Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (75 Viewers)

[Frog]

Dassault Etendard IVM 59S 1986 AIRH
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N°13 served as a monument commemorating the Etendard IV service before being scrapped at Cuers in 2015. It was in fact the prototype n° 03. It had also been modified to test a new wings configuration that served for the Super Etendard, before being reconverted as a standard Etendard IV M.

N°14 is preserved at the Aéro Museum at Vannes (Morbihan).

 

[syscom3]

Munitions maintenance personnel secure AGM-86B air-launched cruise missiles to the wing pylon on a B-52G Stratofortress
aircraft, Griffiss Air Force Base, New York, 23 April 1986.

 

[Frog]

 

[Viking1066]

Grumman F-14A+ Tomcat VF-41 USS Nimitz (CVN-68) 1986 AIRH

 

[Viking1066]

Grumman F8F-2 "Bearcat" being loaded aboard the aircraft carrier USS Boxer (CV-21) at Naval Air Station Alameda, California in January of 1950 FACB

 

[Viking1066]

Three Buffalo aircraft on grass at Rhodesian Air Force base AIRH

 

[Viking1066]

Two of the seven Mig29's parked for their fuel stop and this shot included the one in the special paint scheme AIRH

 

[Viking1066]

Vought F-8E(FN) Crusader '40' 12F 1981 AIRH

 

[flypaper2222]

October 1952, USS Sicily

 

[flypaper2222]

YB-60

 

[flypaper2222]

XB-52

 

[flypaper2222]

flight line....line up. first time for me to realize of damn big the B-36 is .......seeing is believing

 

[flypaper2222]

interesting shot of the B-58 crew stations.

 

[cammerjeff]

flight line....line up. first time for me to realize of damn big the B-36 is .......seeing is believing


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Great picture, but what A/C type is parked between (what almost looks like a B-18?) and the B-17?

 

[Oliverlovesplanes]

Great picture, but what A/C type is parked between (what almost looks like a B-18?) and the B-17?

peacemaker, b-50, b-29, b-45, b-10, and b-18

 

[Count de Bastrop]

peacemaker, b-50, b-29, b-45, b-10, and b-18

Totally fake picture. Pretty, but VERY fake. First, the real B-36 is only about 50% longer than a B-29 - so the scale is WAY off. Second, that is definitely not a B-10, and if it were, there were certainly no B-10s around contemporary with the B-36, and it wears the serial number of a B-24D (and that not displayed properly). Third, that "B-18" is not quite right (the nose is wrong for a B-18, B-18A, B-18B/C or C-58 - closest to DB-2, but not even right for that), and any B-18s left at that point (VERY few, if any) were natural metal, not camo.
Pretty as it is, this pic belongs in the "AI Fails" thread (or maybe a "Photoshop Fails" one.

 

[Oliverlovesplanes]

Totally fake picture. Pretty, but VERY fake. First, the real B-36 is only about 50% longer than a B-29 - so the scale is WAY off. Second, that is definitely not a B-10, and if it were, there were certainly no B-10s around contemporary with the B-36, and it wears the serial number of a B-24D (and that not displayed properly). Third, that "B-18" is not quite right (the nose is wrong for a B-18, B-18A, B-18B/C or C-58 - closest to DB-2, but not even right for that), and any B-18s left at that point (VERY few, if any) were natural metal, not camo.
Pretty as it is, this pic belongs in the "AI Fails" thread (or maybe a "Photoshop Fails" one.

 

[Oliverlovesplanes]

here is the original

 

[cammerjeff]

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My problems with the caption you posted besides the scale of the B-36 is
1 - Neither of the planes are a B-50, they are both B-29's
2 - The 2nd from the bottom A/C is not a B-18 or a B-10, If it is a real A/C I have no idea what it is.
3 - Bottom A/C almost looks like a B-18 besides the issues already described by Count de Bastrop the scale of the B-18 is wrong, a B-18 is a large A/C almost as large as a B-17. The B-18 in the picture looks like a 1/2 scale replica. I have seen an actual B-18 up close, and there is not way you can reach up and touch the bottom of the bomb aimers window as it sits way to high for that.
4 - The B-45 is also not quite correct.

 

[Viking1066]

When in doubt, state the location and let the pros figure it out. When it comes to jets, as my students say, "Yo No Sabo". I have learned a lot from the guys on here. Lots of lots of knowledge.