Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (1 Viewer)

[SaparotRob]

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I wonder if that T-6 is still around.

 

[Sabrejet]

 

[cammerjeff]

I like the training wheels (or skids or skies) on the wing tips!

 

[syscom3]

An F-14A Tomcat aircraft from Fighter Squadron 154, armed with an AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missile, is prepared for lunch from the aircraft carrier USS Constellation (CV-64) during Fleet Exercise 85, Pacific Ocean, 29 October 1984. Catapult crewmen secure an A-6E Intruder to a catapult in the background.

 

[Donivanp]

An F-14A Tomcat aircraft from Fighter Squadron 154, armed with an AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missile, is prepared for lunch from the aircraft carrier USS Constellation (CV-64) during Fleet Exercise 85, Pacific Ocean, 29 October 1984. Catapult crewmen secure an A-6E Intruder to a catapult in the background.

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Love me some Tomcat

 

[Donivanp]

One-one-five quarter mile call the ball!
One-one-five has the ball!

 

[Donivanp]

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The army got away with a fixed wing aircraft! Mohawk

 

[Donivanp]

I like the training wheels (or skids or skies) on the wing tips!

Training wheels, can't trust the army with nice things now. If the wings don't spin they get cornfused.

 

[SaparotRob]

One-one-five quarter mile call the ball!
One-one-five has the ball!

I love that kind of talk.

 

[tyrodtom]

Training wheels, can't trust the army with nice things now. If the wings don't spin they get cornfused.

I don't know about now, but back in the 70's the Army preferred fixed wing aircraft for liaison duties whenever possible.
It takes a less man-hours to maintain a fixed wing on flight duty than a helicopter, less fuel too.

 

[MIflyer]

Convair XB-46 and Martin XB-48.

Were there ever two more bland and uninspired looking aircraft?

 

[MIflyer]

At least the Convair XB-53 had some PIZZZAZZZ!

 

[Sabrejet]

Convair XB-46 and Martin XB-48.

Were there ever two more bland and uninspired looking aircraft?

Some would say (and have) that the Convair was elegant. I for one have a soft spot for the XB-48.

 

[special ed]

These were both the new things of my youth, The B-47 was truly the future. My high school library received Aviation Week. I still have clippings in a scrap book

 

[MIflyer]

The Hawk XAB-1 was sexier than all of the rest of them put together. They could have used it on Star Trek and it would have fit right in.

 

[Snowman]

Walter J. Boyne flew this B-47 to Edwards AFB at the end of its long flying career; there, to his heartbreak, it was hung like laundry between two towers to serve as a radar target.©

 

[Donivanp]

As much as we attach an affinity to these aircraft, they are but a tool in a deadly game of tit for tat. In order that we learn and make better, often their last duty to their entry is destructive to them. Like the QF-100, 102, 104, 106, 4, and 16. To teach others how to preform there task and make them better, we loose them to loose less when if and when the proverbial ball drops.

 

[MIflyer]

Back in the 1980's there was a big push for bases to have their own museums. For the museum at Castle AFB they found an intact B-47 at Davis Monthan and a crew dug up the old manuals and put the old bird back into flying condition. Then they flew it to Castle AFB. It sure would have been tempting to visit a few operational bases and ask for a touch and go along the way.

 

[Donivanp]

Back in the 1980's there was a big push for bases to have their own museums. For the museum at Castle AFB they found an intact B-47 at Davis Monthan and a crew dug up the old manuals and put the old bird back into flying condition. Then they flew it to Castle AFB. It sure would have been tempting to visit a few operational bases and ask for a touch and go along the way.

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Except the General officer flying her did a serious "TOUCH" on landing at Castle as he scraped an engine on landing as I recall.

 

[SaparotRob]

The Hawk XAB-1 was sexier than all of the rest of them put together. They could have used it on Star Trek and it would have fit right in.

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I built this one.