Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (16 Viewers)

[syscom3]

The USS Card leaving San Francisco, CA, carrying a load of F-102 Delta Dagger
fighters on its wooden WWII-era flight deck. The supersonic F-102 was stationed
domestically and at overseas airbases in Japan, West Germany, and the Philippines.
It was also deployed during the Vietnam War in South Vietnam and was exported
to Greece and Turkey.

 

[SaparotRob]

A very interesting picture.

 

[hw97karbine]

The "V bombers" were the Royal Air Force (RAF) aircraft during the 1950s and 1960s that comprised the United Kingdom's strategic nuclear strike force known officially as the V force or Bomber Command Main Force. The three models of strategic bomber, known collectively as the V class, were the Vickers Valiant (center), which first flew in 1951 and entered service in 1955; the Avro Vulcan (left), which first flew in 1952 and entered service in 1956; and the Handley Page Victor (right), which first flew in 1952 and entered service in 1957. The V Bomber force reached its peak in June 1964 with 50 Valiants, 70 Vulcans and 39 Victors in service.

Vulcan B.1 XA892 was an early production aircraft with a modified kinked wing by the time of the photo and it once broke the sound barrier during a dive. Valiant B.1 WZ373 was used for Blue Steel nuclear missile trials in Australia and also Avro's Cheshire site. Victor B.1 XA919 was damaged in 1957, repaired but spent many years as a test airframe. all three aircraft were scrapped by 1971.

 

[Sabrejet]

On the subject of F-51 Mustangs in Korea, here is a clip of some of them in action against ground targets

On a more tranquil note, herewith a nocturnal view of a B-36 Peacemaker at Carswell Air Force Base in August 1955


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Looking at this again I think it shows the modification of B-36 and RF-84F to "Tom-Tom" (tip tow) configuration; note the wingtip pickup on the B-36. My thought was that it might be Tinker rather than Carswell? Or possibly even the Convair factory at Fort Worth, though the C-54 at left makes me think that Tinker seems more likely.

 

[hw97karbine]

I think it shows the modification of B-36 and RF-84F to "Tom-Tom" (tip tow) configuration; note the wingtip pickup on the B-36

It is according to the Wikipedia article that mentions the serial number of the aircraft illustrated, I got Carswell from the US Archive caption.

 

[Sabrejet]

It is according to the Wikipedia article that mentions the serial number of the aircraft illustrated, I got Carswell from the US Archive caption.

Mm. Those captions are usually pretty accurate but here I think it's incorrect; IIRC Tom-Tom was evaluated at Eglin, with no Carswell link at all. I suspect the captioneer winged this one

EDIT: RF-84F 51-1849 was delivered straight from Republic Farmingdale to Convair Fort Worth on 27 September 1954 under AMC Project 5F-46; it was converted for Tom-Tom and redesignated as a JRF-84F on 30 November 1955. It remained an AMC asset until being sent to the Ogden AMA in July 1957 for overhaul, de-modification and onwards transit through the MAP system. So Fort Worth it is.

I also suspect that the C-54 at left is one of those converted by Convair for covert surveillance (SARA JANE; LULU BELLE etc) under the Big Safari programme.

 

[hw97karbine]

A-10 mounted on a test rig at the Rome Air Development Center for trials in 1984

 

[SaparotRob]

A-10 mounted on a test rig at the Rome Air Development Center for trials in 1984

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Taking your warthog to the vet.

 

[hw97karbine]

Taking your warthog to the vet.

Alternatively turning your Warthog into local AA defense

 

[Capt. Vick]

The USS Card leaving San Francisco, CA, carrying a load of F-102 Delta Dagger
fighters on its wooden WWII-era flight deck. The supersonic F-102 was stationed
domestically and at overseas airbases in Japan, West Germany, and the Philippines.
It was also deployed during the Vietnam War in South Vietnam and was exported
to Greece and Turkey.

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The Card would layer be "sunk" by Viet-Cong frog men in Saigon.

 

[syscom3]

A QT-2PC "sailplane" at the Naval Test Pilot School at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland. A Modified Schweizer SGS 2-32
sailplane for light observation and surveillance that was quiet. Used in the Vietnam War.

 

[syscom3]

A Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron 2 (HS-2) SH-3H Sea King helicopter deploys an AQS-13 dipping sonar during a
routine anti-submarine warfare patrol, 2 April 1985.

 

[hw97karbine]

An eclectic formation of aircraft types operated by the United States Air Force in the late 1950s

Top trio is a B-45, B-57 and B-66

Heavies at the rear are a B-36, B-52 and B-47, ahead of them clockwise from the top are an RC-121, C-124, C-119, C-131 and C-97.

The fighters are a little harder to make out but there are definitely an F-80, F-84, F-84F, F-86, F-89, F-94, F-102 and T-33

 

[Donivanp]

I was trying to pick them all out. Interesting picture.

 

[hw97karbine]

A QT-2PC "sailplane" at the Naval Test Pilot School at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland.

Some footage of the Lockheed Q-Star N57135 Schweizer SGS 2-32 glider conversion that was used to develop the powerplant for this project

 

[GTX]

 

[hw97karbine]

A slightly more conventional layout

 

[GreenKnight121]

The deck of carrier USS Coral Sea was partly shrouded in steam after takeoff of an A-4 Skyhawk for a raid on the North Vietnam radar station at Cap Mũi Ròn on March 31, 1965.

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That's a A-3 Skywarrior that just left the starboard bow cat.

 

[GreenKnight121]

Is that the B-29 they were supposed to escort? Visible below lead 51's scoop.

I can't see anything that looks like an aircraft other than the two F-51s.

There are a couple of scratches or marks in the film just below the air scoop.

 

[hw97karbine]

Republic F-84 Thunderjet on the firing range in Korea