Pictures of Cold War aircraft.

[syscom3]

The F15 Eagle turns 50!

On July 27, 1972, McDonnell Douglas Chief Experimental Test Pilot Irving L. Burrows made the first flight of the prototype YF-15A-1-MC Eagle, 71-0280, at Edwards AFB, California. The most successful fighter aircraft of all time in terms of lethality and longevity. F-15 Eagles, with considerable upgrades in avionics, weaponry, and engines, are still being built, and remain lethal opponents in the sky fifty years later. Eagles in air-to-air combat have shot down 104 opponents; the next Eagle to be defeated by an aerial opponent will be the first.

 

[Graeme]

As it first appeared in William Green's 1972 edition of Observer's Aircraft...

 

[SaparotRob]

The last sentence is a hoot.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Hey! He was only off 40 + years.

 

[syscom3]

U.S. Navy Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV) A-7E Corsair II (Bu 158025) Modex Code (#402) Tail Code (AJ) of VA-86 (Attack Squadron Eight Six) ''Sidewinders'' Part of Light Attack Wing One, 8 August 1982.

 

[Airframes]

Always liked the "sluff", but doesn't seem like 40 years ago - time flies !

 

[ARTESH]

time flies !

IMO, Time flies way faster than light!!! Even for me, it sometimes is strange... I won't go far far away ... But sometimes listening to a song or watching a video , and realize that it was published, let's say, 5 years ago ...

Five Years!!! That's alot! Even for me!

 

[syscom3]

On this day 50 years ago. Aug 11th 1972.

The F-5E Tiger II made its first flight, flown by Northrop's chief test pilot Hank Chouteau, at Edwards Air Force Base in California, on August 11, 1972.

 

[syscom3]

A right side view of a U.S. Air Force F-4G Phantom II Wild Weasel aircraft armed with a Shrike AGM-45A air-to-surface missile, Spangdahlem Air Base, Rheinland-Pfalz, Federal Republic of Germany, 12 August 1982.

 

[syscom3]

An air to air right side view of an F-16XL aircraft are being refueled in flight by a KC-135 Stratotanker, 12 August 1982. The F-16 is armed with four fuselage mounted AIM-7 Sparrow and two win AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles.

 

[GTX]

 

[ARTESH]

An air to air right side view of an F-16XL aircraft are being refueled in flight by a KC-135 Stratotanker, 12 August 1982. The F-16 is armed with four fuselage mounted AIM-7 Sparrow and two win AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles.

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Nice one for Jan's collection! Lucky13

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[GTX]

 

[herman1rg]

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That's a lot of Starlifters, look like C-141A

 

[syscom3]

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Nice!

 

[GTX]

 

[syscom3]

An air-to-air right side view near Karup Air Base in Denmark of four U.S. Air Force F-4E Phantom II aircraft from the 335th
Tactical Fighter Squadron, Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, 14 August 1982. The F-4E aircraft are participating in
Exercise Reforger '82.

 

[Wurger]

 

[davparlr]

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