Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (1 Viewer)

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They still look very good to my eyes today, I was fascinated with seeing them sitting on the ramp at NAS airstations in the early 1960's. I never did see one fly. But I remember seeing them at San Diego when I was very young, and my father told me that they were considered to be widow makers. I didn't understand at the time that he meant they were very accident prone, and a few years later I understood that, and read that they where under powered, the engines were unreliable, and the very tall nose strut was prone to collapse in normal use.
When I joined the navy I asked one of the older Cheif's about them, and he said he hated working on them, and could only salute the poor SOB's that had to fly them.
 
syscom3 said:
It was criminal what we did to the land.
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My own older brother ( by 15 years) was an advisor to a ARVN unit sw of Saigon in 63. Very much in the area where they sprayed the earliest version of agent orange, the deadliest as it turned out. Was in Vietnam a total of 3 times full tour, and 1 TDY, 20 years Army, airborne the whole time.
When the VA finally admitted to Agent Orange's long term effects on veterans he wouldn't apply for the benefits from the VA.
It was his form of a protest to what we did to the Vietnamese people, if they got no relief , he would take none either.
He worked to his last day on earth, died at 63 years old, hard core to the last.
I miss him still.
 
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