Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (1 Viewer)

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I ever loved the last of the gunslingers

 

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• Dec 8, 2024

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I had thought the USAF and ANG had phased out the T-33A years ago, but it seems there are still some flying....

But only for a very short distance. This one was on poles at a VFW Post and was knocked down in a hit and run accident by an 18 wheeler.

Probably the same guy who did a hit and run on my mailbox yesterday.

 

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That ain't my father's 707.

 

• Dec 9, 2024

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OF means its from Offut AFB in Nebraska. The radio detectors on the side up front gave an appearence that it was a mouse with its mouth full. Before the shark mouth was painted on.

 

• Dec 10, 2024

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TR-1 over San Francisco, January 3, 1985.




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TR-1 over San Francisco, January 3, 1985.

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Gotta keep a close eye on those California guys. Can't no tell what theys up to!

 

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Nice. Been considering doing that scheme on my next Hunter model.

 

• Dec 12, 2024

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Beechcraft QU-22B Pave Eagle

The QU-22B Model was the production drone model for the USAF operation Pave Eagle. A total of 27 were built.
The Beechcraft QU-22 Pave Eagle was a Beech 36/A36 Bonanza modified during the Vietnam War to be an electronic monitoring signal relay aircraft, developed under the project name "Pave Eagle" for the USAF. A reduction geared Continental GTSIO-520 engine with turbocharger and three-bladed propeller was used to reduce its noise signature, much like the later Lockheed YO-3. These aircraft were intended to be used as unmanned drones to monitor sensors along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos and report troop and supply movements. However when the project was put into operation in 1968, the drones were all flown by pilots of the 554th Reconnaissance Squadron.




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• Dec 12, 2024

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Beechcraft QU-22B Pave Eagle

The QU-22B Model was the production drone model for the USAF operation Pave Eagle. A total of 27 were built.
The Beechcraft QU-22 Pave Eagle was a Beech 36/A36 Bonanza modified during the Vietnam War to be an electronic monitoring signal relay aircraft, developed under the project name "Pave Eagle" for the USAF. A reduction geared Continental GTSIO-520 engine with turbocharger and three-bladed propeller was used to reduce its noise signature, much like the later Lockheed YO-3. These aircraft were intended to be used as unmanned drones to monitor sensors along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos and report troop and supply movements. However when the project was put into operation in 1968, the drones were all flown by pilots of the 554th Reconnaissance Squadron.

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2 of those were being used as instructional airframes when I was in A&P school for the powerplant portion of my License at Kirkland Community Collage at the airport in Grayling MI in the late 1970's. I had forgotten all about them, and they were a wiring nightmare as all of the autopilot and remote control components where just cut out of them (wires that is) we got one running for a short while. I had forgotten all about them, never seen a picture of one in the air before!
If I remember correctly there was a giant generator mounted under the bulge in the upper cowling, the gearbox to slow the propeller down was also on top of the engine. Brings back forgotten memories!