Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (8 Viewers)

[Thumpalumpacus]

F-14 from VF-114 from the USS America intercepts a Soviet Il-38 maritime patrol aircraft, presumably playing snooper. This photograph was released in September 1981 HERF
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Tase it, bro.

 

[syscom3]

EF-111A Raven aircraft from the 42nd Electronic Combat Squadron, United Kingdom, 24 June 1985.

 

[Donivanp]

EF-111A Raven aircraft from the 42nd Electronic Combat Squadron, United Kingdom, 24 June 1985.

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Spark Vark

 

[Viking1066]

HMS Eagle (a fleet carrier, in the foreground) and HMS Bulwark (a large light carrier, in the background), are shown in Malta. Photo was taken not long before the 1956 Suez operation HERF

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Great shot, Vike. Can anyone say what's on deck? Looks like some Spitefuls to me but I'm hurriedly undereducated on Brit Cold War aircraft.

 

[Sabrejet]

Great shot, Vike. Can anyone say what's on deck? Looks like some Spitefuls to me but I'm hurriedly undereducated on Brit Cold War aircraft.

Seahawks.

 

[Frog]

Two years later, you would have seen Westland Whirlwinds and Citroën 2 CV pick ups used by 42 Cammando, Royal Marines.

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[Viking1066]

FGR.4 Eurofighter Typhoon REDD

 

[Viking1066]

AEW Shackleton of 8 Squadron with the bulge under the forward fuselage housing the radar scanner KEYP

 

[Airframes]

It's a MR.3, the radar is in the retractable "dustbin" under the rear fuselage, no forward blister as on the MR.2.

 

[GTX]

Indeed, the AEW version's radar is more obvious:

 

[Viking1066]

Fighters from the USS Kitty Hawk intercepted this naval reconnaissance 'Badger F' (Tu-16R) over the Sea of Japan in January 1963 HERF

 

[Airframes]

That pic of the Shackleton MR2 brings back memories.
It was in the now defunct Museum of Science & Industry, in Manchester, UK.(It's now at the Avro heritage site at the former Avro factory at Woodford, Cheshire, now surrounded by new housing).
Just before the museum opened, around 1981 from memory, members of my local aero club were invited to visit, and we got to sit in various aircraft (including the Spitfire Mk.V now at Hendon).
Inside the Shackleton was interesting, as RAF personnel were still in the process of stripping out nearly all of the radar and electronics suites, which were still "Classified" equipment at the time !

 

[Viking1066]

A Sea Vixen FAW Mk 2 from Victorious is serviced on board the US carrier Oriskany, September 1966 HERF

 

[GTX]

Not a photo but a drawing but a cool one:

 

[SaparotRob]

I built the model of the YF-12A. It spent many hours going after UFOs.

 

[Donivanp]

I built the model of the YF-12A. It spent many hours going after UFOs.

But did you let it catch you? That's the real question.

 

[Viking1066]

Cougars (F9F-6) of VF-24 on board Yorktown are shown on 19 November 1953. The propeller-driven aircraft further aft are Skyraiders HERF

 

[GreenKnight121]

Most of the jets are F9F-5 Panthers of VF-63 & VF-64.

I also see a couple F2H Banshees (#25 at front left, and one a few aircraft back - all you can see of the second is the wingtip and tip tank, which is mounted lower on the tip than on the Panthers).

Deployments of USS YORKTOWN (CV 10)

departure date 3 August 1953; return date 3 March 1954
CVG-2 (Carrier Air Group 2)
West Pacific operations area
Ports of call: Pearl Harbor, Hi., Yokosuka, Japan, Hong Kong
Assigned squadrons: VF-24 (F9F-6); VF-63 (F9F-5); VF-64 (F9F-5); VA-65 (AD-4B/4NA); VC-3 Det. A (AD-4N); VC-61 Det. A (F2H-2P); VC-35 Det. A (AD-4N); VC-11 Det. A (AD-4W); HU-1 Det. A*


* This squadron used 3 different helicopters in the early 1950s - the Piasecki HUP-2 (UH-25B) Retriever, the Sikorsky HO3S-1 (H-5F) [no US name, saw UK service as the Dragonfly], and the Sikorsky HO4S-3 (UH-19F) Sea Horse - and I cannot find an indication of which was aboard Yorktown for this deployment.

 

[special ed]

The Banshees appear to be photo Banshees.