Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (63 Viewers)

[cammerjeff]

Must be a USN base.

In addition to Thunderbirds F-100 Super Sabres, and Blue Angels F11F Tigers, and Golden Hawks CL-13 Sabres, there are an F-8 Crusader and two T-2 Buckeyes.

Yes NAS Oceana (Virginia Beach VA) in 1961 according to the caption

 

[GTX]

 

[syscom3]

A left side view of a U.S. Air Force C-141B Starlifter aircraft from the 437th Military Airlift Wing, Military Airlift Command, moving down the runway during takeoff, Howard Air Force Base, Panama, 23 January 1983. The C-141B is making a flight to Honduras in support of the joint United States/Honduran exercise AHUAS TARA (BIG PINE).

 

[GreenKnight121]

Yes NAS Oceana (Virginia Beach VA) in 1961 according to the caption

Which you had not included in your post.

 

[cammerjeff]

No worries it was not meant as a rubuke, just further info.

 

[rob23]

You don't often see 3 military display teams on one ramp anymore.
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I still say the Thunderbird F-100 is the all time best looking jet of all time.

 

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[syscom3]

HH-52A Helicopter, U.S. Coast Guard Air Station, Salem, Massachusetts, 25 January 1963.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[syscom3]

An F-4 Phantom II aircraft lands during Exercise Brim Frost '83, Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, 26 January 1983.

 

[MIflyer]

Some nice pictures of the DH Chipmunk, by David Tullis, courtesy of AOPA.

 

[Wurger]

 

[syscom3]

F-15 Eagle aircraft from the 43rd Tactical Fighter Squadron as it takes off during Exercise Brim Frost '83, Elmendorf Air Force
Base, Alaska, 30 January 1983.

 

[syscom3]

A plane director signals to the pilot of a Grumman F-14A Tomcat of Fighter Squadron 41 "Black Aces" as other flight deck
crewmen prepare the aircraft for catapulting from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) in the Mediterranean Sea on 1
February 1983. VF-41 was assigned to Carrier Air Wing 8 (CVW-8) aboard the Nimitz for a deployment to the Mediterranean
Sea from 10 November 1982 to 20 May 1983.

 

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[syscom3]

 

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[herman1rg]

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Phantom pilot to SR-71 pilot "Race you to Los Angeles"

 

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[Capt. Vick]

Love the name of that one, warning star