Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (11 Viewers)

[Escuadrilla Azul]

The toy fighter !
Finnish Gnat F.1, they served with Häme Wing from 1958 to 1972 :
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Never knew about finnish Gnat before

 

[GTX]

Never knew about finnish Gnat before

They only had 13. Some are still around:

 

[Donivanp]

My cat chases gnats....

 

[GTX]

 

[Donivanp]

Thud. Near retirement.

 

[GTX]

Yep. And one of the things many people don't realise was that the F-105 actually had an internal weapons bay:

 

[Donivanp]

True but rarely ever used to carry weapons but instead a 650 gallon (if memory serves me right) fuel tank. Standard nuclear layout was a single weapon on right inboard and fuel internal and left inboard.

 

[GTX]

True but rarely ever used to carry weapons but instead a 650 gallon (if memory serves me right) fuel tank. Standard nuclear layout was a single weapon on right inboard and fuel internal and left inboard.

Indeed. Seen here:

 

[GTX]

 

[FrL]

The USS Saipan (CVL-48) operated FH-1 Phantoms of VF-17A in 1948.
It was the smallest aircraft carrier to have operated jets.
Saipan served as carrier until 1957.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[GTX]

 

[SaparotRob]

Beautiful!

 

[Donivanp]

Beautiful!

Unless you the 10wonder getting the gas from the airplane that has a top speed below your stall speed!

 

[SaparotRob]

Picky, picky, picky.

 

[Donivanp]

I say SCARY!

 

[Donivanp]

Picky, picky, picky.

Yeah I get that a lot!

 

[Donivanp]

F-111D

The internet

 

[special ed]

Unless you the 10wonder getting the gas from the airplane that has a top speed below your stall speed!

SOP was in a shallow dive providing a small margin to the stall speed.

 

[Donivanp]

B-52D leaving Guam 1982 on training mission.