Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (1 Viewer)

[nuuumannn]

The RAN A-4G was sold to New Zealand and became NZ6214 - don't have a photo of it, but its flying with Draken in the USA at present.

 

[Wurger]

 

[nuuumannn]

The Javelin was a very big beast!

Richly deserving of its nickname of the Flatiron!

MAM 35

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

MAM 35

Great pics there!

 

[nuuumannn]

Great pics there!

Thanks Luis, the Midland air Museum is a great place. It was a real hot summer, so the grass was burnt brown almost everywhere we went!

 

[GTX]

 

[syscom3]

A left side view of an F-4 Phantom II aircraft with advanced medium range air-to-air missiles (AMRAAM) under its wing, in flight over the Pacific Missile Test Center, Naval Air Station, Point Mugu, California, 31 March 1982.

 

[syscom3]

A left side view of a U.S. Air Force F-15A Eagle aircraft taking off during Exercise Gallant Eagle '82, George Air Force Base, California, 1 April 1982.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots guys!

 

[syscom3]

Two A-4 Skyhawk aircraft from U.S. Marine Attack Training Squadron 102 (VMAT-102) take off simultaneously during a training exercise, Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma, Arizona, 3 April 1982.

 

[nuuumannn]

Dassault family portrait. From the top:

Ouragan, Mystere IV, Super Mystere, Etendard IV, Mirage III, Mirage V, Mirage IV.

 

[GTX]

 

[syscom3]

A view of the electronic warfare (jammer) pods installed on a U.S. Navy A-3 Skywarrior aircraft, at the Pacific Missile Test Center, Naval Air Station, Point Mugu, California, 5 April 1982.

 

[syscom3]

The Falklands. 40 years ago today.

A view from the island of the aircraft carrier HMS Hermes, with crew and aircraft lining her flight deck, as she sails out of Portsmouth for the South Atlantic. Crowds can be seen lining the shore to watch the departure of the carrier, 5 April 1982. The Royal Navy is heading to the South Atlantic — and war.

 

[herman1rg]

The Falklands. 40 years ago today.

A view from the island of the aircraft carrier HMS Hermes, with crew and aircraft lining her flight deck, as she sails out of Portsmouth for the South Atlantic. Crowds can be seen lining the shore to watch the departure of the carrier, 5 April 1982. The Royal Navy is heading to the South Atlantic — and war.

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I don't think we would be able to do the same today

 

[Glider]

I don't think we would be able to do the same today

Not unless someone lent us some aircraft

 

[syscom3]

A U.S. Air Force F-15 Eagle under tow at Bitburg, West Germany, 7 April 1982.

 

[syscom3]

A Lockheed P2V-5 Neptune maritime patrol aircraft crosses the line out of the assembly building and on to the ramp at the Lockheed plant in Burbank, California, in 1951.

 

[GTX]

And in service:

 

[Wurger]