Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (3 Viewers)

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Wow! My heart skipped a beat seeing all those C-141s (definitely "A"s). I recognized number 6077 as a plane I once flew! Great aircraft. Sometimes difficult to launch from home base, lots of systems, but once weight was off the wheels it would take you all over the world and back with not a whisper of problems. Those TF33 engines were great. The C-141A was over powered (its had as much thrust on three engines as the KC-135, with water, on four, and grossed out at the same weight). We almost always maxed space before we maxed weight, which led to the "B", increased load by 30%. Broke my heart seeing them being cut up. Moving up from the T-38 flight planning, which we counted fuel by the pint to "weather is marginal at landing? Put on another 20k pounds of fuel, we'll find somewhere to land."
 
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A good fleet exercise. HMCS Bonaventure launches RCN strike on RCAF Station Goose Bay. Consisting of six bomb-armed Banshees, plus two on escort armed with Sidewinders. All eight Banshees have 4 × 20 mm cannon.





Meeting them, six radar-vectored CF-100 Mk 5 armed with eight .5-inch mgs plus two wingtip pods of 2.75 in "Mighty Mouse" fin-folding aerial rockets, shown below.



I expect the RCAF pilots would prefer Canadair Sabres.
 
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A front view of an U.S. Air Force F-4 Phantom II aircraft taxiing out during Exercise Opportune Journey 4, on 21 August 1982. The aircraft, from the 3rd Tactical Fighter Squadron, 3rd Tactical Fighter Wing, is armed with a 500-lb. Mark 82 laser guided bomb on the left wing.

 
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