Berlin Crisis. Fuel range was so critical the aircraft were towed to the end of the runway before being started for launch
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http://www.maam.org/airshow/r4d.html
Virtual tour of a Gooney Bird at the REading, Pa air museum.
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QuoteThe Convair NB-36H "Crusader", test bed for what was to become a nuclear powered bomber for the ANP program, circa mid-1950s
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I thought they took the cannons out of the remaining BUFFs.
they have.
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de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou
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B-2 bomber and T-38 Talon
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The Caribou is what my dad serviced when in Vietnam. Today he's a member of an organization of service personnel that worked on them.
Quote from: mirth on June 05, 2016, 12:56:57 PM
de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou
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Quote from: OJsDad on June 05, 2016, 01:06:33 PM
The Caribou is what my dad serviced when in Vietnam. Today he's a member of an organization of service personnel that worked on them.
O0
Underside of an AC-130
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Polish SU-22M4 & SU-22MLU
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Quotede Havilland Vampire FB.52 - Norway
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Quote from: mirth on June 07, 2016, 11:36:51 AM
Underside of an AC-130
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Not the side you want to be looking at! :o
Unless those guns can point straight down, it may be one of the safer placed to be.
True... or they're coming around for a better pass....
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proof that there are 40 year olds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw6NFmcnW-8
Steam powered airplane. The ease it reverses is neat.
QuoteMcDonnell Douglas F-15A (S/N 76-043) with inspection panels open.
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QuoteBaltops 2016 - B-52 escorted by Swedish, German, American and Polish fighter jets
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http://www.china-arms.com/2015/12/chinese-air-force-finds-the-secret-of-aircrafts-one-minute-slower-in-taking-off/
China finds advantages to working with other air forces.
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^That is an awesome pic!
You almost expect the crewman to pull out a shop rag and wipe down the canopy.
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/05/24/russians-flying-aircraft-carrier-actually-worked-deployed-aircraft-mother-ship-successfully-engaged-targets/
Those wacky bolsheviks are at it again.
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A 'stache even Bob would envy.
QuoteMaj. Roy Dickey, an F-105D pilot in the 469th TFS, smiling under his "bullet-proof" mustache - 100 Missions Up North
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There's a group of restorationists in Sidney, BC (nearby to where I live) who have restored a DeHaviland Mosquito. I had the privilege of seeing it put through its paces last year. Truly an amazing machine! Seeing her fly and hearing the roar of thos engines send a chill down my spine and took me away to another time. Anyway, there's a documentary coming up which goes into the operational history of the plane as well as the restoration process. It's going to be aired in July and it's on a public access channel so hopefully it should be available to everyone.
https://www.knowledge.ca/program/gaining-altitude-mosquito-reborn
(https://www.knowledge.ca/program/gaining-altitude-mosquito-reborn)
Damn, they have one of only two airworthy Mossies in the world. Way cool.
And I've seen the other one at RAF Leuchars (smug mode on).
^bastard.
<Ultra smug mode on>
Oh the sweet sound of those twin RR Merlins.....................
Ultra smug bastard.
Blimey, just found the programme book thingie. 1995 it was.
Mosquito T111 RR299. Ooh look, Mirthie - a picture of it in flight........
Yer killin me, man
Quote from: mirth on June 16, 2016, 01:01:29 PM
Yer killin me, man
Sidney BC appears to be just 50-odd hours west of you. Get an oil change and then load up the Mirthmobile with lots and lots of snacks.
Quote from: Staggerwing on June 16, 2016, 07:27:12 PM
Quote from: mirth on June 16, 2016, 01:01:29 PM
Yer killin me, man
Sidney BC appears to be just 50-odd hours west of you. Get an oil change and then load up the Mirthmobile with lots and lots of snacks.
When you said Mirthmoble, this is the image that popped into my head.
[image]http://i2.cdnds.net/12/34/618x409/movies_dumb_and_dumber_8.jpg[/image]
Quote from: OJsDad on June 16, 2016, 07:35:58 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on June 16, 2016, 07:27:12 PM
Quote from: mirth on June 16, 2016, 01:01:29 PM
Yer killin me, man
Sidney BC appears to be just 50-odd hours west of you. Get an oil change and then load up the Mirthmobile with lots and lots of snacks.
When you said Mirthmoble, this is the image that popped into my head.
[image]http://i2.cdnds.net/12/34/618x409/movies_dumb_and_dumber_8.jpg[/image]
See now, and I was thinking of this one:
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8110/8567076334_508e6d15fa_b.jpg)
^that's the one. plenty of room for snacks.
QuoteThe Memphis Belle undergoing restoration
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QuoteVintage USMC SNJ5 Harvard Aircraft/"Pilot Maker"
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(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/715/21786978160_c6c3ecc782_k.jpg)
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(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8461/8051589435_cdb33f6d7a_b.jpg)
A-10's landing on Estonia highway
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-fighter-jets-land-on-highway/vi-AAhyy8U?ocid=spartanntp
The two last remaining flying Avro Lancasters flying in formation - Thumper (British RAF) and Vera (Canadian RCAF)
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B-36J Peacemaker at the Pima Air & Space Museum
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QuoteA U.S. Air Force B-1 Lancer assigned to the 77th Weapons Squadron departs Nellis Air Force Base
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http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/4014/how-a-small-town-girl-ended-up-in-the-cockpit-of-an-a-10-warthog
QuoteTwo Vought A-7B Corsair II's from Attack Squadron VA-215 "Barn Owls" in flight. VA-215 was assigned to Carrier Air Wing 19 (CVW-19) aboard USS Oriskany (CVA-34) for a deployment to Vietnam from May to December 1971. 1971. USN Photo. 1971.
(https://i.redd.it/8okjiewg3o5x.jpg)
QuoteFlight deck personnel watch as an F-14 Tomcat hits the afterburner before launching from the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63)
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QuoteAn airman lashes a Banshee (F2H) jet fighter to the flight deck of USS Essex (CVA-9)
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QuoteThe 64th Aggressor Squadron's F-15 Eagles and F-16 Fighting Falcon head to the fight after refueling during the Red Flag 07-3 exercise at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev.
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QuoteMyasishchev M-55 (Russian U-2 equivalent)
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QuoteAn F-4 Phantom launched from USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CVA-67) over the Atlantic, 20 December 1969.
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QuoteThe Arsenal VB 10: France's cancelled super-heavy interceptor
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https://oldmachinepress.com/2012/09/28/arsenal-vb-10-heavy-interceptor/
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Magnificent.
'tis that, lad.
Mirthie...did I ever tell you about the Mosquito I saw at RAF Leuchars?
You shush, Bawb.
:-))
Have I told you about the foursome I had with my lesbian girlfriend and her two friends?
In the navigators seat in a Mosquito?
The backseat of a Cadillac.
pft!
I kid. It was a large sectional couch.
Best night of my life.
French Navy's Super Etendard farewell video
Local event this weekend
http://www.air-shows.org.uk/2016-airshow-season/preview-sunderland-international-airshow/
yer killin me Bob.
C'mon over, we'll give yer a good time.
Today, we had a low pass over the house of the 2 Vampires and the MiG 15 flying in formation and heading south. We are about 5 miles south of Newcastle Airport and these chaps were parked there for the Sunderland Air Show.
We caught a glimpse of the Spit and Hurri, and also a Typhoon, but sadly not the B-25 or OV-10, a particular favorite of mine.
Sounds awesome, Bob.
Quote from: bob48 on July 25, 2016, 12:47:44 PM
Today, we had a low pass over the house of the 2 Vampires and the MiG 15 flying in formation and heading south. We are about 5 miles south of Newcastle Airport and these chaps were parked there for the Sunderland Air Show.
We caught a glimpse of the Spit and Hurri, and also a Typhoon, but sadly not the B-25 or OV-10, a particular favorite of mine.
Any sightings of the Vulcan these days? Used love watching these in Goose Bay, Labardor rattle the shingles on our row house as they did low fly overs.
I think the final Vulcan flight was last year. Couldn't keep one in flying condition any longer.
Here it is
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/11960726/Vulcan-bomber-touches-down-forever-after-final-flight.html
:'(
Just think- one day the same sad expressions will come up when watching the last B-52 touch down for the last time...
... and it''ll be simulcast (with approx 15min delay) to our thriving colonies on Mars.
Forget about a final flight, we might still be flying 52s operationally in 20 years. Flight of the Old Dog indeed.
https://www.thrillist.com/cars/things-you-didn-t-know-about-the-f-14-tomcat-facts-history-and-trivia-about-the-plane-from-top-gun
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WOW! Fantastic shot. O0
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QuoteMcDonnell FH-1 Phantom taking off from the light aircraft carrier USS Saipan, CVL-48, on 6 May 1948
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/FH-1_VF-17A_CVL-48_bow_6May1948.jpg)
QuoteF-14A takes the barrier aboard USS Kitty Hawk, CV-63, June 1984
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/F-14A_of_VF-1_makes_barrier_landing_on_USS_Kitty_Hawk_%28CV-63%29_in_1984.jpeg)
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/5065/the-phantastic-qf-4-phantom-full-scale-target-drone-takes-its-phinal-unmanned-phlight
QuoteMiG Ye-152 prototype armed with K-80 air-to-air missles, circa 1961
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Looks like A MiG-21 with some serious 'roid rage.
Fokker over France
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/fokker.htm
QuoteMiG Ye-8 prototype, planned to become the MiG-23 but eventually cancelled.
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eurofighterski
https://www.navytimes.com/articles/this-navy-electronic-attack-jet-took-flight-on-beef-fat
Vegetable oil fuel?
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^The Eagle is such a beautiful plane
QuoteB-52H 'Ghostrider' being brought back into service from retirement by the US Air Force to replace aircraft lost from fire in 2014
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Story - http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/5384/resurrected-b-52h-ghost-rider-reenters-active-service-at-minot-afb
I Cant even imagine how long it took to get all that paint off and down to bare metal.
She may have never seen a full coat of paint prior to being resurrected.
thats stripped metal.
When though?
QuoteMorane-Saulnier M.S.406 "Bretagne"
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Wow- I didn't know there were any flyable ones left. O0
QuoteTurkish Stars aerobatic team NF-5A Freedom Fighters
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QuoteTwo US Navy OV-10A Bronco FAC/light-attack aircraft from VAL-4 (Light-attack squadron 4) the "Black Ponies" seen in flight. VAL-4 provided support to Brown Water Navy and SEAL units in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War
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Man, it took some balls to fly into combat in those things. :o
Quote from: mirth on October 18, 2016, 11:27:28 AM
QuoteTwo US Navy OV-10A Bronco FAC/light-attack aircraft from VAL-4 (Light-attack squadron 4) the "Black Ponies" seen in flight. VAL-4 provided support to Brown Water Navy and SEAL units in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War
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Oh how I love the Bronco :smitten: :smitten: :smitten:
Quote from: bob48 on October 18, 2016, 12:20:44 PM
Oh how I love the Bronco :smitten: :smitten: :smitten:
Weren't you a fan of the OV-1 Mohawk as well, or am I thinking of someone else?
There're both groovy planes, each in their own unconventional way. You don't see much in the way of modern aircraft with similar eccentric appeal.
Quote from: Staggerwing on October 18, 2016, 06:43:35 PM
Quote from: bob48 on October 18, 2016, 12:20:44 PM
Oh how I love the Bronco :smitten: :smitten: :smitten:
Weren't you a fan of the OV-1 Mohawk as well, or am I thinking of someone else?
There're both groovy planes, each in their own unconventional way. You don't see much in the way of modern aircraft with similar eccentric appeal.
Warthog
Good point, but the Warthog isn't so much an eccentric airplane as it is the terror-and-awe-inspiring winged fury of some vengeful Old World God.
Quote from: Staggerwing on October 18, 2016, 06:43:35 PM
Quote from: bob48 on October 18, 2016, 12:20:44 PM
Oh how I love the Bronco :smitten: :smitten: :smitten:
Weren't you a fan of the OV-1 Mohawk as well, or am I thinking of someone else?
There're both groovy planes, each in their own unconventional way. You don't see much in the way of modern aircraft with similar eccentric appeal.
Yes, but more the Bronco. I have a few versions of it in FSX and its likely the aircraft I've flown most. I've just added the Steam version of SFX since my old version went down the drain when my HD failed, but I have a lot of stuff saved on an external HD that I need restore.
There is a very nice payware OV-10 package by Aerosoft, but its a bit too pricey for me atm. They do, however, have periodic sales, so I'll be looking out for that.
QuoteE-2C Hawkeye and a C-2A Greyhound fly over USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) as the ship travels to its new home port of San Diego, California
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Who dat? Turkey?
Yep. One of the last ones operating the F-4.
QuoteF-15C from the 65th Aggressor Squadron over Nellis AFB. 2012
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That mountain range seems damn familiar.... never mind, I was on the California side of it all.
(https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/0fca47d8547cd41af8f8839776a1cd16.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600)
thats pretty sexy.
Quote from: Barthheart on October 25, 2016, 02:20:40 PM
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Helluva lot of thrust right there.
That's what she said.
Is it a phantom?
Quote from: undercovergeek on October 26, 2016, 06:05:24 AM
Is it a phantom?
One of yours, actually. With British engines.
Japanese F-15J Eagles
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5766/23352514699_be54d7fe64_o.jpg)
This is a pretty good Top Gun story from Tom Cruise
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QuoteSouth Korean F-15K Slam Eagles in Alaska during Red Flag
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QuoteRed Flag - Alaska 17-1 flightline: Republic of Korea F-15K Slam Eagles ready for a sortie alongside USMC F/A-18C Hornets and USAF F-15C Eagles
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QuoteChinese FTC-2000 Mountain Eagle (JL-9)
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5330/30632380362_80ca3af16f_o.jpg)
QuoteT-50-5R, shot from An-12 ramp, making a banking turn.
(https://i.imgur.com/rwMDGne.jpg)
Russian heating system:
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The one in the pic before yours was rebuilt from that plane that caught fire.
QuoteA QF-4 Aerial Target in manned configuration, piloted by Jim Harkins from Detachment 1, 82nd Aerial Targets Squadron, performs a flyby at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, Oct. 25, 2016. (U.S. Air Force photo/Paul Holcomb)
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QuoteFully loaded Turkish F-16
(https://i.sli.mg/xqlDLt.jpg)
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:smitten: quad .50 cheek guns- 1/3 of the way to the penultimate gunship variant.
She's a sexy Princess.
Singapore Air Force F-15's and F-16's take off and land from road.
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http://www.maphotosg.com/exercise-torrent-vii-start-finish/
^nice pics! O0
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View from inside a B-52
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Quote from: Banzai_Cat on November 17, 2016, 07:47:41 PM
View from inside a B-52
(https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/b-52-stratofortress-cockpit-920-36.jpg)
The view from behind a B-52
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^ Hehehehe...
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PLI-LMeXgpk/maxresdefault.jpg)
I'd Photoshop the cloud into that pic if I wasn't lazy/completely uninterested in opening my work laptop at the moment.
IIRC, they removed all of the rear guns and gun stations from the BUFFs. Still, that would have been quite a zen deal, sitting there, having no idea what was ahead but master of all that was behind you. If only Life could be that way...
You can get close to it (-ish) by watching By Dawn's Early Light.
Looks cheesy now but I still like it.
I'm ashamed to say I've never seen it. Soon to be rectified.
It was pretty good for back in the day.
I think I've posted it from YouTube before - it's a pretty good movie. Powers Boothe, I always enjoyed his acting and the roles he's played. I loved the book Flight of the Old Dog, too, so I have an affinity for BUFFs.
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Put big enough engines on a brick and even it will fly!
Not a new one but still...
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Quote from: Barthheart on November 18, 2016, 09:16:28 PM
Put big enough engines on a brick and even it will fly!
Pretty much Kerbal Space Program in a nutshell.
:'(
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:'( :'( :'(
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QuoteUSAF F-15E Strike Eagle with supermoon in background
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QuoteAn AC-119K gunship fires at Communist supply lines over Laos
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QuoteBrazilian Air Force F-5EM being refueled by a Naval Aviation AF-1 Skyhawk
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QuoteA B-52 Stratofortress, B-1 Lancer and B-2 Spirit taxi in preparation for an integrated bomber mission at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Aug.17, 2016.
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QuoteAn RAF Handley Page Victor refuelling a Royal Navy de Havilland Sea Vixen and a Blackburn Buccaneer above RAF Boscombe Down, Wiltshire during refuelling trials, November 1965.
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That is excellent :bd:
Never seen a sea vixen before, she's sexy
QuoteFour generations of Australian maritime patrol aircraft fly together to induct the P-8 into RAAF service
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QuoteF2H Banshe over the battleship BB-62 New Jersey and aircraft carrier CVA-39 Lake Champlain
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Great pic! O0
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QuoteSwordfish Mk I, W5856, operated by the Royal Navy Historic Flight
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Quote from: mirth on December 06, 2016, 06:25:19 PM
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Seen 'em :bd:
Quote from: mirth on December 06, 2016, 06:30:32 PM
QuoteSwordfish Mk I, W5856, operated by the Royal Navy Historic Flight
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Seen it :bd:
Pffft more like test flown it
Quote from: undercovergeek on December 07, 2016, 07:00:13 AM
Pffft more like test flown it
Blimey - you're awake early. Its only December.
Soviet Su-15
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IIRC, that's what shot down KAL Flight 007.
Yep :(
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What a view that must be from there...
QuoteSoviet crewmen relaxing on board the KM (ekranoplan), Caspian Sea, date unknown
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They look ready to WIG out.
Whatever floats their boats.
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on December 07, 2016, 10:06:57 PM
What a view that must be from there...
In HS I was in AFJROTC. We got to take a ride on a KC-135 and refueled a B-52. Really cool to watch. When the refueling was done, they gave us each a turn on running the boom.
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That ruskkie crossing over that airfield like that... WTF?
In Soviet Union, airshow watches you!
That the camera person didn't even flinch is something incredible.
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on December 12, 2016, 09:39:15 PM
That the camera person didn't even flinch is something incredible.
Probably just as pissed as the pilot.
QuoteSea Fury and Firefly aircraft on the snow covered flight deck of HMS Theseus, off the west coast of Korea, 8th December 1950.
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Awesome picture, Mirthie. :bd:
...look at the silly buggers bottom right - snowball fights by the look of it
The stubbornness of WWII fighter design
https://warisboring.com/arrogant-u-s-generals-made-the-p-51-mustang-a-necessity-fd6063ff4893#.71gd3gwjz
We really didn't need so many different types in production throughout the war. The P-38 was far more expensive and manpower intensive to produce than the other types. The resistance to drop tanks was ridiculous as was the initial resistance to fighter escort of bombers.
As much as the US procurement/production process had issues, it was far more flexible and efficient than that of our enemies.
Refurbished B-17 and B-25 in flight. Awesome.
http://worldwarwings.com/b17-and-b25-sabercat-1-helicopter-one-beautiful-video/?a=mk&var=b-17+aerial-ww2&utm_campaign=b-17+aerial&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_term=original-ww2-mk&utm_content=b-17
QuoteZveno flying aircraft carrier, USSR
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Album - http://imgur.com/gallery/eHS6Z
QuoteThe last cruise, the last launch. F-14D Tomcats stage to depart USS Roosevelt (CVN-71) for the final time before retirement, 2006
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QuoteLieutenant-Commander Eric "Winkle" Brown Does A Flyby Of HMS Ocean In His Sea Vampire (LZ551), This Is The First Instance Of A Jet Aircraft Taking Off And Landing On A Carrier, December 3rd, 1945.
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QuoteSouth Korean F-15K Slam Eagle armed with German Taurus KEPD 350K cruise missile
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Korean owned, American built plane carrying a German made weapon. Small planet....
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Someone's been very naughty
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QuoteF-CK-1 Ching-kuo Indigenous Defense Fighters (IDF) - Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF)
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Quote from: mirth on December 25, 2016, 05:55:00 PM
QuoteF-CK-1 Ching-kuo Indigenous Defense Fighters (IDF) - Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF)
Don't F-CK with 'em- they look mean!
Quote from: Staggerwing on December 25, 2016, 06:15:15 PM
Quote from: mirth on December 25, 2016, 05:55:00 PM
QuoteF-CK-1 Ching-kuo Indigenous Defense Fighters (IDF) - Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF)
Don't F-CK with 'em- they look mean!
It's like an F-16 and F-18 had a baby.
Quote from: mirth on December 25, 2016, 05:46:35 PM
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and this, boys and girls, are how baby Flankers are made.
QuoteF-16C/D Block 52+ Fighting Falcons - Royal Moroccan Air Force
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QuoteUS Coast Guard Hall PH-3 flying boat firing a M1919 Browning machine gun during training flight in 1943
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QuoteMIG-31 Foxhounds. Kamchatka Peninsula 2017
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^The aircraft version of a 'Look out behind you' entry.
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bake sales for the Jamaican Air Force?
https://warisboring.com/serving-in-the-jamaican-air-force-sounds-like-a-rough-job-469284807f6a#.3b5km5cty
"special" brownies?
Quote from: bayonetbrant on January 12, 2017, 06:58:23 AM
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cool pic!
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We are pretty much all the guy in front.
Stupid and operating complex machinery at high speeds. Sounds like us.
https://mobile.twitter.com/CivMilAir/status/816903683761963009
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shiny
Drakens are pretty sweet rides.
now is Gus sizes!
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Quote from: GDS_Starfury on January 16, 2017, 04:10:24 PM
Drakens are pretty sweet rides.
those intakes look old school
Quote from: Windigo on January 16, 2017, 07:39:34 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on January 16, 2017, 04:10:24 PM
Drakens are pretty sweet rides.
those intakes look old school
The design dates back to '49 so yeah it's old school.
Old School Cool. It was a cranked arrow design long before the same was tried on the F-16XL.
Say what you want, the Flanker is a pretty airplane
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It is Purdy.
It kinda looks like two smaller aircraft welded together.
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A nose for trouble, that.
QuoteKadett Lovisa Sandelin, the first female Swedish fighter pilot in 26 years
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They are both quite lovely.
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its a prize fighters nose.
A nose for trouble.
QuoteA French Mirage 2000-5 intercepting Russian Tu-160 Blackjacks, February 9, 2017
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What's it say on the side? "Putin's Love Missile", maybe?
QuoteBulgarian Su-25K and USAF A-10 fly together during THRACIAN THUNDER 2016 exercises in Bulgaria
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Birds of a feather...
Quote from: Staggerwing on February 10, 2017, 07:22:57 PM
What's it say on the side? "Putin's Love Missile", maybe?
"Putin-Trump 2017. The New World Order"
Quote from: Staggerwing on February 10, 2017, 07:22:57 PM
What's it say on the side? "Putin's Love Missile", maybe?
Nikolai Kuznetsov. The Russians name their Tu-160s after famous aviators, much like we name our B-2s. The Russian Air Force only has sixteen of them.
Quote from: Airborne Rifles on February 12, 2017, 07:49:15 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on February 10, 2017, 07:22:57 PM
What's it say on the side? "Putin's Love Missile", maybe?
Nikolai Kuznetsov. The Russians name their Tu-160s after famous aviators, much like we name our B-2s. The Russian Air Force only has sixteen of them.
Thanks for the clarification AR. Apparently the aviator isn't the only notable Nikolai Kuznetsov from the Great Patriotic War. Check
this guy out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Ivanovich_Kuznetsov. Pretty remarkable.
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^Looks like a chilly day in the Levant...
QuoteThe crew of Douglas Boston Mark III , South Africa 1943
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someone might have already posted this... still cool
http://www.warhistoryonline.com/military-vehicle-news/crazy-soviet-pilot-flew-bridge-mig-17-jet-plane.html
I've seen it before.
QuoteDassault Rafale M performing a carrier landing.
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QuoteA pair of Israeli Air Force F-16s flying over Masada
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Nice, ramping up the symbolism, eh?
https://www.facebook.com/AeroSedifer/videos/828889023912722/
Pretty nice vid of P-51s
QuoteXB-70 with downward wingtips. This phenomenon allowed the XB-70 to effectively "capture" the shockwave generated by its own supersonic flight into usable lift. This form of compression lift decreased the induced drag of the XB-70 by around 20-30%
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QuoteA Bristol Blenheim light bomber flies through the clouds above RAF Fairford, United Kingdom, during the Royal International Air Tattoo, July 17, 2015
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QuoteA U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress, B-1 Lancer and B-2 Spirit launch from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, for an integrated bomber operation Aug.17, 2016
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That's one official shit-tonne of flaps on that old girl....
Too high an angle on the landing. The landing gear will go through those wings some time.
Good thing they never tried it in real life then.
Actually, iirc, the nasalized version of the Stuka would have beefed-up landing gear from it's land-based brethren, with much longer travel on the oleos and the ability to be jettisoned in case of water landing. The naval Stuka would also have been equipped with giant flotation bladders that would deploy to keep the plane afloat for several days.
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Looks a bit like Tigger from Winnie the Pooh, don't 'e?
There was also a modified version of the Bf 109E-3 produced and known as the 109T (Trager) for use on the Graf Zeppelin. These included increased wing span and manually folding wings amongst other things. they were later used by I/JG 77 after much of the deck equipment had been removed. This unit operated from Norway apparently.
Quote from: bob48 on March 14, 2017, 04:03:49 PMThis unit operated from Norway apparently.
No doubt the short take-off ability and probable cold-weather survival upgrades would have suited operating among the Fjords. They didn't use the Norwegian Blue Parrot as unit insignia by any chance?
LOL - if they didn't, then they should have :2funny:
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Apparently just one left... as a static display... :'(
Quote from: Windigo on March 17, 2017, 11:28:25 AM
Apparently just one left... as a static display... :'(
yeah. It never got much love despite being a good design and relatively inexpensive.
QuoteRAF F35 missile loadouts
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QuoteVimy Flight's 7 airplanes loaded in an RCAF C-17 ready to go from Comox BC to Lille, France
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O0
QuoteFour B-1B Lancers arrive Feb. 6, 2017, at Andersen AFB, Guam
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QuoteAn A-10C Thunderbolt II taxis down the runway during Green Flag-West 17-03 Jan. 23, 2017, at Nellis AFB, Nev
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QuoteAn F-14A Tomcat of Fighter Squadron (VF) 213 engages an F-16N Viper aggressor aircraft during training at the Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN) at Naval Air Station (NAS) Miramar, California, in March 1989
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QuoteFour F-16s from the USAF (18 Aggressor Squadron, 354 Fighter Wing Alaska) in RAAF Williamtown Base for Exercise Diamond Shield 2017
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QuoteFrench Mirage 2000D during Frisian Flag 2017
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QuoteF-15 providing cover for Space Shuttle launch
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QuoteCanadian CF-18 showing off it's paint job for Canada 150
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:bd:
Snoopy smokes cigars?
QuoteEAST CHINA SEA (April 3, 2017) Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) Airman Matthew Titus signals an AV-8B Harrier assigned to the "Tomcats" of Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 311 to take off from the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6).
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QuoteEA-18G Growler launches from the USS Carl Vinson (CV-70) in the South China Sea, April 12, 2017
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Quote from: mirth on April 21, 2017, 04:51:21 PM
QuoteEA-18G Growler launches from the USS Carl Vinson (CV-70) in the South China Sea, April 12, 2017
Didn't the EA-8 have gold in parts of the canopies to protect the crew from all of the electronic emissions. I wonder if these do also.
Quote from: mirth on April 13, 2017, 07:17:31 AM
QuoteEAST CHINA SEA (April 3, 2017) Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) Airman Matthew Titus signals an AV-8B Harrier assigned to the "Tomcats" of Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 311 to take off from the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6).
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I still swear that the reimagined BSG Colonial Viper was inspired by the Harrier. Look at all the obvious vectored combat maneuver scenes and compare that the the experiences of RN pilots during the Falklands War.
Good read
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/9599/a-tomcat-pilots-early-struggles-to-tame-the-mighty-f-14
QuoteRAF Eurofighter Typhoon low level flight in the Mach Loop, UK. Photo by Howyn Roberts
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QuoteCapt. Christopher Prout with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 232, Marine Aircraft Group 11, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing shoots an AIM-7 Sparrow missile from an F/A-18C Hornet
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:smitten: :smitten: :smitten:
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I was watching Generation Kill on Prime and my son's been watching it with me (I saw it some years ago once already). When the A-10s flashed by he asked what they were, and I proudly told him what they could do. One scene had them BRRRRRRRRRPing and that led to some YouTube videos of A-10s chewing the crap out of tanks. :)
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QuoteFrench Navy F-8E Crusaders, VF-84 F-14A Tomcats and a VA-82 A-7E Corsair II on the deck of the USS Nimitz during a joint exercice in 1983
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QuoteC-5 M Super Galaxy aircraft parked on the ramp on a rainy morning at Travis AFB, Calif., Apr. 7 2017
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QuoteFirst Japanese F-35A arrives at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona.
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^Currently not deployed in it's Giant Robot mode.
That's technically still classified.
red tinted glass and 2 women ground crew....
totally a robot.
QuoteUS A-10 flying in formation with Bulgarian SU 25
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Spitfire Mk. 9
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Italian AV-8B
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QuoteAvro Vulcan B Mk 1
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:bd:
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^purty
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Sexy!
The historic Sea Vixen at RAF Duxford had to make a wheels up landing.
Not sure if it will be restored.
QuoteLightning strikes behind a B-1B Lancer parked on the flight line as a major storm approaches Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma May 18, 2017
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QuoteAV-8B Harrier preparing to land on the flightdeck of amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8) during night operations.
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Ouch!
Not a good 3 point landing. :hide:
Brings to mind the Reliant Robin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQh56geU0X8&t=20s
No worries- it'll buff out.
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Quote from: besilarius on June 01, 2017, 05:39:45 PM
Brings to mind the Reliant Robin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQh56geU0X8&t=20s
Mrs B had an uncle who had one. He loved it.
QuoteAn F-15E Strike Eagle arrives to receive fuel from a 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron KC-135 Stratotanker during a flight in support of Operation Inherent Resolve May 23, 2017.
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^Playfull little eaglet, ain't 'e?
thats the happiest looking F-16 ever.
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QuoteJapanese Kawasaki T-4 trainers
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First Tu-160M2 being assembled at KAPO plant in Kazan
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Doesn't look anything like a B-1.... ::)
Fair bit larger though.
and a fair bit less capable.
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Luftwaffe up to it's old tricks again?
They do love their rocket fighters.
Quote from: mirth on June 11, 2017, 09:00:04 AM
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Rocket powered lawn dart. L:-)
Rocket powered rocket
IIRC that was one of many tests to find out the viability of not being dependent on airfields in the case of WW3.
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http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/11422/air-forces-premier-aggressor-squadron-has-a-surprising-secondary-mission
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Quote18th Aggressor Squadron's F-16C sporting a new blizzard splinter camouflage over Alaska.
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Quote from: mirth on June 24, 2017, 05:44:01 PM
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The original 'Cranked Arrow', predating the F-16XL by about 25 years.
QuoteEmbraer A-29 Super Tucano
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It'll be a real bitch to design a flak jacket to fit the whole fuselage.
Don't we already have an armored ground support aircraft? A-something-or-other?
QuoteAn Italian AV-8B Harrier II on the Aircraft Carrier Cavour (C 550) during AMPHEX 2011
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QuoteHangar of the Italian aircraft carrier Cavour (C 550)
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OMG BC, that vid made me laugh so hard I am crying..... O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 :DD :DD :DD :DD :DD :DD
Airforceproud95's YouTube channel is pretty entertaining. I want to get FSX just to see this chaos for myself. ;D
Quote from: BanzaiCat on July 01, 2017, 07:03:41 PM
Airforceproud95's YouTube channel is pretty entertaining. I want to get FSX just to see this chaos for myself. ;D
Banzai, I still have an unused Steam FSX key if you want it.
Quote from: Staggerwing on July 01, 2017, 07:11:30 PM
Quote from: BanzaiCat on July 01, 2017, 07:03:41 PM
Airforceproud95's YouTube channel is pretty entertaining. I want to get FSX just to see this chaos for myself. ;D
Banzai, I still have an unused Steam FSX key if you want it.
Seriously?!? Hell yeah I want it, Stags! If you don't have anyone else to give it to of course!! O0
It's yours. I'll PM you the key.
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^
Physical evidence of recent gunfire was noted.
QuoteF-105 pilot Capt. John Piowaty & his 'stache, 1967
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there is only one 'stache of the sky.
That's a pretty fucking epic second though. Anyone who drove the Lead Sled is okay.
He looks like Anthony Edwards went back in time.
Quote from: mirth on July 13, 2017, 06:51:12 PM
That's a pretty fucking epic second though. Anyone who drove the Lead Sled is okay.
True. It was not an easy life for those guys. The Thud was kind of the Bf110 of it's time, too big to be a fighter, too small to be a bomber, yet expected pass as both.
Quote from: BanzaiCat on July 13, 2017, 07:07:07 PM
He looks like Anthony Edwards went back in time.
Just as an aside here, did you watch the pseudo-pixar film 'Planes'? When the main plane character gets lost at sea he is escorted to a USN carrier by two F/A-18s. The two Hornets are voiced by non other than Anthony Edwards and Val Kilmer.
Quote from: Staggerwing on July 13, 2017, 07:16:07 PM
Just as an aside here, did you watch the pseudo-pixar film 'Planes'? When the main plane character gets lost at sea he is escorted to a USN carrier by two F/A-18s. The two Hornets are voiced by non other than Anthony Edwards and Val Kilmer.
Heh, I didn't know that. I saw the movie but don't remember it.
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QuoteUSAF Douglas EB-66C Destroyer in Vietnam April 2, 1972
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QuoteItalian Typhoon flies alongside a Polish MiG-29 during a Baltic Air Policing deployment.
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Quote from: mirth on July 16, 2017, 07:50:42 AM
QuoteUSAF Douglas EB-66C Destroyer in Vietnam April 2, 1972
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They stole that from the US Navy.
Quote from: mirth on July 16, 2017, 07:52:05 AM
QuoteItalian Typhoon flies alongside a Polish MiG-29 during a Baltic Air Policing deployment.
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Considering the Russian proclivity for hacking I'd think that the Poles would have traded in their MiGs by now for something that had avionics without legacy back-door exploits.
Heh. I doubt the current avionics on Polish Mig-29s has much in common with Russian systems.
also theres the question of whether or not vacuum tube analog systems can be hacked.
The Israelis handled the updates to the 29s. Doubt there are vacuum tubes anymore.
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/picture-polish-air-force-receives-first-upgraded-mig-29-389174/
Something is not Wright!
Can't wait to see their ME-262.
Quote from: besilarius on July 17, 2017, 06:28:34 AM
Something is not Wright!
Can't wait to see their ME-262.
Hey! That's not the A-5 variant! Where are the underwing gun pods?
From the book, Sled Driver.
An oldie but a goodie. The Hornet must die.
http://oppositelock.kinja.com/favorite-sr-71-story-1079127041
^I love stories like that. Having a military/civilian pilot for a dad meant that my childhood was full of them. Sadly, I've forgotten most of them and, at 80 years old, so has he.
http://www.sunderland.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=10445
Really hope to see the Bronco this year - plus the other stuff, obviously.
^very cool
QuoteA-10 in support of Raqqa offensive
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QuoteA Navy F-4 Phantom II returns to USS Midway (CVA-41), after a mission over North Vietnam. The LSO talks to the pilot on the radio, advising him as the Phantom plane approaches the carrier's deck. Date unknown.
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QuoteUSMC Aviation Assets (MV-22 Osprey/AV-8B Harrier) at RAAF Base Amberley (Exercise Talisman Sabre 2017)
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Quote from: mirth on July 19, 2017, 07:49:38 PM
QuoteA-10 in support of Raqqa offensive
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"Yeah, so then I was, like, 'BRRRRRRRRRRRRTTT'...
and he was, like 'Aieeee!!!!!!!! Nooooo!!!! Ahhhhghttttgurgle'"
SU-35 at the Moscow Air Show.
https://www.facebook.com/russiantour/videos/10156443640104942/
QuoteA pair of USMC Vought O2U-2 fly past USS Saratoga (CV-3), circa 1930.
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:smitten:
QuoteThree Grumman F6F Hellcats with their engines running (foreground) with a Grumman TBF/M Avenger on approach. 1943/44 onboard USS Saratoga (CV-3).
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QuoteAV-8B Harriers land on USS America (LHA 6)
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QuoteTwo A-4C Skyhawk aircraft of Attack Squadron 146 (VA-146) assigned to USS Constellation (CVA-64) fly past USS Kearsarge (CVS-33), 12 August 1964.
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QuoteF-14 "Tomcat" from the Diamondbacks of Fighter Squadron One Zero Two (VF-102) is launched from the bow catapult during flight operations
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:smitten: :smitten:
QuoteVF-102 F-14A Tomcat carrying TARPS loadout including ECA and ALQ-167
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Pure porn. O0
QuoteRestored Il-2 at MAKS-2017 airshow
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^ That pic is so sharp it almost looks Photoshopped.
QuoteLuftwaffe Alpha Jets, Malatya 7th Air Base, Gulf War 1991
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I love this thread
JD's going gameleaper on us, too...lol
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QuoteRoyal Air Force Lightning F-6's, 1987
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QuoteA-4 Skyhawks on the deck of the USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31), Yankee Station, Vietnam, 1970
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QuoteAboard USS Constellation (CV-64) as hanger deck crew work to position a F-14D Tomcat onto one of the carrier's four elevators. Aircraft assigned to the "Bounty Hunters" from Fighter Squadron Two (VF-2) . Apr. 2003.
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https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/892366876025790464
QuoteA pitch-black F-16, July 31, Red Flag - Alaska
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oohhhh pretty!
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I think I posted that one before :P
:buck2:
Quote from: mirth on August 03, 2017, 02:19:20 PM
I think I posted that one before :P
That's worth a double post :bd:
QuoteLancaster with a CF-18 Hornet
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https://www.dodbuzz.com/2017/07/31/another-light-attack-jet-offering-joins-air-forces-oa-x-fly-off/
That's all very nice, but lets face it, nothing looks as good as an OV-10 Bronco.
^truth
Quote from: bob48 on August 04, 2017, 12:32:05 PM
That's all very nice, but lets face it, nothing looks as good as an OV-10 Bronco.
we thought you flew dragons n' shit.
I certainly do one of those things.
It's good to be regular.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on August 04, 2017, 03:15:46 PM
Quote from: bob48 on August 04, 2017, 12:32:05 PM
That's all very nice, but lets face it, nothing looks as good as an OV-10 Bronco.
we thought you flew dragons n' shit.
Surely not at the same time? The dragon might get offended and that never ends well.
QuoteANA Decks Out Their Planes In Awesome 'Star Wars' Colors
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Always had a thing for airliners and their color schemes/logos. If I had the money I'd collect little model planes of them, too. Just what I need besides games to clutter up my office. ;D
say goodby to your wallet:
http://airport-diorama-designs.com/
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on August 05, 2017, 12:41:46 PM
say goodby to your wallet:
http://airport-diorama-designs.com/
Damn, that's cool. I'll wait for my divorce to be final though. :D
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/419397784020258593
Holy chit, I had no idea that this was such a...a thing. Wow.
well.... its a thing if you're single. that shit takes up a lot of space.
Reminds me of the guy with the "JANGbricks" channel on YouTube.
And this dude is married. I saw at least one other video of his where he showed off about 40 Lego sets he bought all at once from a Toys R Us store.
http://militaryhistorynow.com/2014/05/28/flying-colours-a-vivid-history-of-warplane-insignia/
P47 film from 1943.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Wh-3MsTWY
QuoteUSAF Cpt. Neville conducts a flight sortie with his F-16 above northern Japan, Jun. 12, 2017
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Quote from: besilarius on August 08, 2017, 06:48:04 AM
P47 film from 1943.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Wh-3MsTWY
little jimmy is a marriage wrecker and a ****block
QuoteCatalinas at Espiritu Santo, 1942.
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QuoteSix F-105B-10-REs Thunderchiefs (6 of 9 block 10 aircraft built) parked on the ramp
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QuoteF-111As
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I always thought that the F111 was an amazing looking aircraft.
Quote from: mirth on August 10, 2017, 11:28:31 AM
QuoteUSAF Cpt. Neville conducts a flight sortie with his F-16 above northern Japan, Jun. 12, 2017
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Looks like the GIB was running late.
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QuoteRussian Sukhoi Su-24MR
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Looks like an F-111 from that angle.
Quote from: OJsDad on August 14, 2017, 08:14:48 AM
Looks like an F-111 from that angle.
Fortunately the Soviets would never have copied/stolen our designs! O:-)
QuoteCrashed Dornier 17, London suburbs
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Direct Hit!
Very early cruise missile
more correct then you might have realized with the Mistle program.
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Those wacky Krauts
QuoteWhen you land on the wrong carrier
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QuoteA Greek F4E AUP landing during exercise INIOHOS 2017
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QuoteTurkish F-4E Phantoms dusk flight
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WOLVERINES! (http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/08/18/meet-wolverine-wwii-style-with-state-art-tech.html)
Quote from: bayonetbrant on August 23, 2017, 08:31:43 AM
WOLVERINES! (http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/08/18/meet-wolverine-wwii-style-with-state-art-tech.html)
QuoteBetween the paint job and frame, the new jet definitely evokes the style of the iconic fighters from the WWII era, but don't let those looks fool you — this aircraft is packed with state-of-the-art technology.
So... the propellor is just for, uh... 'backup'?
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^nice
Quotede Havilland Sea Vixen, 'Foxy Lady', XP924
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QuoteImperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Kaga conducts air operations in 1937, on the deck are Mitsubishi B2M Type 89, Nakajima A2N Type 90, and Aichi D1A1 Type 94 aircraft
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QuoteA-10 Thunderbolt II and F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft perform an 'Elephant Walk' on the runway during Exercise Beverly Herd 16-01 at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea
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^Should we really "Pearl Harbor" our units that way? Have we learned nothing? ???
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Quote from: bbmike on August 29, 2017, 04:47:21 PM
^Should we really "Pearl Harbor" our units that way? Have we learned nothing? ???
do you know what an elephant walk it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_walk_(aeronautics)
QuoteF-18F's from Ace Combat 7 rendered in Unreal Engine 4
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:o
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https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/905406529481920512
Quote from: Barthheart on September 06, 2017, 08:48:25 AM
:o
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College Frat prank?
beautiful ART piece
QuoteMk VB over Dover. Lovely photo.
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QuoteHomestead F-16C evacuating due to Hurricane Irma
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QuoteTurAF Phantom Phorever F4-E-2020 Terminator loaded with Popeye cruise missile
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QuoteKuwaiti A-4KU Skyhawks. November 18, 1990
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Awesome!
Fairey Firefly 2 seat trainer variant
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Good one. I'd not seen one of those before.
That looks like a night fighter or ASW variant.
The underwing pods look interesting. They don't appear to be drop-tanks.
I did a quick google chop but it's hard to tell if those are radar pods or flush-mounted aux tanks. At least one Firefly variant carried radar, possibly AN/APS-4, in a fuselage pod.
QuoteA photo-reconnaissance variant of the P-40N Warhawk assigned to the 110th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron takes off from a Marston Mat steel runway on an island in the southwest Pacific, 1944-45.
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/2tlj3omz0tieisp/AI-HiAltISR-0917.pdf?dl=0
Article by David Isby:
The US Air Force's high-altitude intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance mission and the aircraft that will carry it out are in a state of flux. The U-2R is likely, in the near future, to remain in service alongside the Global Hawk Block 40 UAV. Lockheed Martin is offering a unmanned U-2 version. Then there are the aircraft coming in from the "black world" of classified programs, the Northrop Grumman RQ-180 UAV and Lockheed Martin's pilot-optional SR-72.
This is awful
https://twitter.com/CivMilAir/status/911981367839412224
Shit. Looks like he tried to loop too low. He was still trying to pull up at the end.
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http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/14692/noaas-flying-hurricane-hunters-launch-suicidal-coyote-drones-into-the-middle-of-storms
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http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/14697/remembering-hugh-hefners-iconic-jet-black-dc-9-big-bunny (http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/14697/remembering-hugh-hefners-iconic-jet-black-dc-9-big-bunny)
QuoteGuarding southern Sweden between 1964—1998, J 35 Draken was the mainstay of F 10 Skåne Wing (disbanded in 2003)
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https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/914473754062987264
QuoteRare photo of a B-52 with its vertical stabilizer in the folded position
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I didn't even know that was a thing!
Is that so they can be based in lower-overhead hangers during emergencies?
I didn't know either. It is for storage in low overhead hangars, which I'm guessing were much more common back when the BUFF first entered service.
QuoteA U.S. Air Force F-4E Phantom II seen in Karup, Denmark wearing the Cold War "European One" camoflauge scheme in April 6, 1985. The picture was also taken by Erik Frikke
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https://twitter.com/TheAviationist/status/915667073434636288
:'(
QuoteUSMC AV-8B Harrier on USS Peleliu (LHA-5) in Hong Kong
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QuoteTwo USAF B-1Bs fly a bilateral mission with Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-15s in the vicinity of the Senkaku Islands on 15 August 2017
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QuoteAbandoned Backfire at Vozdvizhenka Air Base
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Quote19-year-old Lieutenant Edwin Wright looks upon his airplane after being hit by an 88 mm shell, over the city of Munster, Germany.
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QuoteUSAF A-1E Aircraft being loaded with napalm - Vietnam War
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QuoteP5M Marlin seaplane entering the well deck of the dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD-1), February 1957
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Quote from: mirth on October 07, 2017, 05:45:15 PM
Quote19-year-old Lieutenant Edwin Wright looks upon his airplane after being hit by an 88 mm shell, over the city of Munster, Germany.
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Good ol' Hamilton Standard propellers.
https://twitter.com/TheAviationist/status/918129770348638210
Found a site that talks about the F-117, including a page that lists all current aircraft and ones that were lost.
http://www.f-117a.com/Gallery.html
QuoteB-17G Fortress "Mizpah" took a direct AAA hit in the nose on mission to Budapest, 14 July 1944. Two men were killed instantly but the pilot held her level long enough for crew to get out and become POW's. The aircraft crashed near Dunavecse, Hungary.
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^ha!
QuoteGerman Junkers Ju 388, a development of the mass-produced Ju 88, adapted for high-altitude operations in response to the new American B-29 bomber
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Guess what I visited this summer?
Looks interesting!
Bawb, it was more interesting than I ever imagined.
And just when I thought that it couldn't get any better, it did!
Is that the USAF museum in Dayton?
Like, "Holy Shit!" better.
Quote from: OJsDad on October 14, 2017, 10:00:16 AM
Is that the USAF museum in Dayton?
Yessir! Two BIG thumbs up from ole 40.
It's a great museum. Was there a couple of years ago with my son's boy scout troop. Need to get back down there, since they've expanded since then.
Wright-Patterson AFB? I visited there as a wee lad back in the 70s
Be honest, you were never 'wee'.
I always wee.
when did they add the XB-70? that sure as shit wasnt there 10 years ago.
QuoteF4J Phantom II of VF-74 in their bi-centenial color scheme. USS NIMITZ 1976.
(https://i.imgur.com/diQa0KM.jpg)
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on October 14, 2017, 06:57:25 PM
when did they add the XB-70? that sure as shit wasnt there 10 years ago.
I thought it had been there for quite a number of years. I remember seeing it on several occasions during the '60s and '70s. I wonder if they had it in a maintenance area when you were there.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on October 14, 2017, 06:57:25 PM
when did they add the XB-70? that sure as shit wasnt there 10 years ago.
Not sure, but it was in the brightly lit Presidential hangar. Lots of cool stuff.
They added a new hanger a year or two ago, so there's probably more planes there now than before.
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wait until it has to land. :2funny:
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I've seen that movie more times than I care to think about.
"You must think in Rrrrrussian." ;D
I just rewatched it a few days ago. I don't know what it is about it that appeals. I think it was the laserdisc game, in which I lost many a quarter.
Heh. I remember that too.
Did you know that Cliff Clavin was one of the sub crew?
Yeah! I noticed that when I re-watched it. I'm sure I noticed it before but it's been a long time since I've seen it...though back then I watched it more times than I care to count myself.
John Ratzenberger showed up in a lot of small roles like that before he hit it big on Cheers.
Now he is in just about every Pixar film ever made.
True. After Cheers made him too famous for phyiscal charcter acting, he moved on to voice character acting.
Helluva career he made for himself.
flew over us at tonight's soccer game
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click to really enlarge
http://www.wral.com/wwii-planes-bring-living-history-to-rdu-this-weekend/17029787/
Awesome!
That has to be my favourite WWII bomber...has to be O0
Quote from: JudgeDredd on October 20, 2017, 07:18:47 AM
That has to be my favourite WWII bomber...has to be O0
c'mon over - we've got 'em at the airport all weekend :)
https://twitter.com/TheAviationist/status/921364052986728448
That's a cool pic. O0
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/15327/india-might-finally-terminate-their-stealth-fighter-program-with-russia
https://twitter.com/AncientSubHunt/status/921762866247675904
QuoteB-52 Bombers arrive at Andersen AFB
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http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/15337/this-usaf-intelligence-squadrons-insignia-appears-to-show-the-f-19-specter
its a homage to the 80's model.
The Testors Master Builder one?
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I was always fond of this design.
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QuoteFive Navy E-2D Advanced Hawkeyes at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Feb. 2, 2017
(https://media.defense.gov/2017/Feb/02/2001693784/-1/-1/0/170202-M-HD015-0047A.JPG)
77 years ago today...
Dave McCampbell (diving) and Roy Rushing run across 40+ Japanese fighters and proceed to shoot down 15 of them (9 for McCambell and 6 for wingman Rushing) - the US record.
Dashing Dave saw the fighters, turned off his oxygen, and lit a cigarette before making his gun run.
Might have gotten a bigger score, but realised he had been launched without a full fuel load and had to make an emergency landing on Langley.
QuoteF-104 Starfighters of the German Luftwaffe
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those were the only ones that didnt crash.
Using a supersonic, high altitude interceptor in the low-level, ground-attack role may not have been a great choice.
That thing always made me think that it has a Blackbird in the woodpile somewhere. It's basically all rocket with wings strapped on as an afterthought.
Quote from: mirth on October 25, 2017, 02:31:21 PM
Using a supersonic, high altitude interceptor in the low-level, ground-attack role may not have been a great choice.
It was more than that. Like BC said it was basically a rocket engine with wings and a pilot strapped on.... it was really unstable and difficult to fly... which is why many of them became lawn darts... :buck2:
Quote from: Barthheart on October 25, 2017, 05:10:09 PM
Quote from: mirth on October 25, 2017, 02:31:21 PM
Using a supersonic, high altitude interceptor in the low-level, ground-attack role may not have been a great choice.
It was more than that. Like BC said it was basically a rocket engine with wings and a pilot strapped on.... it was really unstable and difficult to fly... which is why many of them became lawn darts... :buck2:
Very true, but it was never intended for low-level missions and that's how the Germans ended up using their 104s. Lots of "controlled flight into terrain".
That's because Lockheed bribed certain W. German officials to the tune of $10 million into approving the sale of the Starfighters even though they were not what the Luftwaffe needed. After that the Luftwaffe were stuck with them and still had to fulfill their full mission requirements.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_bribery_scandals
Whoops.
Whoa, a glitch in the Matrix!
IIRC the engines on the F-104 were fucking awful and would conk out for very little reason. Like something that aerodynamically 'sound' needed any encouragement to not be airworthy.
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QuoteA British Hawker Hurricane Mk IIB of No. 134 Squadron, British Royal Air Force, warms up the engine next to Soviet Army sentries at the Vaenga (Vayenga) airfield, about 10 km (6.2 mi) north-east from Murmansk. October, 1941.
(https://i.imgur.com/isbvQJk.jpg)
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what kind of plane is this?
Looks like a modified 747
Yep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Dreamlifter?wprov=sfla1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Dreamlifter
Wife took that pic over Charleston SC this weekend. Wasn't sure what it was, but usually the big aircraft like that going thru Charleston are C5s and C17s at the AFB
how many metric Gus's can fit in that?
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QuoteGp Capt Hemanth Kumar and Wg Cdr G Singh of No.1 Squadron 'Tigers' bring their newly upgraded Mirage 2000TI down over the Agra-Lucknow expressway for a *very* low missed approach during an exercise by the Indian Air Force to validate this 3-km stretch of highway as an alternate runway.
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QuoteF-35 night time refueling over Japan
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QuoteA Vought F4U-4 Corsair of Marine Attack Squadron VMA-322 going into the drink in 1949 after a fouled-up landing attempt on the U.S. escort carrier USS Sicily (CVE-118). Note the Landing Signal Officer (LSO, with the paddles) and his assistant (with the notepad) running to the opposite side of the flight deck.
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^whoa
that won't buff out
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QuoteC-130 taking off from Antarctica with the assistance of a JATO package.
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QuoteHeritage flight over Manhattan: P-51, F-16, F-15, A-10
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QuoteHarriers aboard Spanish amphibious assault ship Juan Carlos I during Brilliant Mariner 2017
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QuoteTuAF F16s escorting an A400M Atlas
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http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/15746/lockheeds-helendale-radar-signature-test-range-looks-right-out-of-science-fiction
Quote from: mirth on November 01, 2017, 06:11:04 PM
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I'll be in my office today love O0
QuoteAn Israeli F-16C Block 40 "Barak"
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https://twitter.com/defense_news/status/929661757110587392
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https://theaviationgeekclub.com/story-behind-famed-sr-71-blackbird-super-low-knife-edge-pass/
QuoteThree Mexican Air Force Lockheed AT-33A Shooting Stars flying in formation during a training mission near a mountain range in 1972.
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QuoteTaken on Jul. 28, 2006 in the Atlantic Ocean aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), the main image of this post shows an F-14D Tomcat, aircraft number 110, BuNo 164346 "Sweet Little Miss" piloted by Lieutenant Chris Rattigan and Lieutenant Paul Dort assigned to the "Tomcatters" of Fighter Squadron Three One (VF-31), completing the last scheduled arrested landing of an F-14 fighter aircraft.
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https://theaviationgeekclub.com/sweet-little-miss-last-f-14-tomcat-ever-land-aircraft-carrier-needs-help-saved/ (https://theaviationgeekclub.com/sweet-little-miss-last-f-14-tomcat-ever-land-aircraft-carrier-needs-help-saved/)
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QuoteJapanese F-4EJ Kai Phantom II with New Camouflage for the 100th Year Anniversary of the Gifu Airbase - Kakamigahara 16th Nov. 2017
(https://i.imgur.com/zcNCm6Q.jpg)
They sure are starting to "celebrate" a lot of their military past lately.....
It's only a matter of time before they make changes to their constitution to allow for expanded military roles.
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DO 335 video
https://youtu.be/jK8ydLY5QHQ
https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/932360642585018368
https://twitter.com/AncientSubHunt/status/932249800740831232
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http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/16243/this-sr-71-blackbird-cockpit-tour-is-the-most-fascinating-thing-youll-see-all-week
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/16264/the-us-air-force-has-taken-another-step-toward-re-engining-its-b-52s
But the B1, B2, B21 is supposed to replace the B52.
I just hope I'm around to see it turn 100.
https://twitter.com/laraseligman/status/932686941321089024
QuoteMechanics working on a PBY Catalina radial engine while taxiing.
(https://i.redd.it/8j4gr68va6zz.jpg)
https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/933496583076831234
elephant walks are cool!
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https://www.duffelblog.com/2017/11/pentagon-says-no-issues-after-f-35-float-explodes-at-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade/
Quote from: bayonetbrant on November 23, 2017, 07:57:04 AM
https://www.duffelblog.com/2017/11/pentagon-says-no-issues-after-f-35-float-explodes-at-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade/ (https://www.duffelblog.com/2017/11/pentagon-says-no-issues-after-f-35-float-explodes-at-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade/)
:2funny:
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http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/16410/test-pilot-recounts-flying-both-have-blue-and-tacit-blue-experimental-stealth-jets
QuoteTu-22M3 bombers undergoing modernization
(https://i.redd.it/5tt0p49m7q001.jpg)
Northrop ramping up for the B-21
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-fi-northrop-bomber-20171110-htmlstory.html
27 November 1964 – The Cold War – A Republic of China Air Force U-2C, flown by "Johnny" Wang Shichuen, narrowly avoided being shot down while photographing the Lanzhou nuclear weapons plant in the People's Republic of China. Several SA-2 Guideline missiles flew by so close to the aircraft that the pilot was temporarily blinded.
C3i Magazine
QuoteSouth Korean E-737 Peace Eye AEW&C taking off for patrol mission
(https://i.imgur.com/yY1G2EL.jpg)
https://twitter.com/CF18Demo/status/935606394752868352
QuoteA Japanese phosphorus bomb explodes near B-24 Liberators, c.1945
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https://twitter.com/TheAviationist/status/937770909204668417
QuoteFaithfull PLANE3 No.3 Finishing Plane
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https://twitter.com/BlickyIan/status/937828097340137477
The guy in the lorry probably needs a change of 'pants' after that low approach.
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/16759/turkey-is-interested-in-buying-surplus-usmc-av-8b-harriers-others-likely-to-follow
IMHO, no Harriers for Turkey, though I'd be in favor of Jump-Jets going to the Kurdistani AF, as it were. Also I'm good with Taiwan and Vietnam and any other country on the 'wrong' side of the 'nine dash line', just to mess with the People's Army-Navy Store a little.
Quote from: Staggerwing on December 07, 2017, 09:31:08 PM
Also I'm good with Taiwan and Vietnam and any other country on the 'wrong' side of the 'nine dash line', just to mess with the People's Army-Navy Store a little.
+1
https://twitter.com/PeteNorth303/status/938814969885446146
Some canvas patches and a lick or two of dope and she'll be right as rain.
I've got an old bit of plywood in the garage which is just the right shape for the tail fin.
http://worldwarwings.com/rare-footage-wwi-dogfights-not-many-clips-around-anymore/?a=mk&var=wwi+dogs-ww2&utm_campaign=wwi+dogs&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_term=original-ww2-mk&utm_content=footage
Some nice vviews of WWI planes. I would quibble that they spliced in shots from movies like Wings or Hell's Angels in amongst the historical shots.
Haven't seen the whole episode but looks fun for the biplane crowd.
Quote from: mirth on December 08, 2017, 03:50:28 PM
https://twitter.com/PeteNorth303/status/938814969885446146
Knowing what fake BS is around on the internet today, the image of the plane is probably taken from some scrap yard in India.
But - what a lovely plane O0 :smitten:
Do English Androids dream of electric cows?
No idea. The only way to find that out is to take the bull by the horns.
https://twitter.com/thewarzonewire/status/941133126964715520
QuoteF4U-4B overflies the USS Missouri (BB-63) off Inchon, Korea , 15 September 1950
(https://i.imgur.com/IXpsvtw.jpg)
WOW! As big as I thought the Iowa-class BB's are, look at it compared to the cargo and transport ships.... :o
I do so like the F4U.
Quote from: bob48 on December 15, 2017, 08:33:53 AM
I do so like the F4U.
+1 One of my favorites from that era.
QuoteA Vought F-8H Crusader VF-111 "Sundowners", on the forward elevator of USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) in 1969 during a deployment to Vietnam.
(https://i.redd.it/vei9q7rkye401.jpg)
Corsairs on USS Philippine Sea off Korea c1950
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Vought O2U Corsair prewar with flotation bags
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Oops...
F4U in the snow! I love it.
I had a feeling you would like it. :)
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Nice closeup showing the SBD's oft-overlooked 50 cal teeth. IIRC, she was one of very few bombers to have a positive air-to-air kill ratio. During one encounter a Dauntless pilot shot down two Zekes and cut the wing of a third with his wingtip.
QuoteA C-130J drops fire retardant chemicals onto a ridge line above Santa Barbara, Calif., Dec. 13, 2017, in an effort to contain the Thomas wildfire.
(https://media.defense.gov/2017/Dec/15/2001857181/-1/-1/0/171213-F-LW859-945.JPG)
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^nice!
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17086/boeing-unveils-prototype-for-the-navys-mq-25-drone-tanker-competition
That unmanned tanker thing didn't work out so well in the movie 'Stealth', now did it?
No, but Jessica Biel worked out just fine.
Tinman approved.
https://twitter.com/jamie_aviacom/status/943400567841415169
that looks like an illustration.
Windi are you into the rum nog?
Quote from: mirth on December 20, 2017, 03:29:38 PM
Windi are you into the rum nog?
hell no.... got 3.51 years to retirement, my Crypto dealings are doing well, got a indirect take home pay increase when the pension fund finally reached 101% of funding (reduction in contribution rate from 16% of gross to 14%).
Shit son, I am positively giddy with good feels right now.
^groovy
Quote from: mirth on December 20, 2017, 03:39:59 PM
^groovy
Metal Dawg and I appreciate you saying that!
https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/943818804890447873
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QuoteSouth Korean F-15K Slam Eagles, KF-16C Fighting Falcons, and F-4E Phantoms in formation
(https://i.imgur.com/6b1b4Xh.jpg)
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17162/document-offers-new-details-about-those-ov-10-broncos-that-went-to-fight-isis
I thinking that a high wing aircraft would be ideal because it gives the best vision down.
Who told you to think?
such snow driven bitterness Mirth.....
and its not even March yet.
Cause your plan is to start posting again in March?
who the fuck made you class attendance keeper?
do you want a bright orange vest and a hall pass pad?
Well look who showed up to play! The missus let you slip your leash tonight?
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on December 22, 2017, 08:29:06 PM
who the fuck made you class attendance keeper?
do you want a bright orange vest and a hall pass pad?
mirth drives the short bus
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Quote from: mirth on December 22, 2017, 08:39:57 PM
Well look who showed up to play! The missus let you slip your leash tonight?
Is it sexual chemistry or do you 2 dislike each other?
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May be one of the Schweinfurt raids.
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Needs some bigboy fire&forget. Those Space Zunis don't cut it for 10,000 km standoff duty.
https://twitter.com/laraseligman/status/947109876563693569
QuoteA Spitfire takes off from USS Wasp (CV-7) during the defense of Malta.
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https://twitter.com/cencio4/status/947928399384907776
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on December 27, 2017, 07:00:51 PM
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Sure...but why do you need a turbo impeller in a sublight rocket engine? :idiot2:
Quote from: Barthheart on January 01, 2018, 04:07:05 PM
Sure...but why do you need a turbo impeller in a sublight rocket engine? :idiot2:
because it impellers.... :P
QuoteTaiwanese F-CK-1 Ching-kuo fighter
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QuoteFA-50 Fighting Eagles conducting New Year CAP mission over South Korea
(https://i.imgur.com/sCdZDB3.jpg)
QuoteTwo U.S. Navy McDonnell F-4B Phantom II from Fighter Squadron VF-114 Aardvarks escort a Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 "Badger" bomber as it passes over the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) in January 1963.
(https://i.imgur.com/n2shncf.jpg)
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on January 01, 2018, 05:11:25 PM
Quote from: Barthheart on January 01, 2018, 04:07:05 PM
Sure...but why do you need a turbo impeller in a sublight rocket engine? :idiot2:
because it impellers.... :P
Original design by Dyson?
Quote from: Barthheart on January 01, 2018, 04:07:05 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on December 27, 2017, 07:00:51 PM
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Sure...but why do you need a turbo impeller in a sublight rocket engine? :idiot2:
It's from a sci-fi movie made for kids. Why do you have to nitpick everything? :crazy2:
https://www.dvidshub.net/video/578729/us-air-force-conducts-intercepts-during-baltic-air-policing-mission
Osprey for COD
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17383/us-navy-expects-its-carrier-onboard-delivery-ospreys-to-be-fully-operational-by-2024
Quote from: mirth on January 05, 2018, 02:34:23 PM
Osprey for COD
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17383/us-navy-expects-its-carrier-onboard-delivery-ospreys-to-be-fully-operational-by-2024
That'll be one hell of an upgrade.
QuoteF-16 posing for Polish AF 100th Anniversary photo shoot
(https://i.imgur.com/aG2bQYW.jpg)
https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/951657652794241030
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What battle was that photo taken at? The IJN used the Kate for practically the entire war so there are a number of possibilities. Due to the volume of fire I'm thinking later rather than earlier.
Windi needs to apply a width to his images
you always complain about his width.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on January 12, 2018, 07:39:04 PM
you always complain about his width.
At least he doesn't have bad Breadth
QuoteF-16XL with experimental loadout: 6 x AGM-65+ 4 x AIM-120 + 2 x AIM-9
(https://i.imgur.com/Bwor66V.jpg)
https://twitter.com/AncientSubHunt/status/952591559731679233
Northrop F-15 Reporter (P-61 variant)
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http://napoleon130.tripod.com/p61blackwidow/id51.html (http://napoleon130.tripod.com/p61blackwidow/id51.html)
Huh. I'd never even heard of that variant. Thanks for finding it.
http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/News/1.3126858
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2018/01/15/waarom-vlogen-russische-bommenwerpers-boven-de-noordzee--/
Belgian F-16s intercept Russian jets over the North Sea
https://twitter.com/MIL_Radar/status/952886291217174529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vrt.be%2Fvrtnws%2Fnl%2F2018%2F01%2F15%2Fwaarom-vlogen-russische-bommenwerpers-boven-de-noordzee--%2F
QuoteRussian Tupolev Tu-160 bombers followed by an RAF Typhoon aircraft scrambled from RAF Lossiemouth
(https://i.redd.it/pmy3o2xbp9a01.jpg)
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/954023966955499520
How many unsuccessful landings were there before that? :o
Quote from: Barthheart on January 18, 2018, 11:49:30 AM
How many unsuccessful landings were there before that? :o
I consider my belly flop on the flight deck with my batman cape as 'successful' :hide:
QuoteGrumman X-29, an experimental aircraft that tested concepts such as the forward-swept wing, canard control surfaces, and other novel aircraft technologies
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Sci fi wet dream
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/how-many-missions-did-flak-bait-fly
Quote from: Pete Dero on January 16, 2018, 04:12:58 AM
https://twitter.com/MIL_Radar/status/952886291217174529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vrt.be%2Fvrtnws%2Fnl%2F2018%2F01%2F15%2Fwaarom-vlogen-russische-bommenwerpers-boven-de-noordzee--%2F
so they cannibalized 40 something planes to get 2 working..... needing a jerk off emoji.
we know you have one....
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^ pass me the j-o emoji mirth.
Canada... because FLIR guided drop tanks are a thing? :2funny:
Slow down, Star. You might be over your post cap for the day ;)
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17947/navy-orders-development-of-new-air-defense-blasting-missile-that-will-fit-inside-f-35
QuoteA-7A Corsair II of VA-37 over Vietnam in 1969
(https://i.redd.it/kr8bdm60lvb01.jpg)
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^purdy
https://twitter.com/thewarzonewire/status/956751448083066880
https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/957150872462487552
QuoteSu-22 in formation with F-16, Polish Air Force
(https://i.redd.it/pa57w8ixhic01.jpg)
Looks like that Polish Falcon has his War Face on.
https://twitter.com/fighterpics/status/957564524252495873
https://twitter.com/AusAviation/status/957862007784407040 (https://twitter.com/AusAviation/status/957862007784407040)
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18034/our-first-look-at-the-ea-18g-growler-that-crashed-at-nellis-afb-isnt-pretty
Yipes.
https://twitter.com/TheAviationist/status/958006358456102912
QuoteNorthrop F-89 Scorpion with "Mighty Mouse" FFAR rockets
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QuoteTwo-ship formation of Saab 35 Drakens tearing up the evening skies.
(https://i.imgur.com/0RcnlOu.jpg)
QuoteHeinkel He111 H-2 1H+JA of KG26, the first German plane to be brought down on British soil during WWII - 28th October 1939
(https://i.imgur.com/L6edJWB.jpg)
QuoteHandley Page Victor prototype HP80 WB771 landing at the Farnborough Air Show, August 1953.
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https://twitter.com/AbdNav2K1/status/958311540427493377
https://twitter.com/TheAviationist/status/958407967749099521
Motherf*cker :o
I always have to wonder if the crews of those slow-but-sturdy recce busses ever get the urge to swing up a wingtip into the flightpath of the passing Flanker or MiG. Reckless? Yes, extremely.
Still, I'd bet real cash money that a Lockheed Orion is much more likely to make it home missing five feet of wing than an Su-27 is.
you can ask the Chinese how that works out.
https://twitter.com/thewarzonewire/status/958709282215641089
Sounds like they want an airframe that's actually proven and reliable in service, instead of something that'll give them the BSOD when the Arabs come after them again. :D
Macchi C.205
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Best fighter in WW2.
An Allied test pilot opinion
Capt. Eric Brown, CBE, DSC, AFC, RN, Chief Naval Test Pilot and C.O. Captured Enemy Aircraft Flight, remembered how they were impressed when they tested the Veltro. "One of the finest aircraft I ever flew was the Macchi MC. 205. Oh, beautiful. And here you had the perfect combination of Italian styling and German engineering. I believe it was powered by a Daimler Benz DB 605. It was really a delight to fly, and up to anything on the Allied programme. But again, it came just before the Italians capitulated so it was never used extensively. And we did tests on it and were most impressed. The cockpit was smallish but not as bad as the Bf 109."
Certainly the best the Italians produced.
https://twitter.com/Aviationdailyy/status/958896428021174272
QuoteTU-95K with Kh-20 cruise missile.
(https://i.redd.it/cr0dba7y0ld01.jpg)
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https://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/eye-eye-bear-bomber-180953363/#zh5mGAACi6hKq0Dl.32
https://twitter.com/fighterpics/status/959179820574892032
https://twitter.com/fighterpics/status/959320421697961984
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Ouch!
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I hope he/she lived
Pretty sure he did. That's exactly the situation the zero/zero seats are made for.
Quote from: mirth on February 02, 2018, 01:37:02 PM
Pretty sure he did. That's exactly the situation the zero/zero seats are made for.
As long as you are not inverted.
Quote from: Staggerwing on February 02, 2018, 07:13:39 PM
Quote from: mirth on February 02, 2018, 01:37:02 PM
Pretty sure he did. That's exactly the situation the zero/zero seats are made for.
As long as you are not inverted.
Hell yeah. Just meant that the zero/ zerp seats are supposed to work that way.
I know. I was just wise-assing.
What are zerp seats? O:-)
Go check the Urban Dictionary. Or better yet don't. Some things cannot be unlearned.
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/960424051729731584
https://twitter.com/Aviationdailyy/status/960353876409974790
QuotePattern Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
(https://i.redd.it/bhotcyv207e01.jpg)
and thats why those things will be flying for 100 years.
QuoteAvro 698 Vulcan B.2 in anti-flash white, armed with the Blue Steel standoff nuclear missile.
(https://i.imgur.com/K8xb8Za.jpg)
:dreamer:
Quote from: mirth on February 05, 2018, 07:25:06 AM
https://twitter.com/Aviationdailyy/status/960353876409974790
Pft - only 1 screen?
QuoteFlying laboratory for air-cushion chassis tests. It was converted from the serial An-14A in 1980. First flight in early 1983.
(https://i.redd.it/xblekh55qse01.jpg)
QuoteF-14 and F-15 tag team against Soviet bomber TU-95. US Navy photo near Alaska from 1987
(https://i.redd.it/0ozgqx8jzse01.jpg)
Quote from: mirth on February 07, 2018, 02:40:31 PM
QuoteFlying laboratory for air-cushion chassis tests. It was converted from the serial An-14A in 1980. First flight in early 1983.
(https://i.redd.it/xblekh55qse01.jpg)
looks cute in a Russian bug eyed predatory insect sorta way
https://twitter.com/defense_news/status/961368772698365952
Quote from: OJsDad on February 07, 2018, 05:41:50 PM
https://twitter.com/defense_news/status/961368772698365952
How come I can see it?
Quote from: Staggerwing on February 07, 2018, 07:25:45 PM
Quote from: OJsDad on February 07, 2018, 05:41:50 PM
https://twitter.com/defense_news/status/961368772698365952
How come I can see it?
You know you superpower now. :bd:
Seeing tweets is a superpower?
Tweet, tweet
(https://i.redd.it/son2a50jive01.jpg)
Aerial centipede....
QuoteA captured Kyushu J7W Shinden ("Magnificent Lightning") fighter prototype in the waning days after the Second World War.
(https://i.imgur.com/oCozLJz.jpg)
Reminds me of the XP-55 Ascender.
(https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/XP55-Ascender1.jpg)
QuoteNorth American XB-70 Valkyrie
(https://i.imgur.com/GacIcIA.jpg)
That thing is so retro-future that I keep looking for the nearly invisible wires holding it up. Is that Virgil Tracy in the cockpit?
(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/any-idea/images/a/ac/Virgil_Tracy_5.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150828170029)
^lol
QuoteInverted S-3 Viking
(https://theaviationgeekclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/S-3-inverted.jpg)
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/iriaf-upgraded-f-14-tomcat/
https://twitter.com/fighterpics/status/962730692751839233
(https://i.redd.it/na4z54cz4mf01.jpg)
(https://uslanka.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/b2-new15.jpg)
Quote from: mirth on February 11, 2018, 01:35:20 PM
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when you absolutely, positively have to bomb the living shit out of something! :knuppel2:
https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/962898135147192320
https://twitter.com/fighterpics/status/963001022531633154
Quote from: mirth on February 10, 2018, 06:55:02 PM
QuoteInverted S-3 Viking
(https://theaviationgeekclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/S-3-inverted.jpg)
I am a dog... scratch my belly.
QuoteNorth American XB-70 prototype "62-0001" taxiing out with its six GE YJ93 turbojet engines on display, Edwards AFB, 1967
(https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/359284main_EC68-2101_full.jpg)
This is worth the read
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18410/usafs-controversial-new-plan-to-retire-b-2-and-b-1-bombers-early-is-a-good-one
QuoteIJN Kaga conducts air operations om May 11, 1937. On deck are Nakajima A2N, Aichi D1A, and Mitsubishi B2M aircraft
(https://i.imgur.com/8QYK8CY.jpg)
https://twitter.com/TheAviationist/status/963168494652149761
If there's one video clip you watch today, make it this one
https://twitter.com/fighterpics/status/963618955733667841
^ Beautiful :dreamer:
https://twitter.com/TheAviationist/status/963840387881361410
That's some serious kaboom right there.
Quote from: mirth on February 14, 2018, 04:48:52 AM
If there's one video clip you watch today, make it this one
https://twitter.com/fighterpics/status/963618955733667841
I once got to stand on the tarmac at Edwards AFB when a B-1B took off. Four 35,000 pound thrust engines roaring past me.
Earlier that day I had seen the Boeing JSF prototype, but I don't think I saw it fly that day. I think this was February 2000. That was a good day.
Quote from: trailrunner on February 14, 2018, 07:53:53 PM
I once got to stand on the tarmac at Edwards AFB when a B-1B took off. Four 35,000 pound thrust engines roaring past me.
Earlier that day I had seen the Boeing JSF prototype, but I don't think I saw it fly that day. I think this was February 2000. That was a good day.
Sweet! O0
https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/964141403365191680
Most impressive! Somewhere I have photo's of one on the static display at RAF Leuchars International Air Show taken a few years back. We didn't get to see if in flight, but I was able to walk around it (only outside of it, unfortunately) its certainly a fantastic looking aircraft.
QuoteF-117 Stealth Fighter. Boneyard, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ
(https://i.redd.it/gxql48gnqeg01.jpg)
^Ha!
Blackburn Buccaneer
(https://i.imgur.com/smKW27i.jpg)
"Bombcorde"
(https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/attachments/rafconcorde-jpg.242603/)
We also were fortunate enough to see a Buccaneer in flight at an air show. Incredible aircraft!
I've always liked the Buc. Great looking plane.
And one of the most fantastic low-level flight aircraft ever, especially for its day.
Have you read this?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Phoenix-Squadron-Britains-Topguns-dramatic-ebook/dp/B004I8WL7U/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518782847&sr=1-1&keywords=phoenix+squadron
Quote from: bob48 on February 16, 2018, 07:07:51 AM
And one of the most fantastic low-level flight aircraft ever, especially for its day.
Have you read this?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Phoenix-Squadron-Britains-Topguns-dramatic-ebook/dp/B004I8WL7U/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518782847&sr=1-1&keywords=phoenix+squadron
That sounds fascinating, Bob. Thanks for sharing. Here's the US Amazon link (https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Squadron-Britains-Dramatic-Mission/dp/0552152900) if anyone wants to see.
Quote from: bob48 on February 16, 2018, 07:07:51 AM
And one of the most fantastic low-level flight aircraft ever, especially for its day.
Have you read this?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Phoenix-Squadron-Britains-Topguns-dramatic-ebook/dp/B004I8WL7U/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518782847&sr=1-1&keywords=phoenix+squadron (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Phoenix-Squadron-Britains-Topguns-dramatic-ebook/dp/B004I8WL7U/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518782847&sr=1-1&keywords=phoenix+squadron)
I have not read it. Looks great. I'll add it to my reading list. O0
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/why-the-b-52-bomber-will-fly-for-100-years/ar-BBJ9OqH?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp
A Bloomberg article.
Yep. The Hundred Year Bomber.
Quote from: mirth on February 16, 2018, 08:00:55 AM
Quote from: bob48 on February 16, 2018, 07:07:51 AM
And one of the most fantastic low-level flight aircraft ever, especially for its day.
Have you read this?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Phoenix-Squadron-Britains-Topguns-dramatic-ebook/dp/B004I8WL7U/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518782847&sr=1-1&keywords=phoenix+squadron (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Phoenix-Squadron-Britains-Topguns-dramatic-ebook/dp/B004I8WL7U/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518782847&sr=1-1&keywords=phoenix+squadron)
I have not read it. Looks great. I'll add it to my reading list. O0
Just read this a couple months ago. Great book!
Quote from: mirth on February 12, 2018, 01:34:32 PM
This is worth the read
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18410/usafs-controversial-new-plan-to-retire-b-2-and-b-1-bombers-early-is-a-good-one
Let's just hope that the B-21 doesn't turn into another Ford class debacle.
QuoteNew Japanese Electronic Warfare aircraft based on the Kawasaki C-2
(https://i.imgur.com/vMJgkWL.jpg)
Man, I would love to see this
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/964556285696970752
Quote from: mirth on February 16, 2018, 12:46:33 PM
Man, I would love to see this
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/964556285696970752
Wow. I'm close by. I might try to see that.
Quote from: bob48 on February 16, 2018, 07:07:51 AM
And one of the most fantastic low-level flight aircraft ever, especially for its day.
Have you read this?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Phoenix-Squadron-Britains-Topguns-dramatic-ebook/dp/B004I8WL7U/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518782847&sr=1-1&keywords=phoenix+squadron
Thanks Bob...purchased for my Kindle :notworthy:
Its an excellent read.
I've got it in my Amazon queue for the next purchase. O0
https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/965054435461222401
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18586/this-giant-b-2-replica-is-how-airman-train-to-load-weapons-onto-a-stealth-bomber
https://twitter.com/fighterpics/status/965977030566215680
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18619/we-now-know-exactly-what-sensors-the-armys-powerful-new-ro-6a-spy-planes-will-carry
https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/966348676590329856
https://twitter.com/fighterpics/status/966759803090501632
We've actually seen that done once whilst on holiday in Scotland. One did a low pass over the car from behind, so we knew nothing about it until it passed overhead. Good job I had some clean underwear with me.
I was fishing Cold Lake and I almost had an accident when a 111 buzzed close by... more than a few years ago
"An aardvark made me shat my pants"
It may have been a Raven.
Nevermore with the adult diapers, eh?
Quote from: mirth on February 22, 2018, 02:42:16 PM
https://twitter.com/fighterpics/status/966759803090501632
Why can't we have military flight sim games that have got those kinds of hills. They're always so small or just plain flat!
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https://twitter.com/TheAviationist/status/967096733409923073
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/967098308840841217
https://twitter.com/AirmanMagazine/status/967436460294066176
QuoteJ 35 Draken of The Swedish Air Force taking off from a road runway
(https://i.imgur.com/WzThocA.png)
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QuoteA U.S. Navy F-35C Lightning II taxis on the flight line at Eielson AFB to test and evaluate their ability to operate in an extreme cold-weather environment.
(https://media.defense.gov/2018/Feb/15/2001878762/-1/-1/0/180129-F-YK359-1023.JPG)
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https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/967749816238379009
^No worries- we got a guy on it!
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They had a secret airfield in Pamona!
QuoteConcorde, accompanied by the Mirage F1 French Air Force. 1988
(https://i.redd.it/0me69xwq9ri01.jpg)
What an interesting plane.... ::)
QuoteLuftwaffe F–4F Phantom II
(https://i.redd.it/e76qz5624si01.jpg)
QuoteSukhoi T-4, or "Aircraft 100", or "Project 100" Soviet high-speed reconnaissance, anti-ship and strategic bomber aircraft
(https://i.redd.it/551uvhemgli01.jpg)
QuoteAn OV-10 Bronco flying over West-Germany during exercise REFORGER 81
(https://i.redd.it/8chj6604gji01.jpg)
Thats one hell of a dawn patrol photo.
https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/968271026025975808
Quote from: mirth on February 27, 2018, 12:13:33 PM
QuoteSukhoi T-4, or "Aircraft 100", or "Project 100" Soviet high-speed reconnaissance, anti-ship and strategic bomber aircraft
(https://i.redd.it/551uvhemgli01.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--oXbAhm5y--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/nsrfdqsycixvolypoqf0.jpg)
^heh. yep.
https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/968624116440875008
https://twitter.com/masa_masa306/status/968789757642784768
http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-u-2-spy-plane-air-force-pilot-edge-of-space-2018-2#to-survive-in-the-thin-atmosphere-where-the-dragon-lady-operates-pilots-wear-pressurized-space-suits-5
QuoteLuftwaffe MiG-29
(https://i.imgur.com/cWEWybc.jpg)
wut the....
When the re-unification happened, the Luftwaffe inherited a number of 29s from the East. They operated them for awhile and let us get a good look at them too. Pretty sure they're all retired now.
http://www.migflug.com/jetflights/german-luftwaffe-mig-29-fulcrum.html
QuoteIn 2003 22 MiG-29s were sold to the Polish Air Force for a symbolic 1 EUR per Fulcrum, 14 were taken into service with the 41. elt after an overhauled. Of the remaining two German MiGs, one had crashed after a pilot's fault, and one (the 29+03) is on display at Laage-Rostock airport.
Not quite sure, but according to Wiki, it looks like they might still be in service with Poland, though what does Wiki know.
Yeah, the Poles do still have them in service and have upgraded them. Good planes, but the early models were notoriously short-legged.
Quote from: mirth on February 28, 2018, 06:02:04 PM
When the re-unification happened, the Luftwaffe inherited a number of 29s from the East. They operated them for awhile and let us get a good look at them too. Pretty sure they're all retired now.
Its a pretty cool looking plane and all, but.... maybe for OPFOR exercises?
They got a lot of use for that.
Quote from: mirth on February 28, 2018, 06:21:40 PM
Yeah, the Poles do still have them in service and have upgraded them. Good planes, but the early models were notoriously short-legged.
even with drop tanks? Or was that not a thing with the Mig 29?
Still very limited range even with the drop tank
https://www.16va.be/mig-29_experience.htm (https://www.16va.be/mig-29_experience.htm)
Quote"The employment of the MiG-29 suffers from severe inherent constraints. The most obvious limitation is the aircraft's limited internal fuel capacity of 3500-kg (4400 kg with a centreline tank). We have no air-to-air refuelling capability, and our external tank is both speed and manoeuvre limited. We also have only a limited number of tanks.
"But if we start a mission with 4400-kg of fuel, start-up, taxy and take off takes 400-kg, we need to allow 1000-kg for diversion to an alternate airfield 50-nm away, and 500-kg for the engagement, including one minute in afterburner. That leaves 2500-kg. If we need 15 minutes on station at 420 kts that requires another 1000-kg, leaving 1500-kg for transit. At FL200 (20,000 ft) that gives us a radius of 150-nm, and at FL100 (10,000 ft) we have a radius of only 100-nm.
wow... that's almost a 'what's the point'
carrier aircraft???
it was ment to operate out of East European airfields and cover Warsaw Pact forces in Germany.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on March 01, 2018, 01:29:05 PM
it was ment to operate out of East European airfields and cover Warsaw Pact forces in Germany.
so take off at full afterburner, jink a few times, release a few flares and get shot down?
The MiG-29 was meant to be cheap but capable and able to operate off of dirt roads and even open fields as it's ad-hoc air bases were constantly relocating just behind moving front lines. Those shark gills you see on the top of the air intake scoops are there because there are shutters inside the main intakes that can be closed during takeoff to keep sticks and stones and birds from getting ingested. Once clear, those shutters open up for regular air intake.
Quote from: Windigo on March 01, 2018, 04:56:53 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on March 01, 2018, 01:29:05 PM
it was ment to operate out of East European airfields and cover Warsaw Pact forces in Germany.
so take off at full afterburner, jink a few times, release a few flares and get shot down?
pretty much
Definitely watch the video
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18886/watch-this-f-22-raptor-execute-a-mind-blowing-inverted-summersault-at-altitude
https://twitter.com/ERIK_D_REEDY/status/969959006406979586
https://twitter.com/JGrunsell/status/969823082775891974
(https://militarymachine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/A-10-Rear.jpg)
https://militarymachine.com/a-10-thunderbolt-images/
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/970330804521000960
QuoteF-35 B lands on USS Wasp. This is the first time the F-35 deployed operationally with an Expeditionary Strike Group
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https://news.usni.org/2016/11/23/pacflts-swift-amphib-wasp-will-deploy-surface-action-group-2017
Jolly Rogers Tomcats and the USS Nimitz
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Thats a proper Tomcat photo. :smitten:
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on March 06, 2018, 10:33:11 AM
Thats a proper Tomcat photo. :smitten:
the Hornet's ugly sister...
Quote from: mirth on March 06, 2018, 11:36:41 AM
Quote from: Windigo on March 06, 2018, 11:33:33 AM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on March 06, 2018, 10:33:11 AM
Thats a proper Tomcat photo. :smitten:
the Hornet's ugly sister...
get the eff out
puh-leeze, variable sweep wing aircraft are butterface aircraft of the world
You've been free-basing maple syrup again, haven't you?
Quote from: mirth on March 06, 2018, 11:45:17 AM
You've been free-basing maple syrup again, haven't you?
.... maaayyyyyyy bee
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Talk to me, Goose.
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/971089750298939392
Hopefully the SR-72 isn't just a pipe dream, though I can't imagine it'll be any cheaper to maintain than the Blackbirds were. :(
Quote from: Windigo on March 06, 2018, 11:33:33 AM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on March 06, 2018, 10:33:11 AM
Thats a proper Tomcat photo. :smitten:
the Hornet's ugly sister...
You wanna talk ugly?
https://twitter.com/AaronMehta/status/971094776190816257
you win....
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http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/19047/norway-says-russian-aircraft-ran-mock-attacks-on-a-secretive-radar-base
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https://www.facebook.com/611092856/videos/10155489672352857/?t=0
JU52 take off. Good sound,.
A few years ago, the restored Lufthansa J52 spent a few days at Newcastle Airport, and we saw it several times when it flew quite low pretty much over where we live. It is indeed a unique sound.
To say I was excited to see it is a bit of an understatement.
https://theaviationist.com/?p=51726
QuoteUS Navy's first female F-14 Tomcat pilot, Lt. Carey Lohrenz.
(https://i.redd.it/z6hgu8it0mk01.jpg)
that picture gives me wood... but not because of the butter-face jet
After recent comments, no one respects your opinion anymore.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on March 09, 2018, 01:27:49 PM
After recent comments, no one respects your opinion anymore.
pffft, when did that ever change? <:-)
No my friend, you've crossed a line here.
Good lord man, the F-15, the Tornado, the Mig 29.... badass. Tomcat is the skinny next door neighbour in an armless shirt
IIRC, another other female pilot who earned her wings at the same time was killed when her early-model Tomcat had an engine flameout during a carrier landing.
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/19122/usaf-officially-retires-mq-1-predator-while-mq-9-reaper-set-to-gain-air-to-air-missiles
https://twitter.com/AvHistorian/status/972520940436377600 (https://twitter.com/AvHistorian/status/972520940436377600)
Put a babe in front of an F-104 ..... yumm
QuoteUS Air Force F-15D Eagle taking off at Red Flag 18-1 Nellis AFB, Nevada
(https://images.defence.gov.au/fotoweb/cache/5045/DefenceImagery/2018/S20180142/20180201aaf8165233_246.t5a8390c7.m2048.xa819bdcb.jpg)
O0
https://twitter.com/LoveWW2Planes/status/972900021946470401
Older article, but still a great read
https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/how-to-win-in-a-dogfight-stories-from-a-pilot-who-flew-1682723379
Quote from: mirth on March 12, 2018, 06:50:00 AM
QuoteUS Air Force F-15D Eagle taking off at Red Flag 18-1 Nellis AFB, Nevada
(https://images.defence.gov.au/fotoweb/cache/5045/DefenceImagery/2018/S20180142/20180201aaf8165233_246.t5a8390c7.m2048.xa819bdcb.jpg)
Are we sure that's not an "E"?
Caption's wrong at the source
https://images.defence.gov.au/assets/archives/5045-Red%20Flag/DefenceImagery/2018/S20180142/20180201aaf8165233_246.jpg.info (https://images.defence.gov.au/assets/archives/5045-Red%20Flag/DefenceImagery/2018/S20180142/20180201aaf8165233_246.jpg.info)
Quote
An F-15D Eagle from the United States Air Force departs Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, for another sortie during Exercise Red Flag 18-1.
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/life-female-fighter-pilot
Its nice, innit. I'll have to see if I can find one for FSX ;)
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/3424/look-at-this-sea-of-warthogs-and-vipers-doing-the-elephant-walk-at-osan-air-base-in-south-korea (http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/3424/look-at-this-sea-of-warthogs-and-vipers-doing-the-elephant-walk-at-osan-air-base-in-south-korea)
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more sexy curves here than a whore house
QuoteNATO Aircraft from the U.K., USA, UAE, Italy, Greece and Cyprus participating in exercise INIOHOS 2018
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http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/19261/navy-f-a-18f-super-hornet-belonging-to-vfa-231-black-lions-crashed-off-key-west
Quote from: mirth on March 14, 2018, 07:36:12 PM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/19261/navy-f-a-18f-super-hornet-belonging-to-vfa-231-black-lions-crashed-off-key-west
QuoteUPDATE: 4:40pm PST—
Both pilots were recovered and taken to the local hospital, but once again we don't know their status.
Please let them be ok...
Damn :(
https://twitter.com/thewarzonewire/status/974105970723794944
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/19276/general-electrics-ge9x-engine-looks-absurdly-huge-mounted-on-this-747-testbed
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/974293506750590976
https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/974542895259660288
https://twitter.com/AncientSubHunt/status/975034850280443911
https://twitter.com/AncientSubHunt/status/975048714153877504
https://twitter.com/AncientSubHunt/status/975026410875170816
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/19332/the-kc-46-pegasus-tanker-program-is-still-a-mess
(https://www.igorstshirts.com/blog/conceptships/2018/shane_molina/shane_molina_05.jpg)
^Very nice!
QuoteSea Harrier FA2s of 801 Squadron did a fly past of HMS Illustrious after their last ever launch from her decks.
801 Naval Air Squadron (NAS) was the last Fleet Air Arm squadron to operate the Sea Harrier FA2. After a very successful drawdown and decommissioning ceremony, the final Sea Harrier was withdrawn from service on 31 March 2006 at RNAS Yeovilton and the Squadron disbanded.
(https://i.redd.it/00qvii17vom01.jpg)
https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/975819580349165568
https://twitter.com/fighterpics/status/975840008111362051
QuoteA F35 of VMFA121, aka the Green Knights, pitches up to take off from the deck of USS Wasp at night
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QuoteChinese carrier based J-15s with wings folded
(https://i.redd.it/id1pz8gnu2n01.jpg)
QuoteGrumman Wildcat fighter aircraft and Supermarine Seafires ranged for take-off on the flight deck of HMS FORMIDABLE.
(https://i.imgur.com/vquaBwq.jpg)
Quote from: mirth on March 22, 2018, 05:52:28 PM
QuoteGrumman Wildcat fighter aircraft and Supermarine Seafires ranged for take-off on the flight deck of HMS FORMIDABLE.
Those would be 'Martlet' fighter aircraft if in RN service. The last batch of Grumman fighters delivered to the Fleet Air Arm did keep the Wildcat name but by that time the HMS Formidable had been re-equiped with clipped-wing Corsairs. Those same Corsairs took part in several attacks on the Battleship Tirpitz while it was hold up in its built-up Norwegian Fjord.
Quote from: Staggerwing on March 22, 2018, 06:11:02 PM
Quote from: mirth on March 22, 2018, 05:52:28 PM
QuoteGrumman Wildcat fighter aircraft and Supermarine Seafires ranged for take-off on the flight deck of HMS FORMIDABLE.
Those would be 'Martlet' fighter aircraft if in RN service. The last batch of Grumman fighters delivered to the Fleet Air Arm did keep the Wildcat name but by that time the HMS Formidable had been re-equiped with clipped-wing Corsairs. Those same Corsairs took part in several attacks on the Battleship Tirpitz while it was hold up in its built-up Norwegian Fjord.
Interestingly, the pic and caption come form the IWM website
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205188318
Many of you will probably know who this is:
Quote(https://static1.squarespace.com/static/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/t/55536088e4b058559dc43c30/1431527562981/?format=750w)
Eric 'Winkle' Brown with a Martlet I
http://www.armouredcarriers.com/grumman-f4f-martlet-variants/
^Lots of conditional Fleet Air Arm love for the F4F.
Quote from: Staggerwing on March 22, 2018, 07:21:32 PM
Lots of conditional Fleet Air Arm love for the F4F.
The same could be said of the USN.
https://twitter.com/AncientSubHunt/status/977616401161687040
https://twitter.com/clemente3000/status/977415993164222464
(https://i.imgur.com/sUJtp7g.jpg)
https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/977769659582767104
QuoteJapanese F-15DJ Eagle from the Tactical Fighter Training Group
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4656/38570977500_aef7ec2aac_o.jpg)
BAD ASS
https://twitter.com/LarssssBe/status/978693468750077953
https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/979059393080651776
https://twitter.com/TheAviationist/status/979086457062248448
https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/979537250147905537
(https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/daily-morning-awesomeness-coolest-22.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600)
https://twitter.com/violetpilot1/status/951701681405906944
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/979735609114877952
QuoteAn F-14 Tomcat from VF-1 'Wolfpack' flies a Combat Air Patrol over Vietnam in April 1975 during the evacuation of Saigon
(https://i.redd.it/3lhil9neowo01.jpg)
Quote"Rosie the Rocketeer": Lt. Col. Charles "Bazooka Charlie" Carpenter and his L-4 Grasshopper armed with 6 M1 Bazookas mounted on the wings. Carpenter would be later credited with knocking out 5 German tanks and an armoured car during the course of the war.
(https://i.imgur.com/ztT1z3W.jpg)
https://twitter.com/AncientSubHunt/status/834073960144830464
The Soviets once put an operational nuclear reactor into a Tu-95 and made several flights to test shielding. It was to be the precursor to the Tu-119 (iirc?) which would actually be powered by said reactor. The USA did the same with a B-36. Both projects were scrapped when ICBMs turned out to be a more viable way to nuke the other guys. Local rumor has it that when the B-36 project was cancelled there was a whole bunch of irradiated tooling clandestinely dumped into the Connecticut River just adjacent to the Pratt&Whitney factory south of Middletown, CT.
QuoteSoviet nuclear ekranoplan "Smelost" off the coast of Baku, Azerbaijan SSR in the Caspian Sea, circa late 1976. Photo by Alex Jay Brady.
(https://i.imgur.com/kTtoYLp.jpg)
Looks warp-capable.
Quote from: Staggerwing on April 01, 2018, 04:50:29 PM
Looks warp-capable.
Quite.
https://aj-brady.squarespace.com/#/smelost-nuclear-ekranoplan/
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/transforming-aviation
https://twitter.com/MbKS15/status/981492094756900867
QuoteF-14 Tomcat makes a low altitude turn above two Virginia Class nuclear-powered guided missile cruisers
(https://i.imgur.com/JnYz3Gt.jpg)
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/981955909462188032
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/19789/the-insanely-logical-case-for-turning-s-3-vikings-into-the-navys-new-mq-25-tanker-drone
https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/982505704656257024
(https://www.nationalgalleries.org/sites/default/files/styles/postcard/public/externals/11799.jpg?itok=e0whv5Tx)
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/17391/aerial-view-edinburgh?search=buckham&search_set_offset=20
Very dramatic!
Is that Edinburgh Castle below the plane?
Well spotted - yes and with King Arthur's Seat behind it
https://twitter.com/CobraBall3/status/983022075542691840
https://twitter.com/AncientSubHunt/status/983052007576621056
^Did the pilot forget to set the parking brake after he walked away?
(I know... I know... stop droning on...)
https://twitter.com/Where_is_Puff/status/983364773613064192 (https://twitter.com/Where_is_Puff/status/983364773613064192)
QuoteRoyal Air Force BK Mark 2 Victor tanker aircraft sits at Jubail Naval Airport following Operation Desert Storm
(https://i.imgur.com/Cg8d5hT.jpg)
Beautifully ugly in a Jerry Anderson design- kind of way.
at first glance I thought soviet-punk style aviation, but no, weirdo art-deco british
QuoteTest F-35C Flying Dirty
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/876/40491967995_6b24ee54ce_o.jpg)
(https://i.redd.it/2spopqo16or01.jpg)
https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/984877809431490560
https://twitter.com/AncientSubHunt/status/984849373329838083
www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/20119/navy-f-a-18-legacy-hornets-have-taken-their-last-cruise-aboard-a-u-s-aircraft-carrier
https://twitter.com/thewarzonewire/status/985329871306895360
Ouch! Good thing the pilot wasn't severely injured.
https://twitter.com/fighterpics/status/985499158718111744
QuoteF-4 Phantoms at a McDonnell Douglas manufacturing plant
(https://i.redd.it/6hpzianddvr01.jpg)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Da-i12uW0AEdfSA.jpg:large)
Quote from: mirth on April 09, 2018, 12:00:21 PM
QuoteRoyal Air Force BK Mark 2 Victor tanker aircraft sits at Jubail Naval Airport following Operation Desert Storm
(https://i.imgur.com/Cg8d5hT.jpg)
:smitten:
Quote from: mirth on April 13, 2018, 08:39:48 AM
(https://i.redd.it/2spopqo16or01.jpg)
:smitten: :smitten: :smitten:
https://twitter.com/NASAhistory/status/986303284670599168
https://twitter.com/thewarzonewire/status/986342355371409408
Quote from: mirth on April 13, 2018, 07:39:06 PM
https://twitter.com/AncientSubHunt/status/984849373329838083
(https://pics.me.me/uh-phrasing-28681568.png)
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2493/5741241509_9248f20a4a_o.jpg)
Fairey Gannet on HMS Hermes
(https://www.maritimequest.com/warship_directory/great_britain/photos/aircraft_carriers/hermes_r12/john_shepherd_collection/14_fairey_gannet_take_off.jpg)
(https://www.maritimequest.com/warship_directory/great_britain/photos/aircraft_carriers/hermes_r12/john_shepherd_collection/12_fairey_gannet_landing.jpg)
(https://www.maritimequest.com/warship_directory/great_britain/photos/aircraft_carriers/hermes_r12/john_shepherd_collection/13_fairey_gannet_landing.jpg)
QuoteF-35B touches down on USS Wasp as another F-35B taxis behind it
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https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/987414897460998144
QuoteAn air-to-air view of a Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84) F-14 Tomcat aircraft performing a vertical climb. The Tomcat is armed with AIM-7 Sparrow and AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile and Mark 82 practice bombs
(https://i.imgur.com/saxpvcK.jpg)
https://twitter.com/Aviationdailyy/status/988645097959981057
https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/988677557565308928
Purty, with a li'l bit o' MiG-29 thrown in
theres nothing mig29 about it at all.
It has wings?
QuoteNew Belgian Air Force F-16 Solo Display aircraft 'Dark Falcon' of Capt.-Comdr. Stefan Darte 'VADOR'.
(https://i.imgur.com/Nx8rnf8.jpg)
Impressive. Most impressive...
https://twitter.com/TheAviationist/status/989908856242429952
https://twitter.com/CobraBall3/status/990222411126788097
https://twitter.com/AncientSubHunt/status/990678433696026631
(https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/2d3d60ec1fc94653c7706ffb5330bb82wtmk.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600)
BBBBBRRRRRRRRTTTTTTT X 3
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^nice O0
The French naval air arm kept some 88s in service into the early 50s.
Quote from: mirth on May 02, 2018, 02:53:45 PM
The French naval air arm kept some 88s in service into the early 50s.
I didn't know they could fly backwards...
thats a really nice model
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Hey, it flies, so technically...airplane.
Actually... I think its CG. And it's in Nachtjaeger camo w/out any NJ hardware (antenna, Schrag Musik...) unless it's supposed to be some kind of night intruder getup.
QuoteTu-95MSM with long range (5500 km) low-observable cruise missiles Kh-101
(https://pp.userapi.com/c847019/v847019508/3bc36/xokCZoEWlbw.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/5J2Ccba.jpg)
QuoteCockpit view from a French navy E-2C Hawkeye flying in formation with Rafale M's and USN F/A-18 Super hornets and a Hawkeye
(https://i.imgur.com/a6Uu9vn.jpg)
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/993173576223162369
:dreamer:
https://twitter.com/WarshipPorn/status/993069740401790976
QuoteFive-ship flight of Blackjack and Backfire strategic bombers over the Moscow International Business Center during the May 9 Victory Day Parade.
(https://i.imgur.com/tSgt6rL.jpg)
That's all they could get flying at the same time.
Story on the SU-57
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/close-up-photos-of-russias-new-stealth-jet-reveal-its-true-purpose-—-and-its-a-big-threat-to-the-us/ar-AAx1Le2?ocid=spartanntp
Quote from: OJsDad on May 09, 2018, 06:51:06 PM
That's all they could get flying at the same time.
managed to make it look cool
Quote from: mirth on May 09, 2018, 07:08:47 PM
Quote from: OJsDad on May 09, 2018, 06:51:06 PM
That's all they could get flying at the same time.
managed to make it look cool
True. Now Trump wants to mimic.
https://twitter.com/NASAhistory/status/994955293191753729
(https://i.imgur.com/6W83Hrs.jpg)
Lawn darts!
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Canadian lawn darts!
(https://hushkit.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/starfighter-jg-e280a6ild-farbe-3.jpg)
Luftwaffe lawn dart!
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Belgian Lawn Dart!
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Czech lawn dart!
Dutch lawn dart
Quote from: mirth on May 11, 2018, 06:52:57 PM
Dutch lawn dart
That's Dutch? I thought that circle with the red/white/blue was Czech Republic.
<SMH>
The Dutch one has a red circle in the middle, the Czech one does not, and is usually tipped so it is not symmetrical.
Quote from: BanzaiCat on May 11, 2018, 06:55:04 PM
Quote from: mirth on May 11, 2018, 06:52:57 PM
Dutch lawn dart
That's Dutch? I thought that circle with the red/white/blue was Czech Republic.
I googled the serial number painted prominently on the fuselage ;)
Afaik, the Czechs never operated the 104.
OK... think carefully before captioning this one. Extreme brevity will win the Attaboy.
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https://www.iconspng.com/image/94885/roundel-of-the-air-force-of-the-czech-republic
First thing I thought of. I'm not as nerdy on this stuff as you boys apparently.
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 11, 2018, 07:05:22 PM
OK... think carefully before captioning this one. Extreme brevity will win the Attaboy.
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Japanese lawn dart
Quote from: mirth on May 11, 2018, 07:10:12 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 11, 2018, 07:05:22 PM
OK... think carefully before captioning this one. Extreme brevity will win the Attaboy.
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Japanese lawn dart
Jart
Clever
Banzai + Dart
Bart
Quote from: BanzaiCat on May 11, 2018, 08:11:31 PM
Banzai + Dart
Bart
Just in case you want to ride underground rail into San Francisco.
https://twitter.com/WarshipPorn/status/995377900911284225
https://twitter.com/LoveWW2Planes/status/995324034387791872
Nice image of an Icelandair 757-200 in Northern Lights livery.
(https://apex.aero/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/IcelandAir-aerial-shot.jpg)
https://theaviationist.com/?p=54602
https://twitter.com/TheAviationist/status/995778629748523008
(https://theaviationist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/without-radome.jpg)
QuoteUSMC A-4M Skyhawks drop Mk 82 Snakeye bombs near NAS Fallon, 1978
(https://i.redd.it/420gtgyspsx01.jpg)
ANA (All Nippon Airways) 787 Dreamliner in R2D2 livery.
(https://www.thenational.ae/image/policy:1.633583:1506081482/image/jpeg.jpg)
Quote from: mirth on May 14, 2018, 05:56:00 AM
QuoteUSMC A-4M Skyhawks drop Mk 82 Snakeye bombs near NAS Fallon, 1978
(https://i.redd.it/420gtgyspsx01.jpg)
Someone's going to need some paracetamol! :2funny:
Quote from: mirth on May 14, 2018, 05:56:00 AM
QuoteUSMC A-4M Skyhawks drop Mk 82 Snakeye bombs near NAS Fallon, 1978
(https://i.redd.it/420gtgyspsx01.jpg)
Still the cutest fighter jet ever designed.
Quote from: Grecco on May 14, 2018, 08:36:05 AM
Still the cutest fighter jet ever designed.
O0 it is adorable
QuoteSBD's at dawn, November 1942.
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5605/31469459475_c282881280_o.jpg)
S' purty
It is indeed!
QuoteU.S. Navy PBM's in flight, 1943
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5591/30151729552_29a14eea88_o.jpg)
^
When Flight 19 disappeared in the 'Bermuda Triangle' ("Oh- that Flight 19!") A PBMs was sent out to try and locate them.
It was also never heard from again.
It's in the Sonoran Desert with the rest of them.
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/997007590918905856
(https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/facts-about-the-iconic-ww2-p-38-lightning-2542.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=920)
^Meanwhile, somewhere in the Japanese Occupied Zone, Isoroku Yamamoto just woke up from a recurring bad dream...
^ha!
QuoteTwo TBF Avengers over Iwo Jima, 2 March 1945.
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3844/15274556541_22ebcd40f0_o.jpg)
^ I don't think they'll ever get over Iwo Jima Macho Grande.
lol
QuoteHorten Ho 229 V2 from behind. Notice the Heinkel He 162 on the left
(https://i.redd.it/ohx09ovbgty01.jpg)
Quote from: mirth on May 19, 2018, 09:52:41 AM
QuoteHorten Ho 229 V2 from behind. Notice the Heinkel He 162 on the left
(https://i.redd.it/ohx09ovbgty01.jpg)
The center section of v3 is on display at Udvar Hazy. I've seen it several times.
WOW!
Also looks like some A-series Butcherbirds a bit further down.
NOVA had an episode a while back about a team of radar experts testing a 'radar-true' mockup of the Ho-229 and finding that it would have been stealthy enough to sneak up on England's Chain Home and later GCI systems, leaving almost no time to detect and intercept.
QuoteF2H-3 (Banshees), FJ-3 (Furies), and F9F-9 (Cougars) of VC-3 flying over San Francisco, California, January 1955.
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5555/15091945839_0a754df3d5_o.jpg)
QuotePBY-5 on anti-submarine patrol drops a depth-charge
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3891/15254859246_cb48e20924_o.jpg)
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/998941704081330177
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/21045/here-is-boeings-master-plan-for-the-f-a-18e-f-super-hornets-future
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/999779799529938944
https://hushkit.net/2018/05/24/firefox-would-it-have-been-any-good-in-real-life/
https://twitter.com/fighterpics/status/1000010642051551233
QuoteTwo Martin AM-1 Mauler attack planes in the late 1940s. The plane in the foreground is armed with bombs and three torpedoes, the plan in the background is carrying twelve 12.7 cm (5 in) HVAR-rockets under the wings, two Tiny Tim rockets, and a bomb on the centerline station. Besides these impressive loads the Mauler had inferior handling characteristics and could not compete with the Douglas AD Skyraider. Caption originally comes from Naval Aviation News, June 1949.
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3843/15255917846_e6c7c70d5e_o.jpg)
Not an aircraft I'm familiar with. This is an impressive loadout though.
https://twitter.com/marklanebiz/status/1000086676599922698
QuoteF7Us (Cutlass) of VC-3 in practice intercept problem, January 1955.
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3908/15092005460_4fbf5821cd_o.jpg)
QuoteUS Navy P4Y-2s in flight on 7 November 1952
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5576/15092311598_f9998c48b5_o.jpg)
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/1000783704543911937
https://twitter.com/Aviationdailyy/status/1001472709774270464
all of that and the wheels dont come up? ::)
QuoteRAF F-35 flies alongside USAF counterpart
(https://i.redd.it/7iufdpmoks011.jpg)
QuoteIranian P-47D Thunderbolt, 1949
(https://i.redd.it/6zuu3166m8011.jpg)
https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/1001531671319998464
Quote from: mirth on May 29, 2018, 11:13:30 AM
QuoteIranian P-47D Thunderbolt, 1949
(https://i.redd.it/6zuu3166m8011.jpg)
Still more classy than the F-35
Quote from: mirth on May 29, 2018, 11:05:35 AM
QuoteRAF F-35 flies alongside USAF counterpart
(https://i.redd.it/7iufdpmoks011.jpg)
Transatlanticism is alive and well.
https://theaviationist.com/2017/10/03/russian-il-76-candid-modified-to-support-special-operations-conducts-flight-test-over-the-black-sea/
QuoteA U.S. Navy Lockheed P2V-5 Neptune of Patrol Squadron VP-18 "Flying Phantoms" flies over the submarine USS Trumpetfish (SS-425)
(https://i.imgur.com/LipQKoX.jpg)
(https://i.redd.it/gh5rk9xqam111.jpg)
QuoteOS2U-1 Kingfisher sits on the catapult on board the USS Pasadena (CL 65) in 1944
(https://i.redd.it/5cbpv171uu111.jpg)
Nice find, Mirthie! :bd:
Quote from: mirth on June 03, 2018, 10:55:54 AM
(https://i.redd.it/gh5rk9xqam111.jpg)
Three phantoms walk into a bar...
^ha
Good one!
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/1003656644453167104
QuoteYugoslav Air Force F-86 Sabres
(https://i.redd.it/5xdqy6poa0211.jpg)
https://twitter.com/AncientSubHunt/status/1003714389005033472
QuoteLightnings making their voyage across the Atlantic to the UK
(https://i.imgur.com/RdYqYA6.jpg)
QuoteAn A-10 operating over Mars.
(https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/180528-F-ZU607-0139C-840x420.jpg)
https://twitter.com/fighterpics/status/1005086527691599872
https://twitter.com/Aviationdailyy/status/1005107129194336257
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2018/06/08/air-force-b-1b-bombers-grounded-after-a-problem-with-its-ejection-seats/
https://twitter.com/TheAviationist/status/1005793420869341184
QuoteJASDF F-15DJ in "Aggressor" colors
(https://i.redd.it/isny88mfc4311.jpg)
If ever a plane needed to be able to transform into a giant robot- that one is it.
JSDF planes have some of the best paint jobs.
https://twitter.com/TheAviationist/status/1005903011678507008
right before it crashed.... :2funny: >:D
QuoteA Junkers Ju 88D cockpit
(https://i.redd.it/iblctxxwg9311.jpg)
QuoteAn Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II breaks away after being refueled during a mission over Afghanistan, May 28, 2018. The pilot is assigned to the 163rd Fighter Squadron. USAF photo.
(https://i.redd.it/gmagqkqs38311.jpg)
Phantom and the Bear
(https://i.imgur.com/aJUxH7N.jpg)
QuoteUSS Biloxi (CL-80) Catapults a Curtiss SO3C Seamew floatplane, during her shakedown period, circa October 1943.
(https://i.redd.it/hr2az47wd3311.jpg)
QuoteN-1 Seaplane taxiing, 24 May 1918
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3902/15092834637_53dcb11578_o.jpg)
https://twitter.com/NASAhistory/status/1006234616636805120
https://twitter.com/CombatAir/status/1006213330506256385
I miss the Cold War.
It misses you too, Jarhead.
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on June 11, 2018, 03:19:41 PM
I miss the Cold War.
You'll love the new Cold War except this time the US, North Korea & Russia will be allies... all because Trump let a woman pee on him and the KGB videotaped it :D ;D
Quote from: Windigo on June 11, 2018, 04:11:20 PM
the KGB videotaped it :D ;D
^Fake News!!!!
It was the GRU and FSB, each with their own camera.
https://twitter.com/thewarzonewire/status/1006674558487691265
QuoteF-4J Phantom from the Connie, circa 1973. BuNo 153872 was assigned to Fighter Squadron 92 (VF-92) "Silver Kings" aboard USS Constellation (CVA-64). The aircraft is armed with an AIM-9B Sidewinder missiles.
(https://i.redd.it/scddtzz81u311.jpg)
Quote2 F-15SG making a high speed pass.
(https://i.redd.it/fgfays7w8z311.jpg)
https://twitter.com/AirmanMagazine/status/1007261878387527680
Did they read our thread on airbrushes?
https://twitter.com/Aviationdailyy/status/1007650998540742656
QuoteP2V-3C, making JATO take off, at Naval Air Station, Norfolk, June 1952
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5586/15275984381_46be83ec63_o.jpg)
QuoteJA37 interceptor loaded with air to ground rockets at a war base in central Sweden
(https://i.redd.it/r74v8r3o3q411.jpg)
QuoteAn Attack Squadron 72 (VA-72) A-7E Corsair aircraft banks to the left while en-route to its target during Operation Desert Storm
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5706/21589286982_70ea4f267e_o.jpg)
QuoteSaab 35 Draken being serviced by a roadside crew
(https://i.redd.it/kr4zupmd8t411.jpg)
https://twitter.com/defense_news/status/1009164958171615237
^I think I see Batman in the cockpit. :-"
(https://i.imgur.com/abULEE9.jpg)
I do love an air show.
Quote from: mirth on June 20, 2018, 09:35:03 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/abULEE9.jpg)
Is that Wright-Patterson AFB?
The pic was posted without any info, but someone was speculating it's Carswell AFB near Fort Worth which I think is correct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carswell_Air_Force_Base
https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/1009657263189983232
How I do so love the OV-10 :smitten: :smitten:
I bet youre hung like the one in the photo as well.
https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/1009872551663697920
^Je-je-je-jerrybomb!
QuoteNorthrop Grumman E-2D Advanced Hawkeye
(https://i.redd.it/k5fc5t10wv511.jpg)
QuoteEarly use of Drone during Vietnam War, The U.S. Air Force Ryan Firebee drone "Tom Cat" flying over North Vietnam before being shot down by anti-aircraft fire over Hanoi. 1969
(https://i.redd.it/4dks1nuo1w511.jpg)
OK, I'll go stand in the corner and face the wall.
How long do I have to stay here? It's almost dinner time...
No peeing
QuoteTwo EA-3B Skywarrior aircraft from Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 2 (VQ-2) fly past Gibraltar., 6/20/1991
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fusnhistory.navylive.dodlive.mil%2Ffiles%2F2017%2F05%2F22323015171_cdf7df55e2_o.jpg&hash=60b9b73aa18ab9e2cc526ee629c1dc4e1b7bee51)
QuoteBombers arrive at Andersen
(https://media.defense.gov/2004/Feb/23/2000594399/-1/-1/0/040222-F-5040D-265.JPG)
QuoteIAF F-16I Sufas showing why their camouflage works, 2012
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7200/6984972700_af3372fe36_o.jpg)
QuoteA GR9 Harrier take off from HMS Ark Royal (R07) marking the final jet launch of the ship prior to decommissioning and scrapping, 2010
(https://i.redd.it/4hy5ohteop511.jpg)
QuoteB-58 Hustlers at a Convair facility in 1957
(https://i.redd.it/g8mpl6dwlj611.jpg)
thats just a damn sexy plane.
Not short of motive power, is it?
Quote from: bob48 on June 27, 2018, 05:33:02 PM
Not short of motive power, is it?
Basically that of two F-4 Phantoms in one airframe.
Or four Starfighters
Quote from: mirth on June 27, 2018, 06:19:11 PM
Or four Starfighters
Considering the B-58's dismal safety record, that may be an even better analogy.
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/21814/we-heard-what-it-sounds-like-just-before-a-b-52-begins-the-end-of-the-world-last-night
Unencrypted EAM message broadcast during the exercise
http://paineairport.com/sounds/doom61.mp3
QuoteThis Vulcan bomber made an emergency landing at Rio de Janeiro during the Falklands War, 1982
(https://i.redd.it/1lqvxaw7mx611.jpg)
QuoteF2H "Banshee" over the battleship BB-62 "New Jersey" and aircraft carrier CVA-39 "Lake Champlain"
(https://i.imgur.com/u7lr3D5.jpg)
QuoteA four ship F-16 Fighting Falcon formation flies through the sky on a mission in northern Minnesota
(https://media.defense.gov/2009/Apr/14/2000596900/-1/-1/0/071117-F-6565E-228.JPG)
Quote from: mirth on July 02, 2018, 11:48:44 AM
QuoteA four ship F-16 Fighting Falcon formation flies through the sky on a mission in northern Minnesota
(https://media.defense.gov/2009/Apr/14/2000596900/-1/-1/0/071117-F-6565E-228.JPG)
They were heading into Canada on a counter clipping mission.
^ha!
Quote from: mirth on June 26, 2018, 09:43:38 AM
QuoteIAF F-16I Sufas showing why their camouflage works, 2012
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7200/6984972700_af3372fe36_o.jpg)
Those are probably Baraks. Sufas are two seaters with conformal fuel tanks over the wings.
Airplane Nerd over and out.
Quote from: mirth on July 02, 2018, 11:48:44 AM
QuoteA four ship F-16 Fighting Falcon formation flies through the sky on a cheese interdiction mission over northern Minnesota
(https://media.defense.gov/2009/Apr/14/2000596900/-1/-1/0/071117-F-6565E-228.JPG)
https://twitter.com/TheAviationist/status/1014155280807088129
https://twitter.com/fighterpics/status/1014616938109198337
(https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/a-firepower-america-fun-4th_of_july-960-11.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=950)
:smitten: :smitten: :smitten:
Me-323 "Gigant" transport.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-596-0367-05A%2C_Flugzeug_Me_323_Gigant.jpg)
(https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/military-07_17-18-firing-gif-55a-wing-missile.gif?w=500)
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/22372/exclusive-unmasking-the-f-15x-boeings-f-15c-d-eagle-replacement-fighter
Jeebus... does Canada have real alternative to the Super Hornet now???
Well, since you're on a 50 year procurement plan there is plenty of time to switch things up.
Fuck ya more F-15s! :bd:
https://twitter.com/Aviationdailyy/status/1022506256991436800
QuoteA VF-114 F-14A Tomcat aircraft flies over an oil well still burning in the aftermath of Operation Desert Storm
(https://i.redd.it/apqexqx24ac11.jpg)
Yesterday :
Better quality (but in Dutch ) : https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2018/07/26/zweden-gaat-bosbrand-te-lijf-met-bom/
https://britishairshows.com/sunderland-international-airshow.html
As we live near to Newcastle airport, we usually see some aircraft that are based there for the show. So far, we have had a Spitfire and Hurricane go over and now the Bristol Blenheim has circled around a couple of times. I hope to see the OV-10 Bronco this year.
Quote from: bob48 on July 27, 2018, 10:24:47 AM
https://britishairshows.com/sunderland-international-airshow.html (https://britishairshows.com/sunderland-international-airshow.html)
As we live near to Newcastle airport, we usually see some aircraft that are based there for the show. So far, we have had a Spitfire and Hurricane go over and now the Bristol Blenheim has circled around a couple of times. I hope to see the OV-10 Bronco this year.
:bd:
QuoteNorthrop XB-49
(https://media.defense.gov/2006/Oct/25/2000538602/-1/-1/0/061025-F-1234S-018.JPG)
Quotede Havilland Sea Vixen set to launch from HMS Hermes (R12)
(https://i.redd.it/1qq0jyb0jtb11.jpg)
Quote from: mirth on July 25, 2018, 02:40:41 PM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/22372/exclusive-unmasking-the-f-15x-boeings-f-15c-d-eagle-replacement-fighter
If the F22/35's need a platform to lug weapons, I wonder if they'll look at the B-1R concept again.
Just had the MiG 15 and 2 Vampires fly over the house.
QuoteIsraeli F-35I Adir
(https://i.redd.it/npczutsfzjc11.png)
Great movie reference
I can see Bob standing outside his house, taking a swig of whiskey, and muttering "damn Vampires"
Damn right!
There is one of my favourite movie lines..............'Every damn kid and his slingshot'................'What the Captain means is..............'
Name that movie!
Got me on those Bob. The only reason I knew the Lost Boys reference is because it was only one of a couple of movies on a ship I was on for a couple of months. So we watched every couple of days.
Quote from: bob48 on July 29, 2018, 11:42:43 AM
Damn right!
There is one of my favourite movie lines..............'Every damn kid and his slingshot'................'What the Captain means is..............'
Name that movie!
Was it a talkie?
OK, it wasn't a movie as such.....
Ha! Thanks for digging that up Bob!
Its funny, innit? :-)
Seen today, all heading away from the airport;
Eurofighter Typhoon
Bristol Blenheim
Spitfire
MiG15
Vampire
And what may have been the OV-10 Bronco, but it was too far away to see clearly other than I could see a splash of orange. This is a German aircraft and is green and orange livery. It was also heading in a generally ESE direction so may have been flying back to Germany.
Quote from: bob48 on July 30, 2018, 07:05:28 AM
And what may have been the OV-10 Bronco, but it was too far away to see clearly other than I could see a splash of orange. This is a German aircraft and is green and orange livery. It was also heading in a generally ESE direction so may have been flying back to Germany.
May well have been this one then:
Quote
North American Rockwell OV-10B Bronco of the Bronco Demo Team at the 2018 RIAT, England. This is an ex-Luftwaffe B-model originally used as an aerial gunnery target tug. The OV-10B was an OV-10A with no weapons, no sponsons, and a glass dome replacing the rear door, which was used by the tow operator.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/North_American_Rockwell_OV-10B_Bronco_%28code_99%2B18%29_of_the_Bronco_Demo_Team_at_RIAT_Fairford_12July2018_arp.jpg)
Yes, I think so. I have watched a lot youtube footage of the Bronco, and there are quite a few of that particular aircraft.
https://twitter.com/TheAviationist/status/1023940101305458689
QuoteTurkish Air Force F-4E Phantom II with Popeye Missiles
(https://i.redd.it/wehpu8czn3d11.jpg)
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/22534/high-quality-shots-of-unpainted-chinese-j-20-stealth-fighter-offer-new-capability-insights
(https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/efe47f23c29c0b7a27d3e4e2a932096e_width-600.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600)
While fighter jock is showing off, tanker crew is eating hot steaks and potatoes and washing it down with a cold Mt Dew.
Quote from: mirth on July 30, 2018, 09:37:10 AM
https://twitter.com/TheAviationist/status/1023940101305458689
Quote from: OJsDad on August 01, 2018, 07:08:48 PM
While fighter jock is showing off, tanker crew is eating hot steaks and potatoes and washing it down with a cold Mt Dew.
Quote from: mirth on July 30, 2018, 09:37:10 AM
https://twitter.com/TheAviationist/status/1023940101305458689
And, just as important, strolling around the cabin, scratching their asses, and peeing standing up.
https://twitter.com/Aviationdailyy/status/1025015486839443456
Yikes! :o Surprised it actually got in the air.....
so am I
QuoteF4 Phantom II with a full load out in the late 90s, location unknown
(https://i.redd.it/ek3ffdpewdd11.jpg)
Australian? Looks like a 'Roo Roundel.
https://twitter.com/fighterpics/status/1025374561372700676
(https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/morning_picdump_2834_640_high_03.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=641)
The Black Jets are still flying
https://theaviationist.com/?p=58351
Quote from: Barthheart on August 03, 2018, 12:13:39 PM
(https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/morning_picdump_2834_640_high_03.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=641)
An F15 walks into a tattoo parlor....
Go home F-15. You're drunk.
QuoteTwo B-52H Stratofortress bombers fly over the Pacific Ocean during a routine training mission Aug. 2, 2018. This mission was flown in support of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command's Continuous Bomber Presence operations.
(https://media.defense.gov/2018/Aug/03/2001950487/-1/-1/0/180802-F-FF346-909.JPG)
QuoteThree F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets assigned to the 64th Aggressors Squadron fly over the Nevada Test and Training Range during Red Flag 18-3.
(https://media.defense.gov/2018/Aug/03/2001950481/-1/-1/0/180727-F-FM571-901.JPG)
QuoteThe Bell Aircraft Company X-2 (46-674) drops away from its Boeing B-50 mothership in this photo. Lt. Col. Frank "Pete" Everest piloted 674 on its first unpowered flight on August 5 1954. He made the first rocket-powered flight on November 18, 1955.
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5449/9460855412_65df494a0b_o.jpg)
QuoteMaj. Paul Lopez, F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team commander/pilot, opens the weapons door-bay during a practice performance at Langley Air Force Base, Va., August 1, 2018.
(https://media.defense.gov/2018/Aug/03/2001950485/-1/-1/0/180801-F-AR942-926.JPG)
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/22666/usaf-reveals-timeline-for-buying-light-attack-aircraft-it-now-says-it-needed-decades-ago
Just bring back the OV-10 Bronco!!!!
O0
(https://scontent.fsin1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/39933141_2152162218438979_1935187370223599616_o.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=8f178754c2d16385d2ec1cc96644b4d0&oe=5BECD53F)
(https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/5db1715c2492f1b74ca519867b842ebe_width-600wtmk.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600)
Nice everyday carry.
That is awesome!
Very good article on how the Rolls Royce Merlin engine was mass produced in america.
https://www.tested.com/art/makers/492418-packard-merlin-how-detroit-mass-produced-britains-hand-built-powerhouse/
Eighteen wings.
Upper New York has a lot of cool toys.
^They must be out of Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome: https://oldrhinebeck.org
B 25 Mitchells in the Pacific.
http://www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com/B-25Attack.html
Devastator at Midway.
Royal Navy Swordfish on board USS Wasp (CV-7). the captions date the pics from April-May 42.
Thar she blows! The Great White Shark!
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/10139187/china-helicopter-great-white-shark/
:2funny:
Forward Air Controller
Crew Chiefs don't get no respect.
Still from gun camera film shot by a Hawker Typhoon of No. 181 Squadron RAF while attacking trucks in railways sidings at Nordhorn, Germany, showing a salvo of 60-lb rocket projectiles heading for the target
From the book, Sled Driver.
U.S. Navy aircraft of several squadrons inside the airship hangar at Naval Air Station Moffett Field, California, on 30 July 1935 (looking south).
Identifiable planes are: Boeing F4Bs of VF-6 (front), a single Grumman SF-1, Curtiss BFC-2s (VB-2), and others in the background.
https://www.foxnews.com/science/sunken-wwii-plane-revealed-in-stunning-seabed-images
wow 2 years and no planes.
(https://scontent.fmia1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/280849562_363734145790000_1597207931346593707_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-6&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=WhRZuSaLzVcAX9-tVkg&_nc_ht=scontent.fmia1-2.fna&oh=00_AT_Fx40PS_J4fq2fUBbZDbvTwbOJixeat1DfSdNoEWvang&oe=62851F8D)
Oh wow I totally forgot about this thread. Nice pic!
(https://worldwar2headquarters.com/images/aircraftItalian/MacchiC.205.jpg)
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5239/6952621372_c5990ab67e_b.jpg)
^Ah yes. The often mistakenly called Italian Bf-109.
I believe it was a major departure from their previous radial engine designs.
^Yes I think you're right.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIzDWdbWoAUAHG0?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
Awesome hahaha - I'll take three
well theyre all getting retired by 2027 supposedly.
ya got a spare $600 million lying around?
I'll check the couch.
Quote from: Gusington on July 28, 2022, 07:37:49 PM
I'll check the couch.
All's you need is a 'little' luck. After taxes, you're good. <:-)
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/27/us/mega-millions-jackpot-tuesday/index.html
That type of aerial configuration is alien to me. ::)
taken from the tail camera of a Harrier:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fdr2viiXEA0Uo2e?format=jpg&name=medium)
^Captured MiG-21 with RAF roundel?
English Electric Lightning
Beautiful....
Quote from: JudgeDredd on September 28, 2022, 02:21:49 PM
English Electric Lightning
How embarrassing! LOL
Thanks JD.
I didn't notice the rear tail fins. I've actually got a mod for this unit in CiVIII. Yes I'm old.
(https://forums.civfanatics.com/attachments/lightningf1_splash_up1-png.437789/)
smooth
https://twitter.com/i/status/1579139887663456257
:o
How close is he to the ground??
Pretty close as evidenced by the size of that C-130 he flew past.
Quote from: Staggerwing on October 09, 2022, 06:53:00 PM
Pretty close as evidenced by the size of that C-130 he flew past.
Eh, 150-200 feet. Not any lower than a standard airshow runway pass, and this was clearly not over spectators, so no extra regulations. Beautifully shot, but not outrageously low.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ffn3zVNX0BYfThM?format=jpg&name=large)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FfqN-L9X0AALQQi?format=jpg&name=large)
'Murica!
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEi2UYPXgAAl9cY?format=jpg&name=large)
I believe in todays vernacular this is known as big dick energy.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgMqvu4X0AE2js8?format=jpg&name=medium)
^'Going to f*ck some shit up.'
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on October 29, 2022, 06:50:18 PM
I believe in todays vernacular this is known as big dick energy.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgMqvu4X0AE2js8?format=jpg&name=medium)
Commonly known as spamraam in DCS world. The Hornet is such a capable aircraft. This loadout will make you slow though.
even in an E?
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/stress-testing-super-hornet-s-wings
(https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/afrc2022-0025-003large.jpg)
Teams at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, recently completed stress testing on the Navy's F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft from the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) in Patuxent River, Maryland. The Super Hornet is seen here in a top view from March 2022 while in a wing loading test configuration at Armstrong.
Understanding what stress, or strain, an aircraft can endure is critical to carrying out its intended mission. To better understand the aircraft's capacity for strain, unique facilities can "load" the aircraft to specified stress points and document its performance. The test data resulted in the development of loads equations that calculate real-time loads experienced during flight testing, which can be compared to established design limits to ensure safety of flight and crew.
Better not tell Maverick about that. :hide:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1590337158551937024
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on October 29, 2022, 11:13:29 PM
even in an E?
It's all relative I guess. The missile gets a lot more energy from a launch the faster you are going when the button is pressed.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhISMPlWQAI0xyb?format=jpg&name=medium)
:o
each marking is a recovered aircraft in Vietnam.
More than a few people loved that machine very much.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiBJdRmWYAE74H7?format=jpg&name=large)
'The Flying Fiends' - awesome
if it was live fire those two Bones are getting to their targets!
Kin-un-il-suk-mai-cok. <:-)
;D
Kin? or Kim?
not gonna lie, kinda have a chubby! :bd:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjIA7x6WYAIWS4I?format=jpg&name=large)
(https://cdn.suwalls.com/wallpapers/aircraft/boeing-f-a-18e-super-hornet-above-the-clouds-50875-1920x1200.jpg)
... better
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fj1MPC5XoAA4mVs?format=jpg&name=large)
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on December 13, 2022, 12:31:25 AM
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you could get a nice big flat screen monitor Windy.
fucking boomers.....
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on December 13, 2022, 04:38:16 PM
you could get a nice big flat screen monitor Windy.
fucking boomers.....
:bd:
:evil:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1617195570476498948
dayum
on a scale of 1 to 11 how 60's America is this.
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Well.... it's probably was the least maneuverable/airshow worthy plane the Thunderbirds ever flew. So it's got that going for it. With two models of the F-100 used by them for basically the entire decade, I would more associate that aircraft with 60's America.
It is a fantastic photo. :RockOn:
Heh I love that pic. 12.
What on earth possessed the USAF to choose a nuclear bomber, the largest single-seat/engine combat aircraft ever made up to that point, for use in high-precision acrobatics?
But...but, they LOOK really cool. :embarrassed:
Yeah I don't know who chose it but whoever it is - I like his style.
I think these B-1s will get through.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1620953846934818816
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:Dreamer:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1624518751486988288
meanwhile over Korea
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They're right behind him. And he can't even see them. Cause they're....Stealth. :wink:
because fuck your FEBA!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1634696877215039488
you lovely dirty girl! :Dreamer:
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ya baby! :Party:
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/re-engined-b-52-b-52j/
"The service had been considering various designations for the improved Stratofortress, because in addition to new engines, the B-52 will also be receiving a new radar, as well as new communications and navigation equipment and weapons, among other improvements intended to keep it credible and capable through the 2050s."
By the 2050s it will have served for almost 100 years. Is there any other airframe anywhere on Earth that even comes close? Crazy :Dreamer:
It used to be the planes were older than the pilots. Now the planes will be older than the pilot's parents. :shocked:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1647331683408945154
https://twitter.com/i/status/1648319668271165440
That looks like a scene from Star Wars. :ThumbsUp:
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^I was hoping for a Porkins cameo.
Ummm...Porkins. :grilling:
Quote from: Gusington on April 19, 2023, 09:41:35 AM^I was hoping for a Porkins cameo.
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Alas...Porkins could not hold it :undecided:
^Yeah, he's gone but not forgotten.
Pour out some Pork Soda for Porkins.
Well in his defense, it is hard to, 'hold it' when you're flying down the trench of a Death Star with Vader on your ass. Especially if you've been drinking Pork Soda. :tie1:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1650003119357526017
I saw them at Mc Dill AFB last year. They are well worth the price of admission.
'murica!
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By the time you see it, it's too late. You're already dead.
:Nerd:
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-b-21-raider-china/#.ZEwHvsQUrNI.twitter
always the best looking fighter of the Cold War.
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Meet the AT-802U Sky Warden. The first tail dragger in the US inventory in over half-a-century.
Officially entering production.
Special Operations Command (SOCOM) now has its own air support built for low intensity conflict.
https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing/armed-overwatch-special-ops-turboprop-enters-low-rate-production/153252.article (https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing/armed-overwatch-special-ops-turboprop-enters-low-rate-production/153252.article)
ewww
Better Tail-Draggers than Knuckle-Draggers. :grin:
When Crop dusters Went To War
^How romantic! :Dreamer:
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^I can hear Toonces getting aroused from here.
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You're gonna give Toonces an aneurysm if he ever peeks in here.
Quote from: Gusington on May 25, 2023, 08:02:23 AMYou're gonna give Toonces an aneurysm if he ever peeks in here.
Did Toonces fly any of these birds IRL?
P-3 Orions iirc
^Yes - I think at one point he wanted to fly A-6s.
could you imagine what a four man crew could do with todays EW and drones....
Control everything in the air and on the ground 1000 miles in any direction?
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mach loop
https://twitter.com/i/status/1662905137034084360
Maverick, is that you? :shocked:
I imagine some hikers got a free airshow.
Although I didn't see any womp rats bullseyed by T-16s that still is an impressive bit of flying.
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https://twitter.com/i/status/1663565952540348418
https://twitter.com/i/status/1665085898537705473
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Steamy pic. :wink:
Is it hot in here or is it just an F-18?
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Anyone know a good resource for military aircraft wallpapers in 5120x1440?
My super stretched and pixelated DCS F-86 wallpaper is a bit long in the tooth.
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https://twitter.com/i/status/1677023558600478727
Damn. I'm surprised the plane was allowed that close. :shocked:
The XB-38 offered a unique twist, swapping out the B-17's traditional Wright R-1820 radial engines for liquid-cooled Allison V-1710 V-12 engines.
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Radials were always going to be a better choice for reliability and ruggedness, hence the USN's preference for them in naval aviation, especial carrier based. Watercooled in-lines may have had better performance but they were inherently more susceptible to damage from flak and enemy fire.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1678475967272984606
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https://twitter.com/i/status/1679099063055073280
Swedish target tug
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Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 15, 2023, 10:33:56 AMSwedish target tug
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seems to have a little bit of every prop plane ever made in that one.
It's a Fairey Firefly.
It was a Fleet Air Arm recon/fighter that entered service toward the tail end of WW2. The Aussies used it in Korea and the Dutch for COIN in New Guinea.
That was a carrier aircraft. Makes sense that it's a target tug with its rugged airframe. Thanks for the info Staggering.
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not photoshopped
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took a moment but this is todays state of model building.
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:Dreamer:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1685657231453261824
so the plan I hear is to be able for each of these to carry 36 LRASM's. :evil:
anyone up for some Dance of the Vampires? :knuppel2:
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https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a44630938/b-1-bomber-arsenal-plane/
Vampires with DCS :RockOn:
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Somebody tell them they have the wings on backwards. :HideEyes:
Quote from: Sir Slash on August 03, 2023, 10:42:34 AMSomebody tell them they have the wings on backwards. :HideEyes:
they're right, the image has just been mirrored... :Party:
Or...the wings are on right but the fuselage is on backwards. :ThumbsUp:
or it was one of the most maneuverable airplanes of its time.
Su-47
X-29
without looking closely at plane I'd say X-29 because of the english letters on the hardtop. :cool:
my pic is an X-29. American tech gets the job done in 1/3 the size.
random size comparison:
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Have most of those designs been retired? I remember in the 80s they were all the rage.
Wikipedia has a decent article on forward swept wings.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward-swept_wing
I learned 2 things:
1. The switch to medium range missiles reduced the need for highly agile aircraft (
provided by forward swept wings).
2. A Dutch Roll is not a pastry!
Quote from: Gusington on August 04, 2023, 10:51:04 AMHave most of those designs been retired? I remember in the 80s they were all the rage.
two of those are from the Macross anime Gus.
the YF-23 lost out to the F-22.
^I remember that...'Northlop'
Even GI Joe had one.
They all look cool enough to whip aliens
Or be aliens. :stormtrooper2:
Both?
It's that reverse engineering of downed alien craft...
At this point, I believe that :beam_up:
Star once told me about "UFO Landing Site". He recommended going there for the "Anal Probe."
Turns out it was a kinky night club and the anal probe was a drink. :Party: :Party: :Party:
hawt
:RockOn:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1688652258982899712
roll your Bone!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1688878777978310656
this makes me miss the 80's.
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Looks like something G-Force ish, but damn its a great profile of a... Tornado?
Quote from: Windigo on August 09, 2023, 10:39:52 AMLooks like something G-Force ish, but damn its a great profile of a... Tornado?
No mistaking that profile.
Love the F-111, but the Panavia Tornado is second best looking sweep wing plane behind the Tomcat in my eyes..
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Ukraine could use a bunch of those way more than it could unupgraded first-gen Vipers.
yes
Good looking jet.... overall nice clean lines
Right. That plane's too pretty for even the Russians to try to shoot-down. :Dreamer:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1694279365813563835
Not going to lie... I was like WTF for a few seconds, then it was, what a dumb thing to be joking about. Then it was it's fake... then when the rotor took off... now that was freaking funny.
:ROFL:
Yeah, that one got me as well. Now you know some idiot's going to try it.
I am almost certain, there is already some Marine ordy with a weird obituary.
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Late to catch that bus?
That is pretty damn low.
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Nice pic. You don't hear much about the F7F anymore, even though it did see service in Korea
an Italian F-35b trying to keep up with a WW1 bomber.
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And the bomber is only in second gear. :shocked:
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^sexytime
Yeah, the question there is who is assisting who. Maybe the Lightning holds up the KC-46 :)
the times are a changing.
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The P-51 is actually having a quite modern instrument layout.
Let's hope noone discovers a way to jam LCD's from a distance!
Not to mention the F-16 is not that far off the F-22, and definitely smooths the transition from the F-15. Especially as you progress through the different blocks.
this is the F-15ex cockpit:
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At first I thought, "At least the pilot has a tiny backup attitude indicator on the lower left to keep it upright if those expensive electronics crap the bed..."
But, nope, closer inspection revealed that was a screen, too. :buck2:
Quote from: Sigwolf on September 20, 2023, 08:40:20 AMAt first I thought, "At least the pilot has a tiny backup attitude indicator on the lower left to keep it upright if those expensive electronics crap the bed..."
But, nope, closer inspection revealed that was a screen, too. :buck2:
Yeah. As opposed to airliners fighter jets are assumed to be disposable on such occasions and the crew just bails out.
on this day in 1958, the first AAM kill.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42544/the-legendary-sidewinder-missile-made-its-first-kill-over-the-taiwan-strait
^Good article. I hate to admit it, but I didn't know there were tensions back in the 50's between the two Chinas. You learn something new everyday.
imagine having to fly back to base with a missile buried in you.
Quote from: W8taminute on September 22, 2023, 08:52:54 PM^Good article. I hate to admit it, but I didn't know there were tensions back in the 50's between the two Chinas. You learn something new everyday.
post Korea where they went full in. everything old is new again or have you forgotten all those volcano dwelling Bond villians? or that tunnel under the Pacific movie. those who ignore history.... blah blah blah
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 22, 2023, 09:03:45 PMQuote from: W8taminute on September 22, 2023, 08:52:54 PM^Good article. I hate to admit it, but I didn't know there were tensions back in the 50's between the two Chinas. You learn something new everyday.
post Korea where they went full in. everything old is new again or have you forgotten all those volcano dwelling Bond villians? or that tunnel under the Pacific movie. those who ignore history.... blah blah blah
Yup, I hear you. :ThumbsUp:
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how you feed an RF-4c
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Ummm...Tastes like chicken!
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https://twitter.com/i/status/1710256572478456113
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"You kids git offa my lawn!"
always liked how the Flogger looked.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1710972907592036516
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Even though she's old, the F15 is still a beautiful creature in my eyes.
wiki the EX's :cool:
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It's always so jarring to see an F-16 with CFT's. That, combined with the tandem cockpit just make it look like a completely different aircraft.
and strangely we dont use the tanks.
some dystopian F-22s.
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Top Gun theme in French.
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Now that is a sexy front end
the rarely seen Chevy-71
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^Well that's one way to get somewhere fast when you're running late.
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https://twitter.com/i/status/1717912323812188547
wheres the BRRRRRT?
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fuck first class!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1721896390178300216
SURPRISE BITCHES!!! WE BE FLYIN!
:cool:
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/b-21-raider-has-flown-for-the-first-time
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I wonder what it was towing? it says air data cone but it could be super secret chem trail dispenser!
but really, if it can unspool that it can deploy decoys the same way like an F-16.
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^Photorecon?
Quote from: Staggerwing on November 22, 2023, 06:38:22 AM^Photorecon?
for this specific Spitfire:
https://www.aircraftrestorationcompany.com/spitfire-pl983
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:Dreamer:
and this, boys and girls, is how a Harrier is born:
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https://twitter.com/i/status/1729799713879097635
Jesus Christ - 'that'll wake you up in the morning.'
Quote from: Gusington on November 29, 2023, 10:20:35 AMJesus Christ - 'that'll wake you up in the morning.'
For both the people on the ground and the pilot!
Chickens in the intakes
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It'll buff out.
Quote from: Windigo on November 29, 2023, 03:19:09 PMIt'll buff out.
Hopefully no pieces of that sign got sucked into the engine.
its russian, hopefully they did.
Looking more closely at the airframe... built like a brick shithouse
I like the faint hint of corrosion around the fasteners (rivets? screws?).
and that's what you get for navigating by following the road network.
IIRC this happened on a landing approach.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1730889575243878692
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Boner alert!
at your age?!?! :Party:
It's been more than four hours.
more elbow grease
When I first looked at it I thought how I'd hate to take off in that weather but really it would be the landing in it.
I'm sure Toonces can tell some stories about rough take offs and landings.
And some naval aviation stories too :cool:
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The background plane even has something painted on the cannon barrel! Bet that would burn off if he ever had to use it.
for fucks sake we're getting old...
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50 year old plane in my head;
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https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/25572/confessions-of-an-e-2c-hawkeye-radar-operator
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on January 18, 2024, 09:08:03 AMhttps://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/25572/confessions-of-an-e-2c-hawkeye-radar-operator
Long but GREAT article!
glad you liked it! those people in the back just CMANO all day long. :Dreamer:
so I guess we have enough F-35s to have aggressor squadrons. :cool:
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so cute! :smitten:
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^ A baby Drakken!
it literally is, a 70% size version to test aerodynamics.
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Ohhhh baby.....
'Murica!
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Holy moly 😳
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I'm not sure what is harder to believe... that the Jaguar entered service more than 50 years ago, or that India is the only country left flying them.
its a badass plane.
more 'Murica!
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on track!
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Love the StarTrek post.
Regarding the Jag and the jets all on the runway.... holyshit! The size of those fuel tanks... jeebus
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when you just want to say fuck you a few thousand times a minute.
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100% enjoy this mans outlook.
holy shit, thats shorter then Gus lying down!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1756494762881028130
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dafuq?
unpainted
or not painted
or naked
Looks like something that 8 y.o. me would do.
its all about that ass!
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^Cool. Is that from an old G.I. Joe comic? I know I've seen this somewhere before.
Calvin & Hobbes
Best comic strip ever.
missed the main museum.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/wright-patterson-air-force-base-tornado/
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this happened in 2017 but still....... :ROFL:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1767287632000618618
^Either you eject and subject your body to a beating or risk it and stay in the cockpit and subject your body to a beating or worse, explosion.
Seems like the pilot thought about riding it out.... then maybe the end of the runway got too close
Yeah I noticed that too. He's lucky he had the time to think about it.
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Quote from: GDS_Starfury on March 29, 2024, 07:27:41 AM(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GJ06af0XMAQx_3V?format=jpg&name=medium)
"Is that Carling-drinking guard still standing on top?"
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https://twitter.com/i/status/1775882232332197952
because fuck your commie bomber formation. :cool:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1776653601768636767
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