Donivanp
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Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (1 Viewer)
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SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Why would I want meds to advance my age?
Donivanp
Major
Your right, what was I thinking, get a Delorian!
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Could you weather it for me? Yes, I'm still impressed by that TBD.
The Victor restoration looks fabulous!
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U-2 Dragon Lady Spy Planes Execute A Bittersweet Elephant Walk
U-2s, T-38s, and KC-135s lined Beale AFB's runway in an impressive display, but the U-2's time in the service looks to be coming to an end.
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SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
That's an elephant walk I've never seen.
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syscom3
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Boeing B-52H-170-BW Stratofortress 61-023, "Ten-Twenty-Three", after losing the
vertical fin, 10 January 1964.
vertical fin, 10 January 1964.
Tail? We don't need no stinkin' tail!!
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syscom3
Pacific Historian
"A B-52H Stratofortress, serial number 61-023, flown by Boeing test pilot Charles F. ("Chuck") Fisher, was conducting structural testing in turbulence near East Spanish Peak, Colorado. The other crew members were pilots Richard V. Curry and Leo Coer, and navigator James Pittman. Dick Curry was flying the airplane and Chuck Fisher, the aircraft commander, was in the co-pilot's position. Pittman was on the lower deck. The bomber was carrying two North American Aviation GAM-77 Hound Dog nuclear cruise missiles on pylons under its wings. Flying at 14,300 feet (4,359 meters) and 345 knots (397 miles per hour, 639 kilometers per hour), indicated air speed, the airplane encountered severe clear air turbulence and lost the vertical stabilizer. Several B-52s had been lost under similar circumstances. (Another, a B-52D, was lost just three days later at Savage Mountain, Maryland.) Fisher flew the bomber back to Wichita and was met by a F-100 Super Sabre chase plane. When the extent of the damage was seen, the B-52 was diverted due to the gusty winds in Kansas. Six hours after the damage occurred, Chuck Fisher safely landed the airplane at Eaker Air Force Base, Blythville, Arkansas. He said it was, "the finest airplane I've ever flown."
Vic Balshaw
Major General
An Antei. "Cock" was just a NATO reporting name, not its actual name.
Actual name was also rather odd taking into account the description of Hercules' feat where he defeats Antaeus.
I was in Vietnam when the Army was replacing the OH-6 with the OH-58A.
We were not happy faced with the change.
Both choppers had the same engine, maybe very slightly uprated on the OH-58, but not nearly enough because the OH-58 weighed over 600lbs more, empty.
No way it could keep up with the Cayuse, we knew it and the Army knew it.
The Army ended up using the early model Kiowas on softer duties, unless they had no choice, because they were out of Cayuses.
Once they uprated the engines another 100 hp or so, and went to the 4 blade rotor, the OH-58 became what it needed to be in 1970.
Except the OH-58D was weighted down even further with optics, computers, hellfire missiles and .50 cal MGs.
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syscom3
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Strategic Air Command crew get a meal from a mobile kitchen 1961
Donivanp
Major
Meals on wheels
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