Pictures of Cold War aircraft.

[GreenKnight121]

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FJ-4B Fury of VA-146 aboard either CV-61 Ranger from June 1958-July 1959 (trip from Brooklyn around Cape Horn to San Diego & a WestPac), CV-34 Oriskany May-December 1960 (WestPac), or CV 16 Lexington November 1961-May 1962 (WestPac).

Carrier Air Wing 14 aboard those carriers on those deployments carried the NK tail marking, and VA-146 with FJ-4Bs is listed for them then.

Deployments of USS RANGER (CV 61)

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Deployments of USS ORISKANY (CV 34)

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Deployments of USS LEXINGTON (CV 16)

www.navysite.de

{Edit: the National Naval Aviation Museum Faceborg page says CV-61 Ranger - the sea state looks like Southern Ocean stuff to me.}


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[Snowman]

B-50D-95-BO (48-096) converted to EB-50D as mothership for X-2 program. Assigned to NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station, Edwards AFB, CA.
On May 12, 1953, X-2 (46-675) exploded in belly of the B-50 mothership, X-2 was dropped into Lake Ontario, and mothership limped back to Niagara Falls Airport, but never flew again.

 

[Donivanp]

B-50, Nice when you can't spend enough to get the latest technology, PUNT. Oh isn't that what the F-15EX is?????

 

[BiffF15]

B-50, Nice when you can't spend enough to get the latest technology, PUNT. Oh isn't that what the F-15EX is?????

My guess is the F-15EX can do something the others can not.

 

[Snowman]

 

[Donivanp]

Scooters are fun, interestingly the those jets hang in the ceiling of the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pencecola.

 

[GTX]

My guess is the F-15EX can do something the others can not.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIREaQXIB9s

 

[GTX]

 

[Sabrejet]

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Sotka! Love that.

 

[SaparotRob]

Valkyriesky?

 

[Donivanp]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIREaQXIB9s

Yes I agree but it's still an F-15 in the days of the F-22 and F-35. If they wanted they should have bought the original order of F-22's 720ea!!!!!!

 

[bf109xxl]

Valkyriesky?

Yeah, only in a 1:2 scale

PS. Unlike the Valkyrie this aircraft had every chance of being a combat aircraft rather than a technology demonstrator, and with a cruising speed of almost M=3. It was killed by the intrigues of Tupolev, who promised a "budget" modification of the Tu-22, which in fact was a completely new design and finally cost the Soviets more than the T-4.

 

[Ovod]

Yeah, only in a 1:2 scale

PS. Unlike the Valkyrie this aircraft had every chance of being a combat aircraft rather than a technology demonstrator, and with a cruising speed of almost M=3. It was killed by the intrigues of Tupolev, who promised a "budget" modification of the Tu-22, which in fact was a completely new design and finally cost the Soviets more than the T-4.

If I recall, the T-4 never reached a speed of Mach 3, Mach 1.2 was the fastest it had ever flown. The T-4 flew only 10 times and half of those flights were flown with the undercarriage fully extended.

 

[SaparotRob]

I didn't even know it existed, let alone flew.

 

[bf109xxl]

If I recall, the T-4 never reached a speed of Mach 3, Mach 1.2 was the fastest it had ever flown. The T-4 flew only 10 times and half of those flights were flown with the undercarriage fully extended.

Absolutely correct. Only 9 flights were made, but they were very successful, the airplane behaved perfectly at transonic speed, no serious problems were noted, all the declared characteristics of stability and controllability were confirmed. The titanium parts of the structure showed themselves perfectly, no problems with welds and corrosion after five years after assembly were not found. For the Soviet aircraft industry of that time, this was very unusual and clearly indicated a high degree of perfection of the design.

 

[Snowman]

Two EA-3B aircraft from Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 2 (VQ-2) fly past Gibraltar, June 20, 1991

 

[Snowman]

 

[Donivanp]

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Where is Bono?

 

[Ovod]

Where is Bono?

He's flying it of course! Can you not see the cowboy hat - and the dark glasses - in the cockpit?

 

[Sabrejet]

Where is Bono?

The Dragon Lady is a U-2; Bono's band is "U2". Not sure if he realised there should be a hyphen.