Pictures of Cold War aircraft.

[cammerjeff]

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[Wurger]

 

[Donivanp]

Cool USAF give the Navy gas, we specialize in give the Navy an upset stomach

 

[cammerjeff]

I am breaking the rules with a 2nd picture but I think this one is awesome! And it has a Super Guppy!

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[cammerjeff]

Some F9F's I think something unpleasent is about to happen in the 1st picture!

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[Donivanp]

Looks like he's catching the barrier in the first!

 

[cammerjeff]

I hope you are correct! As to my eyes he is already past the barrier! I sure am glad they had installed angled decks by the time I served!

And I think the Barriers were moved aft after the angle deck's where installed. Not sure of that though.

 

[DBII]

Some F9F's I think something unpleasent is about to happen in the 1st picture!

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Quad 50s gun pack in the second photo. I have not seen that and such an odd angle. Any information about it?

 

[cammerjeff]

Quad 50s gun pack in the second photo. I have not seen that and such an odd angle. Any information about it?

It was an experimental Emerson X17A gun turret some more info here.

The Emerson Fighter Turret

Once again, something completely different. Jet fighters could more easily intercept a bomber but shooting one down using guns or cannon fro...

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[cammerjeff]

While going back over the F9F pictures I somehow missed this shot of filling the Tip Tanks with the wings folded! Yikes!

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[Donivanp]

Interesting I completely missed the quad fifty mount. It's completely possible I miss interpreted that first photo as I see a line in the deck which appears to come up to the nose gear, and the extreme nose down attitude implies it's catching a barrier. Though my own recollection of a barrier was a heavy nylon set of strips connected by the same top and bottom. And what do I know but watching movies and reading books! Air Force winnie!

 

[cammerjeff]

As for the Emerson Fighter Turret, I only know what I read in the link I posted, and I found an old thread about it with a search on this site here

A Nose Turret for the F9F Panther?

You learn something new everyday. Tailhook Topics: The Emerson Fighter Turret

ww2aircraft.net

And I found out the Air Force tried out something similar on a F89! I was not aware of that!

As for the ladder for filling the F9F tip tanks when folded, I see the picture above the 1st one showing the nose Turret seems to show the ladder hooked around the tank and had soft pads to not damage the upper wing surface. I learned 2 things today before noon!

 

[Donivanp]

As for the Emerson Fighter Turret, I only know what I read in the link I posted, and I found an old thread about it with a search on this site here

A Nose Turret for the F9F Panther?

You learn something new everyday. Tailhook Topics: The Emerson Fighter Turret

ww2aircraft.net

And I found out the Air Force tried out something similar on a F89! I was not aware of that!

As for the ladder for filling the F9F tip tanks when folded, I see the picture above the 1st one showing the nose Turret seems to show the ladder hooked around the tank and had soft pads to not damage the upper wing surface. I learned 2 things today before noon!

Yeah, I'm at relearning for the third or fourth time each day, makes things much more interesting

 

[DBII]

I am breaking the rules with a 2nd picture but I think this one is awesome! And it has a Super Guppy!

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As for the Emerson Fighter Turret, I only know what I read in the link I posted, and I found an old thread about it with a search on this site here

A Nose Turret for the F9F Panther?

You learn something new everyday. Tailhook Topics: The Emerson Fighter Turret

ww2aircraft.net

And I found out the Air Force tried out something similar on a F89! I was not aware of that!

As for the ladder for filling the F9F tip tanks when folded, I see the picture above the 1st one showing the nose Turret seems to show the ladder hooked around the tank and had soft pads to not damage the upper wing surface. I learned 2 things today before noon!

My first thought was strafing, like the B25 gunships.

 

[Donivanp]

My first thought was strafing, like the B25 gunships.

Hell of a deflection gunshot

 

[syscom3]

Torrejon Air Base, Spain, 5 April 1983: Captain Oltman stands by to answer questions as visitors inspect the cockpit of an
F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft. The aircraft is on display during a ceremony marking the conversion of the 401st Tactical
Fighter Wing from F-4 Phantom II aircraft to F-16s and the unit`s 40th anniversary.

 

[syscom3]

U.S. Navy SH-3D Sea King helicopter assigned to Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron 84 during flight operations, 9 April
1983. The helicopter is lowering the AQS-13 dipping sonar.

 

[syscom3]

You Go Girl!

April 12, 1963, At Edwards Air Force Base, California, Jacqueline ("Jackie") Cochran, Colonel, U.S. Air Force Reserve,
established a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) World Speed Record when she flew a
two-place Lockheed TF-104G Starfighter, FAA registration N104L, over a 9.32/15.53 miles straight
course at an average speed 1,273.115 miles per hour.

 

[Sabrejet]

Damaged QT-38A drone 59-1600 at China Lake, circa 1987. Later placed on a pole at Phoenix-Mesa Gate Airport, Arizona.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!