Pictures of Cold War aircraft.

[SaparotRob]

Seeing if it could be done?

 

[davparlr]

maybe

 

[GTX]

Apparently it was done as a joke and it couldn't actually be used.

 

[syscom3]

English Electric Lightning F.1 XM166 of 74 Squadron RAF takes off at Farnborough Air Show
on 6 September 1962.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Interesting picture of the F-106 (a plane I would have loved to have flown, unfortunately all were in the Guard at the time). It shows the "six" with air to air Falcons, and, wing mounted bombs, for ground attack?. There must be a story behind this as the 106 was never sent to Vietnam.

Even though the Delta Dart was faster and more agile than the F-4 Phantom II it was never deployed in Vietnam. 'Two basic reasons the F-106 wasn't used in Vietnam: 1. It didn't carry bombs, and most of our missions were bombing. 2. MiGs wouldn't come up to fight if the odds weren't in their favor.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/theavi...ugh-fast-and-agile-was-never-used-in-vietnam/

 

[davparlr]

Even though the Delta Dart was faster and more agile than the F-4 Phantom II it was never deployed in Vietnam. 'Two basic reasons the F-106 wasn't used in Vietnam: 1. It didn't carry bombs, and most of our missions were bombing. 2. MiGs wouldn't come up to fight if the odds weren't in their favor.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/theavi...ugh-fast-and-agile-was-never-used-in-vietnam/

I agree with all the article said, especially the limited number of aircraft available and the importance for air defense over the homeland.

 

[GTX]

Source: Rene de Koning

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[special ed]

F7U I think.

 

[syscom3]

Saab 35 Draken

 

[syscom3]

A left underside view of a U.S. Navy F-14A Tomcat aircraft escorting a Soviet Tu-95 Bear-D reconnaissance aircraft away from the exercise NORTHERN WEDDING '82 task force, 12 Sept 1982. The Tomcat is from the aircraft carrier USS America (CV-66).

 

[syscom3]

An air-to-air left side view of a U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft on a vertical climb during the Farnborough Air Show, 12 September 1982. The aircraft is equipped with AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles.

 

[syscom3]

An air-to-air right side view of the General Dynamics F-16XL Fighting Falcon prototype aircraft during the Farnborough Air Show, 12 September 1982. The aircraft is equipped with AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles on the wing tips and AIM-7 Sparrow missiles on the undercarriage.

 

[syscom3]

a B-1A bomber flying over the runway with its wings in the full-forward take-off position, Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, 13 September 1982.

 

[syscom3]

The USS Midway (CV-41) entering Subic Bay in the Philippines, assisted by two tugs, on 14 September 1982.

 

[syscom3]

A Grumman E-1B Tracer aircraft of Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 12 Det.42 "Bats" just before landing on the attack aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-42), in 1962–63. VAW-12 Det.42 was assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 1 aboard FDR for a deployment to the Mediterranean Sea from 14 September 1962 to 22 April 1963. A McDonnell F-3B Demon of Fighter Squadron (VF) 14 "Top Hatters" (BuNo 143478) is visible in the foreground, with an A-4C Skyhawk (BuNo 149566) of Attack Squadron (VA) 172 "Blue Bolts" and another A-4C (BuNo 149513), of VA-12 "Flying Ubangis," beyond the Demon.

 

[Capt. Vick]

a B-1A bomber flying over the runway with its wings in the full-forward take-off position, Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, 13 September 1982.


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Note the one off (I believe) raised spine housing.

 

[GTX]

A left underside view of a U.S. Navy F-14A Tomcat aircraft escorting a Soviet Tu-95 Bear-D reconnaissance aircraft away from the exercise NORTHERN WEDDING '82 task force, 12 Sept 1982. The Tomcat is from the aircraft carrier USS America (CV-66).

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Ironic when you consider which one is still in service...

 

[syscom3]

English Electric Lightning F.3 XP694 coded 'D' of 29 Squadron RAF at RAF Wattisham, 16 September 1972.

 

[Wurger]