Thumpalumpacus
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Pictures of Cold War aircraft.
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Viking1066
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Regan?
Thumpalumpacus
Major
No, timeline.
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Donivanp
Major
C-131 Samaritan
Acree
Airman
Almost. It's a T-29 - the trainer version of the C-131
MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
Nope. T-29. Note the bubbles along the top and the radome on the forward belly? It is a navigator trainer, set up with multiple navigational consoles inside. Replaced by the T-43, a version of the Boeing 737. T-29's removed from navigator training were used as hack transports at just about every air force base, until they were phased out in the mid-1970's. I have spent several hours riding in them, from Shaw AFB to Wright Patt and from Shaw to the Cape. A friend of mine recently found the flight manual for the T-29 in a trash can.
The C-131 usually had red crosses, indicating they were transports for wounded and medical patients with "Band Aide Air Lines." There were few C-131 set up as VIP transports.
GreenKnight121
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Mr. Belvedere
(Mr. Belvedere is an American sitcom that originally aired on ABC from March 15, 1985 to July 8, 1990. The show stars Christopher Hewett as the title character, a butler for an American family headed by George Owens, played by Bob Uecker [former major league baseball player and announcer for the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team].)
Viking1066
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I watched that as a young man. It was funny to me.
GreenKnight121
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Cover photo for the box of: 1/72 Clear Prop! CP72018 UH-2D Seasprite model kit Advanced
GreenKnight121
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In 1982, following the deployment of a Phantom squadron to the Falkland Islands, the government decided that the resulting gap in the UK's air defences needed to be filled, and so sought to raise an additional interceptor squadron. Although, at that time, there were a large number of surplus Lightnings in storage, a lack of pilots qualified on the type prevented the formation of a third Lightning squadron, a proposal that had originally been mooted in 1979. So, in order to fill the gap resulting from the transfer of 23 Squadron to the South Atlantic, the government made the decision to purchase another squadron's worth of Phantoms.
Because the aircraft in RAF service were a special production batch built to UK specifications, it was not possible to obtain identical aircraft, and so the RAF looked to versions of the Phantom that were as close as possible to their existing versions. Initially, the UK looked to procure a batch of F-4S aircraft - the F-4S was the most up to date version of the Phantom in service with the US Navy, having been produced through a programme to update the existing F-4J with new engines, hydraulics, electronics and modified wings. However, the US Navy couldn't at the time spare enough F-4S aircraft to allow the RAF to establish an entire squadron. So, as a fall back option, surplus US Navy and US Marine Corps F-4J aircraft were looked at instead, the F-4J being the variant from which the RAF's F-4Ks and F-4Ms were developed, and thus the closest available version to the British aircraft.
Fifteen airframes, each with no more than 4,300 hours, were selected from among the best of the ex-USN F-4Js stored at the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (colloquially known as "The Boneyard") at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. However, three of the initially selected airframes had to be rejected, and were replaced with three alternatives. The 15 that were ultimately procured were extensively refurbished at the Naval Air Rework Facility (NAWF) at Naval Air Station North Island, and brought to a standard almost equivalent to the F-4S, the only differences being the absence of leading-edge slats and a helmet gun sight.
Work began in September 1983, with the rollout of the first completed aircraft in August 1984. Two months later, sufficient numbers had arrived at RAF Wattisham in Suffolk to allow 74 Squadron, which had been designated as the new unit to operate the type, to be stood up. The squadron was declared operational on the new type on 31 December 1984.
GreenKnight121
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F3H Demon with Sparrow I air-air missiles.
The F-4 Phantom (F4H before Oct 1962) was developed to replace this aircraft, using the more-advanced Sparrow III missile.
SaparotRob
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AKA Mr. Baseball.
GreenKnight121
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Canberra B.15 with AS.30 missiles.
Heavily-upgraded B.6s (themselves upgraded B.2s)[not the B.(I).6], they were to provide precision ground-attack missiles for the RAF's forces in the far east and near east.
Only 4 squadrons were modified for, and carried, this Nord Aviation missile - approval was given in 1965, test-firing from the initial 2 Canberras were done in 1966, with squadron service in Cyprus (32 & 73 Sqdns at Akrotiri) and Singapore (45 & 81 Sqdns at Tengah) in 1967. With the withdrawal of RAF squadrons from Tengah in January & February of 1970 all missile stocks were expended via live-firing, and the missile ended its RAF service.
English Electric Canberra B.15: The Missile-toting Canberra
poll Introduction: The Canberra B.15 is a rather interesting variant of the Canberra, as it was the only in service variant to mount missiles of any kind. What makes it even more interesting is that these missiles were the AS.30, a type not often talked about in British service, especially since...
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THE ROYAL AIR FORCE, 1950-1969
A crewmember of English Electric Canberra B.15 WH959 of No 73 Squadron, part of the Near East Air Force Strike Wing based at Akrotiri, checks one of his aircraft's wing-mounted Nord AS30 air-to-ground missiles, prior to exercises at El Adem, c.1967.
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