Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (1 Viewer)

[Vic Balshaw]

You sailed with Captain Cook around the world!

That was after I had ridden with Gengus Khan!

 

[Donivanp]

That was after I had ridden with Gengus Khan!

Was that with John Wayne? Casca?

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Was that with John Wayne? Casca?

Oh yeah, she was something else man! Who's John Wayne!

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[MIflyer]

Avro York, flew in one of those from UK to Egypt in the mid 50s, 14 hours it took.

Port Out, Starboard Home!

 

[Donivanp]

I know Port is a distilled wine but I'm unfamiliar with starboard! Is it good?

 

[Airframes]

Starboard is what happens to you when you visit a certain coffee shop - got me coat !

 

[Donivanp]

Starboard is what happens to you when you visit a certain coffee shop - got me coat !

Wasn't sure that it was what you saw when th board hit you.

 

[Snowman]

The source: the Internet.

 

[MIflyer]

Flew on a C-118 from Tinker AFB to Wright Patt AFB in 1975. Glad I got to do that, because it was not around much longer. FOUR R-2800's roaring away outside the windows!

 

[special ed]

I have mentioned on the forum about an occasion when another airman & I were deadheading from Arizona to Barksdale on a C-97 empty cargo flight in 1960. We never saw the copilot, but the pilot, a silver bar who looked our age (19), gave us pre flight info. "The fire bottles are inop, the intercom to this area is out, so your only emergency warning will be if you see us running to the back door. Try to keep up". The crew chief appeared to be about our father's age, so no worries.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Starboard is what happens to you when you visit a certain coffee shop - got me coat !

I can relate to that. Fortunately for us they upped and left town.

 

[Snowman]

The source: the Internet.

 

[MIflyer]

Last I heard there was still one B-57 flying. It is one of the long-winged extra engined RB-57F models originally used for very high altitude recon. NASA was using it to monitor something or another during space launches.

 

[MIflyer]

The B-57A had the original Canberra Fish Bowl canopy. One of the British Canberras, oddly enough with RN markings, was found abandoned at the Melbourne, FL airport and was auctioned off by the airport authority several years ago. It ended up at the the Tico Warbird Museum of the Valiant Air Command.

Being closed up in that fishbowl with nothing more than tiny air hole and being supplied by British Air Conditioning must have been a nightmare. Photos of the first ever Canberra test flight showed the pilot climbing out, literally dripping with sweat. No wonder we put a T-33A style canopy on the later models.

 

[GTX]

Not a picture but a video ...


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hy9iXbmDNg