Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (2 Viewers)

[GreenKnight121]

Nothing quite like a Jag.

Grumman test pilot Corwin "Corky" Meyer, the only pilot to fly the Jaguar, described it as entertaining to fly "because there was so much wrong with it. The XF10F-1 embodied so many new features that, in retrospect, it seems that the airplane was almost predestined not to succeed, so for its purpose the Jaguar was a "resounding success:""

 

[GTX]

Maybe not an operational type but still a cold war aircraft:

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

Maybe not an operational type but still a cold war aircraft:

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What was that????

 

[GTX]

Bell X-22

 

[syscom3]

Maybe not an operational type but still a cold war aircraft:

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Definitely cold war!

 

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[Wurger]

 

[GTX]

A different sort of picture:

 

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[Donivanp]

How to shoot down a KAL 747 for $1000 Alix

 

[Frog]

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Soukhoï Su-15 Flagon. Ironically, the last user was Ukraine.

 

[BiffF15]

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I always thought this was a fairly "Buck Rogers / Thunderbird" series jet!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

I always thought this was a fairly "Buck Rogers / Thunderbird" series jet!

Maybe that's where they pinched the idea from.

 

[Capt. Vick]

A different sort of picture:

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At first I was like, "Where are the other two exhausts?", forgetting the front two draw from the cold section.

 

[GTX]

Soukhoï Su-15 Flagon. Ironically, the last user was Ukraine.

Indeed:

 

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[SaparotRob]

It's hard to out-cool a Vulcan.