Adler's Post-War and Modern Military Aircraft

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Here we have a Grumman F-14B Tomcat. It is serial number 157986, and was the 7th Tomcat built. It was used a prototype for testing.

 

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Here we have a McDonnell Douglas F-15A Eagle. This is serial number 74-0084, and it is located at the Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum. I took this one back in 2010. This particular aircraft operated out of Elmendorf AFB near Anchorage Alaska and was donated to the museum in 2008.

 

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Here we have a Lockheed A-12. It is serial number 60-6925. The A-12 on display, code-named Article 122, served as a radar-test example early in 1962 at the secluded test site known as Area 51, near Groom Lake, Nevada. A special radar signature, lowering paint covered the mostly titanium airframe, also incorporated radar-absorbing materials. Massive Pratt and Whitney J58 turboramjet engines powered the plane. These engines were used only in the A-12 and the SR-71 Blackbird.

 

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Here we have an Israel Aircraft Industries Kfir C1, serial number 999734. This aircraft was leased to the US Navy as an aggressor trainer and was given the designation F-21A.

 

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Here we have an Avro Vulcan B.2. It is serial number XL318, and it was the first B.2 delivered to 617 Squadron (the Dam Busters) based at RAF Scampton on September 1, 1961 where it served until December of 1981.

Sorry for the very poor quality and lighting. I used a flash but this part of the RAF Museum has absolutely terrible lighting.

 

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Nice selection so far - looking forward to more.

 

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English Electric Lightning F.6. This is serial number XS936.

 

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Here we have an English Electric Canberra PR.3. It is serial number WE139.

 

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This is a Hawker Hunter FGA9. It is serial number XG154 and located at the RAF Museum in London. It was operational with No. 8 Squadron.

 

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Here we have a Bell UH-1H Huey. This particular aircraft was built in 1963. It completed three tours in Vietnam, and finished its career with the Alaska Army National Guard. It is located in Anchorage Alaska at the Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum.

 

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Ah, some real aircraft !!!
Cough .................

 

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Here we have another Sikorsky UH-60L Blackhawk. We had just landed in Vilseck, Germany and were waiting on a 2 star general (hence why we had the 2 star red placard in the window up front.

 

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Here we have some Boeing CH-47D Chinooks. These were taken at my airfield in Germany in 2006.

 

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Here we have a US Marine AH-1W Super Cobra. This pic was taken as it was taken off in Iraq.

 

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Here we have an Antonov AN-12. This aircraft was sitting at the airforce base in Balad, Iraq, and was being used as a charter cargo aircraft.

 

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Here we have an Italian MD 500 that was parked in front of our hangar at Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo back in 2003.

 

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Here is a USAF KC-135 that I took in Pristina, Kosovo back in 2003.

 

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The Blue Angles. I took this shot at the Quad City Airshow back in 2015.

 

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More to come later...