Donivanp
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Never thought the Vulcan was that big. Might be the angles but it looks quite a bit larger than I recall.
Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (1 Viewer)
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Donivanp
1st Lieutenant
I watched the crew climb in and was amazed it could take them all, we had one in for an airshow at Andersen AFB Guam around 81/82 time frame.
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syscom3
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NASA F-8 Crusader modified with Digital Fly-By-Wire, in flight, January 10, 1973. Every technologic advancement has a starting point.
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syscom3
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A U.S. Air Force F-16A Fighting Falcon aircraft carrying an AIM-9J Sidewinder missile, 11 January 1983. The aircraft
is assigned to the 34th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 388th Tactical Fighter Wing.
is assigned to the 34th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 388th Tactical Fighter Wing.
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syscom3
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Barricade landing aboard U.S. Navy attack aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14), which took place on 11 January 1963. An A-4C Skyhawk (BuNo 149605, modex NF511) assigned to Attack Squadron (VA) 55 "Warhorses" has just landed into the barricade. This was due to a landing gear malfunction.
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Sure was cold in the back when up high though. Kadena to MaClellen, 1967.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 pintto "weather is marginal at landing? Put on another 20k pounds of fuel, we'll find somewhere to land."
I flew on 53-33133 in the early 1970's at Air Force Cambridge Research Labratories during "Severe weather penetration", weather modafication, ABRES missions and other meterological research studies as a "project crew member". Best job I ever had.
cammerjeff
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Tomcat No. 3, with Grumman's Chief Test Pilot, Chuck Sewell, at the controls. During aircraft testing, several flights were flown with the right wing locked in the forward position of 20 degrees, and the left wing at 35, 50, 60 and 68 degrees of sweep in flight. Amazingly, it was discovered that in the event of an operational in-flight malfunction, the Tomcat would remain controllable enough for carrier landing in this configuration.
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CAC Woomera
Airman
Didn't know the Vulcan was once painted in those colours, is there a reason for it?
I remember when Chuck was killed in the crash of another Grumman product...an Avenger of all things. RIP
cammerjeff
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The Vig doesn't look that much bigger than the F4 in that picture, they look much bigger sitting side by side on the deck or below in the hangar!
Glider
Captain
To be honest in the FAA we used to wonder :-
a) which idiot thought that a plane that size had any role on a carrier
b) which idiot agreed to it
Which shows just how much we knew about it.
To be fair though, we only had the old Ark Royal and a handful of Vigilantes would have filled her up. So from our perspective, there was some logic to our thinking.
a) which idiot thought that a plane that size had any role on a carrier
b) which idiot agreed to it
Which shows just how much we knew about it.
To be fair though, we only had the old Ark Royal and a handful of Vigilantes would have filled her up. So from our perspective, there was some logic to our thinking.
