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n F-14 Tomcat aircraft as it takes off from the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS America (CV-66) during rough weather conditions, Atlantic Ocean,
12 January 1984.
12 January 1984.
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Nah…just Pigs. I was there at Amberley when they flew for the last time. Will dig up some photos from the day.Owww, I love me some Vark, or as the down under folks call 'em Mud Pigs!
I was introduced to them in Pitch Black back in 83 or 84. In Darwin on the ramp in the BRA (Bomber Recovery Area) all of a sudden the ground shook and the windows shook and I was on my knees wondering what just hit me. I looked up and a 111 wings in full sweep burners hot and not 500' AGL screaming away. It came over the radio shortly after that the BAR had been taken out. DAMN!Nah…just Pigs. I was there at Amberley when they flew for the last time. Will dig up some photos from the day.
This is what happens when the groundcrew argue about the mission loadout.
As promised:Nah…just Pigs. I was there at Amberley when they flew for the last time. Will dig up some photos from the day.
Here is another pic... note the spoilers deployed on the upper wing surfaces... this is actually the B-52's primary steering control, not the very small rudder."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."
something is so beautiful about these planesMore:
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A8-125 First F-111 to land in Australia in 1973, last to land in 2010:
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I was standing against these containers for most of the display - in fact, that was my boss in the photo:
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Old and New:
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The End:
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