Pictures of Cold War aircraft.

[Sabrejet]

I like the B-52 in the background. There'll probably be one in the B-21 retirement picture.

And when the B-52 retires, there'll be a KC-135 fly-by! We had a 58- or 59-FY aircraft operating locally this last week.

 

[SaparotRob]

Gotta' love the classics. The KC-135 is aesthetically perfect. For a jet.

 

[Donivanp]

Gotta' love the classics. The KC-135 is aesthetically perfect. For a jet.

Cleanest most reliable aircraft I ever worked on. Spent twelve year directly supporting them, A, E, R and EC-135 G, L and Y. Great aircraft.

 

[special ed]

Some times I marvel over the fact as a young teen I followed the B-52 prototypes, the ones with the tandem cockpits, and can realise that today some B-52s are flown by the grandsons of some of the earliest pilots.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Some times I marvel over the fact as a young teen I followed the B-52 prototypes, the ones with the tandem cockpits, and can realise that today some B-52s are flown by the grandsons of some of the earliest pilots.

To be honest, it's a bit of a frightening thought.

 

[SaparotRob]

I watched an episode of Wings Over The Rockies about the B-52. The pilot(?) was asked about the planes age. He mentioned something about candy wrappers inside the plane being older than him.

 

[GTX]

 

[Donivanp]

Love me some Vark, well Pig southern style.

 

[MIflyer]

At Davis Monthan, a QB-47E.

 

[Wurger]

 

[MIflyer]

Fixer Upper Cutlass. And any airplane with a nose strut that long has to be a nightmare to fly.

 

[Donivanp]

Fixer Upper Cutlass. And any airplane with a nose strut that long has to be a nightmare to fly.

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Not necessarily to fly, but to get aboard a carrier much less just land.

 

[special ed]

That's why one sat up front - like a VW bus.

 

[GreenKnight121]

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Anyone spot the error?

What error?

 

[GreenKnight121]

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A8-277 B1-49 F-111G Delivered to RAAF 25/03/94. Former USAF FB-111A and F-111G AF68-277. Nowra Airshow 1998. In Service 6 Sqn - later attached to ARDU. Grounded from 12/02/02 to 2003 due to wing failures.

 

[SaparotRob]

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Anyone spot the error?

By any chance, is the SR-71 a YF12-A?

 

[GTX]

 

[MIflyer]

There is an F-106 next to the F-102 but it is not listed. The F-5 looks more like a T-38. The KC-135 has the wrong kind of toilet paper in the bathroom.

 

[MIflyer]

Years ago I gave on old friend of mine a 1/72 AMT model of a KC-135A. He had worked on KC-135 at Tinker AFB when we were both there. He was going to build the kit with his kids and, being very meticulous and exacting he went down the list of paints shown as needed in the kit. He said it required two different colors of white. Gloss white for top of the fuselage and flat white for the toilet paper in the bathroom.

I asked, "Jim, can you see the toilet paper in the bathroom when the kit is assembled? After all, the window looking into the bathroom is about 1/8 inch square." He replied that I might have a good point.

 

[Jimbob]

And when the B-52 retires, there'll be a KC-135 fly-by! We had a 58- or 59-FY aircraft operating locally this last week.

X-B70 is the coolest. Got to see it fly at Edwards AFB back in the day. Also, my dad worked for the company that developed the anti skid braking system for the C-5A.