Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (8 Viewers)

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Still better than a swim

 

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From 1954:

 

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[Donivanp]

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Saber Dog

 

[syscom3]

A B36 at low altitude. Maybe just after takeoff or just about to land.

 

[Donivanp]

A B36 at low altitude. Maybe just after takeoff or just about to land.

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Early B-36, pre jets

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Carswell AFB, TX, a place I have visited a couple of times.

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My home base from 1989 to 1993. GD still had the B-36 hulk sitting in their boneyard at that time. There were other airplanes there as well, but memory fails me.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

A B36 at low altitude. Maybe just after takeoff or just about to land.

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He better lower gear soon!

 

[Snowman]

The source: the Internet.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Donivanp]

Neptune fire bomber

 

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[Donivanp]

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F-8C VF-84 USS Independence

 

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[MIflyer]

A guy I knew worked for Convair in the 50's, working on the B-58 program, the factory being located just across the runway from Carswell. They were talking to the USAF guys one day and they said they they were about to take a B-36 up for a short flight of only a few hours, at lower altitudes and they had room for a passenger. The engineering boss stepped up and said he would take that ride. He was sitting next to one of the bubble blisters and had a kinda scratchy headset. The pilot and the crew were arguing about leaning the engines, the rear scanners reporting the exhaust looked too smoky. The pilot was not worried about leaning the engines on such a short lower altitude flight and finally said jokingly, "Okay, well, if it gets too bad we can always abandon the aircraft."

The Convair engineer boss heard, "Smoking, ..... all engines smoking, ...., abandon the aircraft."

SO HE DID! Stepped outside and popped his chute.

Back at Carswell after the flight, the crew recalled they had an extra man on board that they could not find and then noted that the bubble blister had been opened. The Convair guy wandered around West Texas for a few days before being found.

 

[Donivanp]

A guy I knew worked for Convair in the 50's, working on the B-58 program, the factory being located just across the runway from Carswell. They were talking to the USAF guys one day and they said they they were about to take a B-36 up for a short flight of only a few hours, at lower altitudes and they had room for a passenger. The engineering boss stepped up and said he would take that ride. He was sitting next to one of the bubble blisters and had a kinda scratchy headset. The pilot and the crew were arguing about leaning the engines, the rear scanners reporting the exhaust looked too smoky. The pilot was not worried about leaning the engines on such a short lower altitude flight and finally said jokingly, "Okay, well, if it gets too bad we can always abandon the aircraft."

The Convair engineer boss heard, "Smoking, ..... all engines smoking, ...., abandon the aircraft."

SO HE DID! Stepped outside and popped his chute.

Back at Carswell after the flight, the crew recalled they had an extra man on board that they could not find and then noted that the bubble blister had been opened. The Convair guy wandered around West Texas for a few days before being found.

 

[MIflyer]

X-24A and X-24B. The X-24B used the same rocket engines as the Bell X-1. The next phase, the X-24C, was supposed to use an Atlas MA-3 Sustainer Rocket Engine with up to 60,000 lb thrust but all Atlas and Thor engine production had been stopped due to the Space Shuttle and thus no engines were available.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

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